Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.: First Month of Transition Agenda

Saturday, July 02, 2005

First Month of Transition Agenda

Yesterday 1st of July the new AI team celebrated its first month in Rotterdam. Everyday from 9 to 6 we go through challenging Agenda session that we co-create with the current 04 05 AI team. Almost all session that we have been going through have been meant to understand the past, the current status (these are the tough ones!) and the future of the organization, and of AIESEC International itself. The feeling is similar to the one we all feel when we start any other position in AIESEC - we see so many things that we would like to see operating different, things that we do not understand why nobody else has not been able to change them, things about which we simple feel the impetus to change ... that's why I call the "new position symdrome" - syndrome that you anyways need to know how to handle, to stay REAL AND HUMBLE enough to understand the legacy of the past and the reasons behind to what has been done.

Global Plan Review - Sustainable Growth in Exchanges Outcome!

Maybe one of the most poweful sessions, or rather blocks that we have had during the AI transition has been the common understanding sessios and teambuilding. How you manage to put 20 people, from different cultures, AIESEC backgrounds and with different personalities, on the same page to work towards the same goal? well, common understanding sessions and team building is the answer. Common Understanding sessions are meetings that we have to discuss withing the whole AI Team burning issues for the organization where we as AI TEAM need to have a common postion - we have had two common understanding sessions so far, that have been one day long each.

In terms of teambuilding, this year we counted with two AMAZING external teambuilding facilitatators from FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS - a consultancy company based in London. It has been so far the nest teambuilding I have ever been to, cause it was focused primaly in making us understand who each of us were as INDIVIDUALS, to afterwards, be able to know what role we would play in the team. Simply amazing ... our two facilitators were AIESEC Alumni, Satu from Finnland and former AI member and Pete, from the UK, from UK and Italy MC member. Working on things like building my personal life stand, how to give and receive asessments, activity cicles, how to live authenticity within a team, the importance of reward and recognize, have prepared myself to live what probably will become one of the best team experiences in life.