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The University of the Future
Student guide to our alternative learning model
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I N T R O DU C T I ON We invite you in a world where young people like you take the responsibility for their own development, they discover and create themselves, they rediscover games, intrinsic motivation and passion, they have the courage to dream and the reflex of giving before asking.
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I was reborn a couple of days ago. In my thoughts and in my soul occurred changes that I could never have imagined. I left CROS Camp with a special kind of energy, that can not be found in any other place on Earth. Raluca, youth volunteer
The purpose of this guide is to explain, in detail, the alternative learning model proposed by CROS. We hope it will help you understand why, how and what exactly we are doing. The guide is primarily addressed to the members of the CROS communities of practice. We hope it will help you decide if it suits you and later on to create an extraordinary experience using this model and its resources.
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WH A T C A N Y O U F I N D HERE
We begin by presenting ourselves and sharing the reason behind creating this learning model. 4
Who we are
What we 5 believe in
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Individual Support 12
The following few pages describe the principles of the model and its basic elements, seen as a whole: steps, learning processes and communities of practice. 6
Learning principles
Steps
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Learning processes
Communities 9 of practice
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Coaching
Mentoring
Personal 13 Branding
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Weekly guest lecture
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Training
Social Learning 18
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Self-directed Learning
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Learning 17 Day
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Sharing Day
Learning environment 26
Workshops
Then we detail each learning process, all of them being grouped in sections. Towards the end we complete the image with a set of details that make the model more tangible.
Rent a Team
Business Incubator
Practical Experiences
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2.0 Courses
NGO
Internship
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About the learning model
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Learning House
Wiki
The Game
CAMP
Calendar
Contribution
Results
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31 Our promise
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C ROS
A B OU T We are a team of young people, aged 22 to 30, passionate about education. 4 years ago we founded CROS (Resource Center for Student Organizations), as part of our dream to create the first alternative university in Romania. CROS has now a team of 16 members, 9 of them working full time. We worked with over 1000 young volunteers and 106 student organizations.
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We make incredibly poor use of our talents. We have built our educational system on the model of fast-food - everything is standardized. And it is depleting our mental abilities the same way that fast-food is depleting our bodies.
Ken Robinson
In 2011, at the Education Awards Gala, CROS recieved a special honorary distinction for contributing to Romanian education through innovation in education and its vision of an Alternative University. The other 5 distinctions were offered to institutions like “Gazeta Matematica” and Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering.
In the following years we believe we have to put other values at the foundation of Romanian education. Autonomy and trust instead of control. Diversity and personalization instead of standardization. Critical thinking instead of indoctrination. On the long term, we strive for our university to contribute to a movement that will profoundly transform Romanian education.
Ana Secrieru
Andrei Cojan
Bogdan Ardeleanu
Cristina Cristea
Diana Irimia
Elena Dobre
Floriana Boldojar
Gabriela Solomon
Horațiu Țicău
Ioana Cepoi
Miruna Leonte
Silvia Purel
Traian Brumă
Victoria Dinu
Violeta Șerbu
Vlad Atanasiu
WH A T We believe that people are happy and fulfilled when:
Comfort
Their basic comfort is ensured (material, emotional, social)
Flow Purpose
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cooperation with others, and deep relationships and
The University and the Community matter also
community make the difference.
Firstly, both you and us are here for your development.
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But secondly, each of us also takes care of others growth and that of our university. Besides the individual development of each person, we shape together the
Life has a sense, a meaning, a purpose that is greater their own “wellbeing”
All these give birth to a set of principles that guide our interaction:
education of the future.
Honesty and transparency You learn, we create the context
We have an open culture that encourages mutual
We don’t teach you anything. Learning belongs 100% to
constructive feedback and we would like us all to be as
you, our role being to bring the people you need together,
authentic as possible. We expect you to be honest and
create the atmosphere, give you access to resources and
open regarding what we will offer to you and you can
experiences that help and support you in your learning.
expect the same from us.
place in the world. In search of that place where they will
Freedom and responsibility
Adult to adult interactions
be happy and fulfilled, they transform themselves and
Nothing is compulsory. Everything is flexible. You have
We interact and relate to each other as equals, we have
the world around them. We aim to create a university
the freedom to make your own choices and change them
trust and authentic respect for each other - we live and
that would support them in this process, according to
whenever you need to. In order for this freedom to work
show this every day. Everybody thinks for himself and is
the following principles:
for all of us, it needs to be accompanied by responsibility.
responsible for his actions.
They are as much as possible in the flow, that state in which time disappears and you become completely immersed in an activity that gives you joy and energy. In our culture, young people cross paths with the University in the moment they start searching for their
• They need guidance, but in the same time they
Each one of us should respect the time of others, keep our
should keep their autonomy to decide what, how
promises, and take care of the learning resources and the
Self-improvement and support
much and how they learn.
relationships we have with external stakeholders.
Beyond your current limit there is a new limit that you
• Each individual builds his own path.
might be aware of or not. We are here to support you, to
• The path is organic and non-linear.
challenge and to encourage you, but we will not push
• The motivation to learn comes from within.
you. We expect you to do that.
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How does it work
The CROS model supports learning from 3 complementary perspectives: • personalized learning path, supported through one-to-one learning processes; • social learning in communities of practice; • real life experiences, that offer authentic growth opportunities;
Learning implies a relatively non-linear and hard to predict road, but we have identified 4 stages that are helpful in making sense of it. This is an alternative for organizing learning in “years”. The stages are personalized - each individual experiencing them at his or her own pace. Their purpose is to simplify the complexity of the learning process and to help you to be aware of the stage you are in, to allocate time for each stage and they help CROS support your development with relevant experiences for each stage. Before each stage you have a gateway.
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Entering the communities
You want to take your education into your own hands. You are open towards learning, have intrinsic motivation, ambition, perseverance, passion, energy, optimism and positive attitude. You are upright, responsible, authentic and oriented towards cooperation. You can allocate 500 hours/year for learning in the CROS communities. You are willing to take the untrodden path, and make things happen. We accept any degree of confusion - we don’t assume you decided what you want to do with your life. In our vision, effective and efficient learning is a balanced combination of the three above and together they lead to personal and professional development, transition to the active, productive and fulfilled life; finding ones element and place in the world. The following stages resulted from our 9 years of experience in the students NGOs environment. They are designed for volunteers in student and youth organizations.
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Exploring
You start from the point in which you’re not decided what attracts you and where you might belong. Even if you do have an idea about what you could do, you did not have the chance to meet people working in that field. This is a stage in which you get to know yourself, you map your interests and the corresponding reality.
It is a discovery stage in which you do not take big commitments. It’s a search, a way of mapping the field. It’s like scouting before choosing a spot to install the tent. What you will be doing: you will meet many people, volunteer in various teams without being a critical person in the team, you choose your student organization and understand how it works (first year of organization), you can read books, sites, blogs on various topics, attend conferences and student projects etc.
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Gateway to Action
Exploring stage ends when you feel ready to assume a bigger responsibility or commitment (minimum 3 months - usually 1 year) and you’ve found it. You are doing this in an environment that allows you to make mistakes, where you have freedom and it is built so that it accelerates your journey. It can be part of an organization or a team based on volunteering. It might be a personal project or one belonging to the organization in which you have a role. This commitment isn’t just an “exercise” or a test; it truly represents you and you should care for it beyond “what comes out of this”; it is part of your real life and you want to do it for it’s own sake, intrinsically motivated; it is a way of engaging with the world around. It is important to choose something you really care for. The transition towards “action” is made through a public statement (inside the communities) in which you describe your new responsibility and its objectives for the coming period, you answer to the question “Why this?” and tell the community how it could help you.
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Gateway to Transition
You have capitalized all that could be capitalized in the initiation environment and you are now ready to go to the next level. You have a consistent portfolio that shows your interests and your competences. In order to cross to Transition, you create a portfolio that describes the experiences you’ve been through and their results. Then you present them in front of a group of people that helps you realize if you are ready to move on and guides you in the following steps. Besides, they offer you a recommendation and try to open doors towards the next stage. “The commission” is made up by persons that you have invited and persons recommended by CROS.
Model
Transition
This is a stage in which you find your direction and the vehicle to take you there. You can aim at a job, or to become a freelancer that creates a place for him in the market or to build your own business. You define what you are looking for, you talk to as many people as possible and ask them to guide you, you meet companies and teams, attend interviews and maybe internships, you engage in a management trainee program or even in a job. If you aim towards becoming a freelancer, you work on different projects in order to consolidate your portfolio and to create a network of clients and references. If you aim towards entrepreneurship, then you create a business inside the business incubator. Each person that enters the transition period will be part of a catalogue and the partner organizations will have access to you and you will have access to them. We will publish your portfolio and your story in the network.
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Gateway to Mastery
The fact that you have a job or you started a business is not a reliable indicator for crossing to the Mastery stage. In order to get there, you need to have the certainty that you embarked on a stable route for 2-3 years, that you are in your element and that it’s worth to accelerate on this road. Crossing over to this stage is done through a “Thank you” event, during which you can invite
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This is the stage in which you accumulate the initial experience and your portfolio, you consolidate or invalidate your choices. Usually this stage stretches on a period of 2-4 years in which you take on a series of more and more complex challenges. An example for a route you might take in this stage could be: you coordinate a project inside an organization for 4 months, then you coordinate a department for one year, you become the president in the following year and then start a new project in your organization, that you lead for 6 months. These experiences take place in youth or students organizations where you have more freedom to try and make mistakes and where the entire environment is oriented towards supporting this initiation experience. During this stage learning from practice has a really high effect because you are doing many things for the first time.
persons that played a role in your initial development and helped you find your place. This is the ritual through which, in relation to the Alternative University, you transform from the one that needs help to the one that offers help. In relation with the world, this is a ritual through which you become a contributor and tell the others what your role will be. It consists of a public presentation in which you describe your journey up to that point, your professional (and personal) mission and your plans for the future.
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If you also want a formal recognition, you need to add the specific conditions required by that certification.
Mastery This is a stage in which you are a reflexive practitioner, you continuously improve, going further and further in your domain, you strengthen yourself in relation to the professional community you belong to, you make a difference in this community and the market, produce results, accumulate solid professional experience, you mature as a professional and you progress on the steps of your profession. This is a stage in which, in relation to the AU, you are firstly a resource person and your growth is supported exactly through this role: you learn by teaching others and by keeping a close contact with other professionals from the mastery stage.
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More details about each of the learning processes are offered in the following pages. According to the stage you feel you are in, you can read more about those processes that are intensified on the ring for that stage. Of course, for your immeasurable curiosity, we invite you to read about all of them. Recommending processes according to the stage is not exclusive. We invite you to talk with somebody from the CROS team any time you think about accessing a process.
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Organizing learning In the image on the right you can see all the learning processes we organize. Other things you can see in the diagram: • The processes are grouped in 4 main categories: individual support, social learning, practical activities and learning environment • The stages that were previously described and the gateways • The intensity of the colors represents the extent to which each process, from our own experience, is relevant for each stage.
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relations between members who support the knowledge sharing) and the actual Practices (focus areas around which the community develops, shares and coagulates most of the knowledge). In the wide frame of the Alternative University, the communities of practice are alternative colleges. Below you can see an estimate of the member’s distribution in the communities, considering also the development stages we propose.
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The communities of practice (CoP) are a form of organizing a group of people working in a certain domain. These people reunite around a certain topic and around the set of practices of that topic, in order to develop and learn from one another. CoP exist for a long time as a natural form of organizing and have been studied and modeled by Etienne Wenger. He defines 3 elements as being essential for CoP: the Domain (area of knowledge that creates common purpose and guides learning), the Community (social
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What are the communities of practice
At the moment, there are 3 CoP in the CROS model. Being a member in one community does not exclude your participation in the others.
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HRemotion This is the Community of Practices that focuses on human resources management and development, from recruitment and selection to motivation and performance management. It is designed for those passionate of working with people in developing groups and organizations, like HR coordinators, trainers, facilitators, etc.
New Media School Entering the communities
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Gateway to Mastery
This is the CoP in which communication is the main topic, particularly in new media (social networking, online collaboration platforms, photography, video making and digital graphics, etc.). It is designed for enthusiasts to experience new ways of communication and to improve skills and techniques in these areas, from narrative journalism to multimedia.
Leadership Community
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This year marks the start of the 3rd CoP of the model, inspired by the need of an increasing group of NGO leaders (presidents, project managers, coordinators of departments), of several entrepreneurs and NGO alumni passionate about organizational development. They want to develop in the fields of management and leadership in order to support the growth of their organizations.
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Se lfLe Di ar rec ni te ng d What it is
Counseling for self-directed learning is a process of individual support, by which each member of the community gets to take responsibility for their own education, to control what, how, when, whom with and what they learn.
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Participants in the program - the students - and those who advise them - the counselors - have a peer-to-peer relationship. The unu to la unu one one counselors are members of the communities for at least one year and they completed a training in counseling for self-directed learning. Each student will choose the counselor which suits him best.
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
Time
The program for self directed learning will be opened in October and it lasts as long the counseled students need. We estimate a period of 8-12 months, with weekly meetings of 1.5-2 hours each.
Stages Explorare Exploring
Action Actiune
Transition Tranzitie
Mastery Maiestrie
We recommend counseling for self-directed-learning especially for members in the Exploring stage and sometimes for those in the Action stage.
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What do the counseled students say
It was an exploration of self with many pleasant surprises. I learned to teach and I taught myself - the way I work, what makes me productive, why I do certain things and not others. I learned to make better choices. I was asked at one point how I see myself in 10 years if I maintain this attitude towards learning. I think I could adapt to anything and thus develop very much. I see learning objectives as a tree growing in many directions.
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Fostering autonomy The way we relate to self-directed learning is based on a model of Malcolm Knowles - adapted according to our experience in the recent two years of piloting. A way for you to imagine this model is a flower that you have to grow, from the stem to each petal. The way to develop your autonomy includes fostering this plant, taking care of each item and the synergy between them. We assume that in each of us lies the potential for autonomy in learning.
Laura Stoia
The counseling for self-directed learning program helped me discover an opportunity of learning in any activity around me, to look at what I’ve learned from every experience and above that, it helped me realize that I can create my own opportunities to learn something that I want. What I learn and how I learn depends only on me!
Raluca Grigore
I started the program without a clear picture of what I’ll do later. I started by answering the question “Who am I actually?”. By doing this I learned about my values, what are my models and what are my motivations. With each meeting we had, my projection in time was crystallizing. Another thing that enlightened me was the discovery of all the resources that I was surrounded by. I still do not use them all, but I am aware of their existence and I know that I can access them any time I need them. You get to become solely responsible for your learning and development, and that gives you a sense of freedom that is hard to describe.
Maximilian Dobrescu
Individual
Andreea Voroneanu
In your mission to build an alternative university, you need healthy developmental experiences. Personally I’m convinced that tools such as coaching are not just important, but essential to set people on the move.
Alexandru Popa
The fact that you give young people such a space to ask fundamental questions for this stage of their evolution, regarding the path they choose for life, brings me even closer to you. I enjoy your energy and openness. It was a great challenge that brought me back to my passion of working with young people.
Gabriela Bujor
Support
Georgiana Floroiu
Coaching helped me to know who I am as an individual, where I’m going and how to get there. It’s a complex process that starts from an analysis centered on the individual against himself and helps him understand his choices in different areas of life. This approach gave me a quiet moment in which I had the freedom to explore and understand me better. It is the most effective way to achieve concrete results and acquire balance in life.
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Raluca Bercea
Coaching with Gabi is different from what I experienced before. I felt a certain reluctance in the beginning because I knew the classical structure with questions. I did not like it and it was not for me. With Gabi everything is about generative coaching. That is what attracted me to start the program with her. That means we are not making a plan to follow, with objectives, but we work on calibrating objectives with what you are and what you wish. If I should recommend somebody in terms of setting goals, I’d warmly recommend someone like Gabi. For me, setting goals is more than SMART, SMARTER, Deadline, Evaluation, Discipline. It is about you.
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My biggest passion is to work with young people. It was great fun and I used a lot of new, creative techniques. I realized that they worked when he said “the person I visualized at the beginning of the program is the person I became. “
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What do the coaches say
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Each year, the coaching program was a “life changing” experience. It supported me exactly during the periods when I needed support and it helped me to focus on myself. I asked myself questions and found solutions to problems related to both the professional area and the personal life. Through coaching I managed to take a break from hectic daily life and recalibrate my energy towards the things that make me happy.
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What do the coachees say
What it is
Coaching is an individual non-directive process that tries to support people in achieving personal and professional development objectives, in meeting challenges and achieving performance.
Relations Coaches are professionals who have undergone a training program in this respect and are willing to work one unuto la one unu with young people. When you want to access a coach we will help you find one that fits you.
Time
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
The coaching program is permanently open and it lasts for an estimate of 12 sessions (one per week). A coaching session lasts about an hour.
Stages Explorare Explorare Exploring
Acțiune Actiune Action
Tranziție Tranzitie Transition
Măiestrie Maiestrie Mastery
We recommend coaching especially in the Action and Mastery stages. It is also possible for a coach to help you during the Exploring and Transition stages.
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What do the mentees say
What it is
Mentoring is an individual process in which an experienced professional in a particular field supports a member of the community to develop skills and professional values, offering insights and information, access to resources and relevant experience.
Relations Mentors are professionals with at least 5 years of professional experience in HR, unuto la one unu one communications, business, learning and development, education. During the year you will know potential mentors whom you can invite to help you in this way.
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
Time
The mentoring program is always open. The moment you decide to start a mentorship relation it is up to you and the mentor. From past experience, meetings lasts about an hour and take place every one or two weeks.
Explorare Exploring
Actiune Action
Transition Tranzitie
Stages Mastery Maiestrie
We recommend mentoring especially during the Transition stage. It is also possible that a mentor can help you in the Action and Mastery stages.
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In the spring of 2011, I was studying PR in my last year at the Faculty of Letters and I was curious how it would be to work in a communication agency. My big dream was to do PR for a cultural institution or a theater festival. The mentoring program offered me the opportunity to meet, talk and work with a professional working in the domain I was passionate about. I chose BTO as my mentor - a challenge on several fronts, from which I had only to learn. We’ve had discussions about briefing, brainstorming, creative sessions, meetings, teamwork. I gained knowledge, confidence, new perspectives and most importantly, I realized what I do not want to do - I do not want to work in PR. Raluca Vasile
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2011 was the “Bogdana year”. If you browse websites, you will surely understand why. I chose her as a mentor because she seemed to be a powerful woman in an equally powerful industry. At that time I had a special interest in marketing/online communications. I saw the right person in Bogdana to give me confidence, resources and support. During our meetings, which were not many but they were precious, I got exactly what I wanted. Results were seen: I had the confidence to take my personal projects as a freelancer and earn some money, I started reading niche publications and I began to understand the industry in a new light. Aliana Răteanu
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For me it was a pillar of support, especially since I had so much respect for the person in front of me in terms of professionalism and her views were true triggers for reflexive sessions. In fact, I think this is the way a mentor can help you: he/she is the living example of the way you want to go through from that moment onwards. The mentor is the
person who can give you viable examples, to bring to your attention the pros and cons of the decisions you want to take - because he/she knows, because he/ she has been there already and has the maturity and necessary experience to be an example for you.
Andreea Ciobotaru
Who are the mentors
HRemotion
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Bulent Duagi, HR Business Partner Adobe România Mihai Zânt, Training and Recruitment Manager Tibi Borza, Recruitment Specialist, LOreal Ioana Predescu, Manager Human Resources, Mercedes Benz România Alexandru Popa, Learning Consultant, Orange România Luminiţa Keleş, Employer Branding Manager JTI România Diana Rosetka, General Manager, United Business Developement (AchieveGlobal, KT, ROI) Mihaela Feodorof, Managing Partner, YOURWAY COUNSELING
New Media School
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Tudor Totolici, Online Marketing Consultant Vili Păcureţu, advertising and programming specialist Bogdana Butnar, Business Development, Head of Telco/E-Commerce Google România
Leadership Community
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Viorel Panaite, Managing Partner, Human Invest Marian Staş, Education Consultant and Win-Win Consulting Oana Ţoiu, Executive Director KCMC (K Consulting Management and Coordination)
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In a world in which the new business cards are Google searches and reputation and your network of professional contacts is often worth more than a college diploma, personal branding should be a basic concern of any professional. Personal Branding is thus not a luxury reserved only for multinational executives and entrepreneurs, but a specific need for any person who wants to be found, recognized and paid for what he/she can do best.
What do the participants think What it is
To encourage networking and personal branding, we will permanently hold a workshop on this subject, where we invite speakers, trainers, provide feedback and share our experiences. Besides the workshop, we encourage you to have a personal blog, to attend conferences and to be active in your social networks.
Paul Olteanu
Relations
The workshop will be supported by Sergiu - ideas wizard and Zen - creative genie, from the Friends for Friends Foundation. It will be small groups grupuri mici organized in small groups of 10-15 people, from all three communities, and the workshop is practical and customized to each member.
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The personal branding course was uncomfortable for me because it made me realize that I have much work to do in areas that I thought I already master.
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Views and opinions about you are inevitably formed and this often happens without anyone noticing. When you become aware of your personal image beyond the clothes to dress up, the term personal branding emerges.
Support
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This course made me more aware of my strong points and my weaknesses. I must have more confidence in my strengths and therefore, in myself. What I think we need to do now is to implement the good advice I received about communicating with new people I meet.
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Why is it important
I also realized that I wish to continue being an HR person as a volunteer, because I love it and a time will come when I will get paid for what I like to do. Thank you and thanks to my colleagues from the course because they inspire me. I’m glad to see them grow and implement what they learned.
Otilia Boldeanu
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
The workshop will start in spring and will be held weekly or twice a month, depending on the needs of members. A workshop will last approximately 2-2.5 hours and there are a total of 10 sessions.
Stages Explorare Exploring
Action Actiune
Transition Tranzitie
Mastery Maiestrie
We recommend personal branding workshops especially for Transition and Mastery stages. They can also be very useful if you decide to work on your personal brand from the Action stage.
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Why would the common person want to know the life of another common human? Perhaps to compare? To learn something from his mistakes? To learn something from his achievements? To know his attitudes towards the world? The spiritual dimension? Maybe a little bit from all of that.
What it is
Explorare Exploring Explorare
Action Actiune Acțiune
Transition Tranziție Tranzitie
Stages Mastery Măiestrie Maiestrie
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Open space for conversations
Each week a professional from our network will be invited, whether it is a specialist in communication, communityal eveniment new media, human resources, event comunitatilor entrepreneurship, education, personal development, management, leadership or a mentor, trainer, coach, friend or friend of the communities.
We organize this event every week - 2 hours of facilitated discussion and one hour of networking space. We estimate that there will be about 30 events per year.
Practical exercise or discussion
Lecture Prezentare
Relations
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
The guest of each week will be asked to prepare both a short presentation and an interactive form to help participants to enter more deeply into the subject at hand. At the end we leave room for spontaneous conversations and new connections.
Vasilie Nikolic
Focused 3 hours event in which the professionals we work with are invited to present or facilitate a discussion on a topic of professional or general interest for all members. It is an evening of inspiration and networking opportunity for those present.
Time
Format
Alis Anagnostakis
Cristi Lupșa
Multimedia There are many people that we’d like you to know and who would want to meet you and share their ideas and experiences. Below are just a few. We are also keen to receive proposals of people you would like to invite to these events.
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Radu Mărgărit Ana Silivaş Horea Murgu Alis Anagnostakis Alecsandra Liţu Elisabeta Stănciulescu Lucian Mihai
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Each presentation will be recorded and you can review it online anytime. We still recommend you to attend the event because it’s an opportunity to know the guests and to interact with them and with your fellows from the community.
Vasilie Nikolic Cristi Nicolae Cristi Lupşa Sandra Ghiţescu Chris Worman Iulian Olariu Răzvan Crişan
The Guest of the week event is recommended for all community members.
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Human Resources Recruitment of new members Motivation Organizational culture Communication inside the organization
Communication & new media
Memories about Sharing
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What does sharing mean to me now? It is an experience in which we openly talk about things we did and we are still doing. Things that went ok or not, things that I want to know how they were made by other organizations, how it went, what difficulties they encountered, things I have in my mind and I’d want to enforce in the organization, things I carried out and I came to a deadlock that I can not overcome and I need creative solutions and smart questions. In the category of things I can put: a communication campaign, branding the organization, research, Facebook, Facebook content, blog articles, website, a small logo, a tweet, anything.
Ioana Cepoi
Social Media Campaigns PR in organizations Communication strategy How to build the brand of an organisation
Leadership & Management Strategic meetings of the organization Planning the activity in the organization Leadership in organizations How do we manage the resources of an organization
Thematic meetings and sharing have as the central topic the community activities. During these meetings members of each community exchange good practices, find answers to questions, build together systems and tools in their interest area. Themes are chosen by participants and are scheduled as to be discussed before the activities take place in the organization.
Relations Meetings are facilitated by someone with experience in communityal eveniment facilitation and design of learning. event comunitatilor We often invite professionals from the business environment to these meetings to present case studies or simply to participate to the discussions.
Time
And something more... A flowing conversation
Learning
What it is
Apart from events organized by us, at any time you can hold sharing meetings with colleagues from the community, calling for their support with confidence. Between meetings, the sharing of information takes place on the online platform of the community.
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Examples of topics
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
Each month, half of day (4-6 hours) will be dedicated to sharing. In total nine Sharing Days will be organized throughout the year.
Stages Explorare Explorare Exploring
Actiune Acțiune Action
Tranziție Tranzitie Transition
Măiestrie Maiestrie Mastery
Sharing Day is recommended for members in the Action stage that want to both receive and offer from their experiences, but it is an open event to members from other stages, willing to learn new perspectives.
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What it is
Training is a form of group learning, directed by a trainer, which provides access to a set of contents and aims to develop skills. In the CROS communities we split the trainings we offer to into hard-skills and soft-skills trainings.
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This type of experience is facilitated by a trainer - a person who has experience in the field trainer group in which the event occurs and is și grup trainerand & responsible for designing and facilitating learning for the group of participants. A training group is ideally between 15-20 participants.
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
Soft-skills trainings
Hard-skills trainings
Soft-skills trainings are focused on transversal competences related to efficiency, self-confidence and self-discipline of each member, teamwork or how to communicate and relate to others. There are 10 themes proposed by us and other topics will be the chosen and requested by you during the year. Below are some of them. • Problem Solving and Decision Making • Self Situational Leadership • Challenging Conversations • The Skilled Presenter • Six Thinking Hats • Self Management • Self Discovery • Emotional Intelligence • Online Collaborative Tools
Hard-skills trainings approach professional topics and develop indispensable skills for any practitioner in areas like communication, human resources, organization and leadership development. 8 trainings will be organized for each community. You can participate in trainings offered for other communities as well, if they are of interest to you. Here are some of the topics:
Traininguri Soft-skills Soft-skills trainings
Partners
Hard-skills Traininguritrainings Hard-skills
Explorare Exploring Explorare
Actiune Action Acțiune
Transition Tranzitie Tranziție
Stages Mastery Maiestrie Măiestrie
Soft trainings are recommended especially for members in the Exploration and Action stages and hard trainings for members in the Action stage. They are open for members from other stages as well.
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HRemotion Recruitment Skills Learning & Development Communication in Team Development New Members Induction Performance Management
Leadership & Management Process Management Interdisciplinary Organizational Culture Graphic Facilitation Leader Profile in the 21st Century Gamification Change Management Creative Thinking
Time
Trainings start in September, when there are 8 trainings, afterwords their frequency will drop to 3/ month. The order of themes and their frequency is designed to bring maximum impact according to the challenges of each development stage of the participants. The duration of a training varies from one day to three days.
New Media School Communication Strategies Storytelling Marketing Planning Filmmaking Basics Social Media & Online PR
Trainings are offered by our educational partners: training and consulting companies, organizations and freelance trainers. Companies • • • • • • •
Freelance trainers
Achieve Global Human Invest Interact Decât o Revistă FilmMaking.ro Playmakers Industries Friends for Friends Foundation
• • • •
Alis Anagnostakis Alexandru Popa Iulian Olariu Tudor Totolici
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These were two intense days when I could test how situational leadership works. I note that it is important to take time for diagnosis. This helps to save time in the long run and helps you to know how to approach different situations. Satisfaction is the one that affects a person’s performance and represents the engine that must be evaluated in order to establish productive relationships with people. Mihaela Dudescu
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How it takes place
Themes Learning Day will have a central theme and all the activities will be designed around it, including presentations and workshops. We have a list of themes but we are also looking forward to your ideas of themes: • • • • •
How could a learning day look like? Let’s assume that the theme is entrepreneurship: • We will invite successful entrepreneurs to present their story in 15-20 minutes. • We will invite the community members who are part of the Incubator to present us their business ideas. • We will present relevant books for the theme of the day. • We could organize a film event on this theme. • We could organize small workshops on themes like “What do I need in order to be a good entrepreneur?” or “Which could be the best entrepreneurship ideas of the 21st century?” etc. • We could do an entrepreneurship experiment (for example: “How to build up a business with what we have in the kitchen?”).
It is a day meant to inspire and reconnect the entire community. Every month we’ll spend one Saturday together, we’ll find inspiration in trainings or presentations, we’ll check the ranking of the Houses, we’ll launch new learning programs and relax through interesting conversations with mentors, trainers or coaches.
Relations
“Play, Freedom and Intrinsic Motivation” ”People Who Changed My Life” “Entrepreneurship” ”My Element” “Revolutionary Ideas”
Everybody is invited to Learning Day: community members, coaches, mentors, 2.0 teachers, communityal eveniment event trainers, special guests and comunitatilor partners. That is why we expect surprising relationships to develop during this event.
At every event
Learning
What it is
Apart from the specific activities connected to the Learning Day theme, some things will happen on every such occasion: • We’ll evaluate the status of the Houses in The Game and we’ll launch new challenges. • You’ll have the opportunity to meet new mentors. • We’ll talk about the three new books of the month. • You’ll have the opportunity to spend your learning time as you want to, for example reading a book in the garden for half a day. • All three communities will have time to meet and discuss how things are going and about their learning needs.
Time
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
Learning day will take place every month. On the whole there will be 9 such events per year. Learning Day will start at about 10 o’clock and will last at least 6 hours.
Stages Explorare Exploring
Actiune Action
Transition Tranzitie
Mastery Maiestrie
Learning Day is a day dedicated to the entire community so we encourage everyone to attend.
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What makes it work
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Some elements are critical for a 2.0 course to work: •
2. 0
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What it is
2.0 courses represent an intensive learning program, with a structure we developed together with professionals from the communities of practice. They target those who want to thoroughly learn a theme in a short period of time and they have direct impact in actual projects.
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Participants should want to deepen a learning theme and, at the same time, they should have or find the opportunity to put it into practice. All those involved have to dedicate enough time both to the individual and to the group learning processes. This also involves to invest time for practice and reflection on the results in order to bring your new perspective to the learning group. All participants, including the teacher, have to negotiate their expectations and decide what they will focus their energy on.
Relations The teachers are experienced trainers or experienced practitioners in the specific field. Courses are offered by our small grupgroup mic educational partners: Achieve Global, Human Invest, Interact, Decât o Revistă, Friends for Friends Foundation and freelance trainers. A 2.0 course is designed for a small group of 5-6 people who are approximately at the same level of knowledge regarding the theme. *a complete dial represents 8 active hours
Time
What happens Sessions will take place weekly or twice a month, according to the theme and members’ needs. One session lasts 2-3 hours and we estimate 8-10 sessions per course, lasting 2-3 months.
Stages Explorare Exploring
Actiune Action
Transition Tranzitie
Mastery Maiestrie
The 2.0 courses are recommended to the members from Action and Transition stages.
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There are several steps of a 2.0 course: Forming the learning group Negotiating expectations and objectives The course itself and hands-on activities Self evaluation and capitalizing results
Themes Every 2.0 course is unique, designed according to the members’ needs and considering the teacher’s methods. The following are just examples of course titles which took place or were requested by community members for the next year: • Photography • Film Making • Online Strategies • Organizational Branding • Developing Healthy Organizations • Team Management • Performance Management • Internal Communication • Learning and Development Systems • Human Resources Management
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The 2.0 course of online strategies is one of the best learning experiences I’ve lived lately. It is not at all how one would expect because of the “course” word in front of it – we chose the discussion themes at the beginning together with the teacher, and, during the meetings, we, the 5 participants from group 1, usually speak 70% of the time. :) Mostly, we learn through the questions raised, questions which made us realize on our own what could have been “taught” using the classical method. And the fact that we realize on our own what it’s all about makes it so much easier for us to remember the information. As a whole, the 2.0 experience is awesome! Mircea Grecescu - VIP
Social
Workshop example One day, on the community discussion group, a message from Cosmin arrives. It sounded like this:
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“Hey… how are you?
In a nutshell, I want to improve the way I speak (tone, rhythm, what I say, etc.). It is one of my New Year’s Resolutions and I would like to create a working group because I am sure there are other people also interested in this theme. So, if you are interested, please send me an e-mail, sms, facebook message and we’ll try to set a kick-off meeting for this project. As a plan, even though I have some ideas, I don’t want to express them yet - I want to decide together with everyone what we will do based on everyone’s needs. There’s a whole bunch of online materials on this subject but what I want is an environment for practice. Good luck with your work,
Cosmin Rudeanu Then came the answers from:
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Maxi
Mădă
Irina
Vio
Flori
Anca
Elena
Diana
Diana
Raluca
Dana
Some of them met and organized the workshop: Objectives: 1. controlling emotions in different contexts 2. harmony/congruence between what we say, how we say it and personality: • Verbal message with body language (non-verbal and paraverbal) • Exercises: send a message without words (to do: contact the Passe Partout theatre group) • Becoming aware of our own presentation style and developing it (using personal feedback and feedback from others) 3. how do we adapt to the audience 4. improving improvisation style, spontaneity and creativity It is PUBLIC SPEAKING, not PUBLIC SKIPPING, so: February Voice
March Voice and nonverbal language
April Structure Message
May Emotions Control
Radio Show
Theatre Play
TED Talks
Storytelling
June Review and follow-up Debate
For next week, starting point (with filming and feedback): - Voice exercises Jonathan Altfeld and Carol Flemming
How we work: • One day during the week and one weekend day • Monday at 6 pm and Saturday at 2 pm, with 2-3 hours/meeting • Facebook and Google docs for communicating and sharing documents And this is how the public speaking workshop was born.
How can we help Cristina
Cristi
Cosmin
Vlad
Andrei Andreea
First of all, we offer you all the resources that CROS has: Learning House, equipment, stationeries.
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What it is
Workshops are a method of learning in which small groups organize themselves and create their own learning experiences, starting from very specific needs, but from a common area.
Relations
Community members are 100% responsible to initiate and develop workshops. small andsimedium mediu Upon request, CROS members and grup mic group other community members can help the groups to create the concept of the learning experience.
Time The learning time invested in a process like this depends entirely on you. We believe that you shouldn’t think too much about how to learn through experiments, but you should start the experiment already.
Stages Explorare Explorare Exploring
Moreover, if you have no idea where to start, we can help you to design the workshops.
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Acțiune Actiune Action
Tranziție Tranzitie Transition
Măiestrie Maiestrie Mastery
Recommended to all stages and members.
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What does it mean to us
Partner NGOs
Student organizations (SNGOs) are among the most dynamic components of universities. In the 26 university towns in Romania, there are over 200 student organizations which comprise 1% of all students in higher education.
What it is
We didn’t invent non-governmental organizations, but we’re glad they exist. We see them as an excellent environment for authentic learning and essential for a good part of our learning model. For us, it is very important to be connected to your practical experiences in the Students’ NGO and to the projects you work on.
Relations
From your point of view, the organization probably means many relationships and many people, from friends to colleagues connection Conectare and partners. For us it is important that your genuine development needs, related to the organization and projects, to be one of our permanent conversation threads.
From June to September 2010 we held the first exploratory study on the students associations environment. The general objective is to record the evolution of SNGOs on the longterm.
universitary centers
members
universities
projects
SNGOs
beneficiaries Date valabile pentru
in 2009
Data valid for 2009-2010 anul universitar academic year
2009- 2010
Time
Certainly the amount of time you invest in the organization is not within our reach. But we know from our experience so far that the best thing is to devote enough time to the organization for it to become a powerful experience. Explorare Explorare Exploring
Acțiune Action Actiune
Transition Tranziție Tranzitie
Stages Măiestrie Mastery Maiestrie
Our experience regarding how members relate with the organization was a big part of our inspiration for these stages. Usually, the organization is a very good environment for Exploring and Action and the most dedicated NGO members are involved even in the stage of Transition.
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Find out more: http://cros.ro/2011/10/studiu-mediul-asociativ-studentesc-in-2010 http://cros.ro/categoria/blog/despre-ongs
Real Life
The internship program will be open throughout the year and it aims at giving you opportunities to get in touch with organizations or companies where you would like to work. We will pursue this objective through three types of activities:
“How are they? What tasks do they give you?” - I always smiled and answered: “They let me do exactly what they do.” I interacted very openly from the beginning, the office itself was a room where discussions on almost any subject flowed easily and they continued in the kitchen when we gathered together to order something to eat. I learned from each one of them and from friends of DoR what narrative journalism is, why is the story important and how you present it to the readers. Monday nights were dedicated to Story Club meetings, where we were discussing around texts published in the international press. I also experienced how to do an interview. Most learning was by doing. Three months seemed a long time. But they passed quickly and I realized that there would have been more to do ... It is not easy to do something different and very good at the same time.
Andra Rotaru
Collecting and si postarea posting offers de oferte din from partea companies companiilor
Consiliere Counseling you pentru cautarea in searching or sau alegerea choosing the oportunitatilor opportunities care ti se that suit you potrivesc
Connecting Conectarea you with i ta cu organizati organizations in care ai dori sa where you would lucrezi like to work
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At “Decât o Revistă” (DoR) it was all about ‘apprenticeship’. It carried me in many directions: from editorial work to helping organize events. I explored Bucharest weekly and so I found places that I visit more often now.
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Internship example
What it is When you enter the Transition stage, you may want to find the organization or company that suits you best. For this we recommend an internship of several months in one of our partner organizations.
Relations You will have a career counseling session with a member of CROS, which will help you clarify what you need.
Partners
one unuto la one unu
Then, we’re looking together for an internship program that suits you.
Time An internship can last between one and three months, with approximately 20 hours per week.
Stages Explorare Exploring Explorare
Experiences
Actiune Action Acțiune
Tranzitie Transition Tranziție
Maiestrie Mastery Măiestrie
Internships are recommended for members in the Transition stage. For members in Exploring and Action stages we do not recommend this program, in order to fully capitalize the volunteer experience in an organization.
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R a T en ea t m
Examples of projects In 2011-2012 we tested the Rent a Team concept, responding to requests from various organizations. Next year we expect to have at least 10 projects of this type. Organizing an event for 300 children • Team: 5 people • Working time: 3 weeks • Payment: 300 euro/person
What it is Rent a Team is a program through which mixed student teams offer project-based services in their skills area (from organizing events to consulting). In most Rent a Team projects, the teams are paid.
Relations The CROS team attracts contracts, intermediates the relationships with customers and forms the teams Echipe project team. Then the project teams self-organize creating the roles they need to achieve each project’s outcomes.
Minimum 50 hours / project
Time
We estimate that a member from the Transition stage will participate in at least one project per year. A project can last between 3 weeks and 3 months.
Stages Explorare Explorare Exploring
Actiune Acțiune Action
Tranziție Transition Tranzitie
Măiestrie Mastery Maiestrie
Rent a Team targets members in the Transition stage, but it is open for members in the Action and Mastery stages as well.
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Consulting and implementing the social media strategy of a company
Why
You will develop skills specific to your domain and you will test them in the business environment as well. You have the opportunity to interact with businesses from the perspective of service providers and you can develop client service skills. Projects organized through Rent a Team will contribute to your portfolio and can be a good opportunity to know more organizations and their cultures. They will increase your self-confidence, by achieving results in an environment with higher demands and expectations than those of the organization you were involved as a volunteer. It may be an opportunity to earn money. You interact with businesses, you know larger organizations and you have the chance to find an organization you would want to get involved in for the future. If you are interested in entrepreneurship and freelancing, this can be a good opportunity to understand whether you like it or not. You can enrich your network of friends and collaborators.
• • •
Team: 5 people Working time/person: 3 months (10 hours/month) Payment: 200 euro/person Consultancy for changing the organizational culture of a company
• • •
Team: 4 people Working time /person: 6 months (6 hours/month) Payment: N/A
Shooting and editing 40 video interviews • Team: 3 people • Working time /person: 100 hours • Payment: between 200 and 600 euro, depending on complexity and allocated time Educational program for high school students Team: 10 people Working time /person: 1 day of training plus 1 working week • Payment: 250 euro/training session • •
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Resources
The B3 approach Vlad Stan
Cătălina Rusu
Inside the business lab, we build an environment in which successful projects are created, based on some basic elements of the incubation ecology: • • • • • • •
individualized program, based on specific needs challenging and flexible environment focus on results, i.e. successful business synergy between people, ideas and action cultivating professional integrity encouraging connections between people an environment that stimulates creativity
Mihai Mafteianu
Brilliant Business LaB or B3 is a business incubator. The first phase helps you decide if entrepreneurship is right for you and to crystallize your idea. In phase two, the incubator helps you develop the attitudes you need in order to start a business. The B3 learning program develops the basic skills you need to turn an idea into a viable project and it gives you the framework where you can grow your emerging business.
The mentors in the program are entrepreneurs in a domain that is relevant to the business you develop. Workshop facilitators are small groups experienced trainers. grupuri mici In addition to all the resource persons you have access to inside the incubator, we believe the most important type of relationship you will develop is the one with your colleagues.
Time
Warm-up
We estimate that in one year you will have the outline of the project, you will have tested it on the market and you will have the critical resources needed to launch it publicly. It could take even less, but only if your involvement is very intense. However, entrepreneurship is an adventure that requires a lot of involvement, especially at the beginning.
Others
Action Development Access to Learning House
Experiences
What it is
Relations
Books and models
The incubator experience has 4 stages:
Experiment
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Resource people and mentors
Multimedia equipment and stationery
Access to a strong network of people
Stages Explorare Exploring Explorare
Actiune Action Acțiune
Transition Tranziție Tranzitie
Mastery Măiestrie Maiestrie
We recommend you to work at your own business or organization during Transition and Mastery stages.
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Le ar Ho ni us ng e What it is
Learning House is the physical space of the Alternative University. It is an old house with a large garden, near Piaţa Romană, a square from the central area of Bucharest. Here, the three communities of practice can organize their various learning events.
Relations Learning House is your space and we hope you will feel at home entirecomunitatea community here. toata This means that at the same time you enjoy it and modify it at will, you will also take care of it and be responsible for it as the common space of all the communities of practice.
Time
Open all year round
What can you find here
Search Learning House on
The library, from where you can borrow books at any time A café and social spaces to meet with other community members A multimedia studio with cameras, a graphics tablet and photography lighting A quiet garden with roses Training rooms and workspaces An unconventional studio in the basement bean Wireless internet and bean bags
Learning House is open for you every day and you’re always expected by a friendly host, part of the CROS team. Yes, even during the weekends.
Explorare Exploring Explorare
Action Actiune Acțiune
Transition Tranziție Tranzitie
Stages Mastery Măiestrie Maiestrie
We recommend Learning House to everyone from the communities of practice. :)
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Learning
What can you do on the wiki
If you use this tools you can: • contribute on public sites: hremotion.ro, newmediaschool.ro and leadership.cros.ro • access and contribute to building the best collections of links, organized by themes in each community of de practice Sa nu uiti nici o intalnire a comunitatii, fara a-ti bati capulany sa te uitiappointments prin agende sau calendare • remember inside the community Sa gasesti cu usurinta toti membri comunitatii si grupurilor de invatare de din care faci parte • easily find all community members and learning groups that you belong to
Environment
What it is The Wiki is the virtual space of the Alternative University. It is only the central point which links all the online tools we use - like a common calendar, groups or collaborative documents.
Relations
The online platform is important from two main perspectives: to help us to converse beyond physical space, but also to create and retain the valuable resources for our learning. It is not necessarily important to use all the tools mentioned here. But we discovered that, while your communication and information management needs will grow, you will slowly need them. We are ready to help you whenever you want to start using a new tool.
Examples
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This is the place where we gather and store online resources, where we organize ourselves, where you can find all the information in the communities, where we communicate online. In terms of resources, it is like a treasure chest filled with jewels. We will carefully choose those resources that made a difference for someone in the community. To organize better, you’ll find instructions on how to borrow a projector or a camera, how you can book a room in the Learning House, how you can enroll in learning programs and others.
the wiki at the moment
Tools Mashup Besides the actual wiki, the online platform covers more instruments, designed to help in different ways: a collaborative calendar to remind you about all the community events, a social bookmarking network (Delicious) that helps us retain and discover useful links, collaborative documents to write notes from trainings or to create content together, Facebook to easily access our social network an so on.
The Wiki is a collaborative space where all members have rights to edit and take shared responsibility for the content and for the way it toata entirecomunitatea community is stored and organized. The basic principle governing the relations on the wiki is that we all are co-authors.
Time The Wiki is always available for all members, but each one chooses the amount of time he/she wants to invest in it.
Stages Explorare Exploring Explorare
Actiune Action Acțiune
Transition Tranzitie Tranziție
Mastery Maiestrie Măiestrie
The Wiki and the other online tools are accessible and recommended to all members, regardless of their stage.
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Houses The houses are formed during the CROS Camp 2012 and will consist of 8-12 members from all 3 communities of practice and from all stages. Each house creates its own identity during the CROS Camp.
What it is
Examples of possible levels:
The Game is a team-based social game, whose purpose is to develop the community and the human relationships between community members.
Level 3: you earn the right to have a display board in the Learning House; Level 7: you earn a room in the LH which you garnish in the colors/spirit of your house and you also name it the way you want; Level 10: award - a 2 day trip (lodging and meals covered by CROS)
Relations
All community members, including the CROS team, are part of one of the 10 houses entirecomunitatea community of the AU. Each house has the toata mission to create interaction between community members, to foster cooperation and mutual support and to grow authentic relationships. For this reason, each house will have mixed members in what regards their stage and the community they belong to. *a complete dial represents 8 active hours
Time
There will be several challenges for each house during the year, mainly organizing social events. As a member in one of the houses, you will spend time in several activities such as: organizing a party, participating in an event, meeting the house, 4-5 hours per month for different challenges, a Design day in Learning House per year and so on.
Stages Explorare Exploring Explorare
Action Acțiune Actiune
Transition Tranziție Tranzitie
Mastery Măiestrie Maiestrie
The Game involves all members of the community, regardless of the stage they are in.
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The challenges that will be offered / randomly chosen monthly will offer you the chance to gather more smiles.
Challenges
Currency Beginning with CROS Camp, houses will receive various responsibilities and challenges each month - during the Learning Day. The Game will have a special currency - a symbol of cooperation, interaction and mutual support: the smile. By the end of the month, they will have to offer the smiles recieved at the begining, only in exchange for support, interaction and collaboration. Each smile will have a place on its back for writing the reason for which it was offered. At the end of the month each team will have a score composed of the smiles they received minus the smiles that they failed to offer. There will be various “levels” in which teams will receive privileges / awards or will open up new types of challenges
Each house will have a set of challenges to choose during the year, for example: • • • • • • • • • •
Transforming Learning House Organizing a party Movie Evening Cooking Evening Theatre Evening Sports Event Treasure hunt in Bucharest Going out with your house Table Tennis Competition Board Games Tournament
Learning
20 Students’ 20 ONGS-uri NGOs
What it is What happens there
This is a seven-days summer camp that opens the 2012-2013 study year, addressed to the members of the communities, together with 50 experienced professionals.
Without ruining the surprise, we can tell you that during the 7 days of CROS Camp will take place: 15 Prezentari presentations
20 30 Ateliere workshops
8050 de sesiuni coaching coaching sessions
4040living de carti vii books
130 de 100 calatorii initiation initiatice journeys
50 de jocuri games
70 de participanți participants
50 mentors, 50 de mentori, coaches, coachi, facilitators, facilitatori, guests invitați
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Relations A big part of the “magic” is the diversity of people meeting in the fairytale like atmosphere from Plaiul Foii. Future leaders from 23 toata comunitatea student organizations come togetherentire with community leaders and young professionals that experienced volunteering first hand. Besides them, we eagerly await consultants in communication and organizational development, successful entrepreneurs, professional coaches, the CEO of a big corporate company, a British researcher specialized in “learner generated contexts” and the founder of a non-conventional school in Netherlands. There will be around 120 participants in the camp.
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Each day of CROS Camp is dedicated to experiment an attitude. The 5 attitudes, together with the diversity of experiences and people from the 7 days of the camp merge in the quintessence of the alternative learning model that will be revealed during the year.
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organizaţii 20 partner partenere organizations
It was and it still is Amazing. I have not lived the experience of a real camp in the past 8 years. I thought my time for camps has passed. But CROS Camp 2011 proved that the time for such experiences never goes away.
Time
*a complete dial represents 8 active hours
Tedy Necula
Back from CROS CAMP. It was a life changing experience. I feel a different person, a happier one, more optimistic, a person that is ready to face each day with a huge smile on her face. :) Thank you, CROS!
Adriana Anchidin
CROS CAMP will take place between 30 July and 5 August 2012 in Plaiul Foii-Zărneşti, in the Braşov county.
Stages Explorare Explorare Exploring
Actiune Acțiune Action
Tranziție Tranzitie Transition
Măiestrie Maiestrie Mastery
Members from all stages take part in the CAMP. This event is designed, among other things, precisely for bringing the whole community together.
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2012 - 2013 Calendar
Aug
Sept
Your time investment
Event lasting 2-3 hours
Legend
Oct
Nov
Event lasting 4-6 hours
Continuous access
Event lasting 8-10 hours
With predefined number of meetings
Related events
With flexible number of meetings
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Dec
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In order for the alternative model experience to be truly valuable for you, it will require you to dedicate approximately 8-9 hours per week and to be present in CROS CAMP – which is 60+ more hours. The whole experience means 500 hours per year and it represents about 10% of your active time.
8-9 hours /week
500 hours /year
10% of your time About half of these hours will be placed in your schedule in a flexible manner. You will be responsible to set them together with mentors, SDL counselors (“autonomari”), coaches and colleagues. The other half is already set in next year’s calendar of activities - you will receive access to it once you enter the community. Even scheduled activities have a certain degree of flexibility, if the participants enrolled in each of them propose changes beforehand and we can negotiate them with trainers and other educational partners. They are placed in the calendar so that there is a balanced distribution throughout the year. We took into account other major events, like important holidays or vacations.
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Partners
Our partners are those with whom we create the CROS alternative model, each of them contributing to your experience as a member of the community, either through financial contribution, educational support or through the development of the model.
n The value and the costs of the program The aggregate value of all learning experiences and of the learning environment offered in the CROS communities is estimated at 2500 Euro / participant / year. This value is 55% given in the form of volunteering and inkind donations, and 45% represent financial expenses covered by members’ contributions, sponsorships, 2% donations and funds gathered through CROS fundraising programs. The way in which this value is accumulated depends on the motivation of all involved actors and participants and it is shown in the second drawing below.
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The way all contributors get involved
In 2012-2013 the contribution of each participant is € 500 / year, out of which 40% represent the value of the CROS CAMP experience.
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Radu Mărgărit Senior Trainer - Human Capital Solutions
CROS Camp was in a very special place and also with a lot of very special people that I was very impressed by. Neil Coupland General Manager JTI România & Moldova General Manager of the Year 2011
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I started the program without a clear picture of what I’ll do later. I started by answering the question “Who am I actually?”. By doing this I learned about my values, what are my models and what are my motivations. With each meeting we had, my projection in time was crystallizing. You get to become solely responsible for your learning and development, and that gives you a sense of freedom that is hard to describe. Maximilian Dobrescu VIP Romania member HRemotion member since 2011
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If all young people would be like the members of your communities of practice, then I am convinced that Romania would have a bright future, and fewer people would think to leave.
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To be part of CROS started from a clearly defined objective and turned into a desire to be part of and to be together with beautiful people aiming to reveal themselves every day. It turned into a dream I believe in and every day I am closer to its fulfillment. I’m looking forward to the new things we’ll do to get us where we want. Valentin Sava AIESEC Alumni NewMediaSchool member since 2011
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My dream is to see this project accessed by as many people as possible. For some it will be suitable as an alternative option, for some as a complementary one. Elisabeta Stănciulescu Sociologist in education and coach
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[participants] ... walk away changed. Changed in terms of their mentality and their way to approach things after. And I think that in their circles this matters the most... the fact that they were changed by an experience and not by the theory they’ve received here. Tudor Totolici Online marketing consultant ADVICE STUDENTS Alumni
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In CROS and thanks to CROS I learned that learning is not about getting A on a line in a system that brings out robots on a treadmill. I am now convinced that I must grow in HR, I met a lot of awesome people, with interesting ideas, enthusiasm and practical intelligence that actually do things to develop themselves, to develop others and the wider community. I learned to learn alone and with others, I lived great experiences. Corina Anghel HR consultant and improvisation trainer HRemotion member
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T H E P R OM I S E Personalized learning experiences You will have a learning program that fits you like a glove, because you built it yourself. Mentoring, coaching, training, courses, CAMP and other experiences are valuable in themselves, but they will be even more valuable through the synergy between them, being linked into a one-year program. You will experience what it means to lead your own learning and, by systematically investing in yourself for a year, you’ll be amazed how much you’ve grown and how many good things come along with this.
Networking and opportunities The CROS communities are also a great place for networking and access to opportunities. Perhaps one of the best you can access at this stage of your life. We expect you to have in your agenda, at the end of
A community You will be part of a community of people like you. You will be delighted to discover them and you’ll get the chance to create strong relations that will make you better, enrich your life and open even more doors.
Inspiration and resources The CROS communities will be an environment that will inspire you and will give you energy to be better and stronger. You’ll have access to resources and you’ll have the freedom to be creative and use them how and when you need them.
the year, at least 100 new contacts of people that you met in the CROS
Revolution in education
communities, people with whom you talked and who know you as well.
You will take part in creating the first Alternative University in Romania
Perhaps you’ll even get in a few places you would not have otherwise
- a project through which, together, we can inspire Romanian society
reached (conferences, events, meetings, projects and so on).
to believe that we can transform education. We do not know if this is
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You can find us on cros.ro/universitate facebook.com/crosro youtube.com/contulcros
Communities websites
Or get in touch with
hremotion.ro newmediaschool.ro leadership.cros.ro
Leadership Cristina Cristea 0742 045 694 cristina@cros.ro
HRemotion Diana Irimia 0731 968 712 diana@cros.ro
New Media School Elena Dobre 0722 679 401 elena@newmediaschool.ro