Experteering Best Practices

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Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org@Experteering | mark@movingworlds.org

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself

Harvey S. Firestone

Global Development and the “Global Talent Gap”

We have to have more concepts than just ‘developing countries’ and ‘developing world’

Hans Rosling

The Global Talent Gap

YOU!

Preparing Yourself for a Productive Partnership

Build a Mutually Beneficial Partnership

The keys to every successful Experteering partnership are

trust, respect, and understanding

Empathy fuels connection. Sympathy drives disconnection.

Dr. Brene Brown

Finding an Opportunity

9 Questions to Ask When Finding Opportunities

1 Does it protect local jobs?

2 Can you transfer skills?

3 Will you be able to measure impact?

4 Are goals and projects driven locally?

5 Can this project create a long-term impact?

6 Are you qualified to do this project?

7 How will locals perceive you?

8 Is it in the best benefit of your host?

9 Will priority remain on beneficiaries, not on you?

LearningService.info

Tips and Resources for a Productive Planning Process

What you bring to the organization should be at least as valuable as the resources you are taking.

LearningService.info

A Complete Planning Process

1 Project Description

2 Desired Project Outcome and Deliverables

3 Work and Role Descriptions

4 Project Sustainability Plan

5Definition of Success (personal and professional)

6 On Site Logistics

7 Mutual Agreement of #1-6

Experteering Best Practices

If you want to help someone…Shut-up and listen!

Ernesto Sirolli

“Being A Valuable Volunteer”

1 Keep your mind open

2 Embrace new experiences and ideas

3 Commit to learning and sharing

4 Act with humility

5 Empower local efforts

6 Design for long-term impactLearningService.info

Cultural Sensitivity and Communication

Communication"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."

- Peter Drucker

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

- George Bernard Shaw

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

- William Butler Yeats

All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them. Chimamanda Adichie

BEWARE OF YOUR SINGLE STORY OF THEM

WATCH OUT FOR THEIR SINGLE STORY OF YOU

Getting the Most Out of Your Experteering Trip

Take Time to Reflect

“Honest self reflection opens your mind to reprogramming change, success, and freedom.”

Trudy Vesotsky

Reflection Options

Easiest Use Facebook Notes and add pictures to document your experience

Bit More WorkSign-up for Medium or Tumblr to easily write about and share your experience online

Most Customizable

& Unique

Build your own custom blog with personal URL on WordPress.

Questions?

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In Conclusion

Learn from the peoplePlan with the peopleBegin with what they haveBuild on what they knowOf the best leadersWhen the task is accomplishedThe people will remarkWe have done it ourselves.

-Lao Tzu

Thank you!

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Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org@Experteering | mark@movingworlds.org