Link Education And Practice

Blog entry about a PEEP training with Christian Sholtes. Unfortunately we do not have an English translation at this time. Please come back real soon and don’t forget about our other posts.

Blog entry by Mihail Petcu on a training held by Bruno Medicina for PEEP.

Unfortunately we do not have an English translation at this time. Please come back real soon and don’t forget about our other posts.

Wednesday, September 17^th 2008, was an exciting day for both PEEP freshmen and veterans! We took part with enthusiasm in the training delivered by Marian Stas, a dear mentor of PEEP. For those who do not know him, Marian Stas is the president of CODECS Foundation for Leadership. For almost 10 years, Marian has been training generations of high-school and university students, creating (and maintaining) a superior standard of civic and professional development.

The training had three parts and all were apparently playful but they left a lasting echo in us as a team. In the first part, randomly created teams from the participants had to solve a puzzle in a certain time period. The really cool and interesting part was that, at a certain point, the teams realized that they need to cooperate (exchange pieces) in order for each of them to be able to accomplish the task, and that there is actually no competition (but only a simultaneous task accomplishment, right?…) A spontaneous exercise of cooperating and synchronising ourselves as a team.

The second part was strictly related to the PEEP identity. It was the moment when each member, whether experienced or new, shared their point of view over the values, objectives and weaknesses specific to the PEEP team. By doing this we have also drawn a rather philosophical conclusion: as long as everybody has the chance to share his/her point of view, in the end they should accept the decision that was taken based on all the existing opinions. Marian said that this is the “disagree and commit” philosophy. A philosophy that deserves to be remembered. Lastly, the third part was the most “business-oriented” one. We further recommend the movie clip that we have watched: the conference held by Patrick Lencioni, “Five Reasons Why Teams Fail” – you can watch a short clip below.

Some of us finished the training with the eyes contemplating the horizons. Thinking of the mistakes we did in the past as a team, thinking of the great people that have formed PEEP and with the hope that in the future it will work out even better.