Promoting across Romania the Romanian Edition of my Networking Book

Last April, because of the Icelandic ash cloud, I couldn’t go to Romania to participate in person on the launching of my Networking Book in person. Nevertheless thanks to support of JCI Targu Mures I was present at the first launching of the Romanian edition of my book using Skype.

This time there was no ash cloud on sight and I manage to do several presentations and seminars in the two main cities in Romania, Bucharest and Iasi.

In Bucharest I counted with the support of Mihaela Stroe, Cornel Costea, my publisher Rentrop&Straton and the great leader of JCI Targu Mures, Laszlo Pacso, among others.

In Iasi I counted with the support of Marius Alexas that kindly invited me to be a speaker in his “Fresh & New” conference, Dorina Moisa from Alexander I Cuzu University that organized a very interesting session where I presented for 30 minutes and was overwhelmed by one and half hour of questions.

If I was surprised by so many questions, the next day I got even more surprised at Empower Connect organized by Genoveva Salvaras, where I did the same 30 minutes presentation and got two and half hours of questions. It was a great group so the conversations had to continue over a very nice lunch.

Finally, thanks to JCI Iasi I did a presentation in gala to recognize entrepreneurs for the Iasi region. I’m very proud that in a very small part I took part in this initiative.

So if you want to buy my book in Romania just go to: http://jcimures.ro/networking/

Being a speaker with a full room at ASTD 2010 in Chicago

My last ASTD international conference was in 2007, in Atlanta, where I made a presentation about Informal Training, at the time I was one of the few people that presented something about the importance of Informal Training and I was so happy that 120 people were at my presentation.

Now in Chicago, I presented my recent experience with Informal Training, but everything was different, this year Informal Training is a hot topic, most referred as Informal Learning or even Social Learning and my session was full with a queue of people waiting for some opening, so only 216 people were allowed to enter, the session was recorded and I did a Webinar on June 8 as part of the virtual part of the conference in order to reach more people.

Also it was a great opportunity to meet some good friends from Brazil, South Africa, Denmark USA, UK, Philippines… that I haven’t seen for a while, also I had the rare opportunity to talk face to face with speakers like Daniel Pink, Charlene Li, Donald Kirkpatrick, among others.

I got fun, inspirations and more speaking opportunities, so I will be for sure in ASTD 2011 in Orlando.

Official Launch of my Networking Book in Romania

Today, April 22, my Networking book (Networking – Ghidul supravieţuirii profesionale) was officially launched in Romania, in Romanian, during a conference organized by JCI Targu Mures.

Because of the ash cloud, I couldn't travel to Romania to present my book, so we did a press conference and a short presentation through Skype. That meant that I had to be in my office at 06.30 am to establish the connection.

Many thanks to JCI Targu Mures and it's President Laszlo Pacso for all the support and work that made possible publising and lauching my book in Romania. I want to thank Mihaela Stroe and Corneal Costea for their amazing working in promoting my seminars in Romania.

Also many others help this book to be published like: Raul Glogovețan, Simona Karner, Luana Karner, Miruna Marin, Daniela Bostaca, Crina Penteleychuk, Felicia Stoica, Loránd Soares-Szász and Genoveva Salvaras.

I will be in Romania on May 31 to launch my book in Bucharest and deliver seminars. So see you there :-)

Being Visiting Professor at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University

During the week of 8 to 12 of March I had the privilege to be Visiting Professor to “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Universtity in Iasi, Romania.
It was a great opportunity to teach young Romanian students of graduate courses of Marketing and Tourism at the oldest University in Romania.

I also deliver a seminar about e-Marketing in partnership with Crilia and Humans. In this point I have to give a special thanks to my good friends Crina Penteleychuk (Crilia) and Felicia and Mihai Stoica (Humans), which manage in a record time, promote and put together a seminar that was a great success.

Of course, I couldn’t go to Iasi without visiting my good friend of JCI Iasi, which received me with much friendship.

And next month I will be back to Romania, this time to Bucharest and Tg. Mures where I will deliver several seminars from e-Marketing to Networking.

Doing JCI Presenter in Milan

On the 12 and 13 of December I had the pleasure to be Head Trainer of JCI Presenter (JCI official course about presentation techniques) in Milan for 16 JCI Italy members.

The course was a success thanks to the quality of the participants, great organization led by Patrizia Roconi (JCI Italy) and my two Assitant Trainers Andrea Parisi (JCI Italy) and Rui Sarmento Santos Clara (JCI Portugal).

Also I had the opportunity to witness the excellent work that JCI Italy did during 2009 under the presidency of Chiara Milani, that will be 2010 JCI Vice-President.

To all my gratitude for make me feel very much at home.

Delivering Training to Young People in Sicily

From 4 to 8 of December I had the privilege to participate as trainer at the Euro-Med Youth Village, in the beautiful city of Ragusa, Sicily, with the support of EU funds.

The trainings were about networking and communication, there were almost 40 participants on this training that came from Malta, Greece, Turkey, Italy and Romania.

I had as colleague in the trainings Alun Hill a British journalist that works with CNN. We work great together.

Finally, I have to give a great thanks Stefania Garrone and her organization team, for inviting me and for the all there effort to make this event a success.

Training at the JCI World Congress in Hammamet, Tunisia

Every year JCI members worldwide meet in one place, this time was between November 16 and 22 in Hammamet, Tunisia.

As always was a great experience where I had the opportunity to deliver training, JCI Trainer, 15 minutes of Fame for Trainers, Self-knowledge and JCI Head Trainer.

Fun and personal development were together in Tunisia.

On the last day I had the opportunity to present my JCI experience to JCI Tunisia members in Tunis.

Book signing of “Networking – Guia de Sobrevivência Profissional” by Filipe Carrera

On November 12, at 6.30pm, will take place on the famous book store FNAC Colombo in Lisbon the book signing of “Networking – Guia de Sobrevivência Profissional” (Networking – Professional Survival Guide), edited by Edições Sílabo 2009, by Filipe Carrera.

As special guest at this book signing will be present Dr. Eduardo Catroga (author of the preface) and Paula Machado (RDP journalist).

In the world one lives in being competent is not enough: one needs market recognition. A professional of excellence cannot be confined to his space, so networking has become indispensable as an intelligent method of managing contact networks.

This book is intended for all professionals who want to push their careers and businesses forward. For this purpose, simple and efficient networking techniques are presented, with the goal of preventing crises and performing a well-succeeded personal and business plan.

Throughout this book, you will be able to find multitude of examples of situations experienced by the author and by professionals from 18 countries, in different backgrounds, situations, countries, and cultures, thus illustrating the various tools and techniques presented.

A particular emphasis is given to the use of new technologies in networking, chiefly the tools made available by Web 2.0; within this environment, you may find a Facebook page (Networking – Your guide for professional survival) which works as an interactive space between the readers and the author and provides access to new resources in multiple formats.

The Great Romanian Tour

From October 25 till November 4 I had the opportunity to deliver seminars and trainings in Bucharest and in Iasi.

On the October 26 I had a press conference followed by the Art of Networking seminar which was attend by around 70 people.

Two days after I was delivering JCI Presenter in Iasi, where on the 29 I deliver a second Networking seminar to 100 entrepreneurs sponsored by Post Privatisation Foundation of Romania.

Also I had the opportunity to deliver two seminars about Self-knowledge at the JCI Romania National Conference.

Finally on November 2 and 3 I was Head Trainer of JCI Trainer, in Iasi.

It was a great experience thanks to a great organization and great participants. I will for sure repeat great Romanian Tour.

My First Time in Malta

I was between October 14 and 18 in Malta delivering JCI Trainer and my own seminar about “Managing Virtual Teams” and I found great participants very motivated.

Also organization was great, a big thanks to Rachael Blackburn Sciberras for organizing all so well, to my two assistant trainers (Stephen Camilleri e Michael Pedersen), to JCI Malta president Maria Zahra and all the other participants from Malta and Cyprus that created a great learning environment.

See you all in Tunisia :-)

The Oktoberfest Experience!

I had the privilege to be one of the trainers at the first Wiesn School, a training event that was organized by JCI Munich, at the wonderful training centre of IHK placed at 35 Km from Munich.

This training event took place from 2 to 4 of October and of course included going to the Oktoberfest and having lots of fun. The training team had also as trainers Iris Barnert (JCI Germany), Martin Hlavacek (JCI Austria) and Per Stiling (JCI Norway).

Iris Barnert was also in charge of the organization with a devoted team, thanks to them the participants and I had a fantastic experience.

So next year you must go to the Wiesn School and feel the great Bavarian hospitality.

Doing training in Denmark

On the 18 of September I had the opportunity to give a seminar about e-Marketing in Aarhus to a very interested audience.

The next day I was very fortuned to be Head Trainer in a great JCI Trainer in Aarhus, thanks to a very committed group of participants that worked long hours to do their best work. Thanks to excellent Assistant Trainers Mikkel Salling and Aldis Alliks (from Latvia) and finally we got a great organizer Per Freitag.

Also it was an opportunity to check the beautiful city Aarhus that will have the 2010 JCI European Conference. I didn’t have much opportunity to see all but I can tell that has a good night life :-)

I end my trip to Denmark in a fabulous way thanks to Mikkel, for the first time in my life I flew a motor glider and it was fantastic, especially landing with no engine running!

Again in Denmark

I have been in Denmark to deliver training before, but this time I will do it for JCI, with the support of my friends Mikkel and Aldis we will do JCI Trainer in Aarhus on the 19 and 20 of September.

Today, the 18th, I will give a course about Digital Marketing to JCI members in Aarhus, looking forward for this Danish experience.

The Scottish Surprise

I was very lucky to be the Head Trainer available to deliver JCI Trainer in Edinburgh on July 4 and 5.

Lucky because I got very committed participants, a great team of Assistant Trainers Adam (JCI UK), Melanie (JCI Scotland) and Maggie (JCI Australia).

Also I was lucky because the fine people of JCI Scotland did everything to show me the best that Edinburgh has to offer.

I will be back :-)

The Fun of doing JCI Trainer in Edinburgh

I’m having a great time delivering as Head Trainer of JCI Trainer, actually the Assistant Trainers Mel, Maggie and Adam (all in the photo) are doing most of the work leaving me the fun parts.

Also we have 12 committed participants that will do a great work.

On my way to Edinburgh to deliver JCI Trainer

This weekend I will go for the first time to Scotland to be Head Trainer of JCI Trainer in Edinburgh June 4 and 5. I'm very happy for this opportunity to visit my friends of JCI Scotland.

Now waiting for the plane in London :-)

Training in Beautiful Cyprus

By invitation of JCI Limassol, Cyprus I delivered on June 28 JCI Presenter to a group of enthusiastic JCI members that created all conditions to make me feel at home.

Also I had the opportunity to visit Limassol, the mountains and also I meet my Cypriot friends in several dinners and lunches.

At Athens waiting for plane to Larnaca

My plane left with 2,5 hours delay to Athens and guess what another delay to Larnaca. The great thing is that I have the company of Andreas Christophides from JCI Cyprus that will go in the same plane.

So see you soon Cyprus :-)