Outdoor Teambuilding with LC Karviná

Coming together is beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.

Henry Ford

I was asked to prepare some outdoor/teambuilding activities for LC Karviná during the weekend 25 - 26th May. We stayed in a lovely place near Jablunkov (Northern Moravia).

Outdoor for my lovely participants started on Saturday afternoon. We started with a tough physical game "Cannon". We spent around 2 hours in a forest testing physical condition, trust and team cooperation. (Sorry for not describing these games in details because of possible future use again. In case you are interested contact me and I will help you.) After coming back to cottage everybody was silent and tired (not so talkative and laughing as at the beginning:-)

Sunday. Morning. 5 a. m. 4 hours of sleep for some lucky ones. Really strong alarm. Everybody blindfolded. The game "The Day of the Triffids" can start. I spent about 2 hours with team in forest courious how they will performe. I must say they suceed - overcame obstacles very quickly and with humour.

If the success of outdoor teambuilding is (among others) measurable by good mood in a team afterwards, tired people and telling phrases like "I hate NTT!", "Can we inactivate the position of NTT?", "I want to get back to the cottage", "I hate nature and have wet shoes they will not get dry"... then this teambuilding was successful. Thank you LC Karviná for giving me this opportunity and looking forward my next NTT experiences. Photos.

ITtTS 2007 in Slovakia

From 10th to 13th May I took part as a delegate in International Train the Trainers Seminar in Slovakia. My main goal was to compare Czech and Slovak TtT and get some inspiration as well. There were about 30 delegates from Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Serbia, Portugal and me as the only representative of the Czech Republic.

This seminar was built as a conference so we had a chance to go through plenaries, homegroups, parties and of course to meet an amazing chair Misho. There were 3 homegroups with BIP :-) facis Ola (Poland), Noam (everywhere, currently Poland) and Samuel (Italy).

This was one of my other NTT experiences and in this way I would like to say thank you especially to Hausi, Slovakia NTT and conference manager in one. Good luck in Ghana, Hausi.

OPS 2007 - faci experience

There was Outgoing Preparation Seminar (OPS) 2007 running Sat-Sun beginning May.
I got the chance to facilitate there when knowing there will be Mena and Lukas MC responsible, Aluska Haluska as chair, 7 experienced AIESECers as facilitators and 80-in-spring recruited SNs who decided to go for AIESEC internship.

Seminar organised by AIESEC CZU Praha (OCP Martin Prokop) at Junior Centrum at Seč u Pardubic ;-)

Me as faci, I was responsible for one so called "home group" of 8 SNs. Btw, cool guys :-)
The aim of this seminar is to "prepare" SNs before they go for the internship, connected with words such as cultural shock, ambassadorship, trainees/returnees discussions, internship goal setting etc.

(faci meeting)

One thing I'd like to mention, it was our beloved Global village.
As we need to meet the challenge of having just few trainees/returnees at OPS, each LC was responsible for having its own stand dedicated to one continent or specific world region.
Man, it was damn well done! Music playin' around, I visited each stand just wondering how seriously everyone felt about GV...

During after-GV party I tried to play Czech brass music - dechovka, it was "polka" - maybe you will not believe, but after first seconds of the music, the dancing stage was full of couples dancing for this song!!
Even trainees were interested how to dance it so some Czech guys started to explain...
Follow up - gonna be surprised at next AIESEC conference with some more brass music, hold on :-P

(with Lydka, Starosta and Petr - AIESEC Praha alumni as SNs during OPS 2007)

Training in Pardubice

As NTT we were asked to deliver training on "How to build a seesion" from LC Pardubice.
When going for a training you need to -- guess what??-- prepare.
I used mainly the materials and info we were given at Train the Trainer in summer 2006 and shared a bit my experience when designing sessions.

There were 5 participants at the training so it was nice to get them quickly into the "learning process" ;-)

Training: delivered
Mission: continued (I am just curious about their next steps when building a session :-))

ITC 2007 in Romania

From 16th to 22th April I went to Romania to experience International Trainers Congress 2007. Hmmm, what to say? Simply it was another amazing and unforgettable AIESEC experience. Just imagine - more than 100 delegates from about 30 AIESEC countries, new PAI Gabiza as a conference manager, site right next to Black sea... And everybody ready to gain new knowledge, experience, friends, wilder network and enjoy AIESEC spirit.

What happened all week long? It started with official Global Village in Bucharest which was amazing - many people, nice wheater, roll calls... Then we moved to National Theatre for Official Opening and we had a great opportunity to see Romanian President who took part too.

Then we were split into home groups and we worked very intensively on our "mission" which was to prepare 4 hours lasting training for Romanian university students. The theme? Personal leadership. I still can see the space in front of the hotel reception, 4 a. m., energy drinks, chips, laptops and tired members from my Sweet Fighters home group doing their best to deliver a high quality training. Two hours of sleep... Journey to Bucharest... University... Delivering training... Amazing active students asking questions, participating, sharing emotions, enjoying... We succeed!!!

I must say during ITC 2007 I enjoyed the best closing plenary ever. Just close your eyes and imagine... 6 a. m. in the morning, beach, sunrise, AIESECers coming from unofficial Global Village, Lukas Prokop from Czech MC playing the guitar, everybody singing One from U2, enjoying the moment, sharing emotions, crying... I will never forget...

NTT at NatCo 2007

In April there was Czech national conference - NatCo, where all "national support teams" of AIESEC in the Czech Republic were officially presented.
As NTT is one of them, we rocked the opening with breath-taking roll call having support of Xtina's song and our cool corporates, black ties and hats.

During the conference we spent some time together with NTT 2006/2007 members - Gecko, Jaro and Radek, as we needed to get deeper in the role and work of NTT.
That means thanks to this NTT transition we are able now to set our plan for upcoming year covering trainings at LCs, preparing Train the Trainer seminer, etc.

One more person needs to be mention when talking about the NTT work - it is Bárbara, who will be responsible for communication between Czech MC and NTT.

NTT 2007/2008 is blogging

Hey,
in the middle of March 2007 there were selected two members of new National Trainers Team of AIESEC in the Czech Republic:

Lenka Kovaříková & Hana Hartošová

We decided to create and take care :-) of our NTT blog in order to keep you updated what's going on with us, what we are/were about to deliver as trainers all around the Czech Republic and in abroad, too.

Definitly we will not mind if you leave a comment here ;-)

Anyway, looking forward to the upcoming year!

PS: Stay tuned if you are intersted in becoming the third NTT member - application to be released within a month!