Officer Training Seminar (OTS)
Sample OTS schedule
Day One
1:30 Arrival & Registration
Delegates escorted to dorm rooms; then gathered outside or in small groups in and around the common room
2:05 Gathering
Part One- Photos – School Team/ Learning Team/ Large Group
Part Two- Learning Teams
Name Games/Mixing/Mind Games/Sharing
Part Three- Setting expectations & guidelines
Identity building
2:30 Confluence
Part One - General Mixing
Part Two - Learning Team Orientation
Part Three -School Teams
3:30 Opening
Welcome
3:45 Workshop Session 1 - - Role Sessions
Part One- in groups by officer role
Part Two - whole group – topic Response-Ability
4:40 Workshop Session 2 - - Group Process
5:40 Dinner
6:20 Teambuilding Session
7:45 Workshop Session 3 - - Goals
8:30 Workshop Session 4 - - Communication
9:00 Workshop Session 5 - - Meeting Management
9:30 Learning Teams
10:05 Workshop session 7 - Ideation & Application
10:35 School Team Meetings – Create school and group needs list
SWOT Analysis System
S = strengths
W = weaknesses
O = opportunities
T = threats
11:05 Wrap / rap & Tranquillity
11:25 Lights Out
Day two
8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Getting Started
8:45 In-Actions Laboratory - - People Movers
9:30 C-Here
Leadership Laboratory – Cooperation, Consensus, Collaboration need Communication
10:10 School Team Meetings -- Needs Assessment- SWOT
1. Complete the School and Group needs list
2. Create SMART Goals & Action plans
11:10 Learning Teams
11:30 Lunch
12:00 School Team Meeting – goals & action plans
1. Complete action plans
12:35 School Reports
12:45 Wrap / rap & Closing
1:15 Departure