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JCI University News
ONLINE REGISTRATION OPEN FOR CONFERENCE COURSES
The new online JCI course planning and registration is being developed, but the first part is already available. Members can register online for JCI Prime and JCI Designer courses at the 2006 Area Conferences.
Link: www.jci.cc or the direct link http://www.jci.cc/university/home.php.
To register you must be in JCI’s database. For JCI Designer, you must be a CLT and have 25 extra hours of training. If the system does not find your name, you must sign in on JCI’s website. After you register and sign in on the JCI website, you will be able to see the courses you are registered for.
Course planning (where any local or national organization can organize JCI courses online) is still under development but will be ready soon.
TWO NEW COURSES TO ENHANCE ENTREPENEURIAL SKILLS AT THE AREA D CONFERENCE
Continuing efforts to provide the best training courses to JCI members, the JCI University has reached important training agreements with two professional training companies.
JCI BizLaunch will be offered at the European Conference in Tallinn on June 12 and 13 as a pre-Conference course, in cooperation with the Canadian Training Company BizLaunch (www.bizlaunch.ca). This is a 12-hour group training program designed to help new entrepreneurs learn how to plan, launch and grow a successful small business.
Via six two-hour building block training modules, the JCI BizLaunch course will teach new entrepreneurs the skills and strategies needed to develop any type of enterprise anywhere in the world. Participants will make key decisions, learn how to avoid common small business mistakes and develop a solid business plan. The program is intended for anyone thinking about starting a business, preparing to launch a business, or currently running one for less than three years. Delivered by qualified JCI Trainers, the course will be offered to local organizations through the JCI University.
Registrations will be open at the www.jci.cc site and the trainer will be Andrew Patricio, who has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience. Andrew is an international small business expert, trainer, coach, conference speaker, seminar leader and author of the best seller Up & Running – A Guide to Running your own Business. He has started seven businesses of his own and has trained and coached more than 4,000 entrepreneurs in Canada, Russia, Portugal, Sweden, Korea, Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, Namibia, and South Africa.
On June 14, JCI will also offer a Train-the-Trainer course to selected JCI Trainers who are at least CNTs, have attended the JCI BizLaunch course, and have a background in starting businesses.
JCI Get Results will be offered at the European Conference in Tallinn on June 16 (from 9:30 to 12:30) in cooperation with the Belgium Training Company Zenit. This seminar will provide insight into the link between financial results and corporate culture of a company/organization, convince you that the only way to get better results is to change the way managers and workers work together, and give you a hands-on method to increase cooperation, commitment and motivation in your company/organization.
The workshop will be based on the management book “Get Results!”, which will be available at the JCI sales shop during the Conference. The book is based on the “Zenit Leadership Model”, which is quite different from traditional models. The model is focused on the cooperation between the manager/leader and his or her team/organization. Only when this cooperation is thriving, can a team or organization achieve the desired results.
JCI will also offer a Train-the-Trainer course on June 17 (from 9:30 to 12:30) for those who have attended the course and are at least CNTs. Dates and online registration will be on the website soon.
JCI Designer TESTED AROUND THE WORLD
JCI Prime will be divided into two courses and will be called JCI Presenter and JCI Trainer. JCI Excel will be revised and updated and will be called JCI Designer. JCI Designer has now been tested in Argentina, Brazil and Denmark.
In April, JCI Designer was tested three times in different environments and with different trainers to give the new course its final shape and content for the Area Conferences. In each test, new trainers received a full-day briefing on the course’s content, concept and major objectives. Each course also had experienced trainers acting as observers, giving feedback and suggesting changes and improvements.
At the first JCI Designer course in Rosario, Argentina, five participants and a trainer (Rene Tito) lived an incredible adventure. Coming from Paraguay and Bolivia, they were stranded at the airport in Cochabamba, Bolivia, because of an airline employee strike. This, however, in no way affected the members’ will and determination to attend the course nor the trainer’s readiness to conduct it. The trainer provided the first day of training at the airport. Luckily, at night, they caught another flight to Buenos Aires. From there, they rode for five hours on a bus to Rosario, where they arrived at 5 a.m. By 9 a.m., they had joined the rest of the class. This was probably the first time that a course had ever been conducted simultaneously at a hotel and at an airport lounge 5,000 miles away.
JCI Designer will be conducted officially at the Area B (May 23–25), Area A (June 5–7) and Area D (June 12–14) Conferences, and registrations are open at www.jci.cc.
These three test courses gave JCI the opportunity to listen to opinions, suggestions and, most importantly, feedback from attendees, which helped shape the course and gave it its final format for presentation at the Area Conferences.
JCI Designer in Rosario, Argentina (March 31–April 2) was attended by 21 participants (13 from Argentina, 5 from Bolivia and 3 from Paraguay). Trainers German Donolla, Gabriela Filippini from Argentina and Rene Tito from Bolivia delivered the course. Edgar Rufinengo from Argentina acted as observer and helped with ideas and feedback.
JCI Designer in Curitiba, Brazil, April 7–9, was attended by 18 participants from Brazil. Trainers Marcio Thales da Silva and Gabriel Cole from Brazil delivered the course, and JCI University Certification Commissioner Jefersom Machado and Plinio Eng from Brazil acted as observers, giving feedback and suggestions for improvement.
JCI Designer in Aalborg, Denmark, April 21–23, was attended by six participants (four from Denmark and two from Norway). Trainers Patrick Knight from USA, Deniz Senelt from Turkey and Si-Bum Kim from Korea delivered the course, and Karen Smythe from Australia acted as coordinator and observer. At this course, the trainers implemented all the changes suggested from the two previous courses, and final modifications were made.
JCI wishes to thank all trainers and participants involved in this amazing team effort to create this new JCI training course.
WORDLWIDE TEAM OF TOP TRAINERS IS DEVELOPING A NEW COURSE FOR JCI
Thanks to a generous donation from the JCI Foundation, JCI could bring a team of top trainers from all over the world to work on creating and designing a brand new course to be offered to members at the 2006 JCI World Congress in Seoul, Korea.
The new course will provide tools and motivation in the field of sales. As a learning activity, participants will seek potential corporate membership and actually sell JCI membership to companies. The name of the course is still being studied and will be decided upon soon.
JCI invited Brian Stahlhut Christiansen from Denmark as Head Designer. The Designing Team members are Karen Smythe (ITF 035) from Australia, Deniz Senelt (IG) from Turkey, Patrick Knight (IG) from USA, Si-Bum Kim (CNT) from Korea, and Bjørn Baardsen (CNT) from Norway. The team worked during the JCI Designer course and for two extra days, and the result was an impressive draft of what should be another top course for JCI members.
The Team will now be working from their homes, and soon the course will be tested in the field so it can be ready for the JCI Congress in Korea.
CERTIFICATION COMMISSION DECISIONS
The JCI University Certification Committee, which meets once a month via Skype™, has approved the following new IGs and ITFs:
IGs approved:
- Lewis Chen, Taiwan - APPROVED FEB 28
- Maryann-Hung, Taiwan - APPROVED FEB 28
- Mei-Ying Lai, Taiwan - APPROVED FEB 28
ITF approved:
- Darren Flagg, Canada – APPROVED FEB 28
Online registration deadlines have been set for JCI Prime and JCI Designer courses at the 2006 Area Conferences
Online registration deadlines for JCI Prime and JCI Designer courses at the 2006 Area Conferences have been set at 7 days before the start of JCI Prime and 14 days before the start of JCI Designer.
REGISTRATION DEADLINES:
Area A
JCI Prime (English and French) – May 29
JCI Designer (English and French) – May 22
Area B
JCI Prime (English) – May 16
JCI Designer (English) – May 9
Area C
JCI Prime (French) – April 27 (special case)
Area D
JCI Prime (English and Russian) – June 5
JCI Designer (English) – May 29
In Area C, we had to cancel JCI Prime in English and Spanish because of the low number of registrations.
These are the only Pre-Conference courses scheduled, and there is no JCI Designer Train-the-Trainer scheduled. In Areas A, B and D, we will have a briefing for the trainers who will be delivering the course at the Conference, but nobody will be certified as Head Trainer until the online Course Administration System is completed and the course is approved in its final version. The briefings will take place the day before the JCI Designer courses starts, and other International Training Fellows (ITFs) and International Graduates (IGs) are welcome to attend to become acquainted with the new course.
The webpage for online registration for JCI Prime and JCI Designer at the Area Conferences is http://www.jci.cc/university/home.php
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