SPEAKERS' WORLD
July 17th, 2020-PDG Nabil Oudeh
Topic: Leading Through Changes-Resilience and Opportunities in time of Crisis
PDG Nabil made a wonderful presentation on how to lead through the changes during this pandemic period by focusing on the following subjects:
- Be resilient
- Face your fears: acknowledge the situation and your emotion
- Focus on the present: let go of the need to control things that you can’t control
- Change the narrative:find out the opportunities and lessons in this situation and be grateful
- Be part of something bigger than yourself
- Rotary opens opportunities
- increase international fellowship and cooperation
- actively participate in international projects
- Invite Rotarian and friends to your virtual meeting
- Have fun
As every bad situation opens opportunities, we have to face the challenge and adapt the changes and survive the crisis.
July 24th, 2020-Ashley Werhun
Topic: Mentorship Made Easy-Unlock your potential and kick-start your career
Ashley Werhun is CEO and Co-Founder of Mentorly. Mentorly.Co is a cloud-based mentorship solution for business, schools, and organizations looking to invest in their people and help them soar.
Ashley made a wonderful and interesting presentation about Mentorship today. Her speaking covers the following:
- How is mentorship different today
- Customized mentorship
- The demand for mentorship in the workplace is increasing as 87% of millennial employees request Mentorship.
- The importance of Mentorship
Ashley states that Mentorship is key for attracting and retaining a diverse workplace. Mentoring is about opening up and being vulnerable about the experience of the mentors so mentees don’t make the same mistakes the mentors did. Then, they can forge their own path to success.
July 31st, 2020-“Who Moved My Cheese “ video presentation and discussion
Susan Xianshu Huang, President of the Club, played an interesting video of a book called “Who Moved My Cheese” by Spencer Johnson. The Message we got from the story is as follows:
- Changes happens—they keep moving the cheese
- Anticipate change-smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old
- Monitor changes
- Adapt to changes quickly
- Change
- Enjoy change