Dear & wonderful Local Guides,
Kindly allow me to congratulate each and every one of you for the grand success of “Inspirational Meetups” (IVM) & “Weekly Grooming Sessions” (WGS) series; your sincere supports brought these successes - We have successfully completed more than a DOZEN (12) WGS Meetups on 4th July.
It is my immense pleasure (along with our Core Team Members) to bring this post to you, sharing the amazing journey about the Inspirational Virtual Meet (IVM) and Weekly Grooming Session (WGS), from the day one.
This #TeamIndia Mission (A mission by Ïndia Local Guides started on February 20, for Guiding Global LGs for Connect Live 2020, with the Motto: “Share & Learn” - A series of knowledge sharing and motivational sessions - this WhatsApp Group had around 196 LGs. Many experienced LGs, including @JeronM, were in the faculty.
After the submission of the CL 2020 Application, many of the LGs requested to continue the mission “To help them to improve their skills in Google Maps & LG Connect, including Connect Meet-ups” (keeping Connect Live 2021 in mind).
“CL-21 World” and Monthly - Weekly Virtual Meetups.
The mission named as “CL-21 World” started in April 2020 and will end in March 2021. And as a part of this initiative, we planned to conduct a series of knowledge sharing & Inspirational Virtual Meetups, once in a month and Weekly Grooming (training) sessions. These Meetups will be addressed by experienced LGs, CL Attendees and experts from different fields, which are presently popular as “IVM & WGS”.
Our first IVM started on 12th April 2020, by CL Attendee [ @ArchitOjha ] Archit Ojha (IVM-1), followed by another CL attendees [ @SalmaanN ] Salman Nawaz (IVM-2 - 24th May 2020) & [ @RiyaM ]Riya Mathew (IVM-3 21st June 2020). Now we are looking forward to IVM-4, (**on the coming Sunday, 26th July 2020,hosted by @Ddimitra **) which will be addressed by CL Attendee [ @AslamMo ] Aslam Mohammed.
Our “Weekly Grooming Sessions” (WGS) has been another beautiful journey. The first WGS was on 18th April 2020, with the support of you all, coming Saturday, we will reach WGS 15. Our very successful 12th WGS was on 4th July 2020; reaching the milestone of a dozen feels jubilant.
Thanks to Almighty God and everyone who were a part of this mission; we take this opportunity to thank our “Speakers” who really shared their knowledge and dedicated their time to prepare the presentation, etc. I am truly overwhelmed and feel proud of you all, especially our Core Team members, who are dedicating a lot of time & energy to make these happen. Every individual LG’s dedication means a lot and only through the great efforts of each one, we would have reached where we are today.
Nevertheless looking forward to the journey with great hope for guiding many more Local & Global LGs.
We are jointly presenting this post with comments from all the WGS Core Team Members:
Jaison (Lead Admin [ @jaisoncbe ] TeamIndia’s CL21 Grooming sessions and Inspirational Virtual Meetings are the best meetups for all Connect Live 21 aspiring local guides. The topics for the Weekly Grooming Sessions are really helping LGs a lot, with details about all Google applications and how to use them effectively. The pace of the sessions is so good, be it a beginner LG or a well-versed LG everyone will be able to understand. I have been attending the sessions from Week 1 and it is a great achievement to have completed 13 weeks with so much learning. The IVMs have been really very informative, inspiring and fun too. It is really motivating and to be positive about CL21. Congrats to the entire team for successfully completing 13 WGS and thanks to @TravellerG sir for this series. I am sure the upcoming sessions also will be equally good and help in achieving the goal. Thanks.
Guru Khrishna Priya (Admin):[ @Gurukrishnapriya ] Weekly Grooming Sessions as the name suggests, is all about educating our young talented local guides every week. It is a boon to the newcomers of LG Connect. This is a platform which provides more and more learning. Every week we come across so many interesting facts about Google Maps and Connect. It’s really amazing that there is a lot to know about Google. Apart from that we Local Guides connect and interact with each other, share our knowledge and develop our skills. This helps us to contribute more effectively and efficiently in Google Maps. I am really very lucky to be associated with this Group and learn from knowledgeable Seniors LGs.
Anil Singh (Admin): [ @Anil6969 ] It gives me immense pleasure to see the growing seeds to flower blossoming as I recall the day when we had started the WGS 1, the grooming was on today everyone remembered if its Saturday they must get something new, thanks to all the participant and their QUERIES which help us to reach stepwise to this first milestone of ‘DOZEN CELEBRATION’; I would like to thank each one my core team members - Without their help, this journey was next to Impossible.
As we believe in one Principle “T together E everyone A achieve M MORE”
Need your support further to help the community forever.
Ajit (Admin): [ @AjitThite ] It was a surprise announcement from Anil Ji! And it was an awesome feeling!! To be part of this wonderful TEAM and an emotional celebration! My participation has just started but I will continue contributing to this wonderful mission from Indian Local Guides called #TeamIndia!! Proud of this!!
Tushar (Admin): [ @TusharSuradkar ] I was initially invited to attend a couple of meetup sessions as part of the WGS series last month. I found that this was a group of highly motivated individuals from all walks of life and age groups ranging from 18 to 68. I was especially impressed with learning about the core values of the team are help and guidance to local guides worldwide which the team members did selflessly. Soon I joined the core team as an admin and there was no looking back and now actively participating as co-host and the host of future meetups and looking forward to contributing as part of the team efforts.
The WGS series is a true personification of TEAM - Together We Achieve More.
Bijohn (Admin): got connected with #TeamIndia attended the 1st IVM held on 12th April 2020. After attending a few WGS one day I got a phone call from our mentor TravellerG sir and sir shared the mission and objectives of the team. It was very attractive for me, ‘cause it is the platform where I can learn as well as share my knowledge and contribute to the LG Community. After involving and knowing the team members it was very surprising for me; the team spirit is really so encouraging. Recently, I got the opportunity to host the WGS-12 on 4th July 2020 and it is the collaborative efforts of the team members which made the meet-up very successful. Thank you all.
Sophie (Admin): Greetings to you all! My journey in this platform with #TeamIndia is not long but it’s been so great. Attending Weekly Grooming Sessions (WGS) have been productive not only to myself but many Local Guides around the globe. Gaining knowledge every week from well-learned speakers are adding value in various ways. Inspirational Virtual Meet (IVM) which happens monthly is another gem. Getting connected with many people around the globe, learning, sharing and encouraging each other is truly priceless. A big cheer to our mentor @TravellerG and all the team members in celebrating reaching the milestone of a dozen, for sure we know that the team is still moving ahead to bring more success. Thank you each one for working hard to bring out the best for everyone. “Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person”
Helping, encouraging and reaching out to many local guides is truly a bliss.
Karan Chotlani (Admin): I am with the Local Guides program from June 2019, since then I’ve reached Level 8. Until Feb 2020, I never knew of the LG Connect and Connect Live, which fascinated me to explore more by attending meetups since March 2020 with a dream to attend CL20. But efforts never go in vain, I got a huge Global family, supporting each small step of mine towards the journey to success.
I was influenced by our beloved TravellerG to come & join the mission of #TeamIndia grooming as a fellow Local Guides with the small steps towards CL-21. My role as a collaborator started under the guidance of Anil Ji and Jaison Sir to support #TeamIndia’s mission CL21 Grooming Sessions with masterclasses from Expert Global LG’s. I believe teamwork can get you there, not just hardWork.
Pramod (Admin): “𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐” It was a wonderful experience, Really appreciate entire team for this initiative, WGS is a great platform to learn new things and also interact with our local guides; by joining WGS team, every Saturday you will get a new ‘thread of knowledge’, ideally.
Thanks to all of our Team members and our Local guide for your support and cooperation
Shreeya (Admin): Wow, what a total journey along with such great TEAM, loved the complete experience and each and each person teaches something unique. From all age groups till all kinds of opinions are heard and valued to make sure that ideas are most important than the source it’s coming from.
From being mentored by seniors till sharing the experience with new ones was the best part. I learnt so many new things which helped me to be a good contributor in future .
I am taking the liberty to mention a couple of other LGs who have put in their efforts during this journey, in the next comment.
Once again, we all thank you, LG Friend…