Saturday, August 25, 2007
DLD - WHAT??
Yesterday was DLD (Developing Leaders Day) that was very exciting - at least for me. What was this about?
At every IC Cadbury Schweppes and ABN AMRO - big global AIESEC partners - organize a whole day about leadership skills. Most of the time this means that especially their own facilitators learn a lot through these kind of days since they have to prepare everything and don't know exactly what to expect from the AIESEC delegates. Thus the content is well known for at least the German delegates, e.g. the Belvin test or the simulation about landing on the moon. Our group (group 10;)) had very good facis, Alexey from Russia (calm, but experienced in leading teams) and Adrian from Canada (very energetic) who had been MCP canada for two years and is now active in the Africa & Middle East resort of Cadbury Schweppes so he got my business card; maybe he has some contacts he can share with us...
Even though I had heard about the content of "forming-storming-norming-performing" before it was very interesting since I didn't know that many of these simulations; or maybe it was because of the coffee I had.
One of the simulations was about constructing a statue or column for the Zin. Our group of around 36 was split into 6 smaller groups and each member of the groups got different cards we were not allowed to show to the others. All cards contained information about the Zin. The task was to find out the name of the day this statue was completed. We were very fast and were first in finding out the right answer. At the end we received a sheet with all the information and how to get to the right answer. Surprisingly "our" Zin was completed after 2 days, but the sheet said after 6 days. So obviously the information was passed incorrectly since the Zin had a width of about 50m while we had thought it was 15m. And then there must have been a second fault in collecting the information - at the end we told our facis the right name but were absolutely wrong in the way to get there. But we had a good time, had been finished 5-6 minutes earlier then the second group and were very thrilled.
After a nice day with a very energetic group the DLD was followed by a speech of a Cadbury Schweppes manager responsible for the Central East Europe region. The day closed with the Turkish Night. Around the party area several booths and tables informed us about Turkey and served free food; Turkish dances gave us an impression of Turkish culture. (Frankly, the Egyptian Night at the IPM and the Polish Night last IC were much better.)
This was yesterday, a very energetic day.
At every IC Cadbury Schweppes and ABN AMRO - big global AIESEC partners - organize a whole day about leadership skills. Most of the time this means that especially their own facilitators learn a lot through these kind of days since they have to prepare everything and don't know exactly what to expect from the AIESEC delegates. Thus the content is well known for at least the German delegates, e.g. the Belvin test or the simulation about landing on the moon. Our group (group 10;)) had very good facis, Alexey from Russia (calm, but experienced in leading teams) and Adrian from Canada (very energetic) who had been MCP canada for two years and is now active in the Africa & Middle East resort of Cadbury Schweppes so he got my business card; maybe he has some contacts he can share with us...
Even though I had heard about the content of "forming-storming-norming-performing" before it was very interesting since I didn't know that many of these simulations; or maybe it was because of the coffee I had.
One of the simulations was about constructing a statue or column for the Zin. Our group of around 36 was split into 6 smaller groups and each member of the groups got different cards we were not allowed to show to the others. All cards contained information about the Zin. The task was to find out the name of the day this statue was completed. We were very fast and were first in finding out the right answer. At the end we received a sheet with all the information and how to get to the right answer. Surprisingly "our" Zin was completed after 2 days, but the sheet said after 6 days. So obviously the information was passed incorrectly since the Zin had a width of about 50m while we had thought it was 15m. And then there must have been a second fault in collecting the information - at the end we told our facis the right name but were absolutely wrong in the way to get there. But we had a good time, had been finished 5-6 minutes earlier then the second group and were very thrilled.
After a nice day with a very energetic group the DLD was followed by a speech of a Cadbury Schweppes manager responsible for the Central East Europe region. The day closed with the Turkish Night. Around the party area several booths and tables informed us about Turkey and served free food; Turkish dances gave us an impression of Turkish culture. (Frankly, the Egyptian Night at the IPM and the Polish Night last IC were much better.)
This was yesterday, a very energetic day.
