F.    LEADERSHIP

Effective leadership will be essential to launch this initiative.

Virtually all participants in the consultations agree that effective volunteer and staff leadership are essential to launch such a major initiative, although different kinds of leadership qualities are required for different functions. Some of the attributes noted as essential for a leadership team include: people with national profile and respect; people who are prepared to give a great deal of themselves; people with access to people with resources; people who are action, results and process-oriented; people who are able to contribute a significant amount of time to the developmental phase; bilingual; representative of sectors, classes, regions, and cultures; strong spokespeople; and female.

Women's groups should begin to identify volunteer and staff leadership for the development and establishment of the federation.

• Women's groups should identify as a first step, leadership within their own ranks to lead the developmental phase of setting up a federation. Individuals need to be visionary, representative of Canada's diversity, and possess strong organizational capabilities and consensus building skills
• Women's groups should begin to identify potential volunteer and staff leadership to guide them through the developmental phase of workplace-giving, marketing, communication, and potential profit-making
• Women's groups should identify at a later stage a national volunteer spokeswoman with national recognition, credibility, and respect
• Leadership should be representative of Canada's many diversities

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