The power of mentoring

Who has never been in a situation where he or she needed advises to feel that they can grow and achieve their best potential? Who never wanted advises to create a better work environment where risks can be taken and objectives fulfilled?

The people who grow and overcome these hurdles are usually the ones who regularly put things into perspective and always question themselves to ultimately improve. In order to find the answers to many questions young professionals may have, the Rotaract Club of Jumeirah recently created a mentoring program.

Mentoring is a relationship in which an experienced person (mentor) assists another (mentee) in developing specific skills and knowledge that will enhance the less-experienced person’s professional and personal growth.

With the help of our well-established Rotarians, the club aims to share knowledge but also; create a unique relationship based on trust and senior guidance between Rotarians and Rotaractors. Through this type of program, mentees gain invaluable insight beyond their own education and experience.

If you’d like to receive more information on our mentoring program, please send an email to pr@rotaractjumeirah.org

“Be selfish, go help someone”, Bobby Sager and social entrepreneurship

Imagine if you were a millionaire and you suddenly decide that instead of buying 5 houses in premium areas or 10 luxury cars, you’ll go on the road with your family in the most devastated places in the planet to simply help and offer hope. This dream and pure desire to offer a sustainable solution and improve the life of people who were less fortunate, was achieved by the Bobby Sager family.

The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow began in 2000 when the family made a commitment to travel the world with the hope that they can instigate the efforts of leaders. Since then, Bobby Sager and his family spend 10 months a year on the road and invested on entrepreneurial projects that hold people responsible and give them back a strong sense of honour and achievement.

Bobby Sager is known as an extremely successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, photographer and traveller who met touching and powerful public figures such as the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton or Sting.

His passion for sharing and strong sense of philanthropy pushed Bobby Sager to countries like Congo where he helped a rehabilitation centre for child soldiers. He launched a programme in Rwanda were women from different ethnicity partnered in a business project in spite of the difficult past history.

Bobby Sager also brings hope everywhere he goes. Bobby has taken photographs showing the transcendent power of hope in the eyes of children he met in war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine. These images have been viewed by over 4 million people around the world.

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For Bobby, being on the ground and empowering leaders in these countries – the Sagers think of leaders as people who have the ability to impact many others and multiply this positive effect – offer them amazing life moments full of learning, feeling and accomplishing. This is the main message behind “Be selfish, go help someone”.

Cultural Mapping & Navigation

Hi There,

It’s been some time since I haven’t blogged. The reason is that our Club has been working on so many exciting projects – which you will hear about soon – that we’ve just been swamped... Which is always good.

We’ve recently received a short training or let’s call it test called Cultural Mapping & Navigation (CMN). So, what is that? Basically, this program was developed to assist people and organizations to deal more effectively with their Inter-Cultural realities through their Inter-Cultural Intelligence.

This means... that CMN program is brilliant if you’re looking for developing competencies or just reflecting on yourself.

Leaving in Dubai with so much nationalities around, I felt that this program was just amazing and so objective that it pushes me to question yourself and improve. It’s also great if you’re looking for developing leadership skills or looking at how you stand in regards to leadership; assessing the type of emotional intelligence you have or simply seeing how your team alignment.
If you’re curious to know more about this program, just visit https://www.knowledgeworkx.com