[ICANN Academy WG] ICANN Academy - Call for Coaches and Content for the New Chairing Skills Programme

Sat Dec 24 14:56:56 UTC 2016

I am interested in participating.    First, however, I need to ask a couple of questions, as of course, we all need to keep our constituencies/communities informed especially if it is a program that will  compete for funding with other requested funding by the community that submits funding requests into the annual budget.

And, I will need to consult with the BC membership regarding interest and support.

However, I will confirm my overall interest dependent upon  confirming the views of the BC and hear about any budget implications for other standing requests from the community, including the Mentoring Program.

Just in the interest of qualifications: I have summarized some of my experiences and background below:

I am past Chair of the Business Constituency [ three years - elected annually] where I chaired both face to face meetings and our monthly conference calls and Chief Catalyst [aka: chair] of the IGF-USA for 4 years, again, re-confirmed annually.

I have also chaired multiple groups that are inclusive of NGOs, Civil Society and Business and government staff over several years, including the Internet Summit; and most of the events that were non governmental led to the creation of ICANN. I have been chair and vice chair of numerous committees at professional organizations.

I have also chaired and moderated several workshops at IGF over its ten years.

I will note that chairing is as much a private skill and commitment of time, as it is a public role. I hope that the amount of work it takes to be a good chair is part of the suggested discussions. And that the engagement with the supporting staff for any chairing role is also a part of the discussion.   Finally, as we know from within the GNSO Constituencies experience, neutrality of perspective is a baseline requirement and accepting that, when elected, or selected as chair at any of ICANN's various entities, has always been a hallmark of success.

It could be very interesting to invite past chairs, such as Bruce Tonkin, Paul Twomey, Byron, etc. etc. rather than present chairs -- for a roundtable discussion regarding "lessons learned on the job". Paul, Bruce and some others chaired without ICANN staff support [we had none] and then include some of the chairs who had stronger ICANN staff support. After all,we are trying to assess skills that adapt to the various circumstances, which might be chairing a sub working group, or an internal working group, not only the main SO/AC chairing roles. [I hope].

In my view, learning to lead is a learned skill and "leading from behind" can be as much a form of leadership as holding an official title. If I could propose a title change, it would be " building leadership skills", rather than assuming that we are training chairs. Each SO/AC will determine whom it selects/elects as their leader. As we believe in bottom up, consensus approaches, we need to build leadership within organizations, not only "coach" on chairing skills.

Marilyn Cade

Marilyn Cade

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Subject: Re: [ICANN Academy WG] ICANN Academy - Call for Coaches and Content for the New Chairing Skills Programme

Interested

Carlos Vera

On Dec 14, 2016, at 6:00 AM, sandra hoferichter <info at hoferichter.eu<mailto:info at hoferichter.eu>> wrote:

Hey there! Is this ICANN Academy working group still alive? Please reply on the red parts if you would like to get involved in the new course!
Dear all, it has be quiet around this working group, but there was little but steady activity. With the IANA transition now accomplished, I hope the ICANN community has more bandwidth and  we can re-activate this group. A next chance to get involved again is the new course which was proposed by participants and facilitators of the last Leadership Programme in Dublin (2015):
ICANN Academy - Chairing Skills Programme
We need your help! We are creating a new ICANN Academy course called Chairing Skills Programme (CSP). You may have recognised the announcement during the ICANN meeting in Hyderabad for this new course but also for the next Leadership Programme (LP) taking place in conjunction with ICANN 58 in Copenhagen. (see: https://community.icann.org/x/7IU0Aw) I enclose a detailed outline of this new course to this email.
Given this context we are in search of CONTENT and COACHES.
Regarding CONTENT we would like to hear from all of the SO/AC/SGs:

1.      We want to know what is challenging to chairs, new and old.

2.      What skills would be helpful to chairs so they can be highly effective with their groups?

3.      What got in the way of being effective facilitators?

4.      What worked for them?
We want to get a clear picture of chairing across the ICANN Community. You are invited to send your input until 5th January 2017 to: info at hoferichter.eu<mailto:info at hoferichter.eu> and staff at atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff at atlarge.icann.org> who will synthesize it.
Even more important we need COACHES from across the community.
Ideally, we are looking for alumni of the Academy LTP programme and former chairs as well. The time commitment will involve several phone calls and concluding at ICANN 58. As a coach you will be trained in coaching skills and course content to be determined by this request.
You will have other community coaches and professional coach and professional facilitators from Incite Learning to support you.
You will be assigned one or two trainees to work with during the programme.
You will set up times to sit in on their calls and provide feedback afterwards on chairing skills. Some coordination and training calls will occur among the coaches - then work with the trainees will commence and continue through ICANN 58 in Copenhagen
The most important task you will take on is having impact on the ICANN Chairs and how they lead the community into the future.
Please let us know until 20th December if you are interested to become a coach for this training and if yes if you are available for both parts of the course (telephonic and F2F). Please note: for acting as a coach during the F2F part at ICANN 58 in Copenhagen this programme  cannot provide additional travel support.
Preliminary timeline

Date estimate

Description

During ICANN 57 (HYD)

Announcement of the Chairing Skills Programme (CSP)

20th December

Reach out and confirmation of trainees and coaches

Early - mid January

·        Briefing and with coaches and external facilitator (Incite Learning)

·        Introduction call with trainees and coaches to discuss the course part 1 (telephonic facilitation)

January and February

·        Observation calls (1) coaches to trainees

·        Calls between coaches to discuss feedback across trainees

·        Feedback calls coaches to trainees

Early March

Call with coaches and trainees to discuss ICANN 58 observations and training

March 13-15 (ICANN 58)

Face-to-Face observations, briefing and evaluation session during meeting

Post ICANN 58

·        Observation calls (2) coaches to trainees - to see how the training helped to develop chairing skills

·        Final feedback calls coaches to trainees

·        Evaluation of CSP (part 1 and 2); recommendations for next steps

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Best Sandra
Chair of the ICANN Academy Working Group

<ICANN Academy_Chairing Skills Program_Outline_20161214.pdf>
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