Club Officer Training Day was Fun

Nicole, Liz We & Sharyn at Training Day

 Nicole, Liz We, Sharyn, Annette and I attended the Club Officer Training Day at the Education Centre at Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside. Trish was there too, as a presenter. Sharyn was also one of the presenters.

The sessions I attended were all very interesting & well presented. The Session on mentoring was very creative. It was a very large group. We formed two long rows with our chairs facing each other, then the row I was in had to keep moving down one chair at a time, "speed dating." We interviewed each person facing us for 30 seconds & asked them to tell us the advantages mentoring has for a "Mentee." after a while we switched roles & were interviewed about the advantages to the mentor. We also formed groups of 4 & discussed mentoring someone who had sent us the first draft of their speech. (We were given a copy of the speech.)

I gleaned a few new ideas from the VPE session and learned some things I didn't know from the session on Parliamentary Procedure. The final session, "Positive Thinking" was most enlightening. Sharyn was also in that session. If you get a chance, ask her how she was taught how to set a trigger to help boost her confidence!

I think we all came home with renewed enthusiasm.