Although the main function of the Goducate Training Center (GTC) in Iloilo is to train people to be community development workers, in the pursuit for excellence its staff and volunteers need to be continually learning new things. The topics for the staff-enhancement session held last month were intended to groom staff to run leadership and other programs, and to deal with the public.
The session was attended by staff, volunteers, and trainees. A seminar on proper decorum, grooming and hygiene was held in the morning, and a workshop on public speaking followed in the afternoon.
The proper decorum, grooming and hygiene seminar was designed to teach the participants how to be good stewards of their bodies, how to properly conduct oneself in public and how to look pleasing and appropriate for the occasion. The interactive seminar culminated with a challenge to each team to do a makeover and to dress up their chosen representatives.
The public-speaking workshop aimed to equip the participants to be good speakers and to increase their confidence in speaking to the public. The guest speaker gave an enriching and dynamic lecture. The activity ended with teams practising the essentials of public speaking with their group mates.
*Our guest writer is Joanna de Leon, a community development worker