Leadership Training Workshop

TWI FOR THE CHILDREN
LEADERSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOPS
2011

This page provides the goals and itinerary of the TWI for the Children's Leadership Training Workshop to be held in the Balkans in 2011.

NEWS:

7/15-17/2011: Leadership Workshops in Montenegro:

Ken and Drew conducted their final series of workshops at the orphanage in Bijela, Montenegro. Twenty-five participants, majority of whom have been attending our workshops for several years here in Montenegro. Participants are from Serbia, Kosovo, USA, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Workshops were held in the mornings and afternoons between times with camps for the children. Pictures tell the story of the time on the seaside in Montenegro.

7/13/2011: Final Leadershop in Kosovo:

Drew and Ken presented the final workshop to a group of university students and several American soldiers working with KFOR in Kosovo. The students were pleased with the instruction and all received certificates of instruction. Overviews of the instruction can be found below:

Click here for an overview of the Crucial Conversations Workshop conducted by Ken.
Click here for an overview of the Organizational Leadership Workshop conducted by Drew.

7/12/11: Leadership workshop in Kosovo:

We began the workshop with Drew providing an overview of the Leadership Workshop Topics.
Photo of Ramush Lekaj, president of our host organization, QPEA. QPEA is a non-profit educational organization with volunteers from different regions in Kosovo. Photo at top of the page is of Ken presenting his Crucial Conversations Topic with interpreting by Adefete.

7/11/11: Leadership Workshop in Macedonia:

David started workshop with the activity using the “draw your hand” activity. Participants are given a blank piece of paper and are told to lay their left hand on the paper and with a pen/pencil trace your hand. Then he explains that each finger represents a characteristic about you: (1) the little finger: a personal weekness; (2)ring finger: commitment; (3) pointer finger: who or what is inspiring you; (4) thumb: something at which you are good. After all have completed the hand drawing and have answered the question on each finger, he asks for volunteers to say what they wrote.

7/09/11: Leadership Workshop in Paracin, Serbia:

Thirty people attended the Leadership Workshop - to include students and teachers and Snezena Tanic, Principal of School Stevan Jakovljevic in Paracin, Serbia. The students were from School Stevan Jakovljevic and from universities in Serbia. The topics discussed included: the importance of understanding; how to have productive conversations; how to prevent angry conversations; how to recognize a good leader and how to develop good leadership skills.

6/15/11: Proposed Overview of Leadership Workshops and Outline of Crucial Conversations and Organizational Leadership.

This is the proposed plan for the Leadership Workshops in the Balkans:

SERBIA (35 High School / University Age) Two- Hour Program

1^st Hour – Introduction to Leadership / Communication (DREW
2^nd Hour – Special Topic – Crucial Conversations (KEN)

MACEDONIA (30 participants) Five- Hour Program

1^st Hour – Icebreaker )
2^nd Hour - Introduction to Leadership / Communication (DREW)
3^rd Hour – Vision / Mission / Goal Setting Exercise (DREW)
4^th and 5^th Hours – Crucial Conversations (KEN)

KOSOVO (40 participants) Six- Hour Program

1^st Hour – Icebreaker
2^nd Hour - Introduction to Leadership / Communication (DREW)
3^rd and 4^th Hour – Vision / Mission / Goal Setting Exercise (DREW)
5^th and 6^th Hours – Crucial Conversations (KEN)

MONTENEGRO (25 participants) Seven- Hour Program

1^st Hour – Icebreaker – What did you do with your strengths (Drew / Ken )
2^nd Hour - Introduction to Leadership / Communication (DREW)
3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th Hours – Crucial Conversations and Exercises (KEN / DAVID)
7^th – Goal Setting for next year and wrap up (DREW)

5/13/11: Information on Paracin, Serbia Leadership Workshop.

#1. What is it: A 2-hour Leadership Workshop presented by TWI (Training Workshops International). Topic: "Crucial Conversations" ("crucial": e.g. of supreme importance, critical, difficult, severe) and Organizational Leadership.

#2. Topic Summary: When we look back at our life, we realize that we were actually shaped by conversations we had with others. If you take a minute to think about it - what you probably remember most about the 'forks' in the roads in your life that led you to making one decision instead of another were really actual conversations you had with people. . For example:, you always wanted to be a doctor because your Dad was a doctor and all your youth you watched the way he saved lives and you wanted to do that also. However, after spending the summer with your grandfather, a well-known lawyer, you changed your mind and studied Law instead of Medicine. These were "Crucial Conversations" that changed the "road of life that you took"...it was your "fork" in the road.

4/11/11: Leadership Workshop Topics for Kosovo/Montenegro.

#1. WORKSHOP TOPICS: Same topics that are presented in Bijela will be presented in
Kosovo Workshops. The idea is to explain to the participants the necessity for
communication skills and leadership skills in order to have a prosperous career in the future.

#2. PARTICIPANTS - Participants in Kosovo will be young persons who are also
volunteers with QPEA. Some of them are about to enter university.

#3. Kosovo Workshops Repeated in Montenegro: The
program presented in Kosovo will be repeated in Montenegro. This assists in training volunteers
to be leaders in their communities. Also, it facilitates the job of the interpreter.

Coordinators in Serbia, Macedonia, and Kosovo have been sent a Summary of Topic #1".
Kosovo is ready for the workshop on communication skills. There will be group exercises/role
play dealing with “Crucial Conversations”.

Topic #2 will be “Leadership Skills" and the importance of
communicating well and the ability to lead conversations in achieving
Group Cohesiveness and Group Project Success.

3/2/11: Trip outline:

#1. A 2 hour program in Paracin, Serbia. To be held on the late afternoon/early evening that we arrive in the city. On this day we drive from Sarajevo to Paracin, check in at the Hotel, have the Workshop, join our TWI team members from Paracin for dinner.

#2. A 1-day program in Macedonia (perhaps a 9-12AM workshop; lunch-with participants going to a local cafe; 1-3PM workshop). We can leave after the workshop and drive to Pristina, Kosovo for dinner and overnight.

#3. A 2-day program in Kosovo (6 hours total) --- (with a morning and afternoon workshop ... and we would host a short camp program that involves the participants and kids so that we can use our leadership skills in this activity.

#4. A 2-day program in Montenegro (7 or so hours total) -- (with daily schedule same as we have done there in the past - morning workshop, camp activity at the orphanage, afternoon workshop, dinner, evening workshop.

3/2/11: TWI will take its Leadership Workshops to Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo and to its three-day workshop in Montenegro during July 2011. TWI has contacted our Serbian Coordinator for possible workshops in Paracin, Serbia and in Sveti Nikole, Macedonia. TWI is also working with our Kosovo Coordinator for Workshop locations in Kosovo. Invitations are being sent to participants for the Workshop weekend in Montenegro.

Itinerary for the overall 2011 TWI Balkan Program includes proposed dates and "Activity Overview".

You must read about the results for the 2010 Leadership Workshop and how the workshop develops over the 3-day period.

PURPOSE