Int'l NTTs meeting in Bonn, Germany

As I spend few days in Germany, Michaela (MC VP in AIESEC Germany) initiated International NTTs meeting in Bonn for one day.

3 of us met in person:

• Birte Kloppenburg - German NTT
• Andreea Sultan - Romanian NTT
• me "representing Czech colours" :-P
• and Martin (Austrian NTT) joined us through skype.
  

Covering sharing, gathering ideas for NTTs development and co-operation, finding out what do we understand as trainer, what are the standards of NTT in each country... that was it all about.
We plan to have one more, virtual meeting soon.

(small insight about what was discussed)

With Lenka we plan to deliver one more event for those who are interested - it might be TtT Advaced - facilitator track, Learning academy or somethings totally different.

So on Dec 6, when having half-year NTT meeting with Barbara in Prague, we will plan how to support learning of our members by delivering one more cool "TtT-based" seminar.

Presentation skills in Olomouc

On 21th November I trained Presentation skills in Olomouc. We learnt how to prepare presentation to deliver appropriate message to our audience and also talked about body language and its usage during presentation. I spent very nice moments with Olomouc members. My big experience was not only training itself but also amazing historical room where training took place. Pics HERE.

DO-IT 2007 in Switzerland

Right after my Polish chairing and FallCo facilitating I travelled to Switzerland to be a faci in DO-IT conference in Alps. Again - I was a part of international faci team, I was co-responsible for newies track and co-designing and delivering training and facilitating home group. Anyway, it was completely different experience than during FallCo in the Czech Republic.

Again I had a chance to meet many lovely people, both in faci team and delegates. Again I had lot of fun, got inspiration and learnt a lot. Wanna more know who were those lovely people called facis? See the pic.

And my final impression? If you want to experience really international AIESEC conference and meet lovely boys - be a part of DO-IT:) Officially I had only one international delegate in my home group. After asking "the rest of you guys are from Switzerland?" I realized that one half are international students studying in Switzerland and the second half consists of young Swiss with at least one parent abroad:)

FallCo 2007

From 1st to 4th November I was a part of Newies faci team in FallCo 2007. Wow, it was just great. Working in international faci team, working on sessions and tasks for newies, facilitating home group, running training,...

I have to say newies of AIESEC in the Czech Republic are really smart. After getting folder full of tasks, information, deadlines and other requirements without concrete instructions how to fulfill them they devided responsibilities very quickly and started to work. They even were eager to fulfill extra tasks to win competition. And of course they represented newies track very well by performing their shouts during pleanaries and by attendance in parties. It was very nice experience to help newies to find out more about AIESEC and inspire and motivate them to take next steps in AIESEC.

Also I enjoyed a lot working with international facis - Barbára (Czech/Brazil), (Serbia/Croatia), Alex, Mada, Romeo and Gabelu (Romania), Steph (Canada/Spain) and Kvetos and Bea (Czech Republic). Guys, I enjoyed many lovely moments with you. Thank you for your support, nice chats and inspiration.

Also thank you our lovely MC and Habib - our lovely chair. I am looking forward NEXT conference:)

Czech NTT chairing expansion to Poland - Hana's experience

My friend from CEEMOS 2007 faci team, Aga Jeszke, invited me before summer to come to Wroclaw to chair at their Local Committee Conference, LCC 2007 of AIESEC Polska Komitet Lokalny Politechnika Wrocławska.
Well, it went more serious :-) when traveling through whole Czech Republic to Wroclaw. I had the chance to meet facis (=EB) 2 days before the conference started, got to know Kay (Australia) who was OCP of LCC, met few more OC members (Kamila - great job, girl!, Slim - "just" French-Arabic speaking Tunisian trainee). At the venue when delegates started to arrive I realised actually what my role was... pretty soon :-) Seriously, you are there to guide the people through the plenary times, to chat with some of them during the coffee breaks and lunch times, to think of who of them will be the next leading body of the LC in few years, to manage some alumni at their workshops, etc.

To share one of my personal highlights of the conference, I think of the night of global village I spent around 2 hours in the dining hall with Masaru (Japanese trainee), Slim (Tunisian trainee) and Źyrafka (Polish AIESEC member). Masaru talked interesting stuff about his country, wrote some caligraphy posters for us and all seemed to be so nice - just 4 different nationalities from 3 different continets under one roof at one table in one small house in Poland somewhere at the border with Czech Republic... then you think of the peace that is possible to reach when respecting each other.

I had the chance to see how looked local conference in different country and realised we were all the same around the globe. Nice. :-)

supporting LC Ostrava - LTC in Budišov n. Budišovkou

Being invited for Local Committee Conference 2007 of LC Ostrava for couple of hours and delivering 2,5 hrs of outdoor games was my next opportunity to see how guys in Ostrava get ready for newies and what energy do they put into the conference in order to leave with 20 motivated new members.

Having completed some of the task inside as 3 small teams, we went out to play the Human bingo. So we had the chance to see how "drunk soldier looks like" or found out after few minutes who wears red underwear ;-)
Solving some strategic games and having really fun included.
Speaking from my heart, I was greateful I had the chance to see and participate partly at another LTC (so far have attended LTC from 3 other LCs in AIESEC in the Czech Republic) and happy to see how they "live AIESEC" in Ostrava.

Thanks for inviting me & thanks for the short chats we had - it is always valuable for both sides to see the "work" and fun from different perspectives.

Czech NTT chairing expansion to Poland - Lenka´s part

Hey you all! Do you know both lovely ladies of your NTT spent weekend of 27th to 28th October 2007 by being so called chairs of two local AIESEC conferences in Poland? Wanna know more? Here is Lenka´s part. About a month ago I received a very suprising e-mail. I was asked bo co come to Warsaw and be a chair of AIESEC Warsaw University LCC. Of course I did not hesitate and said YES.

I had a chance to get to know amazing faci team composed of AIESEC Warsaw University EB - conference manager Ewelina, Mowdi, Oski, Sandra, Hania, Kwol and supported by Chwalka from Polish AIESEC National Support Team. And I could also cooperate with a nice Organizing Committee led by Anna and supported by internationals Brian (USA) and Vinnie (Brazil).

This conference was attended by about 100 delegates (both newies and experieced ones). It was a big opportunity to meet very various people. And also a big opportunty to find out how it is to be a chair. To entertain people, to be responsible for plenaries, to run faci meetings and communicate with OC. Thank you for giving me chairing opportunity! I learnt a lot:)

Prague and Pilsen LTC

I took part in AIESEC Prague and AIESEC Pilsen LTC this weekend and my say it was just great. I was responsible for delivering outdoor games and presentation skills training.

During Friday afternoon we spent a nice time outside playing games to get to know each other. We went through ice-breaker games, name games but also games for communication and team cooperation to find out how these skills in team are.

On Saturday delegates experienced night game. It was really cold outside and participants were blindfolded so conditions were not easy. However I must say all of them succeded and I was very proud of them. And then I also realized from their words they had enjoyed the games so I was also proud of my outdoor team that helped me to prepare all games, to. Let now say a big THANK YOU to all members of OUTDOOR TEAM. They were: Marťa Motyčková, Teri Lukšíková, Zdeněk Fred Fous, Michal Hudeček, Terka Mrková, Jirka Kolena, Pavel Vávra, Standa Hába and Helča Kebrdlová - all of them from AIESEC Prague.

I also delivered presentation skills training to a group of about 12 newies. I must say I really enjoyed it and hope my participants did the same:)

Guys from Prague and Pilsen AIESEC, I must say - thank you for giving me an opportunity to be a part of such a great LTC as your was. You did a great fob and I wish you good luck with your newies.

my perspective :-)

After reading previous post from Lenka (it is so nice from you!!), I got stuck - like "ok, selected for NaLDS 2007 facis team, so what?"..

It is just ...

... the start, with celebration moment, of course :-))

No seriously, let me just post with giving you general overview how it usually looks like when you go as faci for conference:



- application for the faci team released

- you sent your application and if it works out, you become part of new faci team

- now the work starts: getting to know other members of particular team (mostly virtually;-) ), getting closer to the objectives of the conference and starting preparation for sessions, mostly working on certain topic with other 2 or 3 facis

- you meet firstly in person with the teamnear/at the venue few days before the conference starts -- so called pre-meeting

- going through "different" get-2-know, runnning through the content of the conference, "frying out" at the place, too :-), etc.

- the conference starts, you just rock ;-)

- and after it you meet once again for the post-meeting


Ha, still a long run, isnt it? Wonderful long run!!

Hartoška je boží!!!

Miss Hana Hartošová (aka Hartoška) is going to facilitate NaLDS in Germany!!! Isn´t she great? Wish you a great faci experience, my NTT mate. Show them how to rock the house:)