Thursday 26 July 2007

Ok so the MC office has taken a poll and it has been decided....

So much more work gets done when the evil threesome (Chloe, Daz and Lucy) are not in the office. Companies have been called, meetings organised, positions matched - YEAH!!!

However, I do have to say we have been feeling the absence of the team - Eloise and I have tried to fill the void (Eloise and her singing off key and our occasional random dancing) but it isn't the same.

We miss you guys and hope you are enjoying SnA.

170 Exchanges 2007/2008 - GO AIESEC AUSTRALIA - RAISE THOSE TNs and EPs

Good luck from the MC office.

Wednesday 25 July 2007

Back in the office ... and it's oddly quiet!

We're back in the office after July conference and Daz, Lucy and Chloe are away on SnA. It makes for a quieter working day without Chloe's singing, Daz's music and Lucy's chatter. Or so I thought ...

I have been ATTACKED by our BD cell and their appalling taste in music. I had Eloise and Anne dancing around me singing an Avril Lavigne song.

You guys suck!

Saturday 7 July 2007

Our gala event for July National Conference 2007 was held at the Melbourne Town Hall with some 250 attendees.

We welcomed all delegates and other participants to our conference through an address from the Honourable James Merlino.

We also announced our national awards. Congratulations to AIESEC in Adelaide University under the leadership of Robert Kwok for receiving Local Committee of the Year Award and AIESEC in the University of South Australia under Laura Allen for Developing Local Committee of the Year.

And to all our award winners, you can be incredibly proud of your success:
Excellence in Incoming Exchange: AIESEC in the University of South Australia
Excellence in Outgoing Exchange: AIESEC in Adelaide University
Excellence in People Development: AIESEC in Queensland University of Technology
Excellence in Finance: AIESEC in Monash University
Partnership Award: AIESEC in the University of Queensland
Project Award: AIESEC in the University of Sydney

YIS and DLD = Success!

A fantastic start to our July National Conference!

Over the last two days we've drawn partners, AIESEC members and university students together to discuss the future of Youth and Leadership.

We had 200 delegates attend each day getting involved in forums, workshops, panels and discussions lead by AIESEC and numerous of our partner organisations and key note speakers including:
- Honorable James Merlino: Minister for Youth Affairs
- Larry Anthony: Director ABC Learning and Former MP
- Mike Cannon-Brookes: Atlassian and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006
- David Moffat: Group Managing Director, Telstra
- Peter Castellas: Managing Director, Clean Technology
- Graeme Cocks: Melbourne Business School
- Peter Ivett: Vivente Australia
- Josh McKenzie: Shift International
- Barbara Hilder: Director, Confucius Institute
- Mile Terzlovski: Centre for Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Self Leadership International

A special congratulations to our ER cell gurus, Eloise and Anne, for their work on the event under the guidance of our outgoing BDMs Sharan and, especially, Kyle.

Tuesday 3 July 2007

Australian domination

Hi!

It is with great pride that I announce Kristina Toms, our beloved VP-F, onto the Finance Tools Support & Education Team (FTSE)! It was an arduous application process as she had to condense her extensive Finance knowledge, onto two pages. Yep that's right, only two pages!

She's on as a senior team member, where she will take responsibility for tasks like the analysis of the global budget survey, and developing and promoting national level financial tools. CONGRATULATIONS KRISTINA!!!

To our surprise, we found another Australian on the FTSE! Dino... TEDDY BEAR!!! The VP-F from the Monash LC was selected as a junior team member! A massive congratulations to Dino!!! Dino will be gathering GCPs for LC financial management and initiating discussions of the Global Finance community.

It is extremely rare to have two members of a global team from the same country. Especially given there were 31 applicants. Clearly Kristina and Dino were two absolute certainties for the team.

They join Lucy and myself, who are part of the International Ethics Sub-Committee and the Talent Management Unit, as Australians in global teams.

Cheers,
- Daz

Sunday 1 July 2007

This is a:
a) Popper
b) Fruit Box
c) Juice Box
d) Prima

Fierce discussion ensues between MC members from different States. Put your votes in now!