Participant's Voices
Sammy
- Country : Thailand
- Forum : 59th batch (2018 Spring Forum)
Throughout the application process to join the IATSS Forum, my expectations from participating in this programme have been in the following three areas: cultures, leadership, and technology.
1. Cultures
Even though I spent over 8 years abroad, both in the US and the UK together with my experience of travelling to many parts of the word, I have to admit that my knowledge of cultural differences within the Asian region is quite limited. Living 2 months in Japan with future leaders of Asia will bring me in closer to the roots of each culture through spending time with individual participants. Not to mention, to live briefly in the country with ancient history will enable me to understand how Japan remains one of the top destinations where people would love to visit and perhaps to live in. How the Japanese recovered from the natural disasters and wars is also one of my expectations to be discovered.
2. Leadership
I love the forum’s philosophy of ‘leadership’ where each participant’s capacity is maximised to compose the best momentum of teamwork. Therefore, I look forward to working as a team with people from different countries and backgrounds and learn to maximise their potential including my own. This will, with high hopes, prepare me to be a “good leader”. Also, facilitation training is the course I’m looking forward to taking and utilising. As I am currently registered as a mediator with the Thailand Arbitration Center, I hope my experience can help contribute to the course and learn more from the classes in another perspective.
3. Technology
ever since I was a child and up until now, Japan is one of the most innovative countries in the world. This can be seen from many innovative structures and innovations produced from Japan. But one of phenomena that brought my attention to Japan has only been recent. The world was impressed by the effectiveness of the Japanese as Fukuoka’s road which was fixed in one week after a sinkhole opened up. I was also one of those who truly admired how systematic the Japanese run the country. Obviously it stems from the cultural backgrounds of the people, but it has been amplified by the availability of the technology as well. I would love to explore more on the effects of technology that make this great country and the implications in terms of quality of living.
Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Best regards,
Sammy
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Forum
- 49th batch (2012 Autumn Forum)
- 50th batch (2013 Autumn Forum)
- 51st batch (2014 Spring Forum)
- 52nd batch (2014 Autumn Forum)
- 53th batch (2015 Spring Forum)
- 54th batch (2015 Autumn Forum)
- 55th batch (2016 Spring Forum)
- 56th batch (2016 Autumn Forum)
- 57th batch (2017 Spring Forum)
- 58th batch (2017 Autumn forum)
- 59th batch (2018 Spring Forum)
- 60th batch (2018 Autumn Forum)
- 61st batch(2019 Spring Forum)
- 62nd batch(2019 Autumn Forum)