Friday, October 20, 2006

AIESEC is everywhere
Today me and some other guys from our LC was on presentation of Center for leadership development in British Council.
There were around 60 people sitting in the room waiting for Something. For Something which will answer on their questions about how to be successful leader, how to make a lot of money and stuff like that. Of course, they didn't receive that answer. Because there are no universal answer to that question.
Today guys from Global Leadership organization partnering with Center for leadership development where talking about importance of self-awareness and understanding of your own place and role on this planet and creating whole your life around it.
Great idea with so little percentage of realization among people...
Then they told us about conception of their center and how people are learning there. And when I heard it I was shocked. They told about AIESEC but without international reach and with guys working on the projects a little bit older then we are.
The main idea is that you can understand what is leadership only in real combat and real work in a team. Participants of the center share in teams and then select project they want to be doing. And then simply do it. During whole time they have theoretical support, coaching and feedback from trainers and coachers.
On the presentation there was a team who told about one of their project. They wanted to make society to think and talk about absence of movies for children on our television. They conducted social research asking children to remember some movies... and the result was that children couldn't remember any of it. Later they presented this research on press conference with a lot of medias present and make real boom medias of all sizes.
And when looking at those guys I saw all of us doing the same things but being just a few years younger. And now I know that when I quit AIESEC I will join Center for Leadership Development because of things they want to do in society around us. They want everybody to make a difference.
What difference do you want to make?
 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 12:36 AM