Maccabi Australia Future Leadership Program

Leadership 

The future of Maccabi and indeed all Jewish organisations relies on our ability to attract, develop and mentor the next generation of future leaders.

Objectives

Our objective is to create and deliver programs and opportunities  that offer and support a pathway of development for outstanding young prospective leaders sourced from around the country.

This will delivered through 3 distinct program that will be aligned to our overall objectives and key events.

Programs

1. Future Leaders Forum – ‘Educate, Motivate, Inspire'     This is a bespoke Maccabi Leadership seminar held annually in Israel - with high level keynote speakers & workshops to grow, develop and nurture Future leaders  worlwide  who are passionate about the organisation. This event will showcases programs and opportunities in an environment encouraging Future leaders to express their views, form friendships with like-minded young  individuals and collaborate to create action plans for the future. 

2. Youth Leaders Development – an experiential program designed to encourage / prepare and suuport Youth leaders to be able to take up and carry out  leadership roles for Carnivals.

3. Leadership in Sport  - identify appropriate people who will be trained, mentored in the planning and co ordinating of a delegation to atted  international games.

Future Leaders Program/Forum 

The FLP and FLF success ensures the succession of Maccabi and its communities worldwide whilst at the same time offering opportunities for GLOBAL networking connections and learning from fellow Maccabi organisations worldwide through interactions and bespoke speakers for personal and professional development.

• MAI will provide the opportunity (to key candidates) to attend the Future Leadership Forum which is held annually in Israel. This global seminars attracts potential young future leaders from all Maccabi affiliate countries and sessions are held during the Forum and then post the conference. This is a unique opportunity and links our prospective leaders to the Maccabi ideal, community and global issues.
• This program is aligned to our broader leadership programs as participants will be given opportunity to take up various roles across the organization as Youth leadership in Carnival, participation at club/ board/ international levels and to lead various projects and events

Youth Leaders Development

Passionate Capable youth will be identified from within the clubs/Maccabi community, and recruited, trained and supported as  Youth Leaders for roles within Carnival.

• Through their involvement in the Youth Leader Development and carnival  there will be simultaneous exposure and information on the opportunities  available through Maccabi Australia’s Leadership Programs

• Firstly, The program is to identify, recruit and provide a training program that equip our young leaders with the necessary Leadership methods and skills they require to perform the role as Youth Leader at junior Carnival, embracing the MAI culture whilst safely representing Maccabi and looking after, inspiring and leading our athletes.

• A secondary focus of this program is to introduce these Youth leaders to the Maccabi Australia Leadership pathway for our youth to develop their leadership capabilities with a view of nurturing, maintaining their involvement so they journey through the pathways which can include graduating from Youth Leader to Youth Leader  Co-Ordinator/ Team Manager / Committee members to participant in the Future Leaders Program or Management at National or International Events.

Sport Leadership

By taking a proactive approach to leadership development, the program seeks to develop a leadership pipeline for future leaders by providing the training to appropriate people at various levels of the organisation. Developing leaders early and throughout their careers ensures their potential is maximized today as well as readying them for more senior roles in the future.

International Games Interns

In line with the corpus of creating a sustainable future and succession planning, our International Sport Internships aim to expose/mentor the appropriate Future Leader(s) in all aspects of planning, preperation and leading of the Australian delegation to an inernational, Maccabiah or Pan American Games.

The program involves shadowing / mentoring by Senior Management. Co-ordinating projects (eg. Torch relay) and undertaking tasks whilst learning and becoming an intergral part of the management team of the delegation.

This is an incredible experience - exposing the FLP to all aspects of preperation and managing a delegation on an international tournament, from observing / involvement in team sessions, uniform ordering, management workshops, operational meetings, travel arrangements and the on ground operations and managment to post-games reviews. 

The objective is that an extensive hands on experience entrenched in all aspects will result in proficient management ready to take up key roles for subsequent Maccabiah, Pan American and other International Games.