Leadership in diverse environments

Posted on 09/02/2013 by Ingeborg

I have now spent two days in Kopenhagen, or Ishøj really, talking about leadership in diverse environments. Yesterday was mostly about defining leadership in diversity and looking at our own perspectives on leadership and the trends that we see in leadership. We had a really great session on trends using “master chef”, it was really fun.

Today was about leadership in diverse environments and how we deal with it. It has been a long day, and now we are going out for a walk.

My favorite conversational partners by now are Hong Kong, Rwanda, Kenya, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, USA and Germany.

Nyheter

Posted on 06/02/2013 by Ingeborg

Har du fått med deg dette i uka som gikk?

Denne nekrologen har “gone viral” på internett. Den er skrevet av Alexander Gjersøe om hans avdøde nabo Eva. Den har blitt så populær, nettopp fordi Eva ikke var noen spektakulær kvinne, men heller en helt valig arbeiderklassekvinne fra Torshov. Jeg tror også folk liker den fordi Alexander ikke var i slekt med Eva, men en nabo som ble kjent med henne nettopp fordi han var en god nabo. Han kom innom på besøk og hørte på historiene hennes.

Denne kommentaren av Madsen om at det er boligsituasjonen i Oslo, hovedsakelig, som gjør at det er en så ekstrem skjevfordelig av barn med norsk som andrespråk i Osloskolene. Alle ønsker en likere fordelig, både på grunn av integrering, kvaliteten på norskopplæringen og for å skape litt forbrødring mellom Oslofolk, men poenget i kommentaren er at for å gjøre noe med det, må man gjøre noe med boligsituasjonen i Oslo. Eller så må man busse barn til den andre siden av byen.

Den siste kommentaren handler om “barns beste” og om hvordan et stadig mer bekymret foreldrekorps er stadig mer forsiktige på grunn av “barnas beste”. Og hvor vanskelig det er å gå mot strømmen, som forelder, når du da gjør det verre for barna. Da jeg leste denne kommentaren tenkte jeg at det er nettopp det vi gjør i speideren, går mot strømmen. Vi lar barna lære om seg selv, lar barna ta valget, i stedet for at vi gjør det for dem. Vi lar det gå galt, sånn at vi alle kan lære av våre feil etterpå. Det betyr at vi aldri kommer til “overbeskytte”, vi stopper på “sikkerhetsvurdering”. En av mine største utfordringer denne våren blir å overbevise tre 14 år gamle jenter at de er flinke nok til å gjøre sikkerhetsvurderinger til at det er helt trygt at de tar med seg patruljen sin på tur. Det blir en spennende reise for oss alle.

Girls’ rights

Posted on 25/01/2013 by Ingeborg

In two weeks I am going to Kopenhagen for an event hosted by WAGGGS, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. There are two world organisations for scouting in the world, WAGGGS and WOSM (World Organisation of the Scout Movement), where WAGGGS is a (mostly) girls only-organisation, while WOSM have no gender specific focus.

As these two organisations are actually global, most of their work is not done in Europe and most of their members do not have the good fortune of experiencing the aftermath of the last 100 years of equality work that has been going on in Europe. One of the aspects where the two organisations are very similar, is in their work on developing good people and good leaders. And the event I’m going to in Kopenhagen, is part of the WAGGGS Leadership Development Programme.

The event that I will be going to “Beyond boundaries”, is described like this:

“This event will provide a forum for decision makers in Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting associations to share challenges and raise awareness on leadership development trends; to learn and discuss about leadership theories and practices; to analyse and consider the conditions and tools that can help addressing the diversity in leadership approaches across WAGGGS members.”

My scout association does not spend much time working on female-only topics and it’s always interesting to attend WAGGGS events. You never realise how male-dominated all organisation work and every day life is before you’re in an all-female environment. I am excited to see what I learn the five days I will spend in Kopenhagen.

Week 3

Posted on 14/01/2013 by Ingeborg

This weekend was a good one too, even though we didn’t get to clean the apartment as we had wished. But there was a lot of good food, some shopping (feels like I haven’t done that in a while) and exercise. Friday I went swimming after work and when I came home Erik had made a wonderful meal, bought flowers and we had a very good Italian wine.Saturday we were super efficient. We went to our storage and got the last of the winter sports equipment and some books I was missing. Then we had lunch with Erik’s parents and did a round through the shops at Majorstua (this is the point where I bought three new pairs of shoes and a dress). In the evening we had tapas at Meatmarket at Aker Brygge and went past a friend’s party on our way home. Sunday we were up early and got some execise before brunch with my parents at Mat & Mer (slow service, good food) at Bjølsen. I ended the weekend with my fifth scout meeting of the week.

But this week is mutch better, or at least not as crowded as last week.

Monday is the day for the late weekend cleaning and looking for tickets to Italy for Easter holidays.
Tuesday there is another date night. We are going to see “Life of Pi“.
Wednesday is the first troop meeting (Scouts) after Erik and I decided to be real scout leaders again.
I am really looking forward to Thursday, because I am coming home with Tina after work. She has invited me for real southern Indian food for dinner with her family. I can’t wait to taste real, every day Indian food.
Friday I have no plans, but I might be going into the woods to entertain some scout leaders around the camp fire.
Saturday is empty and I am happy keeping it that way.
Sunday I’ll probably go for my weekly weight lift session and in the evening we have another planning meeting in the scout group.

It looks to be a good week.

Week 2

Posted on 07/01/2013 by Ingeborg

This weekend was just wonderful. Friday we helped some friends move and then we saw Jarle Bernhoft and band at Rockefeller. After that we tried a new bar in the basement there called Bushwick. Really nice. Saturday we slept in, enjoyed our breakfast and rummaged through our new cookbooks to find exciting new dinner suggestions. After that we cleaned the apartment, made delicious food and celebrated Åses birthday. Sunday we went straight to the gym for the first weight lifting in a long while, had another delicious breakfast and after just a couple of hours Erik had to leave for Copenhagen. I spent the evening with a movie and the Internet.

This week is just the week from hell, or rather a obsessive planner’s dream week.

Monday we have our first preparatory meeting for the troop in Longship group, which I have to do alone, as Erik is in Copenhagen
Tuesday it’s the first committee meeting of Komité Speiding this year
Wednesday we have invited the scouts’ parents to come and give and get information on the next six months
Thursday all the leaders in the scout group will meet up and make big decisions and big plans for the group the next two years
Friday Erik has promised me we will do something fun, which probably means, a good work out, good food and an early night 😉
Saturday we are invited to Meatmarked with Erik’s family
Sunday we’ll probably have to shop, clean and work out some more

I’m not quite sure what I will be doing at work, but probably what I have been doing the last two weeks, reading articles, trying to solve all the little problems when trying to do an analysis and slowly ticking all the boxes from the univeristy (deciding courses, making plans, getting keys).

Speiding FTW

Posted on 08/12/2012 by Ingeborg

Jeg synes det er hyggelig når 13-åringer tar ansvar og skriver til avisa. Det er spesielt hyggelig når de skriver om speiding 🙂

Scouts on their way to Speidertinget 2012

Posted on 02/12/2012 by Ingeborg

Yes, I did take couple of shots of people as well. Here they are!

This guy had come all the way from Malawi and the Scout Association of Malawi (SAM) to learn about how we do democracy in NSF. It’s always good to get some new impulses 🙂

This is Arne, the former leader of the programme comittee. Now he enjoys the peaceful life with his scout group back home.

The girl in grey is wonderful Kathrine, she is also in the programme committee. After we have gotten a lot of new members in the committee the last couple of months, she is the only one who has been a member longer than I have. She works really hard and is terribly good at what she does and very funny.

Cool Thea out in the wind. She is now in our national board, deciding important stuff.

Love this pic. And love the mechanism that keeps Vilde’s hood close to her head. Just perfect out on deck.

Straight ahead!

Suddenly ~~finally~~ the sun came out and the light was just fantastic.

Vilde is part of the group organizing Roverløft this spring. I am supervising them and will come visit in Tønsberg next weekend when they have their first meeting.

After this picture, we walked up to the hotel and after that, I spent the rest of the weekend inside. The service at the hotel was not the best, but Geiranger was truly beautiful. I am coming back when it’s greener and I have a new tent. Need to camp on one of those hills, just to wake up to that spectacular view.

Geiranger

Posted on 30/11/2012 by Ingeborg

As you might remember, I went to Geiranger for the annual general assembly of the Norwegian Guide and Scout Association. I did take som pictures with the good camera, but only on our way in the fjord on Friday. Anyway, here are som scenic pictures of one of Norway’s biggest tourist attractions – off season.

This was the view from our hotel. Imagine living here.

The church gate

When the palce is small, everyone i buried just around the church, so a walk through the graveyard is like awalk through history.

What do you call this? Hilly? Hillyl +?

Meetings!

Posted on 23/11/2012 by Ingeborg

Today I have two important meetings. The first (and most important) is the first meeting with my supervisor. After an hour in the gym, I’m going to Ås to have our first chat. We will decide when I am actually going to start working (probably in a week or so), what courses I should take when and where (UiO or Ås, this spring or next autumn) and get my contract ready for signing. It is all super exciting and scary at the same time. I actually can’t wait to start work, but as you know, a PhD is not ordinary work and it is probably my biggest challenge so far.

The other meeting is with the programme committee. We are having a two day meeting this weekend to get to know each other better, have time for the important discussions and eat some good food. I’ll be back home Saturday night, and I think it will be a quiet one.

The rest of the weekend (aka Sunday) will be spent at home. My parents are coming over for coffee to see the apartment and Erik will have pizza with his scouts, so I’ll probably rehearse for the consert on Sunday evening.

Wish me luck with the meetings!

Pretty instagram

Posted on 06/11/2012 by Ingeborg

I’m back in Oslo, it has been snowing, we did a crazy raid at IKEA yesterday and I’m going to Ås twice this week. Oh, and two concerts! Because of all this craziness, here is some pretty Instagram pictures.

New pots and plants to give some colour to our living room.

Majestic mountains in Geiranger.

My favourite shoes for comfortable, everyday walking, not quite suited for sleet and snow.

And btw, during the weekend I finally caved in and got myself a Twitter account, so comment if you want me to read your tweets.

More merch

Posted on 04/11/2012 by Ingeborg

You always get merch at these things. Last year it was a wool scarf (hals/buff), this year it was a hat and sitting mat from the local bank.

I actually quite like the hat. And my old sitting mat is old and ready to be thrown away so I think I will keep both 😉

Ps: managed to get out of bed this morning and get 30 min running before breakfast. Very pleased with myself!

Stavanger 2013

Posted on 03/11/2012 by Ingeborg

Just some pictures of what met us this morning when we entered the auditorium. Nice merch for our national jamboree next summer.

A lunch box!

The piece I liked the best was this match box. If you look closely you see that it says that it is enough matches for ten camp fires. You only need one match per camp fire, right? 😉 See you in Stavanger in July 2013?

The Geiranger fjord

Posted on 03/11/2012 by Ingeborg

Some of the pictures from our cruise along the Geiranger fjord towards our hotel and the annual general assembly of the Norwegian Guide and Scout Association

The bad thing about studying without books

Posted on 01/11/2012 by Ingeborg

There is nowhere to place the gummy bears. In other words, I’m writing job applications and working on my Python like a champ. Tomorrow I’m going to Geiranger for the annual general assembly of my scout association. And my business cards have arrived, so I’m ready for some networking!

Where you should go to find work

Posted on 30/10/2012 by Ingeborg

My friend Juho from Finland linked to this article about unemployability for youth (up to 30 years). As you all probably know the unemployment levels for youth in Spain and Greece are over 50% and more European countries are well over 30%. This is all baffling for a Norwegian like myself, but I have to admit that what really grabbed my attention was this graph made by Manpower Group Global Talent Shortage Survey 2012:

This chart clearly shows where you should go if you would want to emigrate.

My kind of advertisement

Posted on 20/10/2012 by Ingeborg

Ah, I don’t know how many Icelanders you know, but I know my fair share. That is, more than 15 (and when they are only 300 000 that’s a good percent) and I can tell you right now that all Icelanders are crazy. They are the lovely sort of crazy that you fall in love with straight away, but they do a lot of crazy stuff.

And by the way, if you have never been to Iceland, GO THERE.

Visittkort

Posted on 10/10/2012 by Ingeborg

Tenkte jeg skulle lage speidervisittkort. Hva tror dere? (den stiplede linjen er ikke med på det ferdige resultatet) Det blir i så fall mitt andre visittkort. Tror jeg skal ta vekk ‘Norges Speiderforbund’ og ‘Norwegian Scout Association’ og heller bare ha ‘Norway’. Og så i stedet for ha NSF på baksiden sammen med logoen til NSF.

Don’t judge a hero by the size of his cape

Posted on 08/10/2012 by Ingeborg

I have spent this weekend in Elverum, listening to young adults (age 12 to 24) discussing important matters to our scout association and learning how to take part in a democratic society. It was my forth time there, but first time without the right to vote. It is strange how I, by being part of the Programme Committee, now am on the other side of the fence. I am now the one who listenes, not talks, I am the one who solves the problems, not adresses them.

Nothing makes you proud like shy 13 year olds who in the course of 24 hours grows into their delegate role and by the end of the weekend have no scruples in adressing the audience, speaking their mind. I love how young adults, who previously have been satisfied by the work in their scout group, realize how big the scouting world really is and how they can influence it.

I am very exhited to start two new years with new, active and intelligent rovers who will push me and demand things of me to make rovering and scouting in Norway even better.

Dagens beste overraskelse

Posted on 25/08/2012 by Ingeborg

Sveler til tremat, hurra!

Never leave

Posted on 24/08/2012 by Ingeborg

Now I have been in Oslo for a month. A month already. Still have no place to go and no place to stay here. I cleaned out almost all the stuff in my room in my parent’s house, to leave more room for Erik and me when we stay here, but we can’t actually live here. The situation feels too permanent and jobs keep eluding me. I’m going back to Trondheim to see if there is anything I can do there, but I doubt it. But I’ll try, can’t not try.

Luckily I have something to do, the Python course with Udacity and scouting. There is so much scouting right now. I’m trying to get back in the loop after 6 months of pause because of my master thesis. So now I’m picking up all the loose ends and trying to make things better. Also I’m rounding up the rest of the Rover camp (budget, report etc.) and preparing for next year. In addition to the two projects that are running right now… And yes, this is perfectly normal.

I’m in Stavanger this weekend doing some workshops and talking to people. Might hand over some flowers and get to meet some nice people and good friends as well 🙂

Oh, and I’ve been to Elixia three times already 🙂 Am trying to keep up the good work exercising three times a week and eating only what I need and not everything I want. Maybe I’ll actually loose a couple of kilos.

Ingeborg Korme

Reising, feminisme, mat og tur

Category Archives: Scouting