For someone who is not going into any sort of business in the future, this was a very interesting experience for me. On Saturday, I volunteered with a few others to help out at the WELD leadership conference held at Otterbein. This was a very interesting afternoon (I was only there for one session) and I was given the chance to meet some very powerful and influential women in Central Ohio.
The session I attended/volunteered with was lead by Eleanor Bloxham, founder and CEO of the Value Alliance. She spoke about getting on corporate and nonprofit boards, how a good board should be run, and the best ways to get yourself noticed should you be looking to gain a board seat. At the end of the session, she gave all of the women who attended, including myself, a business card holder - a nice coincidence, as one of my other classes "highly recommended" that we get business cards!
I was also very inspired by our speakers in our last class meeting. Each of them gave us very important information that is often overlooked - taking care of ourselves. How can we expect to lead others and take care of others if we can't take care of ourselves? However, it wasn't necessarily the message that these speakers gave us that interested me. I've heard the same speech numerous times. When these women spoke to us about eating healthy, staying active, and knowing our strengths and weaknesses, they were not lecturing us. They talked to us like we were real people rather than a group of students sitting in a classroom. It really helped absorb more of what they were trying to teach us than if they had been simply preaching at us. They forced us to pay attention to them by being interesting, which made them somebody that I could really look up to.
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