Friday, August 15, 2008

Gary is a Pearler...


That's PRLS... Potential Rotary Leaders Seminar. Gary is now one of the 17 Presidents in our District who has completed this leadership development course.

So how about you? Are you one of the 93 Rotarians who have completed this course?

If you answered ‘no’ AND you don’t know what this is about then you simply, “must be part of the team” – that’s the Potential Rotary Leaders Seminar team or PRLS for short.

Gary was one of the twenty eight participants undertook the challenge to learn leadership and communication skills and undertook the Basic Potential Rotary Leaders Seminar on Sunday 10th August 2008 at the Mulgrave Country Club in Wheelers Hill.

Twelve Rotary Clubs from the District were represented along with two members from Inner Wheel, two husband and wife teams, seven President Elects and one Assistant Governor.
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Participants learned communication and leadership skills that they could apply as future leaders in their workplace, community or Rotary Club. Lessons learned included how to speak effectively in public, how to lead with vision, effective communication and how to conduct a meeting.

Feedback was positive and many commented that they found the course was engaging, informative but most importantly, fun. Many were looking forward to their club or district leadership roles with the new knowledge, hints, tips and techniques they learned on the day.

Greg Caughey from RC Chelsea said, ‘I had a brilliant day. My wife and daughter will be in the next group if I had my way! I’ll definitely promote PRLS at our next meeting.”

Helene Browne from RC Chelsea attended with her husband Peter and said, “I really enjoyed this training day and I’ll be able to use the information in different business areas and not just Rotary.”

Megan Glenwright from RC Beaumaris also attended PRLS with her husband James. She found the “seminar excellent and extremely useful.”

The next step for all Basic PRLS graduates is to continue their studies and undertake the Masters level program commencing with Master PRLS1 Impromptu Speaking.

So eager were participants to continue with their studies that Master PRLS1 is now fully booked.

If you want more information about PRLS and how to get yourself on the next Basic PRLS on Sunday 15 February 2008 and Saturday 14 March 2009, see Helen and she'll give you a registration form.

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