In the previous post about volunteering & me I was mentioning the communities I was part of in the past years and what I was doing there. In this post I want to put down all the training I benefited from (received and given for free) in these communities and more. Here goes:
- Leadership & Management 2009 AIESEC
- Effective communication 2010 AIESEC
- Public speaking 2010 AIESEC
- Product Management 2010 AIESEC
- Global competency model 2010 AIESEC
- Entrepreneurship 2010 AIESEC
- Become a trainer 2010 AIESEC
- Communication & presentation skills 2010 AIESEC
- Audience management 2010 AIESEC
- Needs assessment 2010 AIESEC
- Delivery methods 2010 AIESEC
- Preparing a session 2010 AIESEC
- Briefing & debriefing 2010 AIESEC
- First given training on “Presentation skills” 2010 AIESEC
- Goal setting 2010 AIESEC
- Ar of Feedback 2010 AIESEC
- All about coaching 2010 AIESEC
- Management & leadership 2011 BEST
- Effective meetings 2010 BEST
- Communication weekend training 2011 BEST
- Giving and receiving Feedback 2011 BEST
- Knowledge Management training 2011 BEST
- Entrepreneurship course 2011 at TU Vienna
- Myer-Briggs Type Indicator training 2011 BEST
- Strategic planning 2011 BEST
- Motivation 2011 BEST
- Delegation 2011 BEST
- Leadership styles 2011 BEST
- Coaching course 2011 TU Vienna
- Effective meetings delivered by P&G 2012 BEST
- Critical thinking 2012 TU Vienna
- Creativity (6 hat concept) 2012 TU Vienna
- Startup weekend training – pitch training 2013 Ideen Triebwerk Graz
- Growth hacking 2014 ABC BEST
- Pitching training 2014 ABC BEST
- 360 community management 2014 GDG
- Presentation skills GDG
- Fund raising BEST
- Unconscious bias at Google GDG
- Motivation GDG
- Design thinking GDG
And then I lost track of them.
I also started delivering on my own on topics that are dear to me: Impostor syndrome and Unconscious bias (and also some technical talks all mentioned in the previous post).
And lately, here in Vienna, I like to go to workshops offered by PWN . I joined so far:
- Financial sustainability
- Salary negotiations
- Finding your purpose
If you look at my list you could say I did an entire school of social skills on the side of university. Well yes. Some of the courses were at university but the most are not offered there, so you gotta do self development somewhere else. This is what organizations are about: self development! Becoming a better you, exchanging ideas, becoming a “change agent”.
During all these training, I got to meet amazing people and I got amazing feedback that helped me improve and have a healthier and open mind, be more tolerant.
So what? you might ask.
Truth is, it is a personal story of how one can make use of such a rich palette of knowledge. Using it in the right moment and in the right way is a challenge for me too at times. This does not mean that the teams I work in always has effective meetings nor that feedback is my main tool to communicate. Not at all! Especially in professional life, where unfortunately, social skills STILL come last, (I am not saying EVERYWHERE but majority) it is much harder to establish yourself as… ultimately as a leader. It all adds up in the end. These training gave me the skills to be a good leader!
I leave a link to an interesting post here as a q.e.d: https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/why-do-people-quit-their-jobs-exactly-heres-entire-reason-in-3-simple-words.html