Vocational Report
District 9180 Vocational Service seminar – August 31st
from John Lynch
I attended the seminar last Tuesday along with approximately 30 other Rotarians. - Manningham cluster clubs have been conducting Business Excellence Awards since 2103 (https://manninghambea.com.au). They acknowledged that it was a great deal of work but was highly successful.
- Another Club reported that it conducted Pride or Workmanship Awards based on the Rotary Club of Pennant Hills model (https://www.pride-of-workmanship.com)
- I shared with the participant the partnership that we have with the Whitehorse Business Group who do all the “heavy lifting” for their Excellence in Business Awards.
I also outlined our plans to restart our own Pride of Workmanship Awards now with the Business Group’s support next year.
- Box Hill Central expressed interest in joining with us.
Other Vocational Service ideas discussed:
- Assisting with conversational English classes with refugees and recent migrants (perhaps in conjunction with U3A)
- Rotary Mentor Program with the Police and Ambulance services (https://rotarymentors.org.au)(Shia has just started with the Ambulance program and Judith has been a Police mentor).
- Rotary Alumni has now been expanded to include past Rotaractors, NYSF participants, RYLA awardees and other Rotary programs