SIDE PROJECTS!

EPIP Webinar May 11, 2016 EPIP Host: Biz Ghormley Presenter: Mathias Jakobsen

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Grab a paper and pen!

You’ll need it for later in the presentation…

Speakers Mathias Jakobsen, Think Clearly www.thnkclrly.com

Resources Blog post – “What it Takes – Going from Program Associate To Program Officer” by Manuela Arciniegas, Andrus Foundation

http://www.epip.org/what_it_takes_going_from_program_associate_to_program_officer

Speakers Mathias Jakobsen, Think Clearly www.thnkclrly.com

Climbing the career mountain with well-designed side projects

EPIP webinar May 11th 2016

Mathias JakobsenFrom Legoland aka Denmark Entrepreneur since I was 15

Agenda

• How to win the Tour de France

• A good side project

• Workshop

• Reflection & debrief

what are the big or small questions you want to explore in your work? (doesn’t need to be

unique or special, just personal to YOU)

So what happened?

Aggregation of marginal gains

We over-estimate the value of the grand gesture

We under-estimate the value of small actions done consistently over time

Side-projects

Poll: how much time do you think I spent making each issue?

Poll: how much time do you think I am spending making each issue

now?

A great side project

• Is designed to be as small as possible

• Can be done in small increments

• Success defined in terms of learnings (not “what can I get”)

Do — Raise — Repeat

Workshop timeYou will need a pen and a piece of paper

Poll: how much time do you have available for doing side projects?

Reflection

Reflection

• how did this feel?

Reflection

• how did this feel?

• what did I learn?

Summary• Design your side-projects to be as small as possible

• Do small increments that build on each other

• Success defined in terms of learnings (not “what can I get”)

• What looks like a detour can be a shortcut

• Start with a clear intent, but always be open to what it eventually becomes

Sources and links• Think Clearly (www.thnkclrly.com)

• Aggregation of Marginal gains (http://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains)

• Team Sky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Sky)

• UK vs France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_relations)

• Book: Sitting in the Fire (http://www.amazon.com/Sitting-Fire-Transformation-Conflict-Diversity/dp/1619710242)

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