Last Monday we enjoyed another change of meeting venue to Kithbrooke Park due to the delay in completion of the new kitchen at the Lions Village, in fact Rodney and Lorraine appeared quite at home in the impressive kitchen at Kithbrooke Park.
Most of the founding members of RLI in District 9780 visited our Club to acknowledge the contribution of Howard Randall to the RLI program.
PP Howard Randall has been recognised with a PHF 3 sapphires for his role in bringing RLI to Australia in 2008. Together with PDG Cathy Roth and PP Warren Norton, Howard helped pioneer this grass roots learning program , which is now running in every district in Australia and New Zealand.
Established in 1994 to assist in improving the Rotary knowledge and leadership skills of the future leaders of clubs and districts, the Rotary Leadership Institute is a multi-district program (division) already functional in many Zones around the world.
The Australia-Southern Division was formed in 2008. The institute offers a training program in three full-day sessions, in the future to be followed by graduate seminars.
RLI is a facilitated learning process following the principles of adult learning. A structured curriculum is followed, and participants are required to be fully involved in discussion, research, presenting and a range of learning activities. In fact, feedback from the participants indicates attending different venues on different days (as they may not have been available on a given day) is an added value for them to meet other Rotarians and learn with them.
All facilitators are experienced Rotarians who have completed RLI and also completed the RLI Facilitator's Training. Each venue may have different Facilitators on different days subject to availability – although the preference is to provide continuity.
The focus of the program is on the participants rather than on a presenter, as RLI is about learning and developing skills and definitely not a lecture.
The focus of the program is on the participants rather than on a presenter, as RLI is about learning and developing skills and definitely not a lecture.
It is fast-paced, cooperative learning at its best, with Rotary knowledge, leadership skills, public speaking, public relations, membership and fun all rolled into 3 one-day sessions.
Participating in RLI may be the most important Rotary training you undertake, informing you, empowering you as a leader and creating a network of other Rotarians from many Clubs around the District.
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