A message from JCI Training Commission Esther ter Beek ITF #152

 First of all: a very happy and successful new year to all of you! 2012 is going to be an important year for JCI Training. This was already clear in the first big event this year, the January Board Meeting at JCI World Headquarters in St. Louis, USA. During this meeting, the JCI Board established the strategies and goals that must be taken by all parts of the organization to fulfill the 2012 JCI Plan of Action for JCI Training. During the Executive Committee meeting, the Training Commission was asked to design a new, more relevant and more realistic JCI Training Policy Manual. 

JCI Secretary Edson A. Kodama used a very good metaphor: JCI Training Institute (as it was called then) was built in the 1990’s. He said it’s like building a house for your family. Maybe you think you will have one or two children. But then when you suddenly have ten children, the house doesn’t fit anymore. You can change and amend all you want, but the house is not suitable for the current situation and everybody starts feeling the problem. We need to build a new house for JCI Training.  The Training Commission has taken this assignment with pride and will work hard in the upcoming months hard to produce a first draft. At all four JCI Area Conferences, we will take the opportunity to communicate with trainers, national presidents, officers and members to make sure we take all ideas into account. The goal is to have a new Training Policy Manual we can work with for the next decades at this year’s JCI World Congress in Taipei, Taiwan.

Secondly, improving the quality of training and trainers in order to achieve the JCI Mission is one of our main objectives this year. Therefore we need more input on how our JCI Trainers work and deliver the courses so we know how we can support and help them improve their knowledge and skills. We will start shortly with testing an online evaluation system at the JCI official courses. As soon as we have more specific information about this, you will hear more from the Training Commission.

Warm regards on behalf of all Training Commissioners.

2012 Training Commission Chairperson Esther ter Beek ITF #152