It is very interesting to learn about what is going on in other local and national JCI organisations, and great to see how much we have in common and how we can learn from each other.
I like the concept of the local leader summits, it allows the local leaders to network, learn from each other and share success stories. We don't have anything similar in the UK, but it is a concept I'd love to introduce to JCI UK. Many other national organisations have something similar and I would have loved to have it as a local president.
In my workshop I started by presenting JCI London, how we have developed, what we are doing that is working, and what we are struggling with. We then worked on the JCI mission and vision, practiced our elevator pitches, then we brainstormed solutions for some of the issues the local presidents feel the organisation is facing. We had so much to discuss with lots of great input, so we didn't get as far into the last exercise as I would have liked, but you live and learn and this was the first time I had 3 hours to give a workshop, and 3 hours turned out to be both quite long and too short.
As a thank you gift I got a book on the history of JCI Norway from the beginning to 1979. It is interesting to see how we are not only similar across borders, but across generations, and how we have been facing and working on the same issues since the beginning. Interesting - and quite a bit frustrating. Thank you JCI Norway for inviting me and for making me feel welcome!
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