AIESEC

The international platform for young

people to discover and develop their
potential to have a positive impact
in society.

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AIESECs Tool
The AIESEC eXPerience (@XP)
An unmatched
leadership
development
experience
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What guides people through the XP?

1. Take an active role in your
learning and the learning of
others
2. Constantly challenge your
worldview
3. Regular personal reflection
& meta-cognition
4. Increase, both your practical
and theoretical knowledge
5. Create a network of
contacts for yourself
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Individual discovery
and reflection

Conferences and
Seminars

Team Experiences

Learning Circles

Mentoring

Virtual Spaces;
forums, blogs and
resource sharing

How is the XP actually lived?

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These are the components of the

unique Learning Environment that
AIESEC should have.

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What makes a learning

organization different from
other organizations is how
unique & different its learning
environment is.

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All these 6 components need to

become the core of AIESEC activity
in each of our LCs, all around the
AIESEC network.
This gives a framework to LC
activities for @XP
implementation.
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Individual discovery
and reflection

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Team Experiences

Conferences and
Seminars

In the current context of

AIESEC, these 3
components are already
present in most of our
LCs. But they need to go
through a little bit of a
transformation.
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Mentoring

Learning Circles

And these 3 components

are largely missing or
inconsequential in their
scope, in the LCs across
the network and need to
come into the
mainstream of AIESEC.

Virtual Spaces;
forums, blogs and
resource sharing
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Understanding
Individual Discovery and Reflection

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Individual Discovery and Reflection

This diagram shows the formal steps that an
individual takes through the AIESEC
Experience. It has been carefully designed as
a self-driven structured learning experience.
All members go through a formal
introduction to the organization and then
begin to take on responsibility in an area of
their interest.
They then have the option to take on
leadership positions, work abroad through
our internship program, or both.

The final step is to head for the future to

take the skills, inspiration, and networks
from AIESEC to have a positive impact in
society.
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Individual Study and Reflection

Even if we know little about what goes on in the
human brain, we do know some of the mental
processes involved in learning.
It is human nature that people do not want to be
spoon-fed conclusions made by others. They want to be
provided with the relevant information and the
opportunity to build their own big-picture
understanding, in order to draw these conclusions
themselves.
People do this through exploration, interaction and
dialogue.

Celemi applies the "learning spiral" a basic framework

for a solution's flow. This ensures that participants will
reach their "Aha!" moments that will lead them to
appropriate conclusions and actions.
http://www.celemi.com/learningdesign/approach/index.php
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Individual Study and Reflection

Why personal
development is
so cool?
Our lives are spent in
understanding ourselves

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Individual Study and Reflection

Some key @XP principles are the basis
of Individual Study & Reflection.
1.

2.
3.
4.

Take an active role in your

learning and the learning of
others
Constantly challenge your
worldview
Regular personal reflection &
meta-cognition
Increase, both your practical
and theoretical knowledge

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Team Experiences

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The Team aspect of our Learning
Environment has a two objectives.
To add value to AIESEC in
expanding our organizational
capacity and results.
To provide team members an
opportunity to apply their
learning & gain some desired
experiences, skills, networks and
practical knowledge in their area
of interest.

Team Experiences

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Teams are the basis of our current

organizational structure (X-teams, project
teams, EBs, MCs etc.). Essentially, from the
first to the last step of an individuals
experience in AIESEC is taken within a
team. Teams also bring to light the critical
aspect of learning by doing.

Our teams need to be the hub of enterprise

in the organization, where we move away
from the current rigidity of structures and
create space for innovation and activity on
the basis of an individual interest.

Team Experiences

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Team Experiences

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AIESEC Team Experiences build on 2 @XP
principles.
Increase, both your practical and
theoretical knowledge
The very basis of the AIESEC
eXPerience learning by doing.
Create a network of contacts for
yourself

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Understanding
Learning Circles

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AIESEC Learning Circles are local learning communities. They

are formed by local and international AIESECers who share a
common interest in gaining experience, knowledge and
networks in a common sector or topic. Eg. Human Rights
The Learning Circles are not static
or formal structures. They rearrange themselves around the
content that is being experienced,
discussed and the other individuals
participating. Learning Circles can
have different focuses- they can be
groups of mixed experience, or
they may be generations of
members from a similar level.

Learning Circles
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People may be part of more than one

and attendance is based on interest.
Longer-term structures can be
established based on interest and
commitment, e.g. a weekly casual
meeting around a LN topic.
This process can be facilitated by a
more experienced member especially
for a Learning Circle of a generation of
Introduction Stage AIESECers. More
experienced groups may require only
rotating or shared facilitation.

Learning Circles
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Learning Circles
AIESEC Learning Circles are Peer to
Peer learning environments,
which build on 2 key AIESEC XP
principles.
Take an active role in your learning
& the learning of others each of
us has something to teach &
something to learn. We take
responsibility for each others
development.

Constantly challenge your world

view challenging our assumptions
& understanding.
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How can exploration of ideas around

topics of interest in learning circles lead
to team experiences and contribute to
organizational activity & performance?
An example

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THEORY

ACTION

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Exploration

Review

Implementation

Discussion
Investigation

PBOX
Cycle

Cycle

Testing

Idea
Generation
Overview

Exploration

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Understanding
Conferences and Seminars

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AIESEC holds over 350 national &

international conferences every year!
These conferences currently serve as a
major organizational activity support. At
many of these conferences, and in many
local events, AIESEC invites speakers to
challenge us with their understanding and
perspective.
This expertise, whether from alumni,
partners or members themselves, provide
great opportunities for our membership
to gain high quality information and to
engage our stakeholders in our learning
environment.

Conferences and Seminars

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We also need to reach out &

create extensive opportunities for
our membership to participate in
external conferences & seminars
organized by partner or other
organizations.
This would go a long way in
broadening the perspective of our
membership & would allow them
to look at things, which are
currently outside the realms of
AIESECs operations.

Conferences and Seminars

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The Conferences & Seminars build

on the @XP principles of
Increase, both your practical and
theoretical knowledge
Create a network of contacts for
yourself
All AIESEC conferences & seminars
have the 5 @XP principles as
the basis of their learning
environment.

Conferences and Seminars

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Understanding
Mentoring

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Our lives are spent in

understanding ourselves!
Mentorship is most important in
this process.
The key to the process is to
remove the individual from his/her
comfort zone enough to help them
gain objectivity over themselves
but not to scare the individual off.
Often a team manager is not in the
position, or capable of this type of
leadership and an external mentor
must be sought.

Mentoring

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All AIESEC members should be

educated on the principles of
effective mentoring.
Mentoring pairs may form
between members of varying
experience, with Alumni and
Partners.

Whether they are the more

experienced mentor or the
actor, AIESEC should always
help shape the content and
process of mentoring.

Mentoring

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Mentoring
Mentoring, just like Learning Circles, creates
a Peer to Peer learning environment,
which builds on 2 key AIESEC XP principles.
Take an active role in your learning & the
learning of others each of us has
something to teach & something to learn.
We take responsibility for each others
development.
Constantly challenge your world view
challenging our assumptions &
understanding.
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Mentoring
One of the most challenging
and rewarding experiences in
AIESEC is being responsible to
support the development of
another individual. You must
take this responsibility seriously
and treasure it. Investment in
and the development of
excellent people is fundamental
to the success of our
organisation and the future of
our world.

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Understanding
Virtual Spaces

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Virtual Spaces
The different elements
1. AIESEC.net Communities Information Sharing

2.
3.
4.

AIESEC.net Library Resource Sharing

AIESEC.net Forums Virtual Discussion & Perspective Sharing

Blogs Personal reflection & experience sharing

AIESEC.net & AIESEConnect Building & keeping
networks (to be available in the near future)
Other opportunities & information available on
the World Wide Web
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Virtual Spaces
Our virtual spaces also play the key
role of tying together the entire
learning environment.

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Our Learning Platform

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Team Experiences
Learning Circles

Virtual Spaces

Individual discovery
and reflection
Conferences and
Seminars

Mentoring

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Learning Environment
How to make it happen?

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Individual Discovery & Reflection

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Team Experiences

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Learning Circles

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Conferences & Seminars

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Mentoring

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Virtual Spaces

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AIESEC
A Unique Learning Environment
Local/Global
Theoretical/Practical
Physical/Virtual

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AIESEC
The international platform for young
people to discover and develop their
potential to have a positive impact
in society.

Implementing AIESEC XP | Our Learning Environment | AIESEC International 2005