Leadership Summer School

Grow skills to lead self and others! Leadership training & coaching

LSS 2013 wants you in the Trainers Team

Leadership Summer School is moving towards its 6th edition!

Trainers of the world, time has come! This year’s event it’s going to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria between the 21st and 30th of July 2013. The LSS 2013 trainers are expected to be available from the 17th to the 31st! And once more we plan to make it more awesome with your contribution!

LSS cannot fulfill it`s mission without the help and dedication of energetic, creative and motivated trainers. So pluck up the courage and tell us about yourself and how you would contribute to make LSS 2013 totally awesome! The reward? Join one of the 15 trainers.

LSS is an 10-days event, with over 50 hours of training scheduled plus other facilitated activities. We are expecting to develop 80 participants into future community leaders, leaders in organisations, or in companies; leaders wherever they are/will be and in whatever they do.

As future LSS Trainer, we expect from you to:

– arrive by 17/07/2013 to have 3 full working days and be able to stay 1 day after the event (31/07/2013) which makes 14 days in total.
– be available before the event to design training sessions (mainly virtual team work)
– be available after the event to provide support to LSS participants (Handouts, Reporting, Follow-up) (mainly virtually)
– be ready to support all actors of LSS 2013 during the event

Deadline for applications was the 13th of March 23:59 CET!

If you have any questions, do not hesitate and send us an e-mail at contact@leadershipsummerschool.org.

We will also organize a LSS information Hangout session on 6th of march, so stay tuned!

Leadership Today

Steve Mellau @LSS 2012On July 8th 2012, Opening Ceremony of LSS 2012 in Budapest welcomed Steve Mellau as guest Speaker. Steve Mellau is Executive Coach of HRO Consulting, Senior Trainer and Visiting Professor at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. He spoke about Leadership and the importance for young people to learn Leadership related skills during studies or at the dawn of their professional careers.

Steve’s keywords according to leadership or every life situation are: questioning and listening. The talk was thus open for questions, opportunity used by one of the participants to ask: “what is the most important Leadership skill?”
Before answering, our Speaker bounced back the question to the audience. We heard elements such as Communication, Motivation, Presentation skills, Persuasion, Planning… Then came his answer: “Influence!” Steve’s sentence was close to the quote from Kenneth Blanchard illustrated on the picture opening this post.

Compiling several dictionaries, influence is defined as the power to affect persons or events without apparent exertion of force or direct exercise of command. Influence must have some effects on people and/or events, inducing a change in actions, feelings, thoughts and sometimes beliefs.

When starting a career, one is expecting to be the listener, to learn fast, to ask questions, sometimes, though not much to question what is requested from hierarchy. This is normal in most places though how long the status of “freshman” or “newbie” should last? There will be time when one will have suggestions, ideas or proposals to submit while not having the hierarchical clearance to implement them. How to make your superiors, colleagues, clients follow you?

There are many elements related to influencing others. Influence is about change as the people or the chain of events affected will be in a different setting than initially planned. One should also take into account who is the audience, what is the current context in your unit, department or company. It is also about persuasion; suggested course of actions work in audience/company’s best interest first. To influence someone and lead a group to a place members may not have gone by themselves, one must improve communication and understanding; one must win their adhesion. Relationship will be stronger if a group is lead without being commanded or forced.

This specific question and answer opened the door for participants to take full advantage of the project with practical testing and application throughout the event with inputs from trainers, peers and supporting companies.

Apply to organize LSS 2013

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# DL to apply: 21/1/2013

Would you like to take part in an innovative Leadership training event?

Are you keen to develop your personal & professional skills whilst empowering youth leaders from over 20 European and international organisations?

Are you enthusiastic, flexible, friendly and a good motivator?

… then Leadership Summer School is the event for YOU!

In July each year, we gather 60 to 100 students, young graduates and 15 trainers from all development path and field of studies, from all over the globe, in one venue, with one aim… to develop and inspire the leaders of tomorrow, today. For the past years LSS has lead the way in multi-disciplinary student leadership events!

LSS is made possible by the collaboration of around 20 different student organisations, with central coordination and support from Zero Generation.  Every year we look for ways to develop and improve this exciting event and this year should prove to be another awesome experience.

You can find more information and a photo gallery on the LSS webpage.

For the next edition, we are looking for a motivated and proficient Organising Committee in an exciting country; a team that will be able to make this event as successful as the previous ones and enhance participants experience. A quick Youtube search could show you how much people are enjoying this event.

Interested? Apply to host LSS 2013… and don’t just keep it for yourself! Partner up with other NGOs! Collaboration is one of the core elements of LSS, we are looking for different NGOs cooperating to make LSS 2013 shared success on a local level.

Leadership Summerschool by Zero Generation

Here’s what we are expecting from you, the Organising Committee, to be able to provide:

  • food and accommodation for about 100 people (70 participants / 15 trainers / organisers) for minimum 9 nights (+ 4 extra nights for trainers)
  • all the necessary training materials (post-its, markers, paper, flipcharts,…)
  • 4 training rooms, 1 working room for Trainers and 1 for OC event’s logistics
  • creative social/evening program
  • Period 8-31 July 2013
  • support LSS Supervisory Board in writing grants and raising funds from local cooperation with companies
  • open-mindedness and a sense for adventure in implementing ideas

Please check the link and download a copy of the “Organising Committee 2013 application form”; document including some important information about the application form to fill in and send it back to us (contact@leadershipsummerschool.org) and the criteria that will be used to select LSS 2013 OC.

Deadline to apply is 21st January 2013!

For ANY questions you would have about this great event, just write an E-Mail to contact@leadershipsummerschool.org.

What would you add to LSS history?

Yours,

Leadership Summer School 2013 Supervisory Board

Bianca Vicu
Julia Timofeeva
Milica Stankovic
Nicoleta Straton
Sara Wahnon
Herve Tunga
http://www.leadershipsummerschool.eu/
http://www.zerogeneration.org/