Opening Seminar III.

Final day of the Opening Seminar was pretty short... In the morning there was another session on Leadership, linked more directly to our Fellowship objectives and ways to achive them... Session was facilitated by Bob Halperin, 2002 Eisenhower Fellow and currently Chief Education Officer at YPO (www.ypo.org) - I will have to check with the Czech YPO members if they know him...

Bob divided us into groups of 7 or 8 (by Program Officers), and facilitated a couple of exercises which should have led to more understanding of our own objectives, and learning us to ask questions...

Our group picked a name "Chameleons" (my idea) - first because the group was so diverse and colourful, both in terms of backgrounds, countries as well as focuses, and second because Camilla was chosen to be the moderator... :-) And I actually believe we were the best ones (or one of the best), not just because when there was a final voting by all participants, we had 3 questions out of the final 10 selected (there were 5 groups)... Voila... (BTW, group with Sheamus and Bruno was called the Dancing Queens and the group with Mohammed and Mihai was called Philly Green Bananas - LOL)

Finally, Bob Halperin gave us 3 asignments for the Closing Seminar at the end of May:

1. Bring back an artefact (something tangible)
2. Bring back (or send) a picture which will be a symbol of the journey or the U.S.
3. Prepare an Action Plan for the Board or CEO

Getting worse from 1 to 3, but that's logical I suppose... Excellent workshop by Bob...