Skills Trainings
Skills Trainings
During our skill trainings you will build teamwork and leadership skills, unleash the creative and entrepreneurial potential inside you, explore tools to work more efficiently in virtual groups, tap the storyteller inside you, and develop a better understanding of yourself – nothing less than that.
Design Thinking
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Impact Measurement with Om Bathija
Measurement is an essential part of any project, business, or organization. With social businesses and nonprofits, where the traditional bottom-line of generating profit is replaced by the goal of delivering social impact, it presents a particularly unique challenge. This skill training will walk through defining impact, and finding effective ways to capture it by looking at examples from the field.
The aim of this workshop is to enable you to plan your future projects in a manner that puts impact measurement front and center. Best suited to anyone who wishes to bring more focus and direction into project teams they lead, or are a part of.
About Om Bathija:
Om currently works at Bloomreach Inc., a startup that operates in the e-commerce and SEO space, and is helping his company build and evaluate metrics that help understand how effectively their product is delivering ongoing value to customers. He is very passionate about social entrepreneurship, and hopes to someday spend all his time facilitating and mentoring impactful social businesses.
Building community online with Joice Biazoto
Today, it is easier than ever to stay connected across the globe. Hundreds of virtual communications platforms and the rise of social media have given us the opportunity to amplify our voices and reach others who are also passionate about our causes.
In this session, you will learn to use social media and online communications tools more effectively in order to reach and mobilize more people, and so increase your impact for your cause. We will look at best practices of successful mobilization campaigns and test the latest tools at our disposal to craft powerful messages and adapt them to a variety of platforms. We will explore how visual and traditional storytelling can help others relate with our ideas, and discuss ways in which to bridge the gap in between online and offline communications.
Joice Biazoto is Marketing & Communications Manager at the Melton Foundation. She has an M.A. in Journalism from Indiana University and a Master of Peace and Security from the University of Hamburg. Through her career as a journalist, as a reporter and writer for daily newspapers and a National Public Radio (NPR) station, as well as more recently as a communications professional specialized in the nonprofit sector, Joice has followed her passion to tell stories that matter. She is constantly looking for new storytelling tools and new ways of engaging others through compelling writing, audio and visuals.
Crowdfunding with Dreamore
Crowdfunding is not only a new way to raise money from the public for your project, but is also a new approach to engage others in helping your project come to life. Apart from presenting the interesting projects initiated by young Chinese on the Dreamore website, this workshop also helps you to facilitate your own projects by crowdfunding. We will explore together how to make the best of crowdfunding in this workshop and what you’ll need to keep in mind when preparing for a crowdfunding campaign on Dreamore or any other platform.
Dreamore (http://www.dreamore.com/) was first launched as a web crowdfunding platform in 2011, and its app was launched in 2014. By the end of 2014, more than 2,000 crowdfunding projects were launched on the website, and about 52% of the projects have succeeded. Ever since the app was launched in September 2014, more than 40,000 projects were launched. These projects have raised more than 60 million yuan (nearly US$10 million) in total. Unlike other crowdfunding platforms in China, Dreamore focus more on young people aged from 18 to 30, who enjoy a creative lifestyle. Dreamore has adopted different models of crowdfunding, and it is always reinventing its vision to adapt to what its users want.
Mentoring and Facilitation with Pedro Poblete
"The more I get to know people, the better I like my dogs". Have you ever felt like this after a long and exhausting meeting? After sending 20 emails back and forth and not arriving to any conclusion? In this workshop, we'll try to restore your faith in humanity.
Group management is a difficult task, especially when working in intercultural contexts, but add into the equation the intricacies of online communication and things get even more complicated. Together, we'll explore the concepts of effective leadership, anti-oppression, and deep democracy. We'll learn specific skills and resources for resolving conflict, facilitating discussion, and ensuring a good communication flow.
Pedro joined the Melton Foundation in 2006. He is a psychologist graduated from Chile’s Universidad de La Frontera, and he's currently finishing his MSc. in Human-Technology Interaction in the Eindhoven University of Technology. He has dedicated his professional career to work for social development, either through academic research or working with NGOs. He has participated in research projects in Chile, United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and Uganda, and he has worked in Chile, Canada, Haiti and Dominican Republic. As a Senior Fellow, Pedro was a grantee of the Idea Incubator at the 2012 GCC, and helped organize the Melton Foundation’s Deep Dive 2013 in Haiti.
The A-B-C of Project Management with Dr. Álvaro Fernández Villazón
Everything we do in life is or should be considered a project. Projects are part of our lives. They are so familiar to us that we often forget to plan properly. We improvise and we are good at it. But when you aim for more complex achievements, where a group of people is involved, planning is essential. So, we should take a step back and think about how projects work. Why do we do what we do, and what do we want to achieve with it? Which is the best way to reach our goals? How do we organize our tasks and the steps that lead to that goal?
This workshop is based on a very practical approach to project management. During the workshop, we will use the case-study method to analyze a variety of projects from various angles. We will analyze the different steps from project conception till evaluation as well as the different organization approaches. After the workshop, we will have at our disposal a flexible but complete framework to apply to our own projects.
About Dr. Álvaro Fernández Villazón
Álvaro was born in Torrelavega (Spain). He lived in more than 14 cities in 6 countries and for the past 14 years he has been living in Germany where he currently works as head of the Department of Romance Languages at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Álvaro studied Law and Philosophy in London and Madrid and worked as a translator for NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina before graduating in German Language and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Spanish from Valladolid University (Spain). He was invited to join the Melton Foundation as member of the Task Team after the GCC in Bangalore (2013) where he taught a seminar on alternative learning methods. Álvaro has many years of experience in organizing activities for non-profit organizations and teaching seminars and workshops on project management.
Design Thinking
Launchpad for Social Changemakers: Designing Acts of Global Citizenship that matter
Claudia Nicolai & Miriam Yasbay, HPI D-School, Potsdam, Germany
Global citizenship is a challenge for all of us. If we really want to make difference on a global scale with regard to education, technology for sustainability, protecting the vulnerable in the global economy, or any other global issue, we have to think big and to start acting (small) to inspire and involve others. This is why design thinking and doing comes into play.
In our Launchpad, we would like to embark on this journey together with you. Our workshop is built upon the key principles of design thinking: empathize, explore, experiment, and engage. This approach enables us to detect problems, generate significant ideas and most importantly makes them tangible with building prototypes.
We want to facilitate your process to frame your Act of Global Citizenship, to discover a field of opportunity, to find a solution that will matter to people and to be ready for next steps – together as a team.
This three-hour workshop is the kick-off for the 100 Acts Program and will lay the ground to work on your global and local act throughout the GCC. It is targeted at people who have already gained some prior experience with design thinking (methods).
About the presenters:Claudia Nicolai is academic director of the Hans-Plattner-Institut (HPI) school of Design Thinking. She develops the curricula, trains coaches and works with students as well as executives. Claudia is also responsible for cooperations with international academic institutions. She is particularly humbled by the opportunity to develop the international D-School in Kuala Lumpur for social innovation (Genovasi). Claudia studied Business Administration, Economics, and Social Science and received her Ph.D. in Strategic Management. She worked as Assistant Professor at Witten University and as Professor for Strategic Communication at the University of Arts Berlin. In her former life, she has also gained experience as a brand manager and strategy consultant for human-centered innovation processes.
Miriam Yasbay is a Berlin-based social scientist and design thinking facilitator. As Program Manager at the HPI School of Design Thinking, she trains international and interdisciplinary student teams to design innovative solutions to complex problems. During her work and studies in Berlin, Paris, Istanbul, and New York, she developed and supported projects on social change, equality, diversity and (social) entrepreneurship. Her mission is to spark creative confidence in students and help them believe in their ability to initiate the change they want to see in the world.
Design Thinking in Action: Developing Solutions to Real World Problems
Chen Yueyi, Kaiwu Education Space of Action Innovation
Every living creature is breathing at any moment in time and space. Yet we’re seldom truly conscious of our breathing. This can be said for many things we do in life. Let’s change that with design thinking! Design Thinking is an approach that changes the way we tackle problems. It puts the user first and focuses on their experiences and their needs in order to identify the problem and develop better solutions.
By using the breathing experience as an example, this 3-hour workshop will allow you to explore the basic principles of Design Thinking as a tool to solve problems through empathy, defining problems, ideation and prototyping. Cross-cultural communications and human-centered creative practices will play a fundamental part in this workshop. Through real-world simulations, you will learn to tackle the unknown by applying this approach as you identify problems and develop your solutions.
This workshop equips you with the tools in order to frame your Act of Global Citizenship: to discover a field of opportunity, to find a solution that will matter to people, and to be ready for next steps.
About Chen YueyiChen Yueyi founded the Kaiwu Education Space of Action Innovation to spread the ideas of design thinking and social innovation among youth. She graduated from Zhejiang University with a dual-degree of Industrial Design and English. Chen studied acting at the University of California, Los Angeles and was a visiting scholar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. In her university years, she curated youth quality developing events for more than 1,000 people and participated in many charity projects. She has also designed a social innovation tour through Taiwan and Japan. Her professional fields are course design and product design for social enterprises.