Decisions taken in 2017 JCI European Conference relating Skills Development
While Conference Assembly, two major decisions were taken relating Skills Development issues and developing training in Europe. When the practical details have been cleared, the updated documents on these following issues will be published to be available and shared in Google Drive.
A NEW STANDARD FOR TRAINERS - JCI EUROPE CERTIFIED TRAINER
The purpose of the standard is set commonly agreed minimum requirement to demonstrate the basic qualification as a trainer. The standard will set some level assurance on the background and readiness a person has to act as a trainer.
As background: After JCI decided not to use formerly known standardization levels, like Certified Local Trainer or National Graduate, it has been more difficult to have a clear picture in mind what kind of abilities a person have as a trainer. For example, at the moment it cannot been found out easily has a trainer passed a course about basic presentations skills and/or train-the-trainer course and familiarized him/herself with learning and learning cycle. This has also affected e.g. that without some assurance on abilities; especially trainers on the beginning of their training career have had challenges to get training opportunities abroad to develop them further.
The goal of implementing the standard is to:
- active more exchange of trainers between countries
- provide opportunities for trainers to train and develop also outside their own organization
- creates a pool of active trainers, in active member age - to be used also in official European events
- preserve and raise the quality of training and training session in Europe.
The criteria were selected to demonstrate basic skills and knowledge about JCI, presenting, training and learning. Based on the criteria for JCI Europe Certified Trainer, a person must have:
- passed and graduated from (JCI) Presenter or equivalent
- passed and graduated from JCI Impact
- passed and graduated from JCI Achieve
- passed and graduated from Train-the-trainer course by JCI or equivalent
ACTION NEEDED! JCI National Organization in Europe can certify their own standardized
(=a course that is part of the permanent course selection of the national organization) (JCI) Presenter and “JCI Train-the-trainer” like courses to be accepted as equivalent courses. National Organization can do it by providing in English the summary, course objective, length of the course and content to JCI Skills Development Committee Members for Europe.
After the approval, the course is certified as equivalent course. The sooner we have the courses to be approved, the sooner individual members in your NOM have the change to fill their information on the database for JCI Europe Certified Trainer. NOTE! An individual from your national organization does not have the chance for certification, if fulfilling the criteria is dependable on these equivalent courses and national organization has not been certified those courses as equivalent courses.
At the beginning, we ask your patience with the approvals of equivalent courses, since we might have plenty of requests coming at the same time.
DATABASE FOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS AND
JCI EUROPE CERTIFIED TRAINERS
The purpose of the database is to gather information from national organizations in Europe about trainers and skills development & training sessions in order to
- exchange the know-how between the countries
- increase the variety of skills development session available
- provide opportunities for trainers to train and develop also outside their own organization
- preserve and raise the quality of training session in Europe.
There will be two separate databases which consist 3 different kind of information:
- Trainer database: Information about trainers, who have achieved the European standard, JCI Europe Certified Trainer, as a trainer.
- Training and Skills Development sessions database:
a. Information about training session that member (defined above) can offer to other national or local organizations. The courses must have been created by them or they have to have the rights to run the courses.
b. Information about training sessions that are part of the portfolio of national or local organization (the rights of the training belong to the organization instead of individual member) and the organization can deliver the course by their own trainer resources who have reached the European Standard, JCI Europe Certified Trainer.
AN UPDATE! The purpose is to publish the databases in couple of weeks. The proposal relating to JCI Europe Certified Trainer was amended in Conference Assembly. With the amendment, National President or Training responsible from the national organization must accept in written the certification request coming from their national organization. We are working on this to find good & simple technical solutions to execute this decision with the resources available, still ensuring the smooth use of the database. For this reason we might have to postpone the publishing of databases for some days, but we are doing our best to get everything ready as soon as possible.
JCI Facilitator, new “more than just a JCI train-the-trainer course” was tested in EC
A new course, JCI Facilitator, was tested for the first time in 2017 JCI European Conference in Basel. This course is about developing the skills of trainers, and focuses on facilitating the participants’ experiences. Facilitating skills are not just for training sessions but also for running e.g. forums in your own community enhancing the impact JCI has. The objective of the course is to enhance skills of JCI members and young active citizens to strengthen their Local Organizations and create positive change.
The course has been developed by a professional training company and the first official pilot was held in Basel, with 11 participants from 8 different national organizations (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Norway, Estonia). The development phase of the course will last, according the plans at the moment, until after the 2018 conferences and after that the training company will hand over the training to JCI to be implemented.
IMPORTANT! As a requirement to join the course, it was informed beforehand that participants of the course are expected to give detailed written feedback for the development of the course. Now it is the time to have an influence on the future shape of the course! Make sure the participant(s) from your national organization will tell in details what they liked and what development needs they saw. Participants will be instructed in more details to give the feedback and their recommendations.
Feedback is needed! Skills Development and training sessions in 2017 European Conference
2017 JCI European Conference was held in Basel 24th-27th of May. In order to develop the overall quality and experience of training sessions to our members, Skills Development Committee Members for Europe are eager to have feedback to be summarized and send forward to the Headquarters. Our purpose is also improving the process for trainers and session to be more effective and versatile.
We appreciate your effort & support for the development by providing feedback. Feedback is requested by 23h of June. Please feel free to share the link below to people who participated 2017 JCI European Conference and attended training and skills development session(s).
Webinar tool available for your local & national organizations for FREE!
JCI Europe is providing webinar tool, Clickmeeting, to the use of local and national skills development sessions online. This is how to you can have your session online:
1. Request to have ClikMeeting webinar tool available by filling the online from at least 1 week before the planned webinar. Skills Development Committee Members for Europe will set up the webinar.
2. Share the link you receive to your participants in order to invite them to join the session.
3. Test the tool beforehand, especially if you have not familiarized yourself with it before. You will also receive link to the test room where you can practice to use the tool.
For more information about ClickMeeting, refer e.g. to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClickMeetingvideo
ANYTHING ELSE ON YOUR MIND?
Skills Development Committee for Europe is sending their midterm report forward at the end of June. If there is anything you would like us to bring forward, please get in touch with us by 23th of June. So if you have feedback or recommendation, please feel free to contact us.
For questions and more information, please contact
2017 JCI Skills Development Committee Members for Europe
with email training.europe@jci.cc
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| Johanna Lundán 2017 JCI Skills Development Committee Member jlundan@jci.cc |
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| Didier Colin 2017 JCI Skills Development Committee Member dcolin@jci.cc |
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