Leadership and Community Engagement training

 

Today I am grateful for attending a training session titled "leadership and community" as part of my Resiliency Peer  Community Ambassador role, offered by the Malton Woman Council. This training was hosted and coordinated by Uzma Irfan and facilitated by Sukhjit S. Ahluwalia (MBA, BSc, CCS, CCRS). I appreciate and recognize the significance of today's training for a variety of reasons, for instance:

• Sukhjit Singh was an incredible facilitator to engage the audience via sharing, reflecting and revealing various components of leader and leadership. The session was profoundly engaging, interactive and appealing for everyone with the breakout room, activities, write and draw on the notebook. Sukhjit provided a very safe space to share thoughts and personal experiences. Today I discovered and learned wonderful pieces linking to leadership

• Uzma Irfan was hosted and coordinating the session with the gist of organizing and regulating the flow and progression of the session. Throughout the session, Uzma was mindful of muting the audience in case if there was a background noice, reading messages and adjusting our requirements and demands

• Personally, I got motivated and inspired by the problem solving and motivating people's segments of the training and the power of social knowledge

• Today's session was offered virtually, extremely beneficial and convenient at this time of the COVID 19 while all professional gatherings are outlawed due to the spread of the novel coronavirus

• Today's session was over the zoom, that's just one click away. No need to dress up formally, drive or take TTC, time-saving and comfortably join 

• The taken wisdom and insight from today's session is:

• The participation guidelines were mentioned and discussed as ground rules

• The session commenced with Role Me - Real Me activity that was really soothing and a chance to learn from each other and discovered the similarities among us

• Role Me - Winner of Happiness

• What is the definition of leadership? The question was proposed to the audience to reflect on the word of leadership

• What is Community leadership?

• Leadership and key components: conflict management, problem-solving, motivating people and team building

• Three characteristics for instance: hungry, hone-able and honourable

• Leadership types for instance: transactional, democratic, transformational, autocratic, charismatic, servant, laissez-faire and bureaucratic leadership

• The key ingredient of leadership is to share a story with the audience. Be mindful of our surrounding 

• Community engagement: strategies for effective community engagement, outreach, networking, potential challenges (especially in view of COVID-19), best opportunities and best strategy (Dialogue)

• Relationship between leadership and community engagement

• Sukhjit shared his personal story and I was astonished and amazed by the journey

• The taken advice and useful direction from today's training was this quote:

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