Blogging AI 0708

first feelings of the new team

2008-06-05T13:58:00.002+02:00

"It is like your first day at the school...
Getting to know your class mates, paying attention carefully to your teacher, identifying where the bathroom, the kitchen, your desktop are located, Feeling comfortable -or not- with your first tasks assignment, getting lost in the city.. etc.

But the coolest thing is getting impressed about how great -and globally- the current AI team members understand the organization. How they got experience in managing their personal an professional stuff. How they understand what is happening in Asia, Europe, Afria and America at the same time. How they have created A TEAM of more than 20 members and more than 10 nationalities. It looks complex for one year, but I think it won't be complicated at the end. :)

For me, it is amazing to note how the organization let you work next to all of these brilliant people..."

Lala

Keep reporting from here while you keep stay tuned there! :)

AI0709 transition kicks off!

2008-06-05T13:50:00.002+02:00

2nd of June 2008 | Officially starting our transition.
Getting to know each other and Gabiza's welcome words :)

From Achievers to Legends

2008-06-02T16:25:00.003+02:00

A year has passed already since the AI0708 team arrived to the office to start transition. Many things have happened in between, a generation os achievers that wanted to move the organization forward.
A group of people that decide to run for one of the most challenging adventures in AIESEC... Now one year later the new team is in the house and for the next two months, untill July 31st 2008, both team will be working together in the AI office in Rotterdam.
We want to invite you all to follow our transition and to share this moment with us. Through this blog we will share all special moments, and for getting to know the agenda and the resources that we want to share, make sure that you subscribe to the wiki in MyAIESEC.net

For Achievers to legends, is the topic of transition don't miss it

AIESEC International 07-09

A new year, lot of expectation

2008-01-22T08:13:00.001+01:00

We wish you the best in this year

AIESEC International 07-08

Making HEROES Happen!!!

2007-11-11T09:58:00.000+01:00

Greetings from Bangkok! Things are rocking out in Asia Pacific. I’ve been learning loads…

The Superficial/Snapshot Overview: I am heading into my 6th week on the road... just arrived in smiling Thailand. :) Have spent time Japan, Malaysia, Australia... with quick stops in Hong Kong and Singapore. Also met with the MCPs from New Zealand, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia tooo!

The Slightly Less Superficial Overview: Yeah. I am a this point where trying to capture the last 6 weeks in a “post” is, without questin, impossible. So, I’ll just reflect on one highlight from my time with my new family…

HEROES 2007, Malaysia

About 3 weeks ago, 60 delegates gathered from 12 countries/territories in Malaysia at a HEROES 2007 – its first year as an OFFICIAL AP GN CONFERENCE!!! .

Personally it was a thrill, this was my first conference in the AP GN! Sharon helped me through adapting to the AP conference culture, which is really different from my Canadian and other international experiences. Dances were MUCH more complicated (I was SO out of my league… sad, really). Evening activities were comfortably and happily dry and … scary (murderous Malaysians!! ;p) Sugar writing was an extremely disciplines and serious endeavor.

Overall I was honoured to facilitate with my entire AP GN Board and Sandy – MCP Malaysia, and our chair was unspeakable inspiring – thanks Janne! And by the end of the conference, we were all feeling empowered, proud (especially of the 25 matches and 15 future exchanges via LC partnerships set up, 40 exchanges with 60 delegates!?!??!), and just a little bit more… heroic.

Want to see the HEROES HEROES? Check it out:

(NOTE: Translation of clip, since its blurry: "HEY AIESEC! We're Making HEROES Happen!!" Followed by a stunning, beautiful cheer that may resemble a certain WENA cheer, but actually mirrors a Canadian cheer, of which the former MCP was happy to bestow... hehehehhehehe.)

The IS team is about to serve

2007-11-05T22:36:00.001+01:00

Every morning I go to the office and look at the board behind our desks were the countdown doesn't stop. Every day a step closer, and every day more anxious and restless, expectant and curious for what is going to happen and what is going to be the impact when the new system go live...

In 36 days MyAIESEC.net will go live and the dreams on many people is going to become true. I can't wait to see it; it is a unique opportunity were every member of AIESEC is taking part and I proud of being there to see it happen

Martha Alzate

AI 07/08 Introduction Video

2007-09-18T21:02:00.000+02:00

Modeling our jerseys!

2007-09-14T17:04:00.000+02:00

AI 0708 posing with our jerseys just after September team days!

Not in Picture: Michelle and Juan

THANK YOU ALL FOR AN AWESOME TIME IN IC....

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING ALL OF YOU REAL SOON!!!!

OH MY GOD... IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!

2007-08-17T00:29:00.000+02:00

YOU'VE SEEN THIS.......

YOU MUST HAVE SEEN THIS.....

AND OF COURSE WHO CAN FORGET THIS????

Every year, around 20 young people from around the world experience the joy of opening a package that consists of a small striped item that is the joy and pride of these young people. It is one of the most powerful items that helps remind us of who we are and where we belong :) -And if definitely shapes our identity for the year :):)

Hmmm.. so wondering HOW THE AI 07/08 JERSEYs ARE GOING TO LOOK LIKE??? :)

Check it out in IC 2007- TURKEY !!!! Woo hoo *wink*

Thank you AI 06/07

2007-08-06T20:09:00.001+02:00

Thank you AI 06/07!

Thank you for welcoming us with arms wide open and making the past 2 months an extremely phenomenal experience for all of us.

Having you guys as our mentors and predesessors is definitely the best thing that we could have asked for.It was defiitely very hard to see you guys leave the office and bid farewell to the people that you have had many great moments and experiences with during the past year.
Anyway, I am sure the "story" that you have engraved for AIESEC this year, will forever be an inspiration for all of us in years to come!
So from the bottom of my heart, thank you for all the guidance and support that you have given us through out this period!

Wish you all the best lah.... :)

AI Transition Party 20 - 22nd July starts Tonight....

2007-07-20T16:29:00.001+02:00

AI 07/08 Planning!

2007-07-17T12:20:00.000+02:00

Hey AIESEC! We just wanted to share that we had an amazing planning week this last week. It was a beautiful experience, not only from the Italian sun and scenery, but also the opportunity to learn and grow and vision together, to really come together as a team, (although we CAN NOT WAIT for Martha to join us here in Rotterdam!!! Missing you, dear!)

A big thank you to Gabiza from all lof us for your incredible leadership and for making this retreat possible... as a team we sometimes felt more like we were on a holiday than working, and yet somehow everyday we were so productive and came to really inspiring conclusions!

Here is a snapshot of us at the top of the beautiful Dom of Milan...

And check out the villa we spent the week at (farthest building to the right in this picture):

Busy planning and preparing for our Supervisory Group Meeting this week and looking forward to seeing many of you soon at the transition party this weekend!!!

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AI Transition Overview

2007-07-12T14:55:00.001+02:00

Jarda, who is the transition responsible on AI shares his thoughts on how overall the AI transition has been until now

Transition Update

2007-07-10T10:39:00.000+02:00

The new team left for planning yesterday! Guess where... Tuscany, Italy! Lucky people. :-) It's the same place where the 06-07 team had their planning. It was one of the best times of the AI year! There will be a post once they are back - on what happened during those 8 days! So stay tuned to that.

The office is a bit empty today with the new team not here - but a lot has happened in the last 2 weeks!

Two big blocks have been completed besides individual transition that has been progressing at a rapid pace:

External Reality

(Ondro was responsible for the block)

AIESEC International would like to say a big thank you to the people who assisted in this block and devoted their bit of time to our transition. The people mentioned below were available on phone to answer questions from the new team and share their perspectives and thoughts around key external issues and trends.

Fernando Lanzer
EVP Leadership & Learning; ABN AMRO

Martin Bean
Worldwide General Manager Education Strategy, Products and Solutions at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington.

Sangeeth Varghese
Founder, www.leadcap.org (LeadCap); Author: Decide to Lead

Fernando De Sousa
General Manager, Emerging Markets (MEA), Microsoft

Joshua S. Fouts
Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy; Annenberg School for Communication; University of Southern California

Starting the MBA block which included professional skills, IS day and also portfolio transition

Maria was responsible for the professional skills block, Kiko was responsible for the IS Day block – Here’s a short video to describe what happened in these blocks.

Also, the taskforce transition took place earlier this week giving them an overview on how the Task Forces have been working, key learning over the year, achievements, non-achievements, must dos, and the elements covered over the year.

The weather in Rotterdam has been not the best - though it's not surprising. Summer must be around in Europe but certainly not in Rotterdam. You do not see the sun much; the new team is getting used to this. :-)

The famous Irish pub hangout for AIESEC International called “Paddy Murphy's” has been a place for frequent visits as we had a lot of birthdays in the past 3 weeks - Juan, Mairi, Pinar, Rishabh, Aman, JC, Martin (our CEEDer). Also a lot of late evenings have been spent at the pool place chilling out.

Soccer practice is going decent, the weather is spoiling the spirit a bit but still both teams are practicing and undergoing good preparation for the AI transition party.

Keep posting your comments, thoughts and any questions you have for anyone from the new team! We'll make sure they are addressed in the upcoming posts.

Amit,
On Behalf of AIESEC International

AI 07-08 rocks the house!

2007-07-05T13:08:00.000+02:00

WANTED!

We are looking for a soccer team that can challenge AI 07-08!

(Emanuel, Rob, Konrad, Abhishek and Ahmet)

New team is training a lot! We already proved that we're 5 times better than the current team in terms of soccer ;) Here we announce: Get ready for the transition party and bring the best players of your MC Team!

Greetz from cloudy Rotterdam :)

Ahmet
On behalf of AI 07-08 Soccer Team

Dey is on 1000 X!!! Are you contributing to the goals?

2007-07-04T09:38:00.000+02:00

1000X Campaign - AI is calling up your LCs

2007-06-18T15:00:00.000+02:00

19th June - Late evening show! Dont miss it...

2007-06-14T15:41:00.000+02:00

Stay tuned to this blog - for more information on an exciting show on global trends from the new AI team!
Date: 19th June
More information coming soon...

First 10 days of transition...

2007-06-11T17:15:00.000+02:00

The first 10 days of transition have rushed by. Exciting times have begun!

Key highlights until now:

* Welcome to Rotterdam – Thanks to Laura who made a beautiful mini Rotterdam tour for the new team which was so much fun! The new team paired up with few members of the current team and had to run around Rotterdam hunting famous places, talking to random Dutch people on the streets learning history about Rotterdam and learning their first few Dutch words.

* The first weekend was a session facilitated in a park by Jarda and Mairi with both the teams about building a community of learning. Two AI teams working for 2 months from various backgrounds, bringing diverse and rich experiences ; how can we work together making a community of learning? What is the need for building a community like that? Great discussions
to kick start transition.

* Take off weekend for AI 07-08

The Take Off weekend is a unique experience that each AI team gets at the start of their experience together - going through a very deep discovery and connection experience based on sharing their emotional autobiographies etc. and there was loads of fun was supported by eating, drinking and looking 'still' at the bungy jumping people on the beach the following day after which the day ended looking at their previous success as individuals and sharing them with the rest of the team.

* Landing weekend for AI 06-07

As the new team had a take off weekend, the current team hosted a landing weekend. The current team spent some quality time barbecuing and having a good night with spirits :) singing songs until pretty late. Ondrej’s guitar bonded and entertained the current team for a great Saturday night.

* The theme of transition is "From Kindergarden to MBA in 60 days".

The first block kickstarted where the new team was introduced to their family – which is AIESEC for people who dint guess it :). The block responsible is Jeanne from AI!

Victor Louwenstein and Marco Villa who have been prestigious alumni of AIESEC visited the office sharing stories around different areas and their perspectives from their era of AIESEC.

The entire week was spent on AIESEC history, AIESEC Today and AIESEC Future. The new team went through the big folders in the library, talked to people and compiled an output into an AIESEC History book writing their thoughts from 1948 onwards until today on what has been happening briefly throughout different years and how AIESEC has evolved responding to the external environment and society.

One of the interesting moments of AIESEC History:

Also individual transition started on last Thursday.

* The first meeting of IC planning was held which created a lot of excitements on how IC shall shape up as the biggest physical touch point of the entire AIESEC network

* There are interesting sessions called Play, Doodle, Draw that run once every week. This is run by Dey who is a master of visual presentations and creativite powerpoint designs. Not undermining how visually aesthetic creative designs / powerpoints / proper formatted documents can impact your work, these sessions aim to give this important skill to the new team.

The CEE and WENA GN boards are here as well along with the Steering Team – so team dinners have gone on to about 50 people :) and the AI office has never been so packed!

On another note, the new team has an absolute healthy start to their term with 15 members of the new team already signed up for the gym here and starting to go regularly. Work life balance is of critical importance!

Signing off from a humid Rotterdam and a jam packed AI office!

Stay tuned for more...

Amit
On Behalf of AIESEC International

AI Transition Kicks off...

2007-06-02T18:31:00.000+02:00

Welcome from a surprisingly sunny day in Rotterdam :-) - this must be a sign.

It's that time of the year again... The new global leadership team that will continue to lead AIESEC to an era of heights never seen before, that will take AIESEC closer to its vision for 2010 have arrived to Teilingerstraat 126.

Today, AIESEC International 06-07 finishes 365 days of their AI year today and AIESEC International 07-08 starts their first day of transition in the AI office Rotterdam.

AI 05-07 on June 1, 2006

AI 06-08 on June 1, 2007

We have the entire new team present today (except Martha) who is working in the Azri office in Hyderabad. We are looking forward to have her join us in about a month's time.

Jarda (the current CEE director) is the main transition responsible. The transition is user-centred :-) - and our expert designer member of the IS team Gee has put that in a beautiful format. Here it is:

The first day started off with welcoming the new team and having a good detailed tour of the AI office. The new team also spent some time together getting to know each other. The first block of getting to know Rotterdam will be kickstarted today evening by having a short treasure hunt around Rotterdam.

From now onwards, every week, we will share with you what has been happening with about 40 crazy individuals in the AI office. Another cool aspect of this transition will be that you will have an opportunity to interact with the new team virtually at some occassions.

Here are first few moments of transition:

Stay tuned for more...

Amit
On Behalf of AIESEC International

Happy New Year!

2007-06-01T17:50:00.000+02:00

Yes it's new year...it's a new year for AIESEC International!! :)

The new team has arrived in Rotterdam and transition was officially kicked off this morning. It's so exciting to have so many people in this office!!!

In case you're wondering why it's a new year...our fiscal year ended on May 31st (yesterday) so today is a new financial year! (and yes Petroula was the one who reminded me of this yesterday) :)

So stay tuned for more wacky adventures from AI transition!

From happy hour in Rotterdam!! :)

AI Transition Party - 20-22 July 2007

2007-05-08T20:46:00.000+02:00

AIESEC International 2006-2008 invites AIESEC members worldwide to the best Transition Party in 59 years of AIESEC history on July 20-22 in Rotterdam.

If you only attend one party this year, this has to be it. Party with two AI teams for two nights and two days, All Class, No Sh*t.

Planning to travel to Rotterdam?

Book your train tickets to Rotterdam Central Station.
Find bus tickets on www.eurolines.com.
Find the best flight tickets to Rotterdam Airport on www.skyscanner.net. Alternative airports are Amsterdam/Schipol (one hour away by train) and Eindhoven (one hour away by train).

Your Transition Party Team,
Petroula, Amit, Pinar, Jeanne, Ryan, Gee

Engagement in the AI office

2007-04-15T14:30:00.000+02:00

It is official! For everyone who doesn't already know:

Ildiko Kostyak and Ryan Sheppard from the AI team are now engaged!

Ildi and Ryan have been engaged since March 10th. You can send any well wishes to ildikok@ai.aiesec.org and ryans@ai.aiesec.org.

From a very happy couple,
Ildi & Ryan

Home in Mexico

2007-04-08T03:19:00.000+02:00

It feels so great to be back in an Iberoamerican country!! I've been here since the middle of March for AXLDS and will stay here for a country visit now that the conference is over. For me coming here has been like coming home, it just feels so familiar. Some of the highlights of my trip so far include:

Seeing and working physically with my GN Board. It was great to meet up with Piret, Sarah, and Filipe. What was especially cool was that our first dinner together we were all speaking Spanish. Imagine, a Canadian, Estonian, American, and Brazilian having a full conversation in Spanish!

AXLDS facilitators! It was a privilege and an honour for me to work with these amazing individuals to deliver the conference. We truly came together and formed an awesome team.

The OC! WOW! Such an amazing job; anytime we needed something they were right there making sure we had everything we needed to deliver an awesome conference. Congratulations to AIESEC in Mexico for a job well done!

The conference team all together!!

Ser Mas coming to life! Just before the conference kicked off we had a 2-day meeting for the Ser Mas Haciendo la Diferencia Program (the social entrepreneurship program in SSGN), sponsored by Artemisia and the Kellogg Foundation. It was incredible to have the opportunity to interact with 17 ex-trainees (some of whom are current MC members, LCPs, and Project Directors in SSGN). So cool that we also got some great T-shirts! (see below!)

A landmark AXLDS...say what? At the beginning of the conference the facilitators team made a conference that this would be the conference that would be the foundation for a new era in SSGN...and we're now in search a new name for the conference, one which truly reflects what happens so that SSGN can come together and be more. The conference was just AWESOME! Below the Smart and Sexy GN posing to remember our amazing week together.

Spanish Speaking Presidents Meeting. Just after AXLDS, the MCP-elects of SSGN came together to agree on what actions need to be taken in the next months to move forward Ser Mas implementation until IC to get the results we want to get. It was so great to meet together. Below some of the MCPs during the last meeting. Thank you MC Mexico for hosting us at your beautiful offices!

And lucky me I'm still going to be in Mexico for another while for more adventures in SSGN!

Rotterdam in a clip

2007-03-24T02:38:00.000+01:00

Jump, a kind of music we simply name "Dutch music". In the videoclip you can see many places in which we daily move... central station, the shopping area and more... It is funny when you watch MTV before going to work to the AI office and you see a clip that shows shots of places that constitute your every day.