YRO Committee

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YRO Committee

• Lt Adam Slonecki RNRChairman, YRO Committee
• Presentation to CIOR Council
• NATO HQ, Brussels
• 21st February 2009

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Outline

• Agenda
• YROW feedback
• Assuming the chair
• In development
• YRO Outreach Seminar

• YROW 2009
• YRO Platform
• Costs analysis
• YRO needs you
• Questions

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YROW Feedback

• Pre-session briefing about the theme
• Need for pre-workshop training for participants
  in each country
• Introduction in each national reserve-system
• LOAC questions clearer (non-natives!) and be
  based on practical scenarios
• Better LOAC training
• Printers and computers for every group
• Smaller groups
• Clarify working groups questions

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Assuming the Chair

• Committee members have been designated tasks as
  follows
• Cpt. Philipp Schuett (GER) Secretary
• Lt Cdr John Rothrock (USA) OIC YROW 2009
• Cpt. Ann-Christina H. Salquist (DEN) OIC
  Outreach Seminar
• Lt Hedwige de Martimprey (FRA) Symposium Liaison
• Lt Hannah MacKenzie (UK) Presidency Liaison
  Officer
• Maj Hans Garrels ASG YRO

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YRO Outreach Seminar

• No Seminar to be held in 2009
• Interest shown by Spain, Switzerland for 2010
• Aims for 2010
• 20 to 25 participants
• 6 returning YROs to staff
• Host nation to source and provide accommodation,
  food and local logistics
• Participating nations to provide transport
  to/from, and promote Seminar at home

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YROW 2009

• Programme agreed by committee
• Facilitated policy development over three days
• Output to be presented to Symposium break-out
  groups to kick-off and stimulate discussion
• Facilitators to collate findings and submit
  conclusions to YRO Chair within one month of YROW
  end ensure good quality product.
• Advantages
• Clear integration with main CIOR agenda
• Raising profile of junior officer input
• Challenging junior officers to not only think but
  brief and drive forward debate amongst senior
  officers
• Broaden the exposure to all symposium themes
• Challenges
• Increase time requirement mitigated by use of
  facilitators
• Identifying suitable candidates for facilitator
  roles (x 4)
• Identification of suitable speakers, not
  necessarily military focussed

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YRO in Development

• Clear identification of positive output to YRO in
  CIOR through proposition paper
• Identify scope for YRO development through CIOR
• YRO Platform
• Re-structure of YROW programme
• Welcome pack
• Recruit and retain future CIOR committee members

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YRO Platform

• Has been informally proposed to YRO Committee by
  various nations
• A brand new concept
• To provide continuing professional development
  for YROs who have attended YROW on at least two
  occasions
• Designed to encourage longer CIOR participation
• Retention positive
• Develop YRO international inter-operability

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Challenges

• Ensuring a continuing relationship between
  individual YROs, their national delegations and
  CIOR
• Ensuring broad and timely distribution of
  committee communications within national reserve
  armed forces
• Effective forward planning for hosting future
  Outreach Seminars and Platform events
• Enhancing YRO participation in core CIOR events
  and discussions
• Promote the benefit of CIOR as a career enhancing
  experience
• Positively communicating to national chain of
  commands the clear influence that YRO events can
  have on developing operationally capable future
  leaders

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Costs Analysis

• Outreach Seminar 2010
• Host nation to bear accommodation, food and local
  logistics
• Participating nations to fund travel to/from
  Seminar location
• Seminar fee to be kept to a minimum but, intended
  to cover majority of host nation costs.
• YROW 2009
• Bulgaria to include YROW costs within overall
  programme budget
• All YROW activities, as referenced in SOP, to be
  borne by the YROW registration fee.
• YRO Platform
• Host nation to bear costs for accommodation, food
  and local logistics
• Registration fee to be kept to a minimum but,
  should cover a majority of host nation costs (TBC)

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YRO Needs You!!

• Encourage your junior officers to participate in
  any of the YRO events
• Council to approve further development of YRO
  Platform initiative
• Positive support to YROW integration into CIOR
  Symposium
• VPs requested to complete YRO questionnaire prior
  to Summer Congress
• Offers of host nations for Outreach Seminar or
  Platform greatly appreciated

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Questions?