Proposal #58: Success Story Conference.
I propose that CISV hosts an international conference, where we teach the secrets of CISV's success.
Rationale
If we look at our organisation from a different perspective it is a great success story. I'm more than sure there will be other people (from other NGOs) interested to learn how we do things. Workshops during the conference would include topics like:
- How to keep an international volunteer work force happy?
- How to fundraise for international work camps?
- How to become a member of UNESCO?
- How to administer 8000 participants a year with one tiny office?
- How to rebrand a volunteer organisation?
- How to organize an annual conference?
- How to keep up to date with educational content?
- How to establish a high-quality new international programme within 10 years?
- How to develop an alumni database?
Respectfully submitted, Nick (GER)
4 Comments:
wouldn't we have to find out about these secrets first....?
Since there's no storm of protes as a response to this proposal, I might as well explain the three points I was trying to make myself:
a) CISV is a success! We are doing fantastic things, just in our neverending critical way of thinking, we tend to play out achievements down all the time. We do have loads of things to be proud of. Other organisations can be jealous.
b) There have always been people protesting against our camp guides being freely available on the web. They say, it's our corporate secrete, and other may copy it. I say: So what - we're trying to make the world a better place, and if others copy us, or even do it better, let's cheer for them.
c) With this proposal I wanted to go one step further: Explicitly sharing our knowledge may even make us a stronger organisation. Participants to such a conference will recognize CISV as an expert organisation in certain areas, which in turn will yield to great benefits.
The only worry I have is, what if nobody actually is interested in learning from us...?
Well, the first thing to do is go out and talk to other groups and you find that they do very much want to learn from us. There are some things we do very well. I think we don't realize that they are secrets (ignoring your cynicism marcos) because we are so used to them.
mine was not cynysm.
It was making the point that we don't really know what these secrets are - because the organisation doesn't rationally knows itself well.
It knows very well emotionally - but one can't explain emotions properly.
So - yes - we have to find out about these secrets (within the organisation) first.
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