How this whole assignment happens to be a different experience from the regular Volunteering?
This
assignment actually transforms you from what you are to what the
Organizations need…..
planned, trained, performing Leaders!
The whole
journey starts from being your application selection (which is around
10–15% from the overall applications ) and then giving you adequate time
to get trained, motivated, network and integrate with the objectives of
CSC. This is a team experience. Teams made of complimentary skills set,
high leadership values, great history of work performances, leveraging
on the talents and perspectives of all team members.
The pre-work for
more than 2 months give you ample space to understand the diversity of
cultures of the people forming as a team with sole objective of
achieving success in CSC projects for clients. By the end of 11–12 weeks
of team meetings, buddy presentations, knowing your team mates,
understanding the significance of unity in diversity, makes the team one
family. Here, every team member gets to learn so much from others.
Hence the high performing teams emerge at the end of this journey
Grouping
into sub-teams and having a overall skill-set to achieve the common
purpose, having a high level commitment, and entire focus on the goals,
with absolute accountability makes CSC stand par excellence.
Well-structured
learning modules, train you to equip yourselves to have the ability to
perform on the client’s needs. This is a Win-Win situation for all
involved.
Rishi
and Aishwarya took on the responsibility to create the Team’s Code of
Conduct — establishing guidelines for a set of mutually agreed upon
behaviours for which team members hold each other accountable, setting
expectations on working together, setting up a common work approach,
facilitating progression that can be reviewed periodically.
The
learning is immense and of high value. As part of the Personal
Effectiveness, the learning of Six Thinking Hats presented by Edward De
Bono gives you enough space to start wearing you different thinking
hats. Giving knowledge on the structured and creative thinking
techniques. That helps in Workshops, Problem- Solving and meetings.
Different
perspectives lead to different things, based on fundamental
understanding of how the brain handles information and reacts. Very
structured and logical approach to dealing with problems are to view
problems from a new and unusual perspective. This encourages you to
think outside the comfort zone and go beyond the obvious to discover
effective alternate solutions. Improved communication and decision
making helps you to say things without risk. Once we start focusing on
the thinking, plans will be more sounder and resilient.
Now
that we have learnt most of this, in a very structured pre-work with
help of our valuable mentors who are CSC Alumini Andrew McDonald, Rick
and Mark helped us to start rediscovering ourselves. We are waiting for
the regular Thursday call, tomorrow, which will be our last call as part
of Pre-Work and also ‘Before you go’ call and then to start packing our
bags to the most awaited journey….
