Motivation

I already learned a lot about diffrent methods of motivation... but the most motivating thing in my LCP-term has been and still is my EB-team and my LC.
Let me give you an example:
There are moments when you are sad, tired, desperate or unmotivated. Yesterday evening I had such a moment: There were some troubles with diffrent projects. Furthermore I suddenly feared to not reach the X-goal we set at the beginning of the term. I really felt desperate and tired then.
But today at the EB Meeting we talked about the diffrent things and I got some good news, we created new ideas and found solutions for the problems. My team - again - gave me so much motivation and strength and now I really feel great again.
My LC will rock this term and we already have and for sure will have success - even though we might fail in a project or have less X than expected. The experience I make - and I´m sure it´s the same for my VPs - are so cool, I learn so much and I have so much fun together with my EB and my LC - this is the greatest success for me.
Another good thing for motivation is: Look back from where you started and where you are now. I took over a very good LC (thanks to the EB 08/09) but still we´re improving things and try out new ideas. I already can look back to cool events (like the LC Global Village or IMAS or Trainee Parties) and good results. And so much more will come up in the next month like recruitment, like projects and like elections!!! :)

Let´s get it started!!!

Video on why it´s good to be an LCP

Now post from me for today - instead I found a cool video from a Local Committee President (LCP) from the US. Now, I´ve never met this guy - but I´m pretty sure that most people in leadership positions in AIESEC can identify with what he says.

Working in an invisible team

Together with around 14 other AIESECers (Ken and Johannes are two of them) I am working in a national task force that is basically doing market research to better position AIESEC towards our customers. (Sounds like serious economics - and it is. Stay tuned here or follow the wiki in our intranet myaiesec.net for contents.)

Working in a taks force is one possibility (not only for LCPs, but for every member!) of many to leave the local level for a while and work on the national or international one. Now the special thing about this team is that it works completely virtually. That was a new challenge for me: Of course I use mail, skype, spradsheets, wikis etc on a daily base. But relying completely on them was new to me. Conflicts can come up much faster when you do not see your opponent. And we all learned a lot of small things, such as: More than two telephone conferences a day are really tiring. Call all 50 Local Committees individually if you want to get answers. The station of Hagen has no W-LAN, Hannover does. Virtual irony does not work. Some virtual rooms for telephone conferences tend to kick you out from time to time, others don´t. Google Docs are really cool, but when importing excel sheets, the design will be lost... I could go on much longer.

We also learned that working together in such a big team only works, when you know and trust each other. I am really thankfull to be allowed with this great team, coordinated by the one and only Arne.

Nicolas

Picture taken on our kick-off in Bonn - only a part of the team could be there, unfortunately.

Johannes is joining us

Dear Readers,

in the last few days it has been quiet here. That is normal, above all we are students - and right now we are studying for our exams or recovering from the ones we just had :). But rest asured, new posts are in the pipeline.

To help us, one more Local Committee President will join us. I am pleased to announce that Johannes from the Local Committee at the Technical University (TU) Berlin will also share his experiences here.

Yours,

Nicolas