The online "Get Stuff Done" Con - wrap-up

I wanted to take a moment to give everyone a heads up on the coolness that happened during the "Get Stuff Done" Conference that I held online last weekend. Sadly, I wasn't able to do lessons on both days as I originally planned.  I was called away on business and had to fly out on Sunday afternoon, leaving only Saturday for classes.  Here's the lessons that I presented: Leadership 101 (How to Fake Being A Well-Rounded Person):  The attendees learned the importance of self-knowledge, especially when it comes to their own strengths and talents. I walked through a couple of ways that the attendees could assess their personal strengths and identify the strengths of others. The idea of "faking" being a well rounded individual is to understand where you are strong, find those areas where you are not strong, and build a core team of people who are strong where you are weak.  Thus, by working together, everyone on the team can "fake" being well-rounded :) Team Building 101 ("Who Is Supposed To Be The @&^!% Healer???"):  The attendees continued to learn the importance understanding one's own strengths and the strengths of their peers.  In addition, they also learned different exercises that could be used to change a group of people that share the same goal to a cohesive and effective team. Project Planning 101  ("How To Turn  Your Idea For A Cool Party... Into A Freaking Cool Party!"):  The attendees learned about how to effectively develop a goal and put together a plan on how they plan to bring said goal to fruition. Most of the exercises focused on the actual goal development and analyzing themselves and the environment around them to see how each would impact what they want to accomplish. After the third session, the four of us (me + the 3 attendees), had a post-event chat session where we talked about the pluses and minuses of being leaders and coordinators within our respective communities.  I don't know if it's a personality or generational thing (we ranged from early 20's to 35 - so a mix of the Gen X & Y demographics), but there was a LOT of frustration when it came to being a young poly leader.  The interesting thing is that the stress wasn't coming from the outside (media and other non-poly sources), but rather from the haphazard attempts of good-intentioned colleagues, as well as the complacency of the majority of the polyfolks within our respective communities.   The question that we are now trying to answer is how to engage the young, hopefuly poly's that want to become an active part of the national community without having them fall through the cracks of bureaucracy and busyness.  The fruits of our discussions will probably be posted here. Let's just say that we're possibly putting together a leadership/mentorship program :)