Leadership
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GFWC Wyoming Leading Ladies' Fall Workshop Mini Leads- in the fall of 2024, the Leading Ladies broaden their approach on their Mini Leads for the 20 members attending GFWC Wyoming's Fall Workshop. They spoke on new topics that were relevant to the clubs by focusing on one word can change the whole meaning of the sentence, and public speaking through skits and round table discussions. Members were able to practice their communications, public speaking skills and take what they learned back to their local clubs to share with members that were not able to attend. One of the skits comprised of packing bags for community service project. These were then given to GFWC Casper Active Service Club to donate their community as a donation in kind of $80.00. |
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GFWC Laramie Woman's Club held a 2 day workshop where 16 members from their board including committee chairs learned about SMART goals, how to apply them to their project planning, discussed finding inspiration to brainstorm new ideas for their club and how to create Mission Statements. They also reviewed the new Narrative report forms that are utilized for our project reporting. They also participated in team building activities with a time set aside for reflection and discussion. This project helped unite club members with a common goal and members were more comfortable with using the Project Narrative form. They forwarded information onto the general membership that was not there. Total project/ volunteer time was 240 hrs. |
GFWC Wyoming's Parliamentarian advisor put on Parliamentary Procedure 101 classes for clubs in GFWC Wyoming. Multiple clubs from the Eastern District (GFWC Meadowlarks, GFWC X-JWC, & GFWC Women's Civic League of Cheyenne) and GFWC Women's Club of Sweetwater County from the western district participated in these class sessions, where the basics of Roberts Rule of Order were discussed, how to build your agenda, what a club's meeting minutes consist of and how to develop and define new policies for the club. These sessions were held on 3 different days and reached a total of 34 GFWC members throughout W. A total of 49 volunteer hours were spent. These sessions helped old and new members familiarize themselves with the basics of Roberts Rule of Order which will help them run their meetings more efficiently and be better leaders in their clubs. |
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GFWC Women's Club of Sweetwater County provided a raffle basket of collected items from its club members to be donated to Rock Springs High School's FBLA chapter for their fundraiser. The funds raised will be used for the young FBLA members to go to their national competition. The members of GFWC Women's Club of Sweetwater County wanted to support local students and future lead ers of their community in their endeavors. A total of 1.5 hrs were spent volunteering with $40 of donation in kind and $40 spent by the club. |
GFWC Women's Club of Sweetwater County compiled all the new chairman responsibilities and information to be kept in a binder to pass onto their successor. This was completed to ensure that the new incoming chairmen have the most up to date policies and timeline for their position, allowing them to be an efficient, contributing leader in their club. They did find that with having these manuals with clear, defined responsibilities available to the chairman, more members are willing to step up into these leadership roles. This project was completed in 2 hrs by 1 participant. |
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GFWC Women's Club of Sweetwater County worked on a club guide for their president. This guide consists of updated policies, community resources, and timeline for the president to reference throughout the club year. This guide will make sure the new president is efficient and is able to lead her members to the best of her ability. This project took 5 hrs to complete by 1 participant. |
During the 2024 club year, GFWC Leadership chairman did supply articles for GFWC Wyoming's newsletter, Newsblast, for the months of January 2024, February 2024 and December of 2024. These articles consisted of information pertaining to GFWC Internation LEADS program, how clubs in Wyoming can nominate a candidate to move forward on the State level, for one member to be selected to represent Wyoming at GFWC LEADS. GFWC Wyoming's Parliamentarian advisor put on Parliamentary Procedure 101 classes for clubs in GFWC Wyoming. These classes were held in Cheyenne and Rock Springs, covering both state districts. Women from GFWC Meadowlarks, GFWC X-JWC and GFWC Women's Civic League of Cheyenne attended the sessions in Cheyenne, and GFWC Women's Club of Sweetwater County participated in these classes in Rock Springs. Each session there were open table discussions that covered the basics of Roberts Rule of Order, how to build your agenda, what a club's meeting minutes consist of and how to develop and define new policies for the club. These sessions were held on 3 different days and reached a total of 34 GFWC members throughout WY. A total of 49 volunteer hours were spent. These GFWC women were able to leave the sessions with a better understanding of Robert's Rules of Order, how to run their meetings more efficiently, optimizing their time and being outstanding leaders not only in their clubs but in their communities. The sessions were open to all GFWC members in the area. |
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GFWC Wyoming Leading Ladies comprises of members from other GFWC Wyoming clubs that have either completed GFWC International's LEADS program or has served as President of a local GFWC Wyoming club. Annually at GFWC Wyoming's Fall Workshop and GFWC Wyoming Convention, the GFWC Wyoming Leading Ladies presents a mini-LEADS. In the fall of 2024, they broaden their approach and spoke on new topics that were relevant to the clubs. They focused on the importance of our narrative reports, communication, and public speaking. Our narrative reports are an important tool used by all the clubs in GWC Wyoming to not only track the amount of volunteer hours and donations the clubs have given for the current year, it is also a way for the clubs to track the projects they have completed in the past to know what worked for them and how they can improve the project in the future. The GFWC Wyoming Leading Ladies put on an Oscar performing skit about the new narrative form clubs will be using to report on their projects. The skit comprised of members participating in their club project "Bag packing event." There was a Newbie member, Ms. This is How we Always do it, Ms. Goes Along with Everything and Debbie Downer. The four members worked together packing bags for different service committees and during the packing process discussed the new narrative form, what it entails and the significance of the form. After the completion of the skit, questions about how to complete the form were answered and the bags that were packed during the skit were given to the GFWC Casper Active Service Club to donate to organizations in their local community worth $80 of donations in kind. With communications, they focused on the significance of how words are delivered, and how the emphasis on a word in the sentence can change the whole meaning of the sentence. The used "Mary had a little lamb" as an example. By doing this they demonstrated that the meaning of the sentence could be perceived differently or misconstrued based on the word that was emphasized. Public speaking can be intimidating at times. The Leading ladies had four of their members reach into a bag with multiple unknown items, pull one out and then they had 30 seconds to describe the item, what it is, what it can be used for, etc. After completion there was discussion on how they could have described their item differently or from another angle they could have used. Tips were then added by many of the members on how to effectively speak publicly. To wrap up the LEADS, there was a round table discussion on topics the twenty members in attendance wanted to brainstorm about and how they are going to take what they learned during this workshop back to their clubs. |
