Table of content
During the program,
- Mentors and mentees meet every 2 weeks for a 30 minutes call
- Mentees participate every ~2 weeks to 90-minutes cohort calls during which the program leaders introduce new topics and resources, facilitate break-out discussions, and invite expert from the field to give talks
- Mentees can participate to skill-up, Q&A or coworking session in the weeks without cohort calls
- Mentors take part to mentoring workshop and calls
Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.
Week 00
Week starting on **
Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 1
Date: September 16, 2022, at 09:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Week 01
Week starting on September 19, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 1st mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on September 19, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Meet each other
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Discuss their personal motivation, expectations, workin practices and project goals
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Meet each other
- Discuss their personal motivation, expectations, workin practices and project goals
Mentor call: Mentor onboarding group 2
Date: September 21, 2022, at 11:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Understand common successes and challenges in mentoring OLS participants
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Know how to celebrate successes and approach challenges in mentoring OLS participants.
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Understand common successes and challenges in mentoring OLS participants
- Know how to celebrate successes and approach challenges in mentoring OLS participants.
Week 02
Week starting on September 26, 2022
Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 1
Date: During the week starting on September 26, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 180 min
Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 2
Date: September 27, 2022, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!
Date: September 27, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Say hello and introduce ourselves
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Review our Community Participation Guidelines
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Review our definition of open leadership
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Unpack the differences between “open by default” and “open by design”
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Learn about common community interactions in open projects.
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Learn about common value exchanges between community members in open science
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Say hello and introduce ourselves
- Review our Community Participation Guidelines
- Review our definition of open leadership
- Unpack the differences between “open by default” and “open by design”
- Learn about common community interactions in open projects.
- Learn about common value exchanges between community members in open science
Before the call
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Add your vision statement to your GitHub issue
Talks
Resources
After the call
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Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
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Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
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Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
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Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
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Start your Roadmap
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Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
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Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1
Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 3
Date: September 29, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Week 03
Week starting on October 03, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 2nd mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on October 03, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!
Date: October 05, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Say hello and introduce ourselves
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Review our Community Participation Guidelines
-
Review our definition of open leadership
-
Unpack the differences between “open by default” and “open by design”
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Learn about common community interactions in open projects.
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Learn about common value exchanges between community members in open science
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Say hello and introduce ourselves
- Review our Community Participation Guidelines
- Review our definition of open leadership
- Unpack the differences between “open by default” and “open by design”
- Learn about common community interactions in open projects.
- Learn about common value exchanges between community members in open science
Before the call
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Add your vision statement to your GitHub issue
Talks
Resources
After the call
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Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
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Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
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Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
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Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
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Start your Roadmap
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Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
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Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1
Week 04
Week starting on October 10, 2022
Cohort call: Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects
Date: October 12, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Look at project structure as we build open projects
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Go over the standard files in open projects
- README
- LICENSE
- CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- CONTRIBUTING.md
The exact project structure and files used may look different on your project.
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Look at project structure as we build open projects
- Go over the standard files in open projects
- README
- LICENSE
- CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- CONTRIBUTING.md
The exact project structure and files used may look different on your project.
Before the call
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Look up two other projects and comment on their GitHub issues with feedback on their open canvas
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Rework on your vision statement
- Write your vision in the Up-Goer 5 editor or Hemingway Editor
- Refine it with the editor’s help
- Paste it in your GitHub issue
- Read it to the Breakout room friends during the next call and hear their feedback :)
After the call
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Create a GitHub repository for your project
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Add the link to your repository in your issue
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Use your canvas to start writing a
README.mdfile, or landing page, for your projectLink your README in a comment on this issue -
Add an open license to your repository as a file called
LICENSE.md -
Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md -
Check the Friendly GitHub Intro
Week 05
Week starting on October 17, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 3rd mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on October 17, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: GitHub tutorial for beginners
Date: October 18, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Create a GitHub repository
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Write in Markdown
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Create a README file
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Enable a small website via GitHub
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Managing issues and labels
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Submit changes via Pull Request
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Create a GitHub repository
- Write in Markdown
- Create a README file
- Enable a small website via GitHub
- Managing issues and labels
- Submit changes via Pull Request
Before the call
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Please create a GitHub account: https://github.com
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Have a look at the OLS-4 repository for ‘project issues’
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Comment of 1-2 project’s recent post (vision, open canvas etc.)
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Create your ‘project issue’ as described here
Week 06
Week starting on October 24, 2022
Cohort call: Open Science I: Project Development and Introduction to Working Open
Date: October 25, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Hear about Iterative Project management
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Get familiar with Open Software, Open Hardware, Research Data Management
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Hear about Iterative Project management
- Get familiar with Open Software, Open Hardware, Research Data Management
Before the call
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Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their README
Talks
Resources
After the call
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Get your project online For help with GitHub and GitPages, check the slides and video from week 05
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Create a project development plan for your project Assignment to help you use Agile methods to breakdown your milestones into smaller tasks and define a timeline for your milestones In your own time: After this assignment, you can transfer your tasks to a project management or kanban tools such as GitHub projects), Trello, Asana, Zenhub in GitHub
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Start creating a contribution guideline for your communit
Week 07
Week starting on October 31, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 4th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on October 31, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Q&A call: Q&A call
Date: November 02, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 30 min
Week 08
Week starting on November 07, 2022
Cohort call: Community design for inclusivity
Date: November 09, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Learn how to develop Open collaboration by design
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Hear Mountain of engagement and community interactions
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Learn about Personas and pathways and welcoming new contributors
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Learn how to develop Open collaboration by design
- Hear Mountain of engagement and community interactions
- Learn about Personas and pathways and welcoming new contributors
After the call
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Personas & pathways assignment
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Think through community interactions
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Complete the midterm survey
Week 09
Week starting on November 14, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 5th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on November 14, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond!
Date: November 15, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Hear from the professionals from different career paths
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Ask them questions about their careers
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Share worries/insecurities related to your career path, profession or area of work
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Tips and advice to overcome challenges as an open researcher
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Hear from the professionals from different career paths
- Ask them questions about their careers
- Share worries/insecurities related to your career path, profession or area of work
- Tips and advice to overcome challenges as an open researcher
Before the call
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A few days before the event, think about how you might briefly answer the following questions (source): how did you choose your career ?
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what did you study to prepare ?
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what do you actually do at work on a typical day ?
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have you ever felt discriminated against (e.g. due to gender, race, ethnicity…) and how did you respond ?
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do you have a life outside your work ? a family ? hobbies ?
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what advice would you give someone wanting to enter your field ?
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on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the most), how much do you enjoy your current work?
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do you want to switch your career or field? Why or why not?
Talks
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Academic leadership, group or project leaders by Elisee Jafsia
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Post Academia Career Path & Social Entrepreneurship by Olya Vvedenskaya
Resources
Week 10
Week starting on November 21, 2022
Cohort call: Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination
Date: November 22, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Practicing open science
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DOI and citations: Paper, data, preprints, blogs
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Non-tradtional publication: pre-registrations, code, protocols, training materials
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Public engagement: Citizen Science/Participatory research, Scientific communication
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Practicing open science
- DOI and citations: Paper, data, preprints, blogs
- Non-tradtional publication: pre-registrations, code, protocols, training materials
- Public engagement: Citizen Science/Participatory research, Scientific communication
Before the call
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Create a project development plan for your project
- Assignment to help you use Agile methods to breakdown your milestones into smaller tasks and define a timeline for your milestones
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You can transfer your tasks to a project management or kanban tools such as GitHub projects (short intro), Trello, Asana, Zenhub in GitHub
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Make sure that by now you have added a license, contribution guideline and a Code of Conduct in your GitHub repository. If you feel stuck and don’t know where you start, take a look at this repo
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Look up two other projects and comment on their issue with feedback on their project
Talks
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FAIR Principles Promoting openness in science by Mallory Freeberg
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Earthquakes, preprints and everything in between by Dasapta Erwin Irawan
Resources
Week 11
Week starting on November 28, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 6th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on November 28, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Q&A call: Q&A call
Date: November 30, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Open-source software
Date: November 30, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Week 12
Week starting on December 05, 2022
Cohort call: Diversity and Inclusion & Ally skills
Date: December 07, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Before the call
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Go to https://implicit.harvard.edu complete the ‘Gender - Career’ or ‘Gender - Science’ quiz (10 minutes)
- You can ‘continue as a guest’ by choosing your country
- Answer these questions when you’ve finished the implicit association test: What does inclusion mean to you? Did your results of the implicit association test surprise you?
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Think how people step up for you in social scenarios and how you step up for them to support each other:
- What do your colleagues do to make your workplace inclusive for you?
- What do you do to make your workplace inclusive for them? The big idea: Based on your experience, what would you consider doing to make your project inclusive for your contributors or team members?
Week 13
Week starting on December 12, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 7th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on December 12, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Self-care & Social call
Date: December 13, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Discuss the importance of taking care of mental health and avoiding burn out for both project leaders and community members
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Discuss the importance of taking care of mental health and avoiding burn out for both project leaders and community members
Before the call
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Think about how you might briefly answer the following questions Imagine your most fulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.
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Imagine your most unfulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it. The big idea: identify the most fulfilling conditions under which you thrive - sustain them; identify the least fulfilling conditions that frustrate you - avoid them.
Week 14
Week starting on December 19, 2022
Cohort call: Open Science III: Next steps - applying FAIR research principles
Date: December 20, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Learn how to apply FAIR research principles on data, software, training to make research “as open as possible, as restricted as necessary.”
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Learn how to apply FAIR research principles on data, software, training to make research “as open as possible, as restricted as necessary.”
Talks
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Applying FAIR principles to (open) data management by Bethan Iley
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Public engagement: Open Infrastructure, Citizen Science, Science Communication by Marco Anteghini
Resources
After the call
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Think about and plan to apply FAIR principles to your project in your own time
Week 15
Week starting on January 09, 2023
Mentor-Mentee call: 8th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on January 09, 2023 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1
Date: January 10, 2023, at 09:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Learn about giving and receiving feedback
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Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Learn about giving and receiving feedback
- Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
Before the call
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Think about how you might briefly answer the following questions Imagine your most fulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.
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Imagine your most unfulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it. The big idea: identify the most fulfilling conditions under which you thrive - sustain them; identify the least fulfilling conditions that frustrate you - avoid them.
Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 2
Date: January 11, 2023, at 14:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Learn about giving and receiving feedback
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Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Learn about giving and receiving feedback
- Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
Before the call
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Think about how you might briefly answer the following questions Imagine your most fulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.
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Imagine your most unfulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it. The big idea: identify the most fulfilling conditions under which you thrive - sustain them; identify the least fulfilling conditions that frustrate you - avoid them.
Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 3
Date: January 12, 2023, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Learn about giving and receiving feedback
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Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Learn about giving and receiving feedback
- Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
Before the call
-
Think about how you might briefly answer the following questions Imagine your most fulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.
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Imagine your most unfulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it. The big idea: identify the most fulfilling conditions under which you thrive - sustain them; identify the least fulfilling conditions that frustrate you - avoid them.
Week 16
Week starting on January 16, 2023
Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1
Date: January 17, 2023, at 09:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
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Celebrate OLS-6 success
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
- Celebrate OLS-6 success
Before the call
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Think about how you might briefly answer the following questions Imagine your most fulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.
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Imagine your most unfulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it. The big idea: identify the most fulfilling conditions under which you thrive - sustain them; identify the least fulfilling conditions that frustrate you - avoid them.
Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 2
Date: January 18, 2023, at 14:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
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Celebrate OLS-6 success
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
- Celebrate OLS-6 success
Before the call
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Think about how you might briefly answer the following questions Imagine your most fulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.
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Imagine your most unfulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it. The big idea: identify the most fulfilling conditions under which you thrive - sustain them; identify the least fulfilling conditions that frustrate you - avoid them.
Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 3
Date: January 19, 2023, at 17:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
Learning objectives
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
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Celebrate OLS-6 success
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
- Celebrate OLS-6 success
Before the call
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Think about how you might briefly answer the following questions Imagine your most fulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.
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Imagine your most unfulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it. The big idea: identify the most fulfilling conditions under which you thrive - sustain them; identify the least fulfilling conditions that frustrate you - avoid them.