Wednesday, November 29, 2006

EnterCEE Visit

Most of you have already heard about the EnterCEE Program: it was created in CEE region to create a network of AIESEC entities and stakeholders around entrepreneurship to ensure high quality AIESEC XPs for our members.

One of the most important initiatives within the program was LC Visits by the so-called E-Drive Team, people supporting the implementation of this program on local level. And our LC became one of the 6 LCs selected for the E-Drive Team's LC Visit, which finished yesterday.


Cecilia Karl, originally from AIESEC in Munich, Germany, now working for NEXT in Turkey came to Kiev to help our team of Activating Entrepreneurs to set up the team and processes within it during the 2,5 day visit.

You just need to look at those faces, emotions and just at the sparkling eyes of OC members to understand: yep, it was a success. During that short time they had an opportunity to understand, what it feels to lead and be led, who they are in their team, what types of personalities they are, and even try to realize a small, yet challenging project (just imagine, to create a coverage that won’t let raw eggs break when thrown from the 1st floor in the streetJ)

It was also a time when all team members learned the basics of team management, planned their work, and got deeper insight into their functional areas.

But still, the most important thing, was the opportunity to stay together with the team for 2,5 days, working, having fun, sharing. I guess, this would be very helpful for them in their future work and motivation.

And we also had a very important guest on that meeting: our dear alumnus, Dima Melnik, decided to join the team on one of its days to challenge it with questions, thus adding value to the whole process.

I believe, it was one the best opportunities our LC could take from this program and I’m really excited about us getting it. Hope there will be much more in future!

 
Posted by Olga Kuznetsova at 1:35 PM