Hosting Dialogues - Dialogues of Change - 22.05.2008

After spending quite some hours in the office last Saturday discussing the session-outline and drawing some nice flipcharts, Andi K. and I were ready to facilitate this session.

This session was divided into four main parts. First, we dealt with the question “What stands between us [LC Linz] and greatness [achieving our full potential]?” The next step was figuring out how our ideal AIESEC [heaven] would look like. Our LC would have motivated members who would successfully accomplish their projects and task and would strive for taking leadership-positions. Moreover, AIESEC would be well known by every student of our university and we would be the first choice for all of our stakeholders.

After having a lunch-break where we enjoyed our Pizzas, we continued with analyzing why the current situation of our LC is not the ideal state. To put it differently, we went from heaven straight to hell. We were trying to figure out the roots of this challenge – the challenge of becoming great and so achieving our full potential. In addition to lack of HR as well as passion and spirit of our members and low organizational knowledge transfer the fact that AIESEC is not first priority for students and that the long-term motivation of our members is not consistently were considered to be the most essential problems.

Since we are aiming to improve the current situation of our LC, the final part of this session was figuring out how we can solve these problems. You came up with some really creative and meaningful suggestions, such as: Cool video for lecture presentations, invite alumni to LCM, structured communication pipeline, educate members in self-management etc.

Conclusion of this day: We want to continue our way of leaving hell with all its problems behind and moving right towards heaven. How can we achieve this? By becoming Super-AIESECers. Who are Super-AIESECers? They are AIESECers who are trying to be the change they want to see in their LC! :-)

Thanks to Peter, our “Billy-Billy-Bob”-Chair! :-) Special thanks to Alex E., Verena, Andi E., Basti, Mikel, Martin and Nicole for participating! You made a valuable contribution to the future progress of our LC!!!

The output of this session is available on our Wiki (EB&TL-Site).

C ya on Wed.

-Karin-

LCM 21.5. + discovery dinner

Hey AIESECER!

At the last LCM there were again not many members - I know everyone is very busy, however our meeting last just one hour - so I hope to see more next Wednesday ;)

There are still great opportunities for the next year, so do not hesitate to apply for them! If you have any questions about a specific opportunity do not hesitate to ask the responsible persons, who I mentioned last time.

As a great surprise Andi organised a live skype session with our new CEED from Brazil - this was great fun!

At the end of our meeting we were dancing to the bee song (I do not know the right name of the song) and then we were well prepared for the dinner.

After our LCM meeting we had our Discovery dinner and I think everyone enjoyed the delicious food, even Taras ;)


See you next Wednesday - same place, same time

LCM 14.5. – still great TL Opportunities

In our last LCM there was a small attendance, I hope that next Wednesday there are more members there ;)

We have our new CEED! It is Samuel Ferreira de Mello from Brazil and he will come at the beginning of September.

For the next year we have still great TL opportunities. Last Wednesday they present us the job descriptions for these opportunities:

- OCP Alumni Event
for further information contact Mikel

- OCP Recruitment
contact persons: Basti & Andi K.

- OCP Discovery
contact person: Thomas

- TL X
contact person: Karin

The application is open till the 26^th May (20.00).

Another important point are the member talks! All newies have to apply now, the dates are from 2th June – 4^th June. You have to do the member talk to become a “member” of our LC – so don’t forget to apply for it!

Next Wednesday after the LCM we have our Discovery dinner. So I think most of you will be still in Linz on Thursday when we have our Hosting Dialogues. This session will be from 10.00 – 15.00 (of course with a break ;) ) and it is very important. We analyze the current situation of our LC and define goals for the next year. All your input is needed! Hope to see you there ;)

Last Thursday there was our Mensafest and I think it was a great success even there were not that many people at the beginning. However it was great fun and I am looking forward to the next one :D

And last but not least – I have talked to Ralitzer because of the photos and she said that we will get them as soon as possible.

See you!

Hey!

How are you?

The bowling with IASTE was great fun!

I think Ralitza from IASTE has taken some photos, maybe we can get the photos from her.

I will ask her at the Mensafest on Tuesday.

See you!

LCM - 7. May - TL Opportunities

In our last LCM we announced several opportunities for people who are willing to challange themselves, to work hard and to gain experiences. These people are the heart of our LC and I hope you are one of "these people" ;-).

For the next year we have 1 TL and 3 OCP opportunities.

1. OCP Discovery
2. OCP Recruitment
3. OCP Alumni Event
4. TL Exchange
   

So think about taking the chance to lead a team and to be responsible for a huge project in our LC. We will provide job descriptions and applications for these positions next week on Wednesday and the application will be open for one and a half week (26.5.). So you have time to think about it and if there are any questions just send me an E-Mail.

Another important point in our LCM were the member talks. To become a "member" of our LC you have to answer a few questions. One member talk lasts for approx. 20 min. So check your schedule and tell me when you have time between the 2.6. and the 4.6. The TL talks will be one week earlier on the 27.5. and 28.5. This will be a TL and member talk at once.

Next week we have our Mensafest. The schedule is already fixed but there are still some empty spaces. So please contact Mikel (The Indian Guy) if you have time to help. The sooner the better.

For further information about the selling conference of the OPS check our Wiki and download the slides of the LCM. Thanx.

After the LCM we went Bowling with IAESTE. Yeah we kicked asses I think ;-). I would post some fotos but our lovely Karin was not there and therefore nobody had a camera to take pictures. Shame on us 8-(. But I think everybody enjoyed the evening and I am looking forward to play paintball against IAESTE because they told me: "Next time we choose the sport!"

Chiao

EB 08/09 - Elections - 02. May 2008

As Peter has already written in his posting, the new EB 08/09 was elected last Friday. After torturing ;-) us with some quite difficult and challenging questions, the "old" EB could finally announce the results: All candidates got elected! *yeah*

Here are some pictures capturing the most wonderful moments of this day - the announcement:

Our new LCP - Andreas Krawinkler
and our current one - Peter Laher

Our new VP F - Mikel Gindy
and our current one - Serife Bastürk

Our new VP ER - Sebastian Felser
and our current one - Andreas Erdpresser

Our new VP Comm. & IS - Karin Gabriel
our current LCP - Peter Laher

After the announcement we all went to the Promenadenhof for having dinner. *yummy* Later that night we were then partying at Remembar. ;-)

Special thanks to you Michael for being such a great and funny chair - really liked your role-call. Thank you also Andreas E. for being such a great minute-taker! ;-) And special thanks also to Cathrin, our lovely MCVP TM elected, for attending this elections and for your wonderful gift!

Thanks everyone for attending this elections and having trust in us and giving us your vote! We really appreciate that!!! We will give our best to continue the work of our current EB and to make LC Linz a prospering LC! ;-)

When it comes to you guys - Andi, Basti & Mikel - I'm really looking forward to working together with you in a team. I'm sure that this will be an interesting year for all of us! :-)

Here are some further snapshots...

-Karin-

LCM - 30. April 2008: Goal setting by Taras

Okay, here a short and a lil bit belated summary of our last LCM. *sorry*

Everyone who did not attend our last LCM, guys you really missed a really interesting Personal Goal-Setting session held by our Special Forces Commander Taras! You really did! Thank god we are now so into our Wiki that you find all the files online there [Member-Site -> Infos -> Personality]

We also have some quite interesting conferences coming up:
- 16.05-18.05 - "I'm a seller!" - selling conference in Innsbruck
- 23.05-25.05 - Outgoing Preparation Seminar (OPS) in Linz - for all of you who are planning to do a traineeship abroad this summer...since this conference is organized by our LC, to be precise by our great OCP Julia *yeah*, it will be amazing - trust me!
- 27.05. - MLP-Training Career-Planning - will take place at our uni and it will start around 6 or 7 pm AND there will be a buffet provided afterwards - so be there....for all of you who haven't registered yet, please send an email to Peter ASAP!
- 06.06.-08.06 - NK II - again Innsbruck - guess Innsbruck is pretty busy these days ;-) - for old and new EB, TL and everybody who is interested


One more thing we discussed: OCs and OCP!
"We love the OC, we do..." - We, finally, have an OCP for our Mensafest: Give it up for Mikel! ;-) And Julia, our OCP for OPS, has now two hard-working OCs: Stefan M. & Alex E.! *yeah*

Okay, that's it from my side!
See you at our LCM tomorrow at 7pm sharp! ;-)

Take care! :-)
-Karin-

EB Elections

Hi AIESEC Linz,

On behalf of the EB 07/08 I have the honor to announce the EB 08/09 and more over I am glad to congratulate these 4 individuals who took the challenge and applied for the EB 08/09.

After one day of speeches and Q & A sessions we finally have found the EB 08/09:

LCP:
Andreas Krawinkler
LCVP F:
Mikel Gindy
LCVP ER:
Sebastian Felser
LCVP Communication & IS:
Karin Gabriel

All the best to this new team, and I am sure that these people will lead AIESEC Linz to a new level and will put all the necessary effort into it to achieve their goals!!

Once again, good luck and congratulations

Peter