[ICANN Academy WG] Draft outline for a Pilot Leadership Training Programme in Toronto
Gomes, Chuck
cgomes at verisign.com
Thu Aug 23 22:29:48 UTC 2012
Anything done on Saturday will likely have little if any participation from the GNSO and this should not come as a surprise.
Chuck
From: at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Filiz Yilmaz
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:48 AM
To: at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org
Subject: Re: [ICANN Academy WG] Draft outline for a Pilot Leadership Training Programme in Toronto
William,
Thank you for your mail and thoughts.
Regarding your points about conflicts, we are aware that there are other meetings that are being scheduled on Friday and Saturday.
This is inevitable unfortunately. We had to utilize the closest possible days for the pilot too. This obviously helps optimizing the budget available, allowing more participants' attendance, as well as towards the constant feedback that working time before the heavy ICANN meeting starts should not be over-extended.
You mentioned the sort of curriculum the WG developed prior, which I believe is the one Sandra provided the link to in her mail and which I also attached on this mail for quick reference. That curriculum was foreseeing a 3.5 day training with:
Prior to ICANN Meeting:
Day 1+Day 2: Core topics spread in first 2 days. If you look at the attached file, these topics are covered in the new curriculum too, but with less time as we have only 2 days for the whole training, not 3.5 days.
Day 3: Focus on current issues. New curriculum is covering this with 2 discussion sessions both on Day 1 and Day 2.
After ICANN meeting:
1/2 Day: Wrap Up at the end of the ICANN meeting for reflection and clarification on specific topics.
Again due to time constraints this does not seem to be feasible for most of the Chairs but I think we can look into possibility of covering a short gathering on Friday morning. However I seriously doubt that this will be possible due to travel arrangements and scheduling of most participants.
So the main differences I see between the two curriculums are the following:
1. The 1.5 hrs session that I volunteered to talk about "ICANN Engagement Tools/Mechanisms'. (saturday 11:00-12:30).
Sandra and I added this based on the feedback we received on this mailing list, namely from Eduardo Diaz, dated 12 July 2012:
"We should include how the SOs, ACs, Board and staff work together in unison to get things done in ICANN. What is the process flow between them. Terminology such as PDPs, Frameworks of Interpretation, WGs, Study groups, Council vs. Constituencies, etc. should be interpolated when explaining the processes. Also, there should be something about how to use the wiki's and how are they organized? "
I am happy not to talk about this and leave the time available to some other topic that the WG thinks missing from the curriculum and should be covered instead.
2. The other difference between the curriculums is probably the Leadership Sessions (Saturday afternoon):
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13:30-15:30: Leadership - Suggested Speaker: Elad Levinson
* The power of facilitation and facilitative actions
* ICANN responsibilities for members and chairs of meetings
* Chairing meetings-the four keys of meeting leadership
* Preparing to lead meetings-how to set it up for success
* What is consensus? How to reach it?
* Reaching and establishing consensus within groups-how process enables agreements
15:45 -16:45 More on Leadership Responsibilities (I) - Suggested Speaker: Elad Levinson
o Examples of best practices when working with consensus and leading in a multistakeholder environment
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As this is a leadership training for the incoming leaders of ICANN and for all the current ones at least for the pilot in Toronto, I think these sessions make sense and well geared towards the target audience. Consensus-building is a main leadership activity within ICANN and knowing the best techniques of facilitation within a multistakeholder model to do so surely will equip our leaders well in their tasks and responsibilities within and across their group interactions.
In fact again, these sessions are in essence in the previous curriculum too, where the multi-stakeholder model: concepts and practice and how groups work were noted are also related to these sessions too.
Also note that Elad provided a similar session back in Costa Rica where Sandra noted it was well received and found very useful by their group at the time.
So we added these sessions to the curriculum.
If you see specific sessions/topics that are missing in the new curriculum, please let the WG know and if agreed, we can see if we can fit it in the program, considering the suggested speaker's availability too, or we can try to cover them under some other session by extending the scope of that existing session.
Kind regards
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Filiz Yilmaz
Sr Dir Participation and Engagement
ICANN
From: William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch<mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>>
Date: Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:48
To: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org<mailto:avri at acm.org>>
Cc: "at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org<mailto:at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org>" <at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org<mailto:at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org>>
Subject: Re: [ICANN Academy WG] Draft outline for a Pilot Leadership Training Programme in Toronto
Well, I'll split the difference and say I share Avri's concerns but congratulate you anyway for the hard work.
Now as to the concerns: There are lots of ways to do capacity building, but crudely put there's a clear bifurcation between training people on how xyz is done and training people to be able to not only do it, but think about what it means, the costs/benefits, whether it could be done better, how it relates to their own interests, etc. By even cruder analogy, at home in Geneva the WTO trains developing country delegates on how to implement market opening agreements by devising complex national schedules of commitments. In contrast, UNCTAD (where my wife works) trains the same people not only on scheduling commitments, but how to critically assess WTO policies and procedures, identify when and where these may or may not match their interests, how to think strategically about maneuvering in the space to advance their objectives more effectively, etc. In short, one build a narrowly defined skill set, the other empowers people to be able to function in the space knowing what's really going on.
Both dimensions are really important, but one doesn't sense the presence of the latter in the configuration below.
Personally, if I was in the indicated target group of participants, I can't imagine choosing to blow off NCUC's Friday workshop or the Saturday GNSO Council meeting in order to watch staff run through power points on the respective PDP processes followed by AC chairs on what they're into etc. And an overview of ICANN meetings and between meetings for people who've already been through multiple meetings....?
The sort of curriculum the WG developed prior would have been a lot more enticing.
Is there any way to blend the different visions into a new and more provocative synthesis?
Bill
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
On 22 Aug 2012, at 15:22, sandra hoferichter wrote:
We are aware, that the discussion in the expanded WG is just about to start and this outline will not cover all the needs and ideas, however this pilot project should be see as a first step to build on an inclusive capacity building programme within ICANN. The WG is should review the pilot project critically and develop strategies and recommendations for future projects. To get a feedback from the participants this WG is asked to develop a survey, to be filled in by every participant in this programme.
I cannot see this plan as the pilot for any sort of education. To me it seems like the normal indoctrination given by ICANN:
"
everything is good ICANN,
we have no challenges at ICANN, and
there isn't an outside world ICANN needs to concern itself with
"
I am afraid that I cannot congratulate you on this plan.
I understand that this program is the ICANN program and as such, it was it is.
But please lets not consider it any sort of pilot for a volunteer designed educational program.
avri
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