NEXT 2008 - faci experience

After real 3,5 yrs in AIESEC I finally managed to take part at national conference of AIESEC in the Czech Republic as facilitator and as well as part of the agenda team of NEXT 2008 conference!

Faci team on the stage:
- Katya (Ukraine), Pawel (Poland), Barča (Brasil/Czech MC), Maja (Serbia), Masha (from Russia :-P), Bea (SVK/CZE), Evca M. (SVK/CZE), Nasko (Bulgaria), Ioanna (Romania), Yulia (Ukraine), Menia (SVK/CZE) and me :)

Conference manager: - Tinka (Czech MC)

Chair: - JJ (MCP of AIESEC UK)

Agenda designed for 4 days including MCP election and External day.

Each faci was responsible for delivering 12 hrs of content to her/his homegroup.


As for me, I met here one challenge as in my homegroup we decided to use Czech language (not English) as the main one to deliver the sessions.
Meaning, not that I would have problems with my native language, just the fact is I have never delivered leadership related content in Czech, and surprisingly English comes to me more natural. Well, do not ask me why :-)

Anyway, I managed :-) and am actually very grateful for this real Czech experience.

Altough this conference was not that much personally intensive as eg. one week LDS conference can become, I still know we touched something important for every delegate, at least in my homegroup we did :-) - the question of life and inner leadership.

(my homegroup: Oli, Debbie, Jirka, Marťa, Valentýna, Nela, me, Linda, Lenka, Marek)

During The External day I delivered a workshop together with Andrea Klincokova (GreenFeather, Ltd.) for 18 delegates on the topic "Leadership & coaching" that somehow gave opportunity to new 18 people get closer to coaching as a attitude / life or leadership style. Nice!

And the (un)official song of the conference Unwritten /from Natasha Bedingfield/ just concludes the whole conference in 4 minutes :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bze7gY0dVEw

Thank you AIESEC in the Czech Republic for this for me totally new experience!

PS: Alright Mr. Jandura - the wine party night was awesome ;-)) What a cool gang we were :-)

Body language in Karviná

Yesterday (4th December) I went to visit AIESEC Karviná to deliver training. There was a bunch of about 15 people waiting and ready to learn what body language is and how to use it. We spent very nice hour and something by gaining new "Body language"knowledge, sharing our stories and disscussion wheter we are or are not to read body language (both ours and others) and wheter we can influence it consciously. We also shared our stories with body language from business meetings. I have to say there was very nice atmosphere and I felt very comfortable with my lovely participants. Thank you guys for your contribution:)

Btw, AIESEC Karviná has really cool office:)

AIESEC „besídka“

How many times have you already introduced AIESEC to somebody? All those chats about opportunities in AIESEC, international environment, interaction with business environment, conferences…

Now imagine you are asked by a kindergarten director to performance Xmas AIESEC sketch to little children to present them what AIESEC does. This is what I asked AIESEC Zlin members last week in November as I was asked to come. At the beginning they were a bit surprised and stuck. But.... :) At the end we had two lovely sketches and also Zlin interns were involved.

Are you curious what else can NTT deliver? Stay tuned to find more. Next week we have double NTT “mission”. Hana will deliver Leadership in Zlin. I will deliver Body language in Karvina.

Leadership workshop for LC Zlín

Just 2 weeks before Christmas I was about to deliver workshop on leadership in LC Zlín.




As it was communicated from Mojco's side with these words:
" bring some nice ideas from NALDS... to generate some deep discussions, take them out of the comfort zone and motivate them to keep developing their leadership (hidden message: appply for leadership roles) ;)"


.. still on the way to Zlín was not sure what exactly will be delivered, just the idea was clear. Well, try to manage all of that in given 120 minutes :-))

If anyone is interested to know how exactly the workshop looked like, just write me a line (hana.hartosova(at)gmail.com), I am free to share it with you.

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Thanks Mojco for hosting me at his place that night and a early morning crazy ride to bus station :-D

Feedback training for LC Praha

Nov 27 was the date for delivering training on Feedback for around 35 people. As we need to follow some rules at the university, I needed to keep the training in 50 minutes.

Wanna start feedback culture in your LC?
Wanna have your members motivated to get and give feedback?
Then feel free to contact NTT and we will be pleased to deliver this training to you.

If you are interested what this highly effective training was about, just have a look in the mind map :-)

NaLDS 2007 - "Discover your way" (faci experience)

Talking or writing about NaLDS is always strange. This Leadership seminar is one of those you need to EXPERIENCE with your heart in order to capture what all the "I-have-been-to-NaLDS" people think of when they mention NaLDS.

This year I participated at NaLDS as facilitator and co-facilitated with Eva Philippi /Germany/ one week track for homegroup of 9 people . (ApChoc homegroup)

What is more, as facilitator I was part of a big conference team of 30 people (facis from CZE, ROM and GER; OCP Sara Usinger from GER and OC from GER and few more countries; conference manager Kevin G. /MC in GER/ & chair Børge H. /NOR/) who together with 100 delegates delivered JUST UNIQUE week experience for all of us.

With one word, NaLDS for me was just powerfully "intensive", yeap.

(NaLDS 2007 conference team)

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:)