In the Junior League, you are expected to take control of your volunteer career. Each member is responsible for deciding what she wants to do in the organization, and she is responsible for asking for what she wants. Junior League members also learn that you don't always get to take a job you like. Sometimes you take a job where the Placement Committee or Nominating Committee feels you can apply your skills and move up. Number three, Build confidence.
Confidence is an important characteristic in a leader, and certainly in an executive.
Self- confidence allows you to charge ahead, to risk, and to take on the unfamiliar. Our President, Vickie Hawver, claims her Junior League experience gave her the confidence to leave her job of seventeen years to start Hawver News Company. You build confidence in the Junior League when you take on a new job and perform well in it. The Junior League frequently passes you the ball and forces you to take responsibilities you wouldn't have done on your own. That builds confidence.