For an example, as Southern District VP I ran the district conferences. At the time I did it District VP’s were kind of lone wolves. We did everything regarding the conferences. Taught me a ton about promotion, budgets, public speaking, talent acquisition, strategy and management of other volunteers. It was really rough and took up more hours than I care to remember but what I learned was something you could not get anywhere else. Now the National Office works very closely with the District VPs in many areas so the amount of work is less but there is still a lot of valuable education. In the business world I would have never been given this much control over such a large project. After I had done it I could show my success to the business world and they respected it.
I am all for all types of continuing education. Volunteerism is one aspect.