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:)

Train the Trainers 2007

Train the Trainers - seminar like no other within AIESEC in the Czech Republic - is over. Who was there? What did they learn? How was it?

TtT is a seminar delivered to mainly AIESEC EB members. During TtT participants have a chance to discover ways of teaching others by interesting, effective and diverse methods. They also have to deliver trainings and sessions by their own so they become responsible for delivering certain knowledge, skills or attitudes to other participants. Newly gained skills are highly beneficial and appreciated in participants´ present functions – EB, teamleader or others. We as NTT members are very proud we are responsible for delivering such a great seminar (btw. considered as one of the best learning experience gained within AIESEC:-)

TtT 2007 was organized by CZU in Prague. We were working in a very nice place and had an opportunity to cooperate with a very nice OC. We would like to say big THANK YOU once again to EVKA (OCP), Honza, Lucy, Andrea and Kamil.

TtT 2007 was attended by about 30 participants both members of AIESEC in the Czech Republic and internationals. Guys, big THANK to all of you for your contribution, support and inspiration. Wish you best luck with delivering knowledge both in and outside of AIESEC.

We also had a chance to meet Mr. Marián Béreš (our lovely external) among us. THANK YOU KLF:-) for your help, giving feedbacks, sharing and inspiring. Looking forward meeting you again.

TtT 2007 was delivered by Lenka, Hana and Meňa.

You Can 2007 in Turkey

I went to Bursa (Turkey) at the end of August to facilitate at You Can (AIESEC international conference). I had an amazing opportunity to be a part of an international team of very experienced AIESEC facis from whole Europe and northern Africa. We put all our effort and passion to deliver high quality sessions and a good mood to You Can.

You Can hosted delegates from all over the world so I had a chance to meet very diverse people, esspecially in my lovely home group.

I must tell this experience ment a big learning for me as a faci because it was my very first faci experience in international conference. Now I better understand how conference content is created, how a team of international facis cooperate and how whole conference is delivered.
I gained a lot of energy during You Can. It is such an unforgettable experience to see so many diverse people (Europians, Asians, Afrikans,... Christians and Muslims, black and white... various languages, opinions and approaches...) who believe in the same idea, enjoy time spent together and share ideas. I recommend all of you to apply for some international facilitating within AIESEC to be able to experience the same strong feeling as I had during and after You Can.

SuStrCo 2007

Of course also NTT took an active part at SuStrCo. Firstly we had an honour to help LC Zlin with delivering Survival Day a big outdoor for AIESEC in the Czech Republic after a long time. Really amazing experience to watch so many AIESEC people running as crazy in forest, fulfilling tasks, cooperating and compeeting in the same time, tired but happy when reaching the finish.

The biggest reward for NTT was to see smiling and tired faces and complete silence on site in the early night as almost everybody went for sleeping after exhausting day (have you ever attended AIESEC conference and finding out people sleep at 11pm?) :-)

Then NTT delivered "How to handle people". As a part of this training our lovely participants had to create a birthday gift for Barbára, our international MC responsible for Talent Management, who celebrated her birthday in those days. We promised them to public their result in this blog so we do so with a pleasure to enable you enjoy their hard work, strategic thinking, planning and cooperation, too:-) Ooops, upside down!

For the rest of SuStrCo we (=your hard working NTT) worked on Train the Trainers seminar to deliver it to you in its best quality. This seminar is coming in few weeks (31th Aug. - 2nd Sept. in Prague). NTT is looking forward to meeting you there and to help you to discover and develop your training skills!

To see photos from Survival Day, the 77-laps long "teambuilding" activity ;-) go to flickr

Without any training
It's pouring, it's raining
Training or a trade
Hey you bet I'm afraid
Unequipped with a skill
But I'm thrilled with the thrill
Under skilled, unprepared
Hey, who wouldn't be scared?

- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones