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Today, I came across the group photo from the first YCISL workshop in 2011. It reminded me to reflect on the past 10 or so years of YCISL programming.<\/p>\nToday, I came across the group photo from the first YCISL workshop in 2011. It reminded me to reflect on the past 10 or so years of YCISL programming.<\/p>\n
I checked the original posts in my YCISL wiki and noticed that I started this wiki in 2010, a year before that first workshop. Spurred by Sir Ken Robinson’s TEDTalk, I had started collecting thoughts on creativity. I had drawn the graphic on Approximation of Leadership Objectives by Age Stage in March 2010 and added it to this wiki as my second entry. That graphic is still central to my program’s thesis.<\/p>\n
Good fortune (which I have often been lucky to have) came my way when Singapore Polytechnic wanted to send students on a visit to Stanford University for a leadership program. Off-shooting from earlier good fortunes of having Jim Leckie as my “boss”, the Singapore-Stanford Partnership experience, and the formation of the Center for Sustainable Development & Global Competitiveness, I couldn’t have wished for a better school and group of students to start the YCISL with. Really.<\/p>\n
The relationship with SP ended after three annual workshops. A prospective new path, this time with students from China, turned out to be a very bumpy ride. The China part of the YCISL program started small with a workshop organized by a Stanford MBA\/MEd alum (2013) then continued with Raising Culture organized by another Stanford alum (2014) and finally a sustained series of workshops sponsored by Goldmine for university-level students (2017-2019).<\/p>\n
There were two very good workshops with City University of Hong Kong (2016 & 2018). In contrast, there was the workshop for students from SNU (2017) which revealed how playful creativity is not accepted in some academic cultures.<\/p>\n
Gathering momentum was tough for any particular school or group of students, especially from China. Even more difficult though was getting new programs launched. I received a lot of interest from prospective organizers and had a lot of planning meetings. The first plan was to create a program for children of executives attending a CSDGC executive workshop co-organized with an educational exchange company (2011).\u00a0 That didn’t get far. A program for South Korean students through a Silicon Valley incubator fell flat after intensive discussions (2012). A program planned with an investment company based in Hong Kong and an educational consultancy couldn’t get pulled together either (2013). Two other educational exchange companies (2012 and 2017) found that finding students in China would need special authorization that eventually shredded our plans. The failure rate was frustratingly high, yet still energizing to know there were prospects. Persistence.<\/p>\n
This leads me to two of the best and most successful collaborations in the history of YCISL. The first was the relationship with GPI US which launched connections with several schools and one juku in Japan. The Wasedajuku workshops (2014 & 2015) were great…until there was a sale of the business. Ritsumeikan (2013-2015) impressed me because I met the head of school during the first workshop and showed awareness of design thinking. Hiroo Gakuen (2013-2019) was a broader-than-most program with its after-session research presentation evening. Asano Gakuen (2014-2019) added learning with its all boys groups; I had an interest in group dynamics and this group always gave a useful comparison.<\/p>\n
The second important relationship for the YCISL program was with E-Squared Learn with Leaders. This came about because of the Covid panic and lockdown. This allowed for YCISL to pivot to an online platform and meet a distant student audience through a virtual setting that had not been so appealing a few years before. The pivot enabled shorter programs (for concern over Zoom fatigue) that required a new sense of creativity for program design. From this circumstance, we invented Popcorn with Colin, the Innovators Toolkit Workshop (ITW), and NIFTI (New Ideas from the Inside). Why this is so amazing is that the same pivot was offered to GPI US and they couldn’t get it to grow. Not an easy ask because a couple of other prospective partners in Indonesia and China also could not get traction.<\/p>\n
Looking ahead, I am going to focus on YCISL e-books and perhaps other media to document the lessons and learnings of the YCISL program. The collaboration with E-Squared Learn with Leaders is now in the rear window and I am looking for something new and newly exciting with a fresh and refreshing partner. As I have showing on my presentation introductions, I am in the “What’s next?” stage – actually, I am always at that stage.<\/p>\n
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