Training Course: Unlock your NGO’s potential through Coaching

Location: Uzana, region of Gabrovo city, Bulgaria

Dates: 20-28 April 2017

Number of participants: 31

Participating countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Spain

Organizer: CET Platform Bulgaria

Apply here: Application form

Deadline to apply: 25 March 2017

Date of selection: 28 March 2017

Inquiries about this training course: Nikolay Nikolov: bulgaria@cetplatform.org

Costs: This project is financed by the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme. Participants will be accommodated in double and triple bed rooms. Each room has a bathroom. Accommodation and full board meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) are covered by the hosting organization. Organizers will reimburse 100% of eligible travel costs up to the limit. 50% of travel cost will be reimbursed after participants provide their original tickets and fill their personal report from European Commission. Other 50% of travel cost will be reimbursed after approval of project report. Reimbursement will be done by bank transfer in Euro to the sending organization’s bank account. If you bought your ticket in your local currency which might be different than EUR, we will calculate your travel costs according to the exchange rates from official European Commission web-site: www.ec.europa.eu/budget/inforeuro/index.cfm?Language=en

Travel limits:

180€ – Serbia, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria
275€ – Greece and Czech Republic
360€ – Spain

There is NO participation fee for this training course!!!

Unlock your NGO’s potential through Coaching

The project focuses on the application of Coaching in the NGO sector as one of the most effective tools with proven results for the development of organizational capacity.

The project aims to prepare youth workers to use the method Organizational coaching to develop the capacity of NGOs in order for youth organizations: to become more effective in their work with young people, to clarify easily their strategic priorities, to plan and structure work activities and projects. As a result, young people will be more confident in taking concrete steps in realizing their ideas.

The project also aims at increasing the motivation for development, self-improvement and personal self-esteem among participants; creating attitudes to develop their organizational culture, team compatibility and satisfaction; awareness of the basic values and goals in life.

The project will provide participants with methods, tools and skills that will allow them be prepared to assist other organizations in their development – how to become more active, independent, and to direct them better in their professional, social development and realization.

For the achievement of the objectives, the project is directed to work with partner organizations based in countries where there is an identified need and necessity to increase organizational capacity of youth organizations and for implementation of innovative methods and approaches for youth work. The target group of partner organizations is mostly from countries with less developed youth sector, where NGOs are in need of growth and development of organizational capacity to achieve sustainable development and effective work with young people to achieve positive effects in the social scale.

The project includes topics such as: basics of organizational coaching and framework of the method; sharing resources for organizational coaching; key coaching skills; skills for motivation and support of young people towards actions; leadership and teamwork skills; skills for effective group work; active listening skills; communication in network and exchange of best practices among participants and their organizations, particularly in the field of leadership skills development; support of friendship between the participants; skills for self-control; communication management.

The expected results from the implementation of the project are: increased capacity of the organizations by developing capacity to implement the method organizational coaching, increasing motivation for development, self-improvement and personal self-esteem, attitudes for development of their organizational culture, team compatibility and satisfaction, development of conscious and trained youth workers, multipliers of the gained experience to other young people (direct youth work), NGOs (networking), and Europe as a whole (international projects).

The methods used to achieve the objectives of the project are training sessions, workshops, simulations, interactive presentations, guided practice, coaching sessions, role play, discussions, group and self – reflection, project development and others.

The long-term benefits of the project implementation will be: increased organizational capacity and positive long-term development of organizations, increased competence and quality of youth work, based on the method coaching that will lead to better cooperation, positive and sustainable development of local communities and their opening to intercultural dialogue and the development of European identity and solidarity in more young people.