Intro
I have had a number of experiences that have helped mould my leadership style and honed my experience, these key opportunities include:
The key challenge for women in leadership is making sure every perceived challenge is turned into an opportunity, such as:
It’s important to showcase the diverse opportunities in local government and to ensure that our employment advertising, training and participation initiatives are welcoming and accessible. We do need to sell ourselves more than we do generally and most particularly, to encourage women into senior management and councillor roles. Other opportunities include:
The Shire of Derby West Kimberley faces many challenges, to name a few: extensive road networks, remote and diverse communities and town-sites, lack of economy of scale in relation to service delivery, cost of regional service delivery, complex climatic conditions — a disaster event most years — and last but not least, our key challenges are: