Auburn Diversity Services Inc - ADSi Annual Report 2014-2015

Auburn Diversity Services Inc. (ADSi) is a community based, non-profit organisation established to promote the principles of multiculturalism, access, equity and social justice. It is committed for developing strategies which address the needs of all Australians, especially special needs groups such as refugees, women, youth, children, families, the elderly, the unemployed, the homeless and people with a disability. ADSi designs and delivers services that aim to build capacity and improve outcomes for disadvantaged people and families.

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Firstly, my deepest thanks to the Board of Directors and all staff for their continued support to make it a truly amazing year. The Chairperson Sarjoh Bah has continued to walk with us in our growth and development and I would like to mention that his leadership has indeed been exemplary in supporting my leadership of the organisation. I would like to spend a moment reflecting on the organisational vision. Most of this year, I have been focused on training and learning. Being in the training room specifically for the transformational learnings I have been, through has allowed my Leadership Team and I to revisit our overall organisational professional practices to ensure best settlement and life outcomes are achieved for our client base; revisit our communication practices internally to ensure that what we communicate to each other clearly and what we communicate to our clients will shift them to a space whereby they are enabled being the bus drivers of their own destiny; and lead using emotional intelligence and mindful leadership frameworks to enable our leadership team to practice this approach in their daily work interactions.

How does this translate to organisational changes? It is a transformational change from the leadership towards staff. The transformation is impacted through our project service delivery and in fine tuning the operational and back end support of the organisation. This is what transformational leadership is all about - using emotional intelligence to affect impact and influence meaningful changes. Organisationally we are shifting towards developing thoughtful leaders of change in the workplace and also the sector. When we change everything around us changes, and what an exciting journey this has been.

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