A Leader's Perspective
BY: Heather Claycomb - HMC...
August 27, 2020Leading Innovation
Innovation is a hot-topic among business leaders today. Over the past 5 years Jeremy Suisted, of Creativate has identified five key steps for leaders to take in leading innovation within their business....
August 24, 2020CELF - New Dates
Coronavirus has without a doubt thrown us one heck of a curveball, and each of us be impacted uniquely. Uncertainty is the currency and change is the platform. A Silver Lining The Coronavirus situation has provided a unique opportunity for us to: Pause and reflect on our five years of operation, our performance and programme, relative to our founding principles, impact and outcomesReview our programme, content, design and delivery Reset the commencement and timing of the CELF Elevate...
May 26, 2020Leadership and Self-awareness
A phone call responding to my request for stories from our CELF Elevate Programme Alumni started like this....
February 5, 2020What makes a genuine leader?
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January 22, 20203 R's of Leadership
What your 3 R's of Leadership?...
January 22, 2020Leading the Way
The Waikato Story shares the incredible stories of the Waikato, highlighting, new business, innovation, educators, siginficant economic contributors and community organisations within the Waikato Region. Each story reveals more of our incredible region.Recently, The Waikato Story feature one of our own CELFie's, Teresa Bidlake - Hospice Waikato... Hospice Waikato runs 8 charity shops. With the business turning over $3.4m last year, strong leadership is crucial ...
November 20, 2019A New Chair & New Faces
A new chair and new faces at the Community and Enterprise Leadership Foundation (CELF) board table. Raewyn Jones, CEO WEL Energy Trust, recently took up the role as chair of the Community and Enterprise Leadership Foundation, with the resignation of John Cook at CELF’s AGM in September. John had chaired CELF since its inception, apart from a short sabbatical in 2018 at which time Raewyn took the helm. John will continue to be an avid supporter of the programme, wholeheartedly committed...
October 29, 2019Orchestrating Outcomes
The reasons for CELF Alumni workshops, as visible in the video clip above from the great session with Aiden Holiday & Brenton Bai: Connect with your cohortConnect with other Alumni across cohortsContinue the learning journey And take time out for you. Have a little fun along the way. Our next workshop is on the 8th of November - Orchestrating Outcomes Bookings Required...
October 17, 2019Meet this year's Cohort
This week we welcomed this year's cohort to the CELF Elevate Leadership Programme. The residential programme sets up the journey and cemenst relationships for the 9months ahead and beyond. It is a time to review, reflect and connect. Thank you to our partners who make this programme a reality and who believe in growing our leaders for a stronger Waikato....
August 30, 2019Class of 2019 Graduates
The Community and Enterprise Leadership Foundation (CELF) celebrated the graduation of the Elevate Leadership Class of 2019 at the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts On Friday 12 April. Julian Williams, 2016 CELF Alumnus MC'd the evening with passion and aplomb. John Cook, Chair of CELF and Neil Quigley, The University of Waikato Vice-Chancellor acknowledged the partnership between CELF and the University to deliver the Elevate Programme and the significance and...
April 17, 2019COMMUNITY CITIZEN
- Co-Founder & CELF Trustee David Irving, has formulated a series, reflecting on his leadership and experiences. Look for the golden nuggets - there are plenty. The first in the series looks at the importance of knowing your community and warns of working and living in silos....
April 2, 2019Save the Date
The world is facing challenges like never before. Globalization, workforce challenge, climate change and depleting natural resources, technology convergence, and need for community citizenship,...
February 12, 2019A New Standard of Leadership
Bill George wrote in the Harvard Business School article about four titans of leadership, who defined a new era in business during the past decade. All of these leaders have recently finished their tenures: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis. Bill looks at how each of these leaders recognised the need for business to contribute to society in meaningful ways, not just profit from it.&nb...
January 16, 20197 Ways to Avoid Self-Sabotage
REPOST: BY RYAN PENDELL Have you seen The Onion headline "Study: Anxiety Resolved By Thinking About It Real Hard"?If you have multiple Strategic Thinking themes in CliftonStrengths (Strategic, Intellection, Learner, Ideation, Analytical, etc.) -- this headline probably sums up your daily struggle pretty well. When in doubt, think more!A tendency toward strategic thinking has a lot of benefits on a team. You can identify roadblocks for others far in advance. ...
January 9, 2019“Keeping up with the Kaumatua”
Until I met Rangimahora Reddy, I did not know anything about Rauawaawa Kaumatua Charitable Trust (Rauawaawa), its location, the depth and breath of services it offers across health and well-being, education and activities to support and enhance the quality of life of Kaumatua. I was impressed. The warmth of welcome, the immediate sense of community and a strong feeling of belonging – gosh what more could one want of a community facility. Rauawaawa is located in Colombo Street, Frankton, ...
December 19, 2018Kingsley Fink – Tristam Marine
Waikato Business News talks to Kingsley Fink about Tristram Marine, the journey of the business and of his experience of the CELF programme.Kingsley’s reflected on his learnings and insight gained from the programme and of the valuable connections he has made. ...
August 13, 2018Alumni appointed as new CEO to Xtreme Zero Waste
Congratulations Cheryl, CELFie Alumni 2018 takes the lead at Raglans leading community enterprise Xtreme Zero Waste. Xtreme Chair, Fiona McNabb said, “The stage one focus for Cheryl to undertake is to strengthen and re-position the core business before we launch into this new phase of […]...
August 4, 2018CELF has appointed a new executive director.
The Community & Enterprise Leadership Foundation (CELF) has appointed a new executive director. Tania Witheford will take up the position from July 9, 2018.Tania has spent the past four years as Cambridge Chamber of Commerce’s chief executive officer. During her time there, the membership base has grown, and she further developed a strong family of sponsors and partners. Throughout her career Tania has shown that she is a strong advocate for the business community. “Tania is very ...
June 28, 2018Congratulations to our Class of 2018 CELFies
We are so very proud to announce the third CELF Elevate Programme cohort, with new and returning sponsors. Congratulations on your selection and participation in the 2017 – 2018 programme! Click here for more information....
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