6 months council review/dinner

Its been a while since I wrote last, I've been traveling a lot, and I will be updating this blog with stories of my travels, as its all been JCI travels, and all been amazing. But right now I want to write about something even more amazing, my JCI London council.

For our 6 months review I took them all out for dinner at a small place in central London where there's a really nice private dining room, Chez Gerard.

We had some good food, some wine, and we went through what we felt had worked so far this year, and what hadn't. I also gave them my speech from the European Public Speaking  Championship (which I won!), and then I challenged them to write down the answers to these questions...

1) How will you take JCI London to the next level the next 6 months?
2) How will JCI London help your skills and your job the next 6 months?
3) Describe the dream organisation, the ideal JCI London
4) What has to be true in order for your ideal JCI London to be true?

Then, at the end, I had them all write down positive comments to each other that we placed in envelopes on the back of their chairs. We're 6 months through the year, everything isn't easy, we've all ran into some obstacles, we might have disagreed on things, some things we wanted dearly to do haven't happened yet, and we all need some cheering up (I loved the comments I got. Thank you so much everyone. I hope you all enjoyed the comments you got as much as I love mine!).

Again - in the responses to the four questions above, my council are amazingly ambitious and brilliant. I won't write down any of the responses here (many of them are very personal), but I will mention them in future posts as we will be working on them all over the coming 6 months towards Christmas....

Our next council meeting will be on membership, and I challenge you to think about how we can be the best for our members, take our organisation to the next level, and be the dream organisation.

Thank you all for everything so far!