Euro XPRO - Russia

As part of preparing for my role as Director for WENA next year I attended Euro XPro in St Petersburg. Monica (the Director for CEE next year) and myself had a couple of responsibilities as we both worked on sessions and co-chaired the conference.

This was such a great opportunity to meet the countries I'll be working with in the coming year. (As well as represent AIESEC Australia with Robbie during role calls and global village!)

But is was so cold ... a conference in the snow, can you imagine?!

Daz's World's Greatest Shave

Hi everyone!

So as many of you would know I participated in the World's Greatest Shave 2008 for The Leukaemia Foundation. Ever 2 hours someone dies from Leukaemia related cancers in Australia, and every hour of every day someone is diagnosed.

It was an epic campaign that went on for all of February and March. Videos on YouTube, lots of emails, a Facebook group, stunts and competitions contributed to building hype about the charity and the event, but more significantly to build awareness of the cause and the charity.

On March 15th my hair (2 years of growth) was shaved off, at a public shaving event at Warringah Mall in Manly. The Manly Daily (local newspaper) was there for photos, the MC team and some other cool people from Sydney (Chena & Jake!) and my family (they surprised me!) came down to see it!! It was awesome.

I'm actually going to bank money in an hour or so and that will bring the final tally just under $2,900! The goal of $2,000 was SMASHED!! So excited, so proud, so honoured.

Cheers,
- Daz



Check out the YouTube videos: Daz's Worlds Greatest Shave playlist

IPM 2008 - MCPs in Macedonia

Hi Everyone

So this is my first post after arriving in the office a little over a month ago. Its been really exciting seeing Kate's team work and experiencing life in the MC office everyday. Out of all the offices I've worked in, in my life, this is most definitely my favourite!!!!

But, the coolest thing which I have had the pleasure of doing so far in my role as MCPe, is to attend International Presidents Meeting 2008 (IPM), in the Republic of Macedonia.

IPM is a meeting of all the MCPs and MCP elects from AIESEC's network, which equates to over 200 of the best and brightest minds from AIESEC around the world. This conference is unique in AIESEC's calendar because here is where we elect the new AI team, devise our global focus areas and plan as Growth Networks for our activities in the next year.

IPM 08 was the 3rd International Conference which I have had the privilidge to attend and it was by far the best conference I have EVER attended. I want to share with you just a couple of things that made it so incredibly special.

Firstly, I got to meet my fellow MCPs. The people I will be working with over my term in 0809. I didn't just get to meet with them, but I had to work closely with them in deciding the future direction of AIESEC. It was amazing to be sitting with people from all over the world, people who come from vastly different social, economic and political backgrounds and discuss how AIESEC was going to change the world. It was inspiring to see how smart, connected and passionate people from our organisation are, right around the world.

Secondly, I was able to start thinking about AIESEC in Australia and what we should be doing in 2008-2009. Attending IPM reconnected me with the global planery and allowed me to understand all the cool things which we happening in AIESEC throughout the world. It really showed me how much Australia can contribute to AIESEC globally and how much the work we do has an impact in the world. Definitely a good way to start my visioning process.

Oh, and visiting Macedonia was pretty awesome as well. Perhaps I'll write another post to showcase the Republic of Macedonia!!

Cheers

Jake

Send this through to all of your EPs!

EPs GET OUT!

and have a transformative AIESEC exchange experience...

The opportunities are on MyAIESEC.net but they wont be for long! Match yourself to an internship NOW to secure your future for the next 1-3 months.

What a National Conference does to the Australian MC ...

Makes us very, very tired.

Back from FACIing in Hong Kong!

I was lucky enough to spend a week in Hong Kong as a FACI at their NLDS (aka SOLAR 2007). The MCP of Hong Kong, Beatrice, is one of my closest friends in the MCP network so I was very excited to be able to work with her and the rest of the MC and FACI team.

Working with another AP country gave me a great insight into how much we have in common with other countries. But it also showed the uniqueness of Australia, we have a lot of experiences to share and learn.

Any opportunity to attend an international conference I definitely recommend you to take!!!

AIESEC in Australia – 3 fabulous opportunities to join us!

We have just opened 3 really awesome opportunity for Australians and Internationals to come and join the MC in Australia. So the 3 ways that you could come to Australia and enjoy the amazing country:

1. Facilitate the January National conference – for the first time we open up the faci applications!!! Be the first international faci in Australian conference and show our delegates how awesome are other AIESEC countries ;) – read more here
2. MC CEED in Business development. If you have previous leadership xp and sales xp – come and join the MC 07/08. Spend half a year in Sydney, get paid, develop AIESEC in Australia and yourself! MC CEED from January 2008-June 2008. Read more here
3. MC 08/09 applications opened – Come and enjoy the full experience of MC in Australia – the year full of excitement, challenges and development! Be part of the historical moment of raising star in AIESEC network ;). Read more here

Or you could also easily combine all three opportunities – Apply for MC CEED and you will automatically become part of the Conference faci team – so 2 hits at once. Then you can also apply for MC 08/09 and stay in Australia for 1,5 year and get the most intense MC experience ever!

See our new cool MC promo video:

Melbourne Cup Day!

Hi everyone,

Makes me sad to not be in Melbourne on one of the most important days of my calendar. The race that stops a nation, sadly, does not stop Sydney.

It doesn't stop me from dressing up and watching the race - I'll be going to the TAB! If anyone's looking for a bet to place and needs some advice. This is what I'm thinking...

1: Princess Coup
2: Blue Monday
3: Zipping

Cheers,
- Daz

A sneak peek of myaiesec.net

Hello everyone!

Check out some screenshots of myaiesec.net!!!

You know you have been too long in AIESEC, If...

...so I would like to open a blog posting about this issue :). Being in MC you constantly find yourself living and breathing AIESEC, which sometimes can have quite funny outcomes. So Here are my top things:

1. You don’t go on dates anymore, but you have scheduled meetings with your boyfriend
2. Your personal weekly priority is follow up with friends and parents
3. You have been caught almost naked by uni security guard, from changing close in the middle of classroom, because you couldn’t leave the room, due to a global chat.


I am waiting for the other MC members to add their top...and members feel free to share yours as well :)

I'm doing good on the TMU!

Hey everyone,

By now you should have seen the great TMU campaign I've been involved in around the Global Competency Model. It's great for me because it's fun, and it means I'm quickly learning a lot about the GCM. No doubt you would have seen Daz & Menia:

Menia and I were very pleasantly surprised to see emails from the MCPs of Kenya and Greece, throwing their praise behind our campaign. It was so great to hear!

Cheers,
- Daz

Australians in the Global Network!!

I was super proud at IC to have so many AIESEC Australians flung about the globe making the most of our AIESEC network, including:

• Taco 'Marty' Bosman (originally AIESEC Sydney, MCP 2004-2005) Outgoing AI Internal Auditor
• Alex Lobov, MC 07-08, (originally AIESEC Melbourne) VPER AIESEC in Bahrain
• Ruthie Scovell (originally AIESEC UQ) VP Logistics IC 2008, Brazil
• Mei Leisa Tuicolo (originally AIESEC Griffith, MCP 2006-2007) Internship ABN Amro Netherlands
  

And this year we are very proud of the International representation by many more including:

• Jolin Zhu, AIESEC Griffith, (MC AIESEC) in Georgia 07-08
• Michelle Hillman (AIESEC Griffith) soon to attend EuroCo in Lithuania
• Lee Yacoumis (AIESEC Adelaide), Ghana, internship
  
• Dino, (AIESEC Monash) Asia Pacific XLDS 2007
  
• Laura Allen (AIESEC USA), International Congress, Turkey
  
• James Parham (AIESEC AU) AIESEC China, ACYLP Co-ordinator
• Chloe (AIESEC AU) internship in Kenya
• myself, (AIESEC Sydney) CEED AIESEC Thailand
  
• Kay Willmore (AIESEC AU) CEED, AIESEC Poland
• Kylie Hansen (AIESEC WA), International Congress, Turkey

Get out of Australia, people, and find out what it really means to work for Peace and Fullfillment of Humankinds Potential in 103 countries!

Love Lucy

Anne vs Australia Friday Challenge

ANNE vs. AUSTRALIA FRIDAY CHALLENGE!
	Anne has been talking it up all week... she believes our AIESEC salespeople around the nation couldn't make more phone calls and organise more first meetings than she could IN ONE DAY! THE CHALLENGE HAS BEEN SET - IT IS TIME FOR AIESEC MIB SALES AGENTS TO STEP UP! Can AIESEC Australia beat Anne collectively in the number of phone calls and first meetings they organise?
	Anne vs. Australia Friday Challenges will be held on the 14th September and 5th October To prove her wrong and show her that the AIESEC Australia Sales Network is able to make more phone calls and organise more meetings than Anne in one day email chloe.reschkemaguire@aiesec.net your phone call and meeting numbers by close of business on Friday 14th September and 5th October. Is it possible? It's up to You!

McUpdate

Good morning everyone!

It's the first day of many that AIESEC.net is in read-only mode, an annoying frustrating time for us all. I logged in to AIESEC.net ready to make a posting, before realising that I couldn't. *sigh*

With the IC guys back we're pushing towards preparing ourselves and our sessions for September Presidents Meeting, which is 24 September to 28 September. Before that, there is State Manager Transition on 21 September to 23 September. This is the conference that all the newly elected LCPs and SMs get together with the outgoing ones. The newly elected LCPs and SMs are all given training on AIESEC and leadership and management skills and knowledge. The outgoing LCPs and SMs have their years wrapped up, and they are taken through a process which helps them conclude on their next steps in AIESEC, or futures outside.

What else has been happening? Well we have come back from IC with a lot of opportunities with exchange partnerships that are well worth promoting! I was sitting in the IC bring-back meeting and I was astounded at the cool opportunities that are our there for our members. Particularly for me, as VPTM, I love having opportunities to promote! It means development, which means we're delivering on our promise!

OK, so I've wasted a good 10 minutes on this... I better get back to work before BO$$MAMA notices I'm stuffing around. =P

Take care!

Cheers,
- Daz

News from IC?