Year 11 Excursion

Australian Business and Community Network

A group of young women in Year 11 attended a mentor session, facilitated by the Australian Business and Community Network. As part of the program the girls attend three sessions in the CBD, meeting with female mentors who work for the company, KPMG.

The second session took place on Wednesday, 5 September was focused on ‘Realising Strengths and Developing Leadership’. The aim of the session was to help the students gain an awareness of their personal strengths to help them realise what they are good at and what they enjoy doing. It was also about having an awareness of their weaknesses to help them develop their leadership capabilities. Young women from Thomastown Secondary College also attended the session.

During the workshop, the Year 11s shared their strengths and weaknesses with the students from Thomastown and their mentors from KPMG. They discussed the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people and presented to the group why these habits would be important and what they look like in action.

It was wonderful seeing the students so engaged and willing to share their ideas with different people. Particularly, with women working in the corporate sector, learning what had made them successful and how the students could learn from this. At the end of the day, the facilitator commented on what a great session it was and how thoughtful and engaged the students were.