On Friday and Saturday we teamed up with Grozdan Stoevski and Nik Nedelchev and presented the second of six Equip Level 2 seminars. We had about 20 Bulgarian business and church leaders in this class. This was the same group that we worked with last June and we will be working with them for two more years.
The focus of this seminar was working with and winning with people. Leaders must have excellent people skills if they are to succeed. Academics call this emotional intelligence. Some people are gifted with a lot of it; others not so much. However, it can be developed and that was our mission; to help them improve their people skills.
We had an excellent time and I think they got a great deal out of the seminar because they were actively involved. We decided that lecturing was not the way to work with these people and so we broke them down into discussion groups. We handed each group a series of discussion questions designed to really make them think and wrestle with some tough issues. Then we gave them about 20-30 minutes to discuss their questions. At the end, each group appointed a spokesperson who briefed the rest of us on what the group concluded about the questions.
Their insights and comments made it very clear that they have been paying attention and that the level one training has stuck with them. They are changing and growing as leaders. The process works!!!
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