Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) Kicks Off Another Successful Year!

By Lori Elder

The following is a guest post written by our new ELN Social Mavens, Yasmin Rampuri and Liz Hallett. Thank you Liz and Yasmin for hosting this very successful Fall Mingle, and for stepping up and sharing your skills and enthusiasm. It was a great event!

Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) Fall Mingle

After enjoying the lovely summer weather when it finally happened, the ELN ushered in the new season with a bang at the Fall Mingle.

The event hovered at full from days after it was posted, until the day of the event on September 15th, and we had 29 enthusiastic networkers attend in the end.

Veneto Café provided a …

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October 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Emerging Leaders Network, Latest News, Special Events | Leave a comment

VV’s Emerging Leaders Network: Engagement in action

By Beth Cougler Blom

I’m pleased to introduce guest blogger Zuzanna Szkudlarek, a Volunteer Victoria board member and member of our Emerging Leaders Network. In this post, Zuzanna writes about her great experiences (so far) as a member of the ELN. We’ve been truly fortunate to have Zuzanna participate in this Network as she is a true leader in action in our community.

Recently I was at a retreat with like minded people interested in bettering the community in Victoria. At the retreat were individuals from all sectors (nonprofits, government, and industry) ages ranging from 25-50 whereby five of us all had the commonality of being part of …

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September 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Emerging Leaders Network, Latest News | Leave a comment

Teaching Emerging Leaders to Speak with Confidence

By Beth Cougler Blom

Recently, Volunteer Victoria’s Emerging Leaders Network offered a five-week public speaking course to a small group of individuals made up of mostly ELN members.  It was taught by Ginger Brunner of Dynamic HR Solutions Inc. and received rave reviews from all participants.  In this blog post, guest blogger Yasmin Rampuri (ELN member and on staff at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria) shares her experience as a participant in this important skill-building course.

Along with 11 other brave souls, I’ve just completed a five-week “Speaking with Confidence” course which was …

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April 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Emerging Leaders Network, Workshops | Leave a comment

How Emerging Leaders are Learning

By Beth Cougler Blom

Summer turned into fall, fall turned into winter, and now I realize that I haven’t written an update about the Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) on this blog since late July last year. Wow, where did the time go? For me, time has really flown because I’ve been having fun coordinating numerous events for Victoria’s nonprofit emerging leaders this past half-year. In fact, we’ve had 28 separate ELN events since August!

Before I tell you more about what we’ve been up to, let me update you briefly on what the Network is and why it exists if you haven’t yet heard of it. The …

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January 21st, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Emerging Leaders Network | One comment

Networking For Success

By Beth Cougler Blom

Our Emerging Leaders Network has made some amazing learning opportunities available to its members since the Network was created this past Spring.  A recent “Networking for Success” workshop was no exception.  In this guest blog post, workshop participant and Emerging Leaders Network member Andy Renton summarizes some great networking tips for individuals at community organizations.

“Networking is the art of building mutually beneficial relationships.” This was the opener for Sarah Daviau’s recent workshop titled “Networking for Success,” which truly was beneficial to all who attended.

After over 10 years in the non-profit sector with various organizations, Sarah …

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November 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Emerging Leaders Network, Workshops | 2 comments
 
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