For many of them, the highlight was a dynamic, full-day session devoted to learning practical career and personal development skills. Email Independent Communication Associates in Nairobi, Kenya, to learn more about the organization's trainings. To begin the process of career planning, the delegates engaged in a series of exercises to examine the connections between their personal attitudes, beliefs and self-management styles and their approaches to managing others. Along with the new support network of their colleagues, a better understanding of their own strengths and a practical plan for the future, the CSLI participants left Johannesburg ready to realize their dreams. Recognizing the extraordinary impact of personal empowerment training and networking on CSLI's first graduating class, the AWMC incorporated many of these themes into its upcoming agenda.
Plans call for holding similar CSLI programs annually in different regions of the continent.
In addition, the AWMC will publish a directory of resources for women journalists and a handbook on leadership development. The handbook and directory will be published in English and French and are scheduled for release in April of 1999.