As head of the international program selection for the annual International Public Television Screening Festival for INPUT 2009 Warsaw and INPUT 2010 Budapest, I was responsible for choosing and training fifteen television professionals, the so-called “shop stewards,” all from different countries around the world, in the complexities of this international conference. Having been a “shop steward” myself for INPUT’s conferences in Taipei, Lugano, and Johannesburg, I could put my experience to work. The general principles I learned carry over to almost any international and intercultural team-building needs.
More about the conferences at www.input-tv.org
An article I wrote in 2006 for the Current, the newspaper of U.S. public broadcasting, can be found by clicking here.