Rotary Club organises seminar for incoming leaders for prudentency,purposefulness



Titus Maduako Eleweke

Rotary Club, Anambra State on Saturday organised a seminar to train its elected officers for purposeful and prudent leadership management.
The District Wide Club Officers Training Seminar (COTS) held simultaneously across Districts was targeted at Training Club Officers elected to lead deligiently and prudently for the year 2024/25.
However,it is a Pre-Year statutory Training holding annually to ensure that the rotary get it right in its leadership in order to achieve success in Membership, Foundation Giving and Public Image.
Speaking on the training,the President elect of Awka Smith town,Rotarian Alex Arinze described the training as one of the core programme of the club because it always demands for the right things.
According to him,the training helps to equip the incoming leaders to be focused and not to be distracted by the offices.
According to him, rotary club is all about intergrity and honesty of purpose .
"If you don't have intergrity, you cannot lead. Rotary are for men and women of hunour and intergrity. We always demands intergrity and prudency" he said .
Also the president elect of Rotary Club Awka Dr Nwabufor Nwankwo promised to aligned himself with the vision and goals of the club for Humanitarian services, which the club stands for.

Nwankwo who is Permanent Secretary in Anambra State said that he would demosticate all the virtues of rotary club in their localities to give a life meaning.
"We are going to focus on environment, child dedication, mental mortality and others.Rotary club is an avenue for selfless services and I will focus on the areas of services to humanity and make sure I domesticate them around" he said.
According to him, rotary club creates hope for the hopeless and it is helping people to find their bearings in life.
He assured of using whatever resources that is available to him by the virtue of his position as the president to serve humanity and add value to the world.
The Assistant Governor designate of zone 13,Anambra Rotarian Engr. Chidi Obiudu said that the club put much premium on the leadership intergrity,hence the training every year.
He said that the purpose of the training was to equip the incoming leaders with the knowledge of what they need to know and even the ones they already knew." We refresh their for successful year"
According to him, rotary club is a service organisation,that requires one's time , energy, resources and others to remain afloat.
He said that most of job they do in rotary club are just for rendering selfless services to humanity and putting smiles on the faces of the lessprevillage thereby creating a better society.
"To achieve the purpose of helping people, creating a better society we go out of ways to seek for supports from individuals, organizations, government agencies and others. It is what we get and the little ones we contribute that we use to execute most of the projects. And for you to be supported and trusted,you must be prudent and accountable. If you are not prudent and accountable,nobody will look at your side and give support to achieve the goals of rotary club. And it will affect the memberships and give the rotary bad image" he said.
The past Assistant Governor and the Districts Secretary 2024/ 2025, Mrs Joan Olachi Emegoakor said the training is purposefully designed to equip the new leaders on their responsibilities to the society as Rotarians.
According to her, rotary club is interested in creating and growing leaders with necessary skills to take positive responsibilities in the society.
" In rotary club,we try as much as possible to get it right all the time. We get seasioned facilitators every year to give new ideas and train the young ones. We don't get it wrong and we make sure that club officers meet the desire goals for qaulity Services and for the good of humanity. We also have mechanism to checkmate officers in rotary club" she said.
In his presentation tittled " The Does and Don't of Public: what You Stand " by the Public Relations Officer of the Club, Mr Tochi Amalu the personalities and image of the club is very dear to members.
According to him,the character or attitude of individuals or organizations presented to the public to create in the minds of people matters alot,hence the annual training and seminar.
He urged the club leaders to promote rotary activities in their various locals to increase community understanding and strengthen the ability to improve lives around the world.
He stated that some of the ways of increasing the Public image of rotary club are being good ambassadors, telling the rotary stories and following the right branding.
"A good Rotarian must communicate the image of the club with professional look to create better and good image" he said.