EARTH BATCH

The Second Year

 

SYNTHESIS OF SUCGEN PROGRAM 

by Mr. Dan Songco

 

What to me is Leadership

§         forest, not the trees. 

§         Then you are looking for solutions, rather than problems. 

§         Then you are concerned about institutions, not just organizations.  

§         Then you are more concerned about results. 

§         And then, you dream dreams that are larger than life. 

§         And then finally, you are concerned with innovation.   

 

CHALLENGES

§         issue of globalization. 

§         And then the other problem is Social Division. 

§         And then the DECLINE OF MORAL VALUES. 

§         Finally an NGO community that is considered globally advanced.  One of the most advanced in the world perhaps but have very serious problems about declining human and financial resources. 

 

The New Civil Society Leader

 

VISIONARY

            As visionary we have to be confident about ourselves. Before we become confident about ourselves, we have to know ourselves. We have to like who we are.  But at the same time knowing ourselves is also knowing where we came from.  It is the history of the movement that we belong to.   What is our present milieu?

 

Information Synthesizer

             In the synthesizer of information, we presented to you the different ways of gaining control of information.  We are now in the world of what they call, the Information Age.  The most powerful wealth that one can have right now is information.  But what is more powerful in information is knowledge.  How you create knowledge out of the information.  And there is so much information in the world right now. 

 

INNOVATOR

             Translating information to innovation.  How can you create new ideas, new solutions? How do you process this information so that you change things, you change the way things are being done right now. 

 

ADVOCATE

             It is important that an advocate understands how the bureaucracy works. What is public policy and how is public policy crafted.  We said that the reality of public policy is that it addresses conflicting interests.  How do we understand conflicts and interests and how do we address these conflicts and how do we use public policy?  How does government function so that policy becomes an instrument?  Not the end of governance.  Then the concept, or the role of the state market and civil society, the new view of the actors in society. How do we put together, separate and define the roles of these actors in a society? How do their dynamics affect each other?

 

CONSENSUS BUILDER

             I mentioned earlier the conflicts in the society and the different conflicts within the society. So one of the  biggest challenges in a leader is how to learn to understand and manage conflicts particularly on how to form alliances and coalitions and using a multi-stakeholder approach to problem solving. 

 

NETWORK BUILDER

             As networker, we hope we were able to introduce you to what organizations in the future should look like and the concept of social capital. 

 

KEEPER OF THE COVENANT 

The last session that you have today is how to keep the fire burning. 

 

IN SUMMARY, WHAT IS THIS SUCCESOR GENERATION ALL ABOUT?  What did we try to do?  And here we try to address some of the questions that Beth threw earlier.  

First, unlike how she felt, we focus on the person.  Right from the start the focus of the program was on you as individuals.  I hope that in every module you realize that we always gave you an opportunity to talk to yourself and understand yourself and understand each other better.  This is something new that we started in the second batch that we failed in the first batch; something that the first batch has taught us.   

In this second batch, we tried to focus equally on the person as on the other aspects of the program.  Then we have also been trying to retrace our roots.  That is why from the start there is always a focus on culture, on tradition, on rituals. The program started with a ritual and ended with a ritual also.  This is a part of our culture and we want to enhance and heighten the values where we came from - as an NGO community, as a country, as a people.  Retracing our roots.  Retracing community organizing.  Retracing development work.  Retracing our rituals and culture.  

 What we tried to do is not to form robots out of you.  What we tried to do was provide you with tools.  Tools that will hopefully help you confront many of the questions.    What you have, we hope, will be enhanced by the program.  In every module we tried to see to it that you have both analytical and practical portions.             

And finally I would want to leave you with this picture ( EDSA 2 , Ortigas Shrine). 

This is the defining moment of your batch.  This is EDSA 2 but it might as well be EDSA 3 because it happened in the very same site.  So if you look at this picture and you look at the individuals there and you imagine what they represent, the whole picture represents what was your batch and the different modules that you went through.  If you think of each module you will find a representation in this picture.  The way that people came together in this particular event.  The way things changed because of this event.  The activities and the trends that lead to this event all represent in a very big way all modules that you went through.  And I think that this batch is going to be very meaningful not only to you but to us in the faculty and the program management because of these events and because of what we have learned together as a result of these events. 

 

   Earth Batch

 

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