Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association, (WISTA) conducted a leadership development session for their members recently, at Jetwing Colombo 7.
The seminar was titled “Discover the Leader in you” conducted byMcQuireRens & Jones (Pvt) Ltd. This event was supported by WISTAs’ corporate partner South Asia Gateway Terminals (Pvt) Ltd (SAGT).
WISTA has been successful over the years in breaking down gender barriers within the Shipping and Logistics Industry by encouraging more women to join and build career paths. WISTA has been instrumental in carrying out many initiatives in the past targeting women and to encourage more leaders to emerge within the industry
The session focused on identifying positiveleadership traits important for women aspiring for future growth. Moreover the session highlighted on inherent leadership skills unique to women and how to leverage them for career advancement. This program also focused on making women flexible and empowered in a dynamic and challenging work environment to become independent decision makers.Furthermore the session touched upon developing women to build leadership competencies needed in future and to become transformational leaders. As the event consisted of many team building activities it created a lot of positive energy amongst the audience.
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