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Thursday, August 24, 2006
3rd day in IC
Hey, guys!
Now it is around 2.00 am in Poland and I am going to my bed after very difficult time during the day and evening.
So, today we had the most important part of agenda for CEE premeeting: we were discussing CEE initiatives, how they should like, what challenges can we face in implementing them, what you should change and add to them. There were several working groups and I was working on the group dealing with potential challenges in Enter CEE. And you know... when so different people come together to think about something you are actually experiencing what does it mean working in multicultural environment. I got already used to different accents and I hope they did used to mine too and now I am trying hard to understand the people see the whole picture based on their own background (country, LC, culture etc). And I can tell you, guys, that is really challenging stuff for me now. In general the main challenge we saw was the demand and supply in our exchange pool. The thing is that we do have a lot of PBOXes planned inside the program and a lot of SN realization throughout the year, but those TNs and SNs should be realized in different time frames. We came up with some of the ideas, but as always we should do more deep analisys.
Then we had skills building sessions. I attended team management and effective meetings. I can't say that I did hear anything new for me, but again I can say THE ONE thing I was thinking about lately: we DO NEED to do something with our KNOWING-DOING GAP. And what I mean by this is that we do, guys, know a lot of stuff, but using not all of it in the practice. And our main efforts should be on selfmanagement in order to fill that gap.
OK. Then we had visit from AI (and you can see them on the photo, the right one, Dai, is President of AIESEC International). They are really cool guys (actually about 20 of them) and I looking forward for sessions from them.
That's all for today. Tomorrow YouCan delegation arrives and IC starts with official opening. See you all really soon.
Now it is around 2.00 am in Poland and I am going to my bed after very difficult time during the day and evening.
So, today we had the most important part of agenda for CEE premeeting: we were discussing CEE initiatives, how they should like, what challenges can we face in implementing them, what you should change and add to them. There were several working groups and I was working on the group dealing with potential challenges in Enter CEE. And you know... when so different people come together to think about something you are actually experiencing what does it mean working in multicultural environment. I got already used to different accents and I hope they did used to mine too and now I am trying hard to understand the people see the whole picture based on their own background (country, LC, culture etc). And I can tell you, guys, that is really challenging stuff for me now. In general the main challenge we saw was the demand and supply in our exchange pool. The thing is that we do have a lot of PBOXes planned inside the program and a lot of SN realization throughout the year, but those TNs and SNs should be realized in different time frames. We came up with some of the ideas, but as always we should do more deep analisys.
Then we had skills building sessions. I attended team management and effective meetings. I can't say that I did hear anything new for me, but again I can say THE ONE thing I was thinking about lately: we DO NEED to do something with our KNOWING-DOING GAP. And what I mean by this is that we do, guys, know a lot of stuff, but using not all of it in the practice. And our main efforts should be on selfmanagement in order to fill that gap.
OK. Then we had visit from AI (and you can see them on the photo, the right one, Dai, is President of AIESEC International). They are really cool guys (actually about 20 of them) and I looking forward for sessions from them.
That's all for today. Tomorrow YouCan delegation arrives and IC starts with official opening. See you all really soon.
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 2:56 AM
