Today we did have first round of sessions called AIESEC University Live!
The idea is really simple: to run workshops on things related to Critical Cussess Factors and then do real case studies sent by Member and Local Committes.
I was on a workshop on competency based performance appraisal. Yeap, sorry for such a topic.
In general the idea of performance appraisal is to give a external perspective for employee on his performance assessing his skills, reviewing goals and planning development plan. And by competency based we do mean that we assess competencies from Global Competency Model (if you want to find more just go to Global People Development Community) and you will find more :)
That was not really practical but gave a few cool things to thought while implementing it on local level.
And then we had case studies. Actually our local committee submitted 3 case studies (max number per one entity) about mentorship, external event, and allocation of people. The idea was that if there was a person from LC or country which case studies are studied then he should be in that group. And I was called to a group which had a case study on our mentorship implementation.
Actually to tell the truth I didn't expected anything really great from this AIESEC University Live!, but after few minutes listening to people I changed my perception. The main thing is that all those people are really excited about helping AIESEC development by that way and they are really open and trying to understand situation. There was a lot of proposition from their side and a lot of challenging from my side, but I can say that I had a huge amount of ideas and things to pay attention for.
We will have 2 more rounds of AIESEC University Live! and I hope I will be able to participate in a working group dealing with our case studies.
That's all for now. I am heading to dorminotories for country meeting.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 12:07 AM  | 2 comments

After a little pause in posting I am returning to you, guys!
So, today is already 30 in the calendar and there's not so much time left to learn, to interact, to ask, to listen, ... to party :)
Yeap, and I can say that party on IC are just amazing and not only because of a beer selling only for 0.5 euros, but also because a bunch of people living same values and really enjoying being together in one place.
Some parties are dedicated to Growth Networks and on those parties countries are presenting their food and alcochol for all party attendance. I didn't actually try any but people really like it.
And another cool point about party is that you have an opportunity to find out more about each other (I mean here mostly country delegation). And when on first party everybody just came to me and said: "Oh, my god, man, you are cool! I didn't know you can have fun in this way" it was a little bit funny. In AIESEC we don't really know each other from other cities in all areas in life and I am sure that this parties are really making us closer to each other.
And for the last some of the photos.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 11:58 PM  | 0 comments

Indeed, how do we live? How do we spend our time ? What do we do?

So, these days we are saying farewell to the last summer 2006 days:)

And we've recently met - everyone present in Kyiv - to spend this wonderful time on the bank of the Dnipro. Even more, Alyona brought her sister with her, so we had "AIESEC+" Day

It was great: we played valleyball (big respect to Slava:), badminton (Alyona, Anya that talky game was cool :)), talked, created new underground stations (which was meant to be written "AIESEC" on the sand) and just had a nice time.

For me, personally, it was very pleasurable since it had been a long time since I met AIESECers without talking about work and another important thing: it was the first time I saw Citla after her vacations :)

BTW, this day-out was called barbecue, and even supposed to be, but then we decided not to go crazy with meat and just bye anything we like in a supermarket.

All in all, many thanks to Anya for suggesting such a cool place and thanx to everyone who came on Thursday!!! And thnx to the weather which was forcast to be rainy but in the end was pretty fine and warm.

And then...
Friday came.
And we had our LCM on Spivoche Pole. There lots of people because of the Flowers' Exhibition, but still, we succeeded to find a cute place under trees and have the first after-summer LCM! :) (BTW, Nadya, I know you read our blog, guess why we chose Spivoche Pole;))

We shared our impressions about the summer, talked about work and recent news: everything on green-green grass, with beautiful flowers around us! I'm looking forward for another LCM :)

Soon we'll have our new HR Audit, Discussion Clubs, AIESEC Days, and .... of course, OUR NEWIES!!!:)

So, check for further posts to learn about our life.

P.S. I dodn't write that out LCP is on the International Congress in Poland now, but I guess, you've already realized it reading our blog:)

Cheers!

 
Posted by Olga Kuznetsova at 6:59 PM  | 0 comments

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Yesterday we had alumni hall of fame ceremony together with guys from YouCan and alumni congress. That's was great... Too see all those men and women in on planery with all of us and celebrating this great journey we all have in organization.
Actually we did even see one of the founders of AIESEC and some of ukrainian delegation including me made a photo with him and you can see it here. I can't even imagine what does he feel when he sees his idea working and living for more then half of the century. That's great experience I suppose.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 4:23 PM  | 2 comments

Today I decide to have some more sleep and didn't go to breakfast and morning planery. So, I can say that I am feeling as I only arrived at the conference after almost 8 hours of sleep.
We started with presentation of AI Plan (which you can find as everything else on live.ic2006.pl) and then moved to presentation of AIESEC Global IS system development of which will be started very soon. AI was finding for a vendor of this system and they stoped their choice on TATA Consulting Services - big international company dealing with IT development and based in India. So, we had a small presentation of the company and then AIESEC and TATA official signed partnership in front of a whole planery.
Then we had a session about Our management philosophy in which we talk on how we should use Scorecard in our daily work. And main stress was that Scorecard shouldn't be seen only as a tracking tool, but at first as a tool for understanding and showing our global direction and strategy.
Running for a next session now. See you.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 3:34 PM  | 0 comments

Do you know what is the difference between dialogue and discussion?
Anyway just take your vocabulary and take a look what both of them mean.
In general in dialogue you try to understand on the point of view of other person, see it and learn from it rather then just add another comment about the things previously said.
So, the conception was this one and we had 12 topics to choose and participate. All of this was transmited via live.ic2006.pl, so you have an opportunity to find everything there.
I was deciding about the topic for a long time and eventually joined a group of people with topic: Who will change the world.
There was around 35 people in a corner of a huge planery sitting on the floor and LISTENING to each other. There was different cultures, there was different ages, there was diversity. And as all of you know the diversity is one of the success factors for good outcomes.
You can see all the discussion on the web site.
I just want to share with you one thought I had constantly for a long time from now and it is about this: if we are so cool and we are going to change a world why it is so difficult for most of us to change ourselves. No, you just remember the last time you wanted to change something in your life and what was the results? Yeap, I had some problems with this too.
Just think about how you are going to change something and someone around you if you can't make yourself to get out of the bed in the morning while you need to go to university. And now decide whether you stop talking about changing the world or you start making changes in yourselves.
Sorry for such a long post. Hope you find something usefull for you here. Just remember you don't need to take my point of view as your own, you just need to see the stuff from my perspective and decide if you can learn something from it.
Keep in touch, guys.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 1:46 AM  | 0 comments

I will be short with this posting. I don't know if anybody of you experience the same problem I do. I do have my own digital camera and I have it with me all the time, but I can say that I don't have photos with me on it. And it has already been almost a week I am here in Poland and I only have several of my photos and all others are done by me.
So, I just want to advice you to make as much as possible photos with yourself on them. And it is not about selfish:)

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 1:41 AM  | 0 comments

Today we had opportunities to get to know more of Global Partner and it was DHL and Alcatel.
The first presentation was from DHL and we were celebrating 10 years anniversary of AIESEC-DHL partnership. They gave every delegate an orange bag (similar to one Slavik has) with a small car inside :)
Then a short presentation followed by ballons and salute. Just amazing. They just spend a year amount of money we receive in Ukraine for a year based partnership for this 30 minues presentation :)
And the other one was a guy, Vice-President Global Marketing (I hope you do understand what does it mean) of Alcatel. And can you imagine... He was talking about his company less then 5 minutes during whole half hour. He was talking about himself, AIESEC, us, our future, our next page in life. And he was joking like crazy and my favorite one was: "AIESECers are so strange, they know what they do want to do a whole life, but don't know what they will do next year! :)" Just amazing isn't it? And this guy wasn't in AIESEC, he got to know and learn it later and now he is almost 40 years old. He also shared some ideas about our first work place and his thoughts are next: find a job that will help you to CHALLENGE YOURSELF, WILL BE PRACTICING ACTIVE LEARNING INSIDE OF YOU and something else. And the main message is that it doesn't really matter what company do you choose first if you are basing yourself on this principles you anyway will be successful.
And in the end I want to say that those people (I mean corporate folks do really know why they partner with AIESEC.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 9:51 PM  | 1 comments

Guys, you know technology is a great stuff. I am now sitting on the 3rd floor of our planery building with my laptop and having wireless access to internet. This great opportunity was given for AIESEC by Microsoft and HP and they are doing it for several ICs already.
Internet is really fast and there around 50 laptops available for everybody.
In few minutes next session will start and actually it is continuation of a previous one and we are talking about freedom centered organization and how AIESEC is in relation to this concept.
That's all for now.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 1:31 PM  | 0 comments

That was one of the longest days in my entire life. Imagine you are waking up at 7.30 because OC in knocking in the door asking us not to forget anything for Global Village. Then you go wo a shower and there is no water there :)
Then you run to a dinner tent to be one of the first and not to stand in the line because of logistics and amount of people there (I will surely put here photo of that line). And then you are running to a plenary because you want to sit in the first raws and look to those people speaking there in the eyes and see there the future of AIESEC in general and the future of AIESEC in Kyiv.
OK. So, we started in the morning with roll calls. Can you, guys, imagine over 90 countries presenting their roll calls. At the beginning it is interesting and at the end you are almost sleeping :) And in the middle whole ukrainian delegation is going out to repear our roll call once more time and in the end we just sing a song. Crazy AIESECers :)
Opening plenary is finished and I go to a dorminotary to take stuff for Global Village and back and it takes around 20 minutes because of the distances. Over the road to the center of Warsaw where the whole event was running you are traveling in a bus with tunisian guys singing and singing so loud you want to kill them in the end :)
Over 90 cultures, over 700 people representing them, over 2000 citizens, TVs, cameras, excitement. You just need to feel it by your own! So, apply for LCP next year and you will have a possibility to go to IC in Turkey.
And in the evening serious stuff started. Yep, agenda overview. AIESEC 2010 pioneers: about us and how ready we are to lead those changes we should make in order to achieve our vision. And A SESSION FROM PAI named Rocket without science. Imagine the whole planery, around 600 people, I can't even say how much square metres. And a one guy on the chair near the flip chart, and 2 HUGE screens with projectors connected with video camera to show what he is doing on that flip chart. And a voice of around 7 PAI starting from 1996-1997 via a phone. And those "Hey, AIESEC" from them and "What's up from the plenary". Yep, one in a life opportunity. So, in general the idea of that session was to show how did it come that now we have our AIESEC 2010 vision, what was the priorities of AIESEC back 10 years ago on global level. What was the reasons for AIESEC 2005 and how did it turned out it didn't work. You just feel yourself as a part of the history! And the future!!! The future created by you, those people around you, those people now reading their mails back home. And during this moment you can actually say that AIESEC does change your worldview!

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 1:52 AM  | 1 comments

As always. A small update about what time it is now in Poland. And it is now 0.40 and I just arrived from plenary actually.
So, now I want to share with you very special event which happened yesterday, here on IC, in Warsaw. Yep, yesterday we had an official opening of the conference in the biggest hall of Poland: Dvorez Sporta. There was huge amount of people, you just can't imagine that diversity flying in every corner and every second. You are going down the corridor and can only count: africa, japan, chine, europe, again asia, again asia, ... Ariadna ;) Yep, I met her there and she was on party yesterday. The world is really not that big when you are in AIESEC, guys!
Among the speakers there was Minister of Finance and ex-Prime Minister of Poland. Can you imagine that? Standing there while delegates shouting la-la-la, la-la-la, ye-ye-ye, take your close of :) That's just amazing.
And, of course, a lot of dances and speeches from Congress Committee President and our dear PAI. As always it was AIESECly with enjoying participation and challenging worldview.
Read next posts.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 1:39 AM  | 0 comments

So, today is a starting point of International Congress 2006. I am now sitting in my room preparing for Official Opening and in 20 minutes we are leaving by buses to the city. Official opening will be in a best hall of Poland with more then 2000 guests there, so, it should be just amazing.
Today we had Closing of CEE pre-meeting and HP internet cafe lunch. You can really see the approaching of IC on people's faces.
Also today delegates for YouCan arrived and I already saw our Katya, Slavik and Nastya. They are doing great with opening and out door games.
That's all for now. Read more on the evening.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 4:39 PM  | 3 comments

Hey, guys!
Now it is around 2.00 am in Poland and I am going to my bed after very difficult time during the day and evening.
So, today we had the most important part of agenda for CEE premeeting: we were discussing CEE initiatives, how they should like, what challenges can we face in implementing them, what you should change and add to them. There were several working groups and I was working on the group dealing with potential challenges in Enter CEE. And you know... when so different people come together to think about something you are actually experiencing what does it mean working in multicultural environment. I got already used to different accents and I hope they did used to mine too and now I am trying hard to understand the people see the whole picture based on their own background (country, LC, culture etc). And I can tell you, guys, that is really challenging stuff for me now. In general the main challenge we saw was the demand and supply in our exchange pool. The thing is that we do have a lot of PBOXes planned inside the program and a lot of SN realization throughout the year, but those TNs and SNs should be realized in different time frames. We came up with some of the ideas, but as always we should do more deep analisys.
Then we had skills building sessions. I attended team management and effective meetings. I can't say that I did hear anything new for me, but again I can say THE ONE thing I was thinking about lately: we DO NEED to do something with our KNOWING-DOING GAP. And what I mean by this is that we do, guys, know a lot of stuff, but using not all of it in the practice. And our main efforts should be on selfmanagement in order to fill that gap.
OK. Then we had visit from AI (and you can see them on the photo, the right one, Dai, is President of AIESEC International). They are really cool guys (actually about 20 of them) and I looking forward for sessions from them.
That's all for today. Tomorrow YouCan delegation arrives and IC starts with official opening. See you all really soon.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 2:56 AM  | 0 comments

Now it is around 12.30 by polish time and I am sitting in my room connected to high-speed internet and writing this post.
Today finished my second day in Warsaw on IC and first day of CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) premeeting. As always we started with getting to know each other: we were catching people and telling them some crazy story from your life. So, I managed to talk with 2 MCPs, 2 LCPs and some other MC members. And each time you need to think out something new and crazy because it is a little bit boring to tell about the same thing again and again and again.
Then we had opening ceremony with history about CEE GN and analysis of performance of previous 2 terms and then we were talking about CEE Initiatives that will be developed this year. And they will be EnterCEE, CEE The Difference, Country2Coutry mentoring, CEE CEEDs etc. All of this was facilitated by CEE GN Board 2006-2007: Jaroslav Dokoupil, AI Director, Jens Christian Borgen, CEE Chair, Ines Djuric, CEE Program Manager, Agata Lis, CEE ER. All of them are great guys and girls. But one of them is even more special and it is because you already met him on our Winter Conference 2006 when he was a chair with yaki-yaki :) Today he repeated it already :)
You can see our plenary for CEE premeeting. As you already know IC is located on really big University Campus. And here it is on the photo. We have our dinners and lunches in a big tent (you can see it too).
In the evening after agenda official finished ukrainian delegation wasn't leaving a plenary building while trying to rehearse roll-calls and dances for tomorrow and the day of official opening of International Congress 2006.
So, that's all for today. Stay tuned.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 1:40 AM  | 4 comments

Now it is somewhere around 8.30 in the morning by Polish time and I eventually have time to sit near computer and check my mail and write to blog.
Yesterday we arrived around 22.00 again by Polish time after travelling in city for almost one hour and walking in night not knowing where to go. You know I always thought that I have problems with map but as it appeared I did manage to find a way in new city for me only with one map with not the highest quality.
We travelled in tram not paying for because the driver didn't have rest and wandering when will somebody come in and ask for tickets.
Then there was metro station and you have to look for a place where you can buy tickets for 10 minutes because there is nobody on the station (I mean working there - everything is automatic).
There are already a lot of people here: different countries, different cultures, different races. And all of them walking to a shop on petrol station and I think guys who working there will be wandering what is going on till the end of the Congress.
3 person is leaving in one room with all furnitures and even fridge. We do have unlimited internet access in every room. You only need to have laptop and TCP/IP cable for connection. So, it's great! I will be able to be with you all the time.
For now I have to go to breakfast and further by agenda.
Take care guys and see you in 2 weeks:)

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 9:32 AM  | 0 comments

This was my first AIESEC Conference made by AIESEC Kyiv. I think I will always remember it, even though I wasn't a memeber of the OC PPGB 2006.

This conference was an important stage for many paople: OCP, OC, LC Kyiv, delegates, partners and others.

And now we can use OC's XP for further improvement of our projects, we can capitalize on it.

Thanks to Dasha Anyakina we now have an exhaustive PPGB2006 package where there is everything connected to this project: all documents, budget, all relevant stuff and much much more.

Don't lose your opportunity and make copies of it for your selves (contact me for it)

Cheers!

 
Posted by Olga Kuznetsova at 10:17 PM  | 0 comments

Yes. There is no cool title of this post, but!.. There will be alot of news here...
First of all I want to wish Good Luck to Vitaliy, because he went to the coolest AIESEC conferences named Internatioanl Congress 2006. It takes place in Poland this year. I wish you find the best international friends and to get enough motivation for the whole term of your being LCP of the best Local Commeette in the whole AIESEC world. Guess what is the name of it??? Of course LC KIEV!!!
Second important part of these post is news about YOU CAN 2006 and it's participants from our LC. You Can 2006 will take place this year at the same place and also the same time, where IC 2006 takes place - in Poland. There are four delegates from our LC: Slava, Nastya, Katya and me. Slava has problems with getting visa, so he will come later(I REALLY HOPE SO!!!). Katya, Nastya and me will go to Lviv tommorow night and the day after tommorow we have a bus to Poland. In Lviv we are going to buy national food for Global Viladge, national flag and other stuff to show our country on this conference - as the best country in the world :)
And now my thoughts... Tommorow recruitment materials will begin printing in Cherkassy, from the end of August the recruitment campaign will begin and till the end of September we will have a lot of new faces on LCMs :), a lot of new posts on our voice and a lot of motivation and spirit! I want to develop our commeette this year as well as it is possible and I will do everything for discovering and developing my potential and potential of all people in my commeette - THE BEST LC in the WHOLE world. I LOVE YOU, AIESEC KIEV!!!

 
Posted by Slavik at 8:55 PM  | 0 comments

Few months ago I didn't think that I would ever will seek for a mentor. There was a lot of reasons why I didn't do it and a lot of them there now to do it! And I did, I saw a person who I respect and who has enough living experience and just went to Dima and asked if he want to be my mentor and he agreed.
So, today was our first meeting... 2 hours... A lot of thinking process before, during and even more after. You know a feeling when you think you don't have any brains because you can't tell if you have any thoughts in your heads. It happens with me after very challenging worldview things (it can be event, movie, chat, talk or anything else) and I can stay in such a condition for several days. I don't know what happened but it seems that my brains are not any more working and I am dealing directly with my subcontiousness.
Yeap, I wrote that paragraph and then thought that some of you can think of me as crazy :) But I am not believe me.
And the last thing: guys, whily you are here and have a lot of time and energy and time to use all those opportunities DO IT! Go and find yourself a mentor and try to create win-win relationships and try to challenge yourself, to learn from other people.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 12:17 AM  | 2 comments

From time to time, when I do not have enough concentration for work to do I review some videos or ppts that give me motivatian. One of the ppts is very known in AIESEC and it is called “Sunscreen” and it consists of general advices how to live. One of the slides that I remember pretty well was only with one word “Travel”. Just travel. When you travel you meet new people, who broad your worldview, you have an opportunity to look at your routine things from another angle, share your own experience and get a feedback. As for I am really passionate about IT, I always want to share my knowledge in that sphere, so that people make their life’s easier, more exciting and challenging. So, I when I had an opportunity to go to Kirovohrad to make a training I had no hesitations.

There is direct train to this city, but when you go out from train in the morning and see that there is only one carriage and it looks pretty funny. The architecture in Kirovohrad is not so pretty, especially, the central square, but the Lenin street, that starts near it is just amazing – it reminds Western Ukrainian cities – Lviv and Chernivtsi.

Soon after my arrival I was met by VP PD of AIESEC in Kirovohrad Katya and the official part of my visit began. We went to nice place that is near Kirovohrad – to Berezhynka, where nature is beautiful and it was really fascinating experience. The training I delivered was a part of my new training about Web 2.0 conception – what today’s internet looks like and how it can be working on you (for example, one of our favorite things – blogs and podcasts are from Web 2.0 conception). The training was a kind of conversation between me and listeners that I liked very much. From time to time we talked about personal development, lucid dreaming and other interesting stuff  I learned about not long ago. After that we had a talk with LCP Angela and VP PD Katya about what IS in Kyiv and Ukraine looks like, in what way it may help the development of Kirovohrad’s committee. I was delighted about persistence and confidence of Angela, cause it was my first private conversation with her. She reminded me our dear LCP in some way. As for VP PD, I think almost everybody from active AIESEC members knows she’s pretty funny and serious person. Luckily for me, I’ve taken some discs (podcasts, training, ppts etv) with me, so it was not only help in words for LC Kirovohrad.

As for one of private conversation, one of my talks was with guy (everyone called him Dosja) as I just described a little bit what AIESEC is, which opportunities it gives and how IT is perspective. So, really-really hope to see more ITified ( my own word, I’ve created just now, comes from electrified :) ) LC’s and some more experienced specialist in out National IS Team…

Thanks for LC Kyiv for an opportunity to travel and support Kirovohrad!!! They have a great future so let’s give them a hand of help!!!

I am really looking forward to the start of new year and hope to deliver full training “Web 2.0 or how to make internet to work for you” for our LC Kyiv Members.

Still, Kyiv is the best !!! :)))

 

 
Posted by Anton Chornyy at 8:10 PM  | 0 comments

Ya-ya... Time is passing very fast and today is already 16th of August and it means that we have only 2 weeks before great event in every Local Committee all over the world. And that event is Recruitment.
We have very ambitious plans, we want to recruit great people who will find themselves in AIESEC and align their personal goals with those opportunities AIESEC can give them.
We do see already how challenging it will be to cover in few days all universities with promotion, to run 3 Discussion Clubs and 2 big AIESEC days and all this in a time of one week.
I am just excited about all of this and see how in 2 months we sit on LCM with bunch of people with lights in their eyes, people who want to discover and develop their potential and have a positive impact on society.
And another thought that come to my mind is that I am extremely happy about all of you excited about this event on the same lever as I am and your eagerness to help.
Keep working this way!

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 5:36 PM  | 0 comments

While Vitalik was obtaining new knowledge on Counterpart's training, Slavik, Katya, Alyona and I attended another TTT, now by our national partner - Nordic.

This was an unforgettable experience for all of us. We had an excellent trainer - Diana Kebas, one of the best I've ever seen, - so professional, flexible and open that, personally I didn't feel being "supervised" or taught, but at the same time I looked at her and could see those things, skills and tricks she revealed for us. She was as an open book with good illustrations: you can read, you can imagine and you can see everything.

More than that, she was very open: open during discussions, open for questions, open for our organisation and us, open for further co-operation. She was as if she had been an alumna.

We learned many new things about the 3 elements of any training: a trainer, a group and content. We learned how to develop oneself as a trainer and stay motivated and optimistic throughout a training and after it, revealed groups' peculiarities and why they behave as they do and mastered techniques of content creation.

So, interesting, so useful...

I'm now dreaming about the time when we start preparing the educational cycle and teach our newies:)

 
Posted by Olga Kuznetsova at 11:10 PM  | 2 comments

All of you visited trainings and do remember the way business trainers look like...
Today was the first day at Counterpart training and the first thing I was amazed was how their trainers look like :) One of them is from Western Ukraine (the big one on the photo) and another one from Crimia (the small one). Yes, it is not like business guy or business woman, but believe me they are not worse and I would say even better. They talked on different languages (ukrainian and russian) and it added another fishka to this training.
I was a long time I enjoyed training so much: full of individual and group work, full of fun and learning. There was no ppt only flip charts and they were hanging all over the room on the walls and any time you could return to those things, read them again and think more.
There are only 9 delegates and this is great, because a lot more attention can be given to each of participants. And participants are all different, with different background and different experience in delivering trainings and that diversity added another points to learning process.
In general I can say thanks again to all people that make it possible to attend this great training... And by those people I mean Olya Kuzentsova for raising Counterpart and Counterpart itself for great job they are doing here.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 11:50 PM  | 1 comments

Tomorrow I will have day # 1 out of 5 days training on training skills. This great opportunity will be provided by our yet unofficial partner Creative Center CounterPart. Mission of this organization is to support development of NGO and whole 3rd sector in Ukraine and I do believe they are doing it great.
I am sure this training will be a huge step forward in my public speaking, coaching, training and conference development skills and I will do my best to convert my knowledge and skills to your benefit in personal and professional development.
Also some members of Executive Board will take part in Train The Trainer 2 days training delivered by national partner of AIESEC in Ukraine - Nordic.
Stay tuned and be ready to start one of the best years in your life in few days... Year of AIESEC in Kyiv 06-07.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 11:53 PM  | 0 comments

From yesterday Local Committee of AIESEC in Kyiv has official holidays for one week...
In several days we will come together again and start our "new" year. There will be only 2 weeks before start of recruitment and a lot of things to do in all subsystems. We have to review our year plan and finilize budget, we have to review all what have been done till now and try to start with blank page.
Only few days... Till the begining of something. I am excited about it.

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 1:36 PM  | 0 comments

It was something incredible, something I could never expect, something that makes a difference.

Leadership Development Seminar 2006.....

When we talked about it 3 months earlier and decided that we connot afford not doing it because whole Ukraine was waiting for it I couldn't even imagine how deep that was.

Those delegates' faces, their excitement, compliments....

cute speakers, devoted professionals, outstanding personalities...

and all in one place....


When I was very small my Mom once told me that if a play or a concert or anythiing that neds audience is successful people come out of it and speak mostly about it. They go out and don'tstart speking about their home problemsa immediately, they discuss the performance. And that was what I saw during LDS. People came iout of sessions and discussed them, their speakers, new knowledge.

I hope it will become one of the most memorable and dearest XPs for all of us!

P.S. Many thanks for everyone who helped the OC during the conference, especially LC Kyiv and LC Vancouver!!!!

 
Posted by Olga Kuznetsova at 1:50 PM  | 0 comments

Today is Tuesday and it is already 2 days left after great event in life of AIESEC in Kyiv, huge conference where whole Ukraine gather in one place to get new knowledge, challenge worldview, broaden personal network, have fun.
In my life I saw 2 Leadership Development Seminar and I hope next year I will experience new one. And each time they are different... Previous year I was Organizing Committee President and this year I was conference manager. Totally different roles and experience. And there will pass few weeks when I start understand what I've learned, where I was wrong and how I can change to better. This way it was in 2005.
And as I know it is always this way. In new situation you have to deal with new things, you have to think fast and make decisions, you have to lead people around you and often there is no time to stop and think about what you are doing. You have that chance only after event when you can't change anything and the only thing you can do it to deliver your message to other people who will be going through the same experience in future and not to repear your mistake yourself.
Yeap, that's why I do love AIESEC. I love it for opportunities to learn things by doing. But don't get me wrong. Try to learn things by doing after you have theoretical knowledge. It is more effective this way.
And in the last I want to thank all of you people who was connected by this project: OC, AIESEC in Kyiv, MC, delegates from other cities, students, companies, site personal, alumni and much much more. There won't be any conference without you!

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 9:45 AM  | 0 comments