Stage 5 of a team: Mourning

Yes unfortunately it's over...

I'm still wakening up round 8am expecting breakfast in dining room and realizing that I'll have to make it on my own... There's also no great new friends to say "Good morning!" to and decide how good it will really be or let me rephrase, how great morning we will make for each other...

No mater how exhausted ware we, there was always hidden shot of energy somewhere deep inside each and every one of us, that helped us get back on track.

Did anyone say procrastination?

We don't do that... right?!?

Who am I kidding. We're all doing it and we will procrastinate just a bit more... but much less that we did it before LSS 2010.

Amazing days of LSS 2010 ware flying by and I met lots of new, interesting, crazy, inspiring, hard-working, funny, dedicated (... running out of adjectives ...) people that gave me new energy and motivation to improve myself, my self-confidence and my perspective of life...

Thank you all for amazing moments during LSS 201o.

I'll be really bold for the end and I'll use really worn out line with a twist:

"I'll be back!" ... next year maybe as LSS trainer...

Blaž

Saturday, 24th of July Case Study and Focus Session

Welcome to the last day... :-(
LSS 2010 is already eight days old. Time to wrap up things and this day was indeed to wrap up things. We started this day with a lot of rain and mild temperatures. Perfect to raise temperature in the case study. We got together in out small reflection groups (~8people) and worked on a case study to apply all things we learned in previous training sessions. The trainers really pulled off a great exercise and some great challanges each group had to overcome. In the end we all gathered and all groups had to present a little role play - great fun!
In the afternoon we wrapped up things from a more personal point of view. The case study basically was a summary and application of the academic things we learned. Now, in the Focus Session we had time to reflect, set goals and think about all the great experiences at LSS as well as things to come after LSS.

This grid kind of represents this day in my eyes. Where do you want to go, what do you want to do? You have it in your hands... Alsp the different fields we touched in the LSS (marked) and the fields you still can fill. (My two cents)

Friday, 23rd of July: On top of Ljubljana

Tonight we went out... Of course we did... And we took ownership by dancing the Waka Waka within the first ten minutes after arrival on the dancefloor all together. Let's say it like that: in an exclusive setting like this club you earn quite a number of stange views and laughs when a crowd performs a dance like we did. Anyhow, the club was really nice. On top of a 8 storey building you had a great view over the nicely lighted sights of Ljubljana. I want to post some picuteres here but I don't have any.. Maybe I can add them later by changing this post?

Thursday 22nd of July: TEDx LSS Ljubljana

Uh yeah,

this years LSS contained even a TEDx like event which maybe is to become an official part of LSS in 2011. This year 10 voluntary speakers took the chance to practice their presentation skills in 6min talks. The talks were very interesting and inspiring and braought a new perspective on different topics related to LSS as well as others. I think that these talks were just perfectly fitting into the whole LSS spirit and defenitely should be a part of LSS 2011.

Friday, 23rd of July: Conflict Management Session

It is Friday but the LSS people don't stop to work, train, have fun and enjoy being together. The Friday afternoon session was about Conflict Management. In the first part we learned about the four different personal characteristics in Conflict Management of which everyone of us is likely to prefer one. The different characteristics each stand for a behaviour during a conflict where generally there is an "in" and an "out" perspective. The "in" perspective is concerned about the self in the conflict whereas the "out " is concerned about the other person in a conflict.
In the second part we talked about effective conflict resolution. We learned about one communication pattern which takes the need of a person into account. The pattern goes as follows:

1. Observation - statement of observations based on facts without any subjective judgements.
2. Feel - statement of how this observation makes you feel.
3. Need - statement of (resulting from the earlier points) what would be needed from the other person (or ingeneral) in order to find solutions for the conflict
4. Wish/Request - statement of a wish (not order!) to resolve the conflict.

By applying this pattern the different needs of the involved parties are revealed and a conflict becomes easier to attack at the right points.

Decision making 101

After 4 hours of sleep, breakfast, quick shower and big can of RedBull was time for some decision making trainings... Damn RebBull was strong... I was as hyper active as squirrel on ecstasy, but it helped me to contribute even more so guess what I'm having now...

Tim and Sara ware great trainers and presented the topic about decision making on really easily understandable way so we soon got the point and could use it in our exercises. Being stuck on a life raft in the middle of Pacific ocean was quite a challenge, but due to teamwork and great discussions we manage to survive long enough that we ware saved and we are still present on this LSS. Although last night took some casualties, some people ware dead asleep till late morning, almost afternoon, we still manage to get our best to contribute to our trainings and to hopefully meet the expectations of our trainers.

We will soon start to prepare for afternoon sessions and afterwards for a party so probably shower or just fresh air will help us keep our head clear and open for new ideas and tips...

Blaž

Thursday 22nd July: Salsa Night

Exactly... LSS goes Salsa... At least until the police came :-) Below you can see how professional the LSS is attacking not only leadership related tasks but also additional task like passionate dancing during the night: see below two highly motivated participants deeply connected in an intimate moment of true salsa (kidding)

Partying really is pure pleasure with you LSS guys! See you tonight on top of Ljubljana :-)

Timon