AIESEC Youth Leadership Development

AIESEC, The International Platform for Young People to Discover and Develop their Potential Providing Leadership for a Positive

Impact in Society

Introduction

How come a 24-year old kid who left

university two years ago is giving us a

session about youth leadership

development today?

I know I am young and I look young…

Still, I promise that:

- I will only talk about my own experience;

- I will only talk about what young people think, as a representative of the biggest youth-driven organisation in the world;

- I will only talk about what my business partners told me;

The rest?

It’s up to you!

Who am I?

- Graduated in 2006 from Solvay Business School in Management, specialised in Marketing;

- Erasmus in Denmark where I focused on International Marketing, Cultural Marketing and Business Strategy;

- Worked as analyst for a consultancy companies in M&A;

- Dissertation on Entrepreneurship and business project valuation.

- Gave trainings and workshops on 4 continents (between 10 & 1000 participants);

- Worked at local, national and international level, coordinating teams and countries (in sales & comm);

- Started at 23 the national office of AIESEC in Rwanda;

- Networked with a.o. EU Commissioners, top managers, people from over 100 countries.

Objectives

Objectives of the convention:

- Find answers to the main challenges of higher education;

- Network;

- Award.

Objectives of this workshop:

- Network and share Good Case Practices – GCPs;

- Look at what young people expect;

- Analyse what society needs;

- Find a way to link both and answer some of the main challenges.

Time to discuss

- Share GCPs

- Share solutions

- Share experiences

What are the main challenges you are facing in education?

What are the main lacks you know in your current education system?

What are the main solutions you found to tackle those issues?

Time to discuss

- Share GCPs

- Share solutions

- Share experiences

What are the main topics about which youth should be “educated”?

What are the main skills & competencies that society needs (especially on the labour market)?

How do current education systems develop them in students?

The AIESEC Way

The AIESEC Way is not only a description of - the way (manner) we aim to make a positive impact on society,

but also describes

- the way (road) we are taking to achieve what we envision.

What is AIESEC?What we Envision?Our ImpactThe Way we do itOur Values

Those values create a philosophy in which AIESECers believe, both as AIESECers and as individuals.

Thereby, AIESEC develops not only responsible youth, but even more: values-driven leaders.

AIESEC members

AIESEC members aim to become agents of positive change by developing competences associated to four characteristics:

- entrepreneurship;

- social responsibility;

- cultural sensitivity;

- active learning.

The AIESEC eXPerience

The AIESEC XP is based on 5 principles:

- Take an active role in your learning and the learning of others

- Challenge worldview

- Meta-cognition and personal reflexion skills

- Increasing practical and theoretical knowledge

- Creating a network of contacts

Every AIESEC activity is articulated around this experience cycle and the AIESEC competences developped through the AIESEC global learning environment.

The AIESEC global learning environment

The different activities of AIESEC also turn around six main elements. For example, conferences include all of these elements.

These represent the way AIESEC members go through their experience and acquire their knowledge while developing their skills and competencies.

The Issue-Based eXPeriences

It uses the concept of T-Leadership

(1) a comprehensive set of leadership skills (listening, coshing, communicating, etc.)

(2) An integral awareness of how to proactively use such skills to make a difference in a specific area, given his/her knowledge and understanding of the issue in question.

Examples of current issues members choose to work on:

HIV/AIDS, Entrepreneurship, EU integration, Bridging the Gap, ICT education…

Thank you for your attention

AIESEC Youth Leadership Development