 سنبدأ our session so if you are comfortable with moving forward that would be good so we are going to talk today about the kickstarting a leadership development plan I am Nadal Farrah and a member of the leadership development working group I am going to present our work and the future of this work what I am going to say is early and you are here despite being early I am sorry to tell you that being early is not a skill of a leader we didn't include that in our leadership development plan but I want to say I am grateful for that so the green sorry no one has given me this before so we want to know who are you and let us know also one thing you would like to take home from this session so please raise your hand and let us know what you are expecting from us and I want to know at the end of the session if I had met your expectation who wants to talk okay my name is Ann and I am an organiser from WCMT so we are here to learn the experience in this session thank you may I be the next one hi this is Winnie from WCMT as well and I am one of the organiser as well and we would like to learn something new from the event and we would like to know if there is anything we can improve our community thank you hello everyone my name is this is my first time yeah so my name is Rashid I am from Morocco I am the main coordinator of the user group and I am here to know more about leadership thank you I will clap hi everyone well I have a morning voice my name is yes don't tell them what I did last night no just kidding hi everyone I am Beverly I actually work at the wikimedia foundation and for the last year I have been supporting this leadership development working group so I am really excited that this session is happening and I am really curious to learn what are you all looking to learn and needing in your communities as it relates to leadership development community developments I would like to learn more from you all and see how we can support you better I would like to clap for Beverly always all right hello everyone my name is Rima I am from Indonesia I am a volunteer in well a lot of projects in Indonesian languages with a regional or national language and what I want to learn in this session is about the I am really interested in the leadership capacity building and such things around that and I would like to learn and I would like to see whether there are anything that I can apply in my volunteer activities with the communities back in Indonesia thank you hi I am Domenica until last night I had never heard of the leadership program Nada told me I am a volunteer from Munich Germany and I would love to learn how this program might help our community thank you okay so I am here to know a brief a brief history of the leadership and what about it and to go in the spot and brief things thank you so thank you everyone it's my pleasure to know all of you and I have met a few and chat with a few of you so that was nice I am now going to say to tell you who am I and who are we as a group we are the leadership development working group this group was the practical side of the recommendation of the movement strategy the sixth recommendation is about investing in leadership development investing in skills and leadership development and so to achieve that we thought the people who formed this group thought the best way to achieve this is gathering 15 community members from different backgrounds from different cultures and communities so they can help us bring different perspectives so we can build a leadership definition in wikimedia context and a leadership development that will help many needs so leadership skills is different among societies and communities it's not the same for everyone and in order to achieve something from this plan we need to understand context so that's why we had 15 members from different communities and we have started and have done something actually we have published we had three goals the first one is to develop a leadership definition in wikimedia context the second one is to draft a plan to develop leadership in wikimedia the third one is the implication of this plan and we already achieved two of them we published a shared definition of leadership so we have conducted a storytelling process we have asked ourselves a lot of questions and shared our leadership stories to try to formulate this leadership and we found something that leadership is about a group in wikimedia it's not about one person who is driving the others no every member of the group is contributing everyone is building something wikimedia mission is about everyone can provide something for the sum of all knowledge and leadership is about that everyone has a voice everyone should be heard so it's a shared leadership it's a collective effort not just one person not a hierarchy but it's about rules responsibilities sharing and collective effort we also proposed a leadership development plan and the plan is available on meter and available in commons so you can 40 pages it's not that long and it's an interactive plan you will have a lot of tools and a lot of concepts what we want you to understand about leadership that it's about guiding and inspiring others building autonomy helping others to envision themselves not give them a stated vision or something that's ready no it's about encouraging and motivating a group of people towards a shared goal or a common vision so in wikimedia movement a leader is a person position or a group that takes the initiative to contribute to a specific cause we have our leadership development plan it's a handbook it has tools concepts recommendations that will help you through three sections and their glossary and FAQ section to try the first section is about rules and the related skills to these rules for leadership for example on wiki we have users with extended rights so what are the rules and what are the needed skills for such a rule we also have organizers we have people in governance projection we have facilitators we also have trainers so every one of these rules have different needs have different skills and have different way of assessing these skills so at the end of this section you will find a skills assessment tool to help you navigate if you are doing what you are doing right if you are improving if there is something that is missing from your leadership style or pattern that needs to be improved in the second section we are navigating situations that every leader might encounter we are talking about burnout we are talking about how to bus on knowledge from other people so that knowledge is not lost when one person is not here and the third section we are talking about how to build your own leadership development plan we are giving you a general guideline but we also understand that you might have different needs you might have different leadership necessities so you can start your own initiative by following these general guidelines to help your community now let us talk let us look into the leadership development plan and I tried to explain to you so I hope you can go to Ikikomons and Mita and have more thorough reading of this plan but what we are doing now is for the future we want to know how to implement this plan we are looking for people and their needs and what they believe to help them in terms of leadership so we are starting something called leadership development network where people can join and share their needs and the possible ways of fulfilling those needs so I will ask you again here in your community what leadership do you believe might help your community what community your community likes when I say leadership you will say yeah we like something related to that what do you think it's good to discuss with each other for example when I hear this I always think yeah it's passing knowledge in terms of leadership it's passing knowledge that's a very challenging need to our community so what do you think about your communities yeah I think in our community our community would work better if we could define certain roles to certain people following their skills currently everyone tries to talk into every aspect of a project but certain people have certain skills and it would be easier to fulfill our goals if everyone would do what they are best at if they feel like doing it I'm talking about a volunteering group here so defining the skill that you are good at is a challenge yes so who else there is no right or wrong answers you are sharing what you have observed in your community well for me from what I have observed is well in Indonesia our frontier consists of people from various backgrounds and that means that a lot of people have different set of skills on themselves but these people are all interested in various wikimedia projects if not all but some projects like say Wikimedia Wikimedia you need to have some kind of linguistic knowledge in order to write a correct entry and wikidata you may also need to have some kind of at least an interest even or maybe a little bit understanding about structure database that is not easy not everyone has it I'm lucky enough to have the interest not everyone who like to contribute even they are already interested but they really what even is a database such kind of such kind of things but they would like to contribute and this different this different level of knowledge between the community is something that needs to be addressed I think because it contributes to the sustainability of the volunteer itself they are already interested there's a really good already a good step in the term of our volunteer sustainability but in terms of the contribution we may need to take more time like for example what I did is just teaching how to how to edit in wikidata that yourself may sometimes I succeeded sometimes I get some volunteers who still edit after the event sometimes but it's okay I think you get the idea like I said the different level of knowledge which already had beforehand by each of the volunteers I don't know if this is a play to our group but our group is a little more organized we have actually I think 5 or 6 stuff so each one have a different role so we have for example an education team a technical team and a communication specialist so yeah I think we are more established and yeah actually this is my role my role is to coordinate between these teams yeah I don't know if really we have challenges but yeah I think we for now we are good maybe in the future I can answer you I think that sometimes is the skill you need is to observe the challenge yeah because each one in our team have skills that is suitable to his role as I said before we have a team an education team that has only people that are for example certified trainers and also a technical team that working on creating boots and programs that simplifying tasks in Wikipedia so those are for example engineers etc and also for the communication team we have a dedicated team so yeah that's great that's a role model in the community so I have to say that but maybe the challenge that we face is that we are not yet a registered registered group so we still need a fiscal a fiscal sponsor but we are we are recognized within the Wikimedia Foundation but we are not officially registered in the country yes exactly yeah that's a challenge yeah it's a big one I see that one of the great challenges that we face in the Arabic community we should have decentralization to reach out to the leadership because our great problem in the Arabic community is that everyone would like to be a leader this conflict no everyone leader but any leadership doesn't work in that way so we need to make decentralization about this and this requires that we change the mentality not one year many years to reach to this point thank you this is a good one actually yeah where everyone wants to be a leader it's always good to share responsibilities not to compete in our community there are a lot of newcomers for every event they just come here for curious curiosity we are trying to let the newcomers to contribute at the first time they edit Wikipedia even though they just modify some articles they will feel a sense of achievement at that moment what we would like to try is we would like to try as possible so we can to help them to contribute as soon as possible so giving the newcomer the space to thrive in leadership position is an essence because this is how sustainability is being done in a community so this is the platform that we are trying to start in this session we want a platform for leadership network where people can share their learnings from their needs leadership needs and how to apply the leadership development plan in their context how to build their own initiative and to interact with this plan you can host the trainings create more tools than that we provided in our plan you can establish a little hub for leadership development you can also provide mentorship and you can amend the definition and the plan to suit your own community so as we shared I want to leave this session by asking you what do you think the leadership development plan the leadership development network can help you with your leadership future so I'm leaving this session with this equation and you can interact with this equation on these platforms we have a telegram group for leadership development network we also have a document we have started to put some ideas about the leadership development network you can always use META and for our leadership development working group the definition and the leadership development plan and thank you for attending this session