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Thriving Futures Update 24 February 2023

The SI Aotearoa New Zealand Leadership Programme (2022 - 2023) was successfully completed on 23 February when 13 participants reported back to each other on their project, the leadership approaches they used  and the lessons they learned. Congratulations! And a big thank you to Anthea Penny, Pip Mules and Sandy Stephens for the training and coaching. 

Thriving Futures Program, Asia is an exciting SISEAP membership initiative to support leadership and project management capability, with a goal for membership development. It includes webinars, face to face training and coaching. See the flyer below for more information.

Announcing the SISEAP Leadership program - The Thriving Futures, your future and SISEAP's future.  The aim of this program is to build capacity and capability for Soroptimists at all levels to ensure the organisation’s future sustainability. Current and future leaders will participate in a program that is delivered across 4 months. At the beginning of the program two webinars will be held; one of which focuses on the Soroptimist mission, values, programs, membership and structure. This is followed by a three-day face-to-face workshop with the following content

• Soroptimist overview and strategy for growth
• Leading a four step change process and narrative for change:
• Productive meetings
• Understanding group processes and cross-cultural communication
• Conflict management
• Developing a public relations and communication plan for membership recruitment

In addition, participants will be required to identify a recruitment project, set goals and action steps for leading change in their own club, region or country and receive coaching via Google Meet while they undertake this. They will be expected to present their projects and what they have learned from the process on a webinar at the end of the programme before they receive their certificate.

Developers and Facilitators are Soroptimists Anthea Penny, (Master.H.M.Hons and, Federation Director); and Dr Pip Mules PhD who have developed and led the successful SIANZ National Leadership Programmes in 2021 and 2022.

The extended programme will also include Training Coaches, and Train the Trainers - so that local trainers are empowered to lead the programme. Funding has been approved to hold a Thriving Futures Program in Kuala Lumpur in 2023.

For further information contact Yvonne Simpson, Membership Convenor.