Concept of the St3

This training is the continuation of the ongoing core training and is designed as an opportunity to grow:

• By giving a boost to all the growth you’ve initiated that is just waiting to flourish,
• By naming everything you’ve helped grow, even before the St3,
• By initiating other elements of professional or individual growth (as both are interconnected).

Every learning experience during the St3 is:

1. for your team members, through you, in your role as team leader,
2. for yourself.

After the St3, you’ll need to benefit on two levels:

• for yourself immediately, starting the day after the training,
• being able to train your teammates afterward.

The St3 is intended for:

• Operations Directors of a Local Group within the NGO,
• Program Managers of the NGO,
• Team Leaders on one of the NGO’s local projects.

The objective is to professionalize each area of action, speech, or thought within the missions you carry out within OSI. The St3 is organized as follows:

• A five-day meeting to address key issues, challenges, or obstacles currently affecting your mission within the NGO, enabling you to act promptly (right after these five days) to benefit the OSI project and practice community,
• A collection of techniques and best practices, ready for use,
• A time for reflection and for highlighting old/new effective management approaches.

 Validating Content

The training content includes:

3 value units, each composed of several modules:

• Management Techniques Unit
  • Team Management Objectives = what Team Management Techniques
  • Administrative Management of projects and teams
  • Tools for taking care of your team
  • Operational Efficiency on the ground, toolkit
  • Collective Intelligence of your team, in simple terms, with clear examples and practical tools to engage your team
  • Collective decision-making, strong consensus-building techniques
  • Leading and Conducting fast and effective meetings (efficient)
  • Developing team skills
  • Staying the Course
• Project Management within OSI Unit
  • What is Participatory Research Participatory Research see : http://www.voyages-scientifiques.com on a real subject, within OSI’s framework
  • Project Management
  • Work optimization techniques
  • Tools to use
  • Communication aspects
  • Program Manager accounting for OSI
  • Budget planning and tracking
  • Simple strategy applied to daily management on the ground
  • Crisis Management applied to concrete field projects of OSI, examples, cases, and pragmatic methods
  • The Urgency to Wait: taking time and ultimately thinking faster
  • Managing multilingual and multicultural groups, field roadmaps
  • Controlled Operation Management down to the minute, speed versus haste, when sociocultural animation exceeds aerospace
  • Speed reading, reducing work time for better results
• Deploying within the NGO (Level 1 Excellence Training)
  • Mastery of the open paths within OSI (St4 = Knowing how to create and open a new path in OSI)
  • Governance of OSI, knowing where and how to get involved, and how to be the guardian of OSI’s topics and time
  • Consciously knowing your personal agenda and aligning it with one of the paths/positions offered within OSI
  • Knowing how to identify a blockage, how to unblock it, change paths… in short, resolve the situation with a solution
  • Practical techniques for letting go, knowing how to sleep even in times of trouble, staying effective in urgent situations, or staying relaxed during potentially stressful periods (future, etc.)
  • Staying true to oneself
  • Developing your mandate and Increasing your income within OSI