GAZE International Workshop in San Sebastian
There I was, in an international workshop organized by GAZE, a project dedicated to drive entrepreneurship in Gipuzkoa, maybe?
I am very grateful to GAZE for inviting me there for the International Workshop on the 23rd-24th of September. I really appreciate that. Thus I feel a little anxious about writing this post. However, my recent thinking has been about what do I stand for and I guess I should say aloud what I think.
Coming here to this event has opened my eyes to how well Team Academy events are organized.
Or maybe I am just too brainwashed to listen long lectures. Or maybe we just come from totally different realities. I loose my attention span very quickly if the speaker doesn’t show interest towards the audience but only for his/her own work, and if the speech is only given on the intellectual level and does not involve the emotions of the audience nor the speaker. Make love or hate (preferrably love), but please, do not bore me. Is it the responsibility of a lecturer or the listener to enable learning about the topic? What is learning? I think it’s changing your behaviour. Did this event make me change my own behaviour? Yes, but it was my own speech that I gave that made me learn. Learning by doing.
I felt quite some anxiety before I started, I felt sad, even a little angry. Why I felt that was because the speeches before me were longer than they were supposed, we were running late, not enough coffee breaks to socialize, no check-in or introductions in the beginning. But I didn’t tell that to the audience. That was my mistake. Ville Hast taught me that when you speak from heart it is always right. And maybe because I didn’t tell people honestly how I felt my presentation was rather serious. I think that serious Monkey Business presentation have not been given before. Well, there’s time for everything, I think.
Team Academy Presentation for GAZE #Giw 09
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Here are the slides that I used to give a 20 minute speech. The questions were pondered upon in the audience for 3-5 minutes. I was the second last speaker of the day and the first one to make the audience work together. Interesting. I want more dialogue into the seminars. More show, less talk.
This coming Friday we will do a workshop together with Anita of Creative Impact here in Madrid. It’s exciting. Something I will do in the beginning is to start by telling how I feel, who I am and what do I believe in and what I think is important now. That’s a good starting point. Then we can get to know one another more.
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about 2 years ago
Great story – good leader! Art of using words like: I am sorry, I made a mistake, I´ll do better next time, I don´t know. My bad, sorry. Yes we need more dialogue. Yes we need more transparency. Yes we need Monkey Business. Yes we need to play our own songs! Yes! Ville, good job.
about 2 years ago
I feel with you Ville. I’ve been so frustrated in the same situation many times. Eventhough you didn’t tell the audience that you were upset about the program so far, I think you made an impact with your presentation – maybe it got some of the other presenters and organizers thinking as well.
It’s often hard for us ‘brainwashed people’
to face the old paradigm. But for what it’s worth, I really like the way you presented Team Academy in the slides. We can also learn from it at Proacademy. All the best for the coming workshops!
about 2 years ago
Thank you Ville! I totally agree with everything you just said. I have been wondering about these same things a lot lately. I want to be myself, the true me with the people I interract with, in the presentations I held, in the job that I do and in everything..
Sometimes it is a constant fight with myself. Can I be like this in this kind of a situation etc? But then again, that is how the people will remember you, that is how you can inspire others and courage them to join with you to be themselves as well. Not all of them will, but maybe you will wake up that little spark inside of someone, and it’s worth it.
If you notice afterwards that it didn’t work in that specific audience in that kind of situation, then what the hell, so what
At least you did your best and you will learn something from it aswell, hey? And you never compromised your values and your believes on the way.
And yes, the presentation was great I think, good job Ville, you are an inspiration.
about 2 years ago
@Tatu Thanks. I indeed agree that we need to play our own songs.
@Jukka & Jutta thanks a lot for the comments and ideas from Tampere! There’s a great quote that goes about this way: “By letting yourself be 100% yourself you give others the permission to do and be the same.” kind of goes along the thinking of Gandhi. And also Robert Quinn says and refers to systems thinking: the only way to change the world is to change yourself. Because when you change yourself, the relationships you have with others have to change as well, and thus they will eventually change. And so on the butterfly effect goes forward and the world changes little by little. Then one day we reach a tipping point and the necessary revolution is here. And I am happy we are many in here who share the vision of a radically better world. As Jonathan said, the diversity is the key. Maybe?