LEAD for Trainees
Framework for LEAD spaces for Trainees
Content - What is LEAD for Trainees
- It’s all about the Trainee Journey - LEAD for Trainees, a powerful tool - How to implement LEAD for Trainees
• Before Trainee arrives • When Trainee arrives • During Trainee’s Internship • Before Trainee leaves - The Final Framework! - Co-delivery is the key - Intern Buddy, the one for the job
What is LEAD for Trainees LEAD for Trainees aims at developing the leadership potential of interns through facilitating the inner and outer journey, embedded in their internship with AIESEC, hoping to enable them to become future leaders with social responsibility and entrepreneurial outlook. Through their internship experience with AIESEC, interns will go through a journey in order to develop their self-awareness, effective communication, and social responsibility.
LEAD for Trainees is the support system to facilitate the intern’s Inner and Outer Journey
It’s all about the EP Journey The interns will go on a journey of Leadership Development, where they will be able to acknowledge their personal strengths and weaknesses as well as personal values and purposes in life. They will also become more aware of social issues, which results in taking ownership for it and initiating actions to contribute to their communities. All this is done by putting into good practice the facilitation of the Outer Journey through the Exchange Experience in general and the Inner Journey through LEAD for Trainees, for the sole purpose of developing the Leadership Qualities.
LEAD for Trainees, a powerful tool LEAD for Trainees is a powerful tool that creates high quality experiences, develops all elements of the Leadership Development Model, creating the leaders of tomorrow while making AIESEC the unique organization that provides real leadership experiences for the interns of AIESEC, driving impact worldwide.
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How to implement LEAD for Trainees? To ensure the effective implementation of LEAD for Trainees, we need to understand the exact timeline of the Intern’s Journey. This applies from when an Intern signs up for your opportunity, to when they check in and check out in the new environment, summing things up to:
- Before Trainee arrives
- When Trainee arrives - During Trainee’s Internship - Before Trainee leaves
Before Trainee arrives Virtual Spaces for Interns Community Virtual Spaces for the interns, supporting their experience and facilitating contact with other interns (specially from same country or that will work on the same project). The purpose of providing an online platform is to allow them to communicate and prepare themselves, understand personal values, reflect on the journey they’re embarking on while facilitating global networking even before the experience starts. This virtual environment can be the place that has the interns coming to the same entity, or to the same project, where you’ll able to provide them with spaces for Q&As and experience sharing.
Example of Virtual Spaces: - Facebook Group for Trainees. - Chat Forum / Discussion Group.
When Trainee arrives IPS (Incoming Preparation Seminar) The IPS is a Conference or Seminar that will happen in the first week of the experience, as close as possible to the trainee arrival, and before they start their work at the entity/in the project. The first week of the exchange is the most important for the Intern who is facing foreign and challenging environment and it starts from the very landing on the host entity – as first day of Reception. The IPS agenda should be aligned with the LDM, the framework can be as follows:
- Leadership Development Session: making sure the trainee understand LDA - Goal Setting Session: guiding the EPs through the goal setting process according to LDA results. - Cultural Preparation: making the intern aware of the cultural differences and is realistic - Expectation setting: AIESEC, Enabler, Project Scope , JD clarity , Responsibilities and Rules.
During Trainee’s Internship
Coaching Meetings Coaching Meetings are a great instruments to drive leadership development and provide support to your interns by working with them on an One to One basis, coaching and helping them to develop themselves through all the duration of the project. Coaching Meetings recurrence may vary depending on each LC and the responsible for the coaching, normally the EP Buddy.
Team Meetings Team Meetings are Learning Circles or Team Experience gatherings with the trainees in order to help them see how they can overcome problems they are facing on the internship, see how was their last weeks and the experience so far, but also create plans for the next weeks. Since this stage is focused on the moment of biggest performance of the Intern. It stands for the middle of the internship.
Before Trainee leaves Experience Evaluation This stands for the last sprint of the Intern in the host country. It corresponds to the period from 75% after realization up to the end of the experience (last 25%). At this stage, you need to provide the Interns with a space to reflect on his experience, Individual Reflection Space or a Conference/Seminar where they’ll be able to compare their LDA results before & after. For Interns to plan what they want to do next.
The Flow of this last stage includes: - Self-Reflection Space. - Compare both LDA Results & reflect on the changes and reasons of it. - Future Actions (What am I bringing home from my experience.
Before Trainee arrives
When Trainee arrives
During Trainee’s internship
Before Trainee leaves
Virtual Spaces for Interns
IPS
Coaching Meetings Team Meetings
Experience Evaluation
Responsibilities & Goals
Self-Reflection Space
WHAT
Leadership Development Preparation & Reflection Space Q&As Experience Sharing
Goal Setting LDA Results
Challenging Role and Environment
Cultural Preparation
Support System
Compare LDA Results
Cultural Interaction
Future Actions
Expectation setting
HOW
FRAMEWORK
WHEN
The Final Framework!
Co-delivery is the Key Before the implementation of Trainees LEAD itself, the most important thing that must be amplified is Co-delivery. Co-delivery is a more concrete way to do co-operations in order to provide more and better experiences (based on implementing Trainee LEAD of both Home and Host entities). Some of the co-operations that can be implemented are:
- OPS and IPS alignment: this will allow a better expectation setting and a good preparation for the Trainee to start his journey. But also avoid repetition and allow the sending entity and hosting entity to have complementary content for both seminars. - Similar Virtual Spaces: it will make it easier for the trainees not being overwhelmed with a lot of communication channels when they are about to embark in their AIESEC journey.
Useful links: Find the appropriate content for your LEAD Sessions: http://www.aies.ec/lead/ OPS/RIS Frameworks: http://www.aies.ec/ai-resources/alignopsandips
Contact
Mehdi AMAR CHERIF MCVP Business to Customer mehdi.amarcherif@aiesec.net
mc.algeria@aiesec.net