take action towards pressing issues such as climate change, social justice and gender equality?
Regardless of the scale of your yearning to impact, leadership begins with leading yourself before you desire the ability and opportunity to lead others. Be that person who chooses not to wait for government to make things happen, for circumstances to change, that perfect opportunity or any opportunity for that matter to show up. It begins with you.
Yes you! And the need for you to turn inward, reflect and identify what drives you, what your passion or your purpose is and where there is room for growth. By inculcating a positive mindset and willingness to learn and take action, start your journey by cultivating the skills that will allow the leader in you to emerge.
From this course you can expect to learn planning and organisational skills required to lead, what you need to know when bringing together your team to help you realise your vision, and what is required to better understand your leadership styles.
Having spent more than a decade pursuing different avenues to impact on the not-for-profit sector, I had the opportunity to develop a workshop while completing the High Performance Leadership Program for the purposes of the Distinguished Toastmasters Program 5 years ago. My motivation for offering this workshop at the time, was for us as the older generation to impart our skills to the youth here in South Africa who represent the bulge in our society with an unemployment rate of approximately 28%. By presenting this workshop, I had hoped that the recipients of it i.e. scholars, university students, not-for-profit beneficiaries and business incubator groups would gain the confidence to take charge of their own destinies.
Now, as a part of World Speech Day South Africa's commitment to cultivating skills that empower youth to use their voices as instruments for change, I, like my colleagues who are presenting courses for WSD Future Ready, feel passionate about impacting as many youth as possible with what we have to offer, in South Africa and beyond. It is for this reason that I am hoping that our WSD Future Ready Program will impact on you too.
Do join me on the Young Leaders Unlimited Leadership Excellence Course and allow me to help you will gain a basic insight into what it takes to bring out the leader in you.
