[Vnbiz] Staying to be a Leader -- capacity building for young leaders

Sun Jun 3 01:11:11 PDT 2007

  Dear sis and bro, 

  To add some practical knowledge to the inspiring topic of Leadership, I am happy to see and then send you some training modules on capacity building for the leadership. Here is the link of the training materials from the UNDP Capacity Building Programmes for Young Leaders in Governance, please download, share and spread among our friends, friends of friends:
  http://regionalcentrebangkok.undp.or.th/practices/cap2015/rlcaw-aylgpw.htm#background 

>From the materials of these leadership modules, there are five leadership capacity skills: 
a) leadership overview and leadership styles; 
b) systems thinking for transformational change; 
c) conflict resolution and negotiation; 
d) cross-cultural communications for leadership; and 
e) team building and networking. 

In addition, thematic modules on gender, anti-corruption, indigenous peoples, and capacity development, are being prepared by UNDP to supplement the course.

  From Vietnam, we have 3 young sisters attending the regional Leadership Capacity Building workshop in Bangkok last July. And here is some notes of mine: 

"...there were so many young, active people from China, Mongolia, Pakistan, South East Asia (the first time i have ever met Mongolians ^_^). The most moving talk and one of my most remembering moments is the keynote speech from Senator Jon Ungphakorn. His simple talk mentioned the "moral integrity", one of the biggest challenges to young people. Young people were taught good attitude, morals, values by teachers, parents and are faced (conflicted) with different systems of norms in the real world, especially in Asia. Young people change or not? How brave young leaders need to be in order to remain unchanged? 

He also noted that leadership is not about individual, it's collective leadership, network, friendships!"

And if sis and bro are interested in developing training programs for youth and young leaderships, particularly on sustainability and system thinking, please contact, I am very, very happy to share enthusiasm. 

  Stay to be a leader and build collective leadership :), 

Nguyet

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Nam Dinh Urban Development Project

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  Hong-Phong_Pho at ita.doc.gov wrote:
  [ Vietnam Business Forum ]

Dear anh Hoanh et al. 
I don't think we can blame this on the Chinese or the French.  The Japanese, Korean, and the Chinese themselves don't exactly have traditions of showering praises on their children either.  In fact, even the European, most notably the British, are known to raise their children very sternly, with strong discipline. 
The West's "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is very much the same value as the East's "Thuong cho roi cho vot, ghet cho ngoc cho bui"! 
In my observation, the approach of more encouragement and less criticism is a relatively modern approach endemic to wealthier and more free societies in which there are more opportunities/career choices.  Where choices and opportunities are more limited,and competition keener, parents will tend  to be tougher on their children in a sometime misguided but always sincere effort to secure  a more secure future for their children.  Any observant Vietnamese child knows that he has his parent's love and support just by looking at what they do instead of listening to what they say.  In fact Vietnames parents often praise their own kids behind their backs, if the neighbors don't do it first. 
Best,  HPP 

        "Tran Dinh Hoanh" <tdhoanh at gmail.com> 
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Dear Sis. Thu Huong & CACC, 

Superb question, Thu Huong.  How do we know ourselves? And when the folks in authority focus more on blaming and punishment than in praising and encouragement. how does a person know what she is good at? 

Why our culture focuses more on blaming and punishing than on praising and encouraging is an interesting question.  As we grow up, we hear the adults say things like "You shouldn't praise them, because they will become arrogant." I used to accept that explanation as a good explanation.  But the damage of that kind of punishing behavior is so big.  It really destroys the kid's confidence and stops him from developing his full potentials.   

I believe that such behavior comes from the fact that for thousands of years the Chinese dominated us, plus a hundred years of the French.  These rulers did not want to treat us Vietnamese with dignity and did not want us to have any confidence in ourselves.  So they constantly made us feel inferior and stupid.  So they focused heavily on blaming and beating.  And we just internalized such behavior and did the same thing  to ourselves.  This is the "abused-child syndrom." 

The potentials in each of us are like little little plants, and encouragement is like water.  If we praise a person constantly and encourage that person constantly, regardless of whether he wins or loses in a game, his plants will grow into giant trees some day.  If we keep harassing him for "doing bad," he will wither away.  This is true in family, school and the work place. 

I am not saying that we should not have constructive criticism once in a while.  But the ratios should be like this:  At least 75 percent praising and at max 25 percent criticism is good.  Less praising and more criticism than these ratios is bad for development, both personal and communal.  If you want you kid to do well, praise them more often than criticising them.  If you want your company to do well, praise your employees constantly and criticize them rarely. 

This issue is not only for the individual, it tremendously effects our national development.  Great question, Thu Huong. 

Have a good day! 

Hoanh 

On 5/12/07, huong dang thu <hdangthu at gmail.com > wrote: 
[ Vietnam Business Forum ]

Dear bro & sis, 

Thanks for your sharing about values. 

Please let me ask 1 more question for today: How can we know that we are possessing some values? 

It sounds like an unreasonable question.  But I'm serious about this. For that Vietnamese culture is a very 'modest' culture. So that we have trend not to give compliment. (eg, my parents never tell me that I do sth good. Very frequently, I should realize if I'm good by myself). Luckily that my parents let me detect myself so that I learn from different communities that I have possess some value (that I can sing well, I can write well, I can be a good leader if I follow my kind heart). 
I think that I'm lucky. But many of my friends, Vietnamese students really don't know how good they are. When they answer the question "What is your abilities?", I bet that they would say "I don't have any ability". (though I usually find many abilities that they have). 
This will come to the result that we are not confident. And if we are not confident about ourselves, I think we will meet many of struggles, and the struggle may not come from the outside environment but from inside us first. 

So, to know that we are possessing some values is not easy, I think. Especially sometimes, the environment prevents us from showing these values. Eg: years ago, 'obedience' is a great value that most of parents expect from their children. The obedient child will be considered as wonderful child. Now, we expect our children to be creative, to 'think it different', to be 'crazy'. I believe that many of today obedient adult once were the very creative children. But in the days that everyone appreciates the 'obedience' value, how can they know that 'creativity' is also a great value that they should pursue? 

Some wondering, 
Nice weekend, bro &sis! 
HeO 
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Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
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