Career and Development NFGL Lund Event

Our March NFGL Lund Event was devoted to Career and Development, and more precisely - to time-management, productivity and business opportunities. Moreover, on the personal example of our special guest Peder Gryningstjerna NFGL members got know how to sell oneself. Some MLM practices also were mentioned as an opportunity for students to start own business in Sweden.

Three main ideas were presented as key features of productive work:

1) People often think they have a good system, but they actually do not have it.

2) Direction in what you are doing is more important than your speed.

3) Finally, multitasking is killing your productivity.

To succeed in business a person should always do really different and creative things, something, which will differ one from others. A businessperson always pays for productivity, not for time. “You  will never appreciate something if you do not pay for that”, - Peder concluded.

He also recommended some apps which will save your time: Evernote, SaneBox and Dragon Remote Microphone. And a book “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss (80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts).

Futhermore, our NFGL member Sakib even won an individual coach session with Peder!

Generally, the event helped our NFGL members to communicate a lot with each other inter alia reflecting on a topic.

Next event on April (11-12 April) will be different and consist of a full-day workshops and lectures on innovations and sustainable development. Follow our news about the NFGL trip to Geneva next week, and don’t miss the registration for next event, which will be published later this month.

Full photo report from the Career and Development NFGL Lund Event you can find here.

CSR and anti-corruption SI training for NFGL members in Malmö

Two full days of such a useful training were not just inspiring and interactive, but also full of practical matters, important tools that encouraged us to reflect, think and create new ideas.

Thanks to well-experienced Magnus Enell from Enact, I finally understood the difference between Corporate Social Responsibility and Philanthropy (the latter is more popular in US). Thus, the main difference between them is in the “sustainable” component of the CSR. “Sustainable Development does not mean to set a final goal, sustainable development is a journey”, - Magnus said.

To be efficient on that, corporates should invoke three main components – social, economic and environmental. ISO 14000 will help on that since it stated the methodology called “Plan-Do-Check-Act”. Among other useful instruments, Mr. Enell also noticed ISO 26000, OECD, Global reporting initiative and others. We discussed all of them in detail. But one of the most prominent tool is the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which include “protect-respect-remedy” element and 31 principles. Among these principles, we could found the instruction for business: to have vision, mission, values and goals in every stage of the chain – from supplier to company and from a company to consumers and other stakeholders.

To sum up the first day, I would say next: ecomagination of producer, consumer and prosumer should become the threshold in the company’s journey called sustainable business. To understand deeper what I mean, just don’t be lazy to read the best sustainability report of the year made by… Ericsson!

The second day was devoted to anti-corruption issues and risk management, and started with “The truth about Dishonesty” shown by amazing lecturer Richard Minogue from Septia.
He draw the line between terms “corruption” and “fraud” and emphasized that a trust should become the start point in elimination of these social phenomenon, since Bribe and Bonus always go hand-by-hand…

“What is interesting, fraud and corruption facts often are invisible for other people…” – Richard affirmed.
He stated that it is extremely significant for CEO in any company to be an ethical etalon for his employees.

To eradicate fraud/corruption occasions it is important to cope with person’s motivation (need, pressure), opportunity and rationalization of that.

Thus, there should be exercised the rule of three R:
Reduce opportunities for fraud (controls);
Reward ethical behavior (not only results);
Raise awareness (through communication with staff on values).

The basic statements in the Code of Conduct at any company should include theses on “what we say, what we believe and what we do”.
To prevent and investigate sufficiently the fact of fraud, CEO or any other responsible person(s) should think like a thief.

Generally, the training gave me a lot: new skills, knowledge, and communication.

More pictures here

NFGL Lund agenda for March 2015

Spring is starting with big affairs in our local community!

Thus, on 14th of March we have a special event on Leadership and Career development with Peder Gryningstjerna, who is a really resourceful person with over 20 years of experience. He worked with Ericsson company in London, US, Mexico and Dubai for 10 years. Peder trained at Ericsson University for 10 years and together with his team is running an entrepreneurial company here in Sweden making a profit of over 100 million kronors per year. He invented an app called “Timezapp” and has been working with it for the past 4 years; and he also offers leadership trainings to big companies, business community and CEO.
If you haven't registered for this event, please, check your e-mail and do so.

Then, on 23-27 March 16 NFGL students from Lund University, universities in Gothenburg, Dalarna and Jönköping will visit Geneva (arranged by the Head of NFGL Lund Galyna Paliychuk).
There we'll have a meeting with the Senior Legal Adviser & UN Representative of the International Commission of Jurists Livio Zilli and his colleagues Matt Pollard, Laurens Hueting, Sandra Ratjen and Carlos Lopez (details here), who will provide a general presentation of the International Commission of Jurists and its work, followed by a presentation of the work of the UN program, on their programs on economic, social and cultural rights, and on  human rights in business.
Also, we'll have a meeting with the President of the Geneva for Human Rights - Global Training Mr. Adrien-Claude Zoller, who will arrange for us a super unique 3 hours training on global politics and human rights. We'll also visit Human Rights House, which is mostly specialized in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Western Balkans, and at the moment they are covering Human Rights violation cases in countries such as Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Belarus (among other in the region). Furthermore, we'll meet the UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer. Apart from that we'll visit three UN sessions: the 113th session of the Human Rights Committee, the 28th session of the Human Rights Council and the 13th session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Moreover, we'll have a general tour to the Palais des Nation. And finally, we were invited to the coctail mingle with students of Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, which means... that we are really networking!
More about NFGL members in Human Rights issues read here.

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