#everydayleadership
A person who strives to be an everyday leader for the world, strives to be a leader in all aspects of life.
During my LCP term, I was studying my Commerce/Law degree for 2 days, working 2 days, and ensuring I had enough me-time to keep sane and have meaningful conversations for the people around me (#introvertlyf). Sometimes people ask how did I manage it all - and I never really looked at it as 'managing my time'. Everything I chose to do was for a purpose of life-long learning and becoming a better person for the world. University was important to me for learning, discipline and foundations for the future. AIESEC was (and continues to be) important to me for leadership, challenging practical experiences, and making a difference to the world. And working was important for corporate learning, application of theory and financial independence. My social life fed through all of it, because the people around you benefit from and support your growth. Everything was a conscious decision, and that first awareness helped me make decisions to prioritise, work (and rest) intentionally and with purpose.
Your exams and your education is an important part of your leadership development as an AIESECer. That is, if you have chosen university as one of the ways you learn. Not everyone learns from university, and we all know university doesn't give you everything you need. That being said, I believe that a great AIESECer is able to understand how everything in their life is supporting their life-long leadership journey. So in a way, everyday leadership is also about your relationship with exams! How can you be disciplined as a leader if you aren't disciplined in your studies?
Similarly, your AIESEC work is an important part of your leadership development as a person. You are here maybe because you believe in Peace and Fulfilment of Humankind's potential. You are also here maybe because you want an experience working in a NGO and learning business & and global leadership skills. So don't forget to keep the organisation running. There are young people in Australia and all over the world waiting to develop themselves on our powerful exchange programs. There are businesses and corporates waiting to partner with us to enable that leadership development. We might be a bunch of young people in universities, but we are hard-working, professional, passionate & determined to make a difference and that's what makes us AIESECers.
Mon's 6 tips to help you get through exam season!
With that, good luck and make those exchanges happen!
#leadfearlessly #lovehard
Your MCP,
Monica
During my LCP term, I was studying my Commerce/Law degree for 2 days, working 2 days, and ensuring I had enough me-time to keep sane and have meaningful conversations for the people around me (#introvertlyf). Sometimes people ask how did I manage it all - and I never really looked at it as 'managing my time'. Everything I chose to do was for a purpose of life-long learning and becoming a better person for the world. University was important to me for learning, discipline and foundations for the future. AIESEC was (and continues to be) important to me for leadership, challenging practical experiences, and making a difference to the world. And working was important for corporate learning, application of theory and financial independence. My social life fed through all of it, because the people around you benefit from and support your growth. Everything was a conscious decision, and that first awareness helped me make decisions to prioritise, work (and rest) intentionally and with purpose.
Your exams and your education is an important part of your leadership development as an AIESECer. That is, if you have chosen university as one of the ways you learn. Not everyone learns from university, and we all know university doesn't give you everything you need. That being said, I believe that a great AIESECer is able to understand how everything in their life is supporting their life-long leadership journey. So in a way, everyday leadership is also about your relationship with exams! How can you be disciplined as a leader if you aren't disciplined in your studies?
Similarly, your AIESEC work is an important part of your leadership development as a person. You are here maybe because you believe in Peace and Fulfilment of Humankind's potential. You are also here maybe because you want an experience working in a NGO and learning business & and global leadership skills. So don't forget to keep the organisation running. There are young people in Australia and all over the world waiting to develop themselves on our powerful exchange programs. There are businesses and corporates waiting to partner with us to enable that leadership development. We might be a bunch of young people in universities, but we are hard-working, professional, passionate & determined to make a difference and that's what makes us AIESECers.
Mon's 6 tips to help you get through exam season!
- Summarise summarise summarise! Summarising forces your brain to understand bulks of content through simplification, so summarise your eg. lecture notes level by level until you get to one A4 page for the entire subject. That one A4 page then becomes "everything you need to know about X"!
- The day or two before an exam, focus on the summaries and doing a lot of practice exams. If you don't have practice exams available, guess questions.
- Find out when you are most productive and channel that into your studies. When you are less productive, take rests (you won't get study done anyway) or some find it easier to do AIESEC work for procrastination!
- Find time to teach the subject (you can use the one A4 page for example) to someone, or the wall, or just to yourself. Imagine that you will be facilitating a session on this subject at your next AIESEC conference - how would you do it? Combine physical activity (eg walk around while teaching) to get your blood pumping around the body & better memory retention.
- Sleep early the night before an exam (seriously guys, we know its bad so why are we doing it???) and focus on revising the summaries. If you are screwed, then make at least one summary and do lots of practice exams - if helps you understand what you don't know.
- Commit at least one hour a day to checking your AIESEC emails/slack/whatsapp/communications especially for external communications. Some situations can actually mean life or death (we are dealing with EPs moving across the world!) so if you can't tend to your work for any reason ask for help or someone to cover you. Be professional to our customers!
With that, good luck and make those exchanges happen!
#leadfearlessly #lovehard
Your MCP,
Monica
Official EXPA Standings this semester
(1st aug - 30th OCT)
October Comments :D
oGC:
Congratulations on all those Applicants, UQ and UNSW! Those who Apply now are more likely to convert - since they're less likely to drop out if they're still keen on an AIESEC exchange just a few weeks away from summer break starting. How can you keep this in mind to ensure your EPs are still applying at this point in year, and also enabling quick conversion so EPs can become APPRs? And it's time to start with Value Delivery - and OPS was a great start to that! What other touchpoints can you use to develop leadership in your EPs?
oGT/E:
Great job on all those Applicants, everyone! And congratulations for the APPR, Monash! Did you know - 8 of our last 9 oGET APPRs have been for GE? That could mean two things: 1) GE is really popular amongst our EPs - so it's important to keep promoting GE opportunities to these EPs. India the the Philippines are great for quick Matches! 2) We're not providing enough relevant GT projects to those EPs - how can we start doing this and ensure they're being catered for?
iGT:
Congratulations USYD for having 2 opens in the last week! Way Forward: If you have more then 10 meetings then I strongly recommend that you focus on follow up and converting them into opens before companies start wrapping up for the end of the week. Those LCs that have approves- please look at recommendations from SONA and my educational videos to see how you can shorten the time to get approves.
oGC:
Congratulations on all those Applicants, UQ and UNSW! Those who Apply now are more likely to convert - since they're less likely to drop out if they're still keen on an AIESEC exchange just a few weeks away from summer break starting. How can you keep this in mind to ensure your EPs are still applying at this point in year, and also enabling quick conversion so EPs can become APPRs? And it's time to start with Value Delivery - and OPS was a great start to that! What other touchpoints can you use to develop leadership in your EPs?
oGT/E:
Great job on all those Applicants, everyone! And congratulations for the APPR, Monash! Did you know - 8 of our last 9 oGET APPRs have been for GE? That could mean two things: 1) GE is really popular amongst our EPs - so it's important to keep promoting GE opportunities to these EPs. India the the Philippines are great for quick Matches! 2) We're not providing enough relevant GT projects to those EPs - how can we start doing this and ensure they're being catered for?
iGT:
Congratulations USYD for having 2 opens in the last week! Way Forward: If you have more then 10 meetings then I strongly recommend that you focus on follow up and converting them into opens before companies start wrapping up for the end of the week. Those LCs that have approves- please look at recommendations from SONA and my educational videos to see how you can shorten the time to get approves.
december national excellence awards
What's been happening around the network?
Congratulations UQ on your Summer experience expo last week! Hear from Timothy Lamb, VP UR from AIESEC in UQ:
"It was cold Brisbane summer..... When we ironically held the Summer experience expo at UQ - If you have not heard about it, UQ this week ran its first global expo!
We were in action for most of the university day, fluxes of people, all excited at the prospect of exchange was a site to behold
We served milkshakes, had consultancy chats, ate local food it was a truly international spread, from China, Slovakia, Vietnam, Bahrain and Malaysia!
The final standings:
103 Open
~125 EOIs (some may be overlapping with OP)
21 APPs so far (with quite a few CCs booked in the coming few days/next week)
We feel the effectiveness was because of the promotion and push towards target countries and project partners!"
"It was cold Brisbane summer..... When we ironically held the Summer experience expo at UQ - If you have not heard about it, UQ this week ran its first global expo!
We were in action for most of the university day, fluxes of people, all excited at the prospect of exchange was a site to behold
We served milkshakes, had consultancy chats, ate local food it was a truly international spread, from China, Slovakia, Vietnam, Bahrain and Malaysia!
The final standings:
103 Open
~125 EOIs (some may be overlapping with OP)
21 APPs so far (with quite a few CCs booked in the coming few days/next week)
We feel the effectiveness was because of the promotion and push towards target countries and project partners!"
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The MC will be having a review on the 4th and 7-9th November. Expect slower replies, if anything urgent please call us and we will get back to you when we can!
Away:
- Valentina is away in Portugal attending Global Lead Conference and will be back in the office on the 4th November :) Louise will be her proxy!
- Jingyi is taking days off to study for her exams until 4th November, Monica will be her proxy until then :)
Away:
- Valentina is away in Portugal attending Global Lead Conference and will be back in the office on the 4th November :) Louise will be her proxy!
- Jingyi is taking days off to study for her exams until 4th November, Monica will be her proxy until then :)