KAARWAAN Karteek Hoshangabade Applicant – President 2016
AIESEC for Pune India
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Curriculum Vitae
applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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biography
Born in the small town of Yevatmal, on 29th September 1994, karteek grew up in the lovely city of Pune. Studying in one of the big schools in Pune, he developed a fancy for sports and since then, they have become a big part of his life. He is passionate about cricket and has also played professionally until 2010. He is still a child at heart when it comes to superheroes and dreams of becoming Spider-man someday, is a potterhead and still reads harry potter. 3 years ago, a friend forced him to join AIESEC. The first time around, he ran away from the venue! The next day he went for GD|PI, turned out he was the only one who got recruited from that bunch. And he has never looked back. karteek has seen the best of successes and worst of failures, but its his passion that keeps him driving forward IN LIFE. The last 5 years have taught him that its okay to fail, but its not okay to be a failure. Today, he stands at a place in life, having grown up as a witness to so many impactful movements all around the world. hE dreams of leading one himself. He dreams of creating an AIESEC for Pune. he dreams of reaching there with you and he invites you, through these pages, to become a part of this
Karwaan | applicant - President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
AIESEC EXPERIENCE 1.Present your AIESEC Experience (visually/graphically/tabular) and list the three most important experiences.
2012
September | Recruited Q4 - Team Member BD
Quit AIESEC.
2nd MB! The Wolfpack II Q2 - TL oGCDP (Expansions)
2014
The Guardians VP Expansions
Facilitator South-West RYLC’15, Vizag
2016
AGM 2013 Business Development Best Department Award
1st OC! March, South-West RYLC’13
Executive Body Coordinator Feb Lcong’13.
The Marathas VP Learning & Development
1st MB! The Wolfpack Q1 - Team Leader BD (Alumni Relations)
Executive Body Coordinator JNC 2014, Goa
Executive Body Coordinator CSR Summit 2015
2013
Facilitator South-West RYLC’14, Manipal
The Marathas VP Business Development-X
2015
What next?
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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AIESEC EXPERIENCE A Guardian. VP Expansions - the most challenging and fulfilling experience. Being a mentor to a whole entity, while handling operations as well was one of the most enriching experience. Upgrading to OE, financial contribution and exchange were just bonus points.
EBC, JNC 14 Conference management, team leadership, diversity of people, corporate exposure, friends in different countries, I experienced everything that AIESEC boasts about in this one experience of 3 months. -With a bunch of brilliant new recs, I managed to deliver 650 smiles.
A Maratha. The amount of learning I’ve gained in this year has been immense. It has broken all the notions I had about being a retermer or a senior member. It just restored my belief that the amount of learning and growth in AIESEC is limitless.
2. What have been your main achievements and non-achievements in AIESEC in the past? Achievements - Nagpur upgraded to an Official Expansion. - Cash flow of Rs.2,64,000 from Expansions. - EBC term, June National Conference 2014.
Non- achievements Alumni event delivery, Q1-2013 CSR Summit, Q2-2015 Sale of GC(O) projects -
3. What are your three basic Learnings/Values for life, which you have derived through your AIESEC experience? Humility
: This is something that has stuck with me since Q2-2013, when I went to Nagpur for the first time in my AIESEC experience. Being a TL, I went with plans and strategies for the Nagpur members. In a meeting with the Leadership Body and the LCC of Nagpur, I was surprised how attentively they listened to everything I had to say and the plans I proposed even when these people were the heads of operations in the city and I was a mere TL. Ever since, I have always ensured I am humble no matter what position I hold.
Calmness
: A value I learnt in JNC 2014. This experience taught me the importance of ‘calmness’ as a leadership value. Everything that could have gone wrong, was going wrong at this conference. And I had the responsibility of being a leader to the 48 people OC under me. I relate this experience to how a duck swims in the pond – endless struggle and paddling under water, but all we see is the calm and cool above the surface.
“It’s okay to fail, but it’s not okay to BE a failure”-
This is the most important learning I have taken back from 3 years of my AIESEC journey. I have been on the receiving end of not being selected for the MB, not being selected on OCs, my events not being delivered, failing in college, quitting AIESEC and even losing LCP elections. And yet, here I am. “It’s okay to fail, but it’s not okay BE a failure.”
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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AIESEC EXPERIENCE 4. List all the conferences you have attended and in what capacity.
Conference
Role
Conference
Role
RYLC - Sept 2012, Khadakwasla
Delegate
LCong - Oct 2014, Khadakwasla
Faci
LCong - Nov 2012, Khandala
Delegate
ALC - Jan 2015, Kolkata
RYLC - March 2013, Silvassa
Onsite OC
LCong- Feb 2015, Khadakwasla
LCong – Feb 2014, Khandala
EBC/Faci
JNC - June 2015, Goa
Delegate Faci Delegate
JNC - June 2014, Goa
EBC
LCong - Aug 2014, Lonavala
Faci
RYLC - Sept 2014, Manipal
Faci
RYLC - Sept 2015, Vizag
Faci
5. What aspect of your Executive Body term could you have significantly improved upon? (personally and as a team) -Personally:
One thing that I believe I could have definitely improved upon is my contribution as VP BDx. BDx being a new portfolio, there was a lot of scope for innovation and I could not harvest any output from it even after a lot of efforts by my team.
- Team:
I don’t believe any operational aspect of the team needed to improve apart from accountability and communication & involvement in team spheres. Accountability is an important aspect in a team which faltered at some points. Whereas internal communication and involvement in team spheres lacked majorly in the first half of the year.
“My experience has been much more than what you read till now. Success, failure or learning, something I always ask myself What next?”
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
KAARWAAN TUM CHALȫ, TOH...
Personal Questionnaire 1. What are your key strength and weakness ? .How will they effect the role you are applying for and what will be your unique contribution because of these strengths and weakness ? Meticulous
Transferable Skills
Ethics & Integrity
Emotional Intelligence
Procrastination
Inability to get angry.
Strenghts:
- I believe having good transferable skills helps me be a mentor to anyone, anywhere, anytime irrespective of the situation. Communication skills, interpersonal skills, leadership skills are the strengths I refer to when I say Transferable skills. -Being ethical and integrous is something that cannot be compromised and being so myself will reflect on the teams under me. -Strong emotional intelligence helps me understand people and their emotions, their state of mind and the required dialogue with him/her. I believe this quality is important for all leaders as it brings the leader closer to the people not as his followers but as people.
Weaknesses:
- I tend to be meticulous and focus on tiny details more than necessary. It may not go well with time. - I don’t and can’t get angry. The only way this might affect my term is people taking my word lightly. - I’ve been a victim of procrastination in the past and this is one weakness I intend to do away with and not let it affect this term. I believe the unique contribution I can bring to the term through my strengths is that of being a transformational leader. You can read more about the same in the next answer!
2. What is your Leadership style ? Explain with real stories from past leadership experiences. Transformational Leadership:
As fancy as it may sound, all I mean to say is that I have always been the kind of leader who will not give you solutions, but provide you with the resources and guide you to find a path which shall lead you to one. As a leader, I’ve always been someone who visualizes and creates a vision and guide my members come up with their own ideas and solutions to reach the end goal. I’ve been a mentor to many people in the last 2 years and if there’s one thing that they all have to say about me, it would be the fact that I never tell them what’s right or wrong, what should or should not be done, what is good or bad, but ask them powerful questions which makes them come up to an answer themselves.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Personal Questionnaire - To give an easy example of transformational leadership – Parents. Parents are the transformational leaders who have their vision for the family and visualize a certain future, and hence give their children all the required resources and learning for them to grow. - A small story to connect to above would be my term as VP Expansions. I went to Nagpur in the beginning of the year and tried to understand every aspect of AIESEC in Nagpur so as to lead me to find out the problems they were facing. When I did, I visualized AIESEC in Nagpur upgrading in the national plenary and started working towards by taking a small decision - appointing their LCC. Throughout the year, I mentored the LCC, gave the Leadership Body the required resources and training and gave them complete freedom to pursue their ideas. They asked me for solutions with problems they were facing as a start up LC and expected me to put forward solutions which Pune implements. For a simple reason that the realities of the 2 cities are different, I refused to give them solutions and went and had an expansion visit where I worked with the LCC to come up with their own strategies and solutions for their reality. 6 months into my term at JNC 2014, Nagpur got upgraded. I believe deep down, every person knows what is to be done in face of a problem. All they need is to hear someone say it. I believe that ‘someone’ needs to be they themselves. The only way to lead them there, is by sharing the vision and making them visualize the path.
3. List the values you live by in your life and how you practice them in your day to day life. What kind of values would you want in your EB and the LC. - Humility:
As I mentioned before, being humble is a value I live by every day. Be it through the interactions I have with colleagues or the conversations I have with friends, humility is a value that never leaves my side.
Calmness:
Again, like I mentioned above, through AIESEC I understood the importance of calmness as a leadership value and it has stayed with me ever since. There is no specific way I practice this in my life. I’ve become a calm person in these last 3 years.
-Fun: This is something I have learnt not only through AIESEC but also in my personal life. If you’re not
having fun what you’re doing, something needs to change. I get easily disheartened if what I do is not fun even if the situation I am in is supposed to be good. Example - I wasn’t having fun studying electronics – didn’t care about dropping a year - changed my stream. -I believe values are something very personal to any individual. I do not wish to make my EB follow the values I live by. I’d want my EB to be humble and approachable, emotionally intelligent and available for conversations. But other than that, they’re free to live by whatever values they live by as it is something very personal to each individual. - Something I want my EB & LC to follow is to have fun while they are in AIESEC alongside all the learning and work and targets and tangibles or whatever kind of stress. If I’d not have had fun in my AIESEC journey, I would not have been here irrespective of how much I learn.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Personal Questionnaire 4. What is driving you to continue in AIESEC ? What makes you apply for President? -My Purpose:
Last year when I came back from RYLC as a facilitator, I started introspecting about what I really want to do ahead in my life. Till then, I had always lived under the impression that it is important to have a goal in life and kept trying to find mine but in vain. I knew for sure that I wanted to make a difference. There are 2 things I am really passionate about 1- harvesting untapped potential from people who don’t even realize they possess it. 2- Cricket. And hence, throughout my Marathas term I kept wondering how can I make sure I do something I feel passionate about and manage to leave a mark. RYLC 2015 – The 7 days that changed a lot of things. I realized having a goal in life is not the most important thing and instead one should find his mission, his purpose in life. I found my purpose after this conference –
“To find the best talent in our country and provide them a platform to develop their skills as sports persons.”
For the next 5 years, I plan to work on my mission.
- Still, why LCP?
When I talk about creating a national platform for people to develop and showcase their skills, I don’t mean I just intend to start an academy or an organization, but more importantly I intend to start a movement. A movement which realizes its potential when these people get the required platform, a movement which creates a stir and is joined by hundreds and thousands of aspiring sports persons, a movement where everyone walks together to one mission – To develop and showcase the sports talent in our country. - This brings me to why I want to apply for the position. I intend to create a youth leadership movement in Pune. I don’t see AIESEC being just a youth run organization, I visualize it as the Youth Leadership Movement which changes the city. - I have seen leaders come and go in AIESEC and it has made me believe in the power of an AIESEC experience. It has pushed me to take up challenges and this is one challenge I wish to take up. What drives me to continue in AIESEC is the wonderful opportunity of working on my passion of developing potential in the youth.
you’ll read this again ahead in the manifesto.. “Leaders don’t create followers, They create more leaders. Because leaders, create movements and movements…”
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
KAARWAAN TUM CHALȫ, TOH...
Personal Questionnaire 5. How will you make sure you execute your plans as execution is the biggest problem of all the leaders? - Strategize? Execute? - What’s the biggest problem for leaders? Leaders are often found in situations where their biggest problems are usually between the both of the above. Either to strategize for a problem in hand or to execute the solution – eventually both of them are interdependent and can cause problems in any movement. I visualize being a transformational leader who doesn’t give solutions but only sets a vision for where the movement needs to go. How does this help me ensure the plans are executed? 1- I am not the one making plans. My team is the one making plans. My role here would be ensuring I create the kind of environment required. My role would be to provide all the necessary resources for them to come up with the strategies and to ensure they are on the pathway to the vision we’ve set for the movement. 2- Being created by the team, the strategies will be something that come personally from everyone and would be a product of every individual’s thought process. This gives every strategy a personal connection to the person involved in execution - a sense of ownership. This in turn ensures the kind of accountability we maintain and the execution of these strategies. Simple example to understand – A boy wants to pursue cricket professionally as a career. Being the leader of the family, the parents’ role here is creating the kind of environment where the boy is free to pursue his dream. The parents’ role here is to provide him with all the necessary cricket equipment and training required for him to reach the vision of becoming a professional cricketer. As it is a personal choice and vision set by the boy for himself, he would ensure he takes the most out of the coaching and the training programs as this vision has a personal connection with the boy; which in turn ensures the fact that the boy puts in his efforts in the execution!
7. What is that one thing that you want to learn from this Leadership Role and the reason for it? - For me, AIESEC is that movement which, through its actions and impact, inspires me to do more and be more every single day. Like I mentioned above, AIESEC has taught me its okay to fail but its not okay to BE a failure. - I stopped playing cricket when I was 16. That is something I always regret and term as a failure. But then again, AIESEC has taught me not to BE a failure! So here I am, passionately planning to create a movement of young talented individuals in the sphere of sport by creating the required spaces. - A major part of both the VP terms that I have done have been as a lone VP without members. Till now I have been someone who has walked continuously towards making AIESEC big but haven’t had the opportunity to lead more people along with me in this movement. This is my opportunity. One thing I want to take back from this LCP term is the understanding of how to spark a movement and then lead it. I want to learn how a movement is created and how it can change or impact the lives of people around it. You’ll get a clearer picture on the next page!
“ Main toh akela hi chala tha Janib-e-manzil magar, Log saath aate gaye, KAARWAAN banta gaya.”
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Personal Questionnaire 6. What is your year theme. Why?
KAARWAAn
tUM CHALȫ, TOH... To translate this word from Urdu, ‘Kaar’ means a pursuit or a mission, while ‘Waan’ refers to the people or the guardians of the mission. - Kaarwaan is a large movement of people who always travel together in pursuit of a mission. Irrespective of the challenges faced on the way, a kaarwaan stays united and keeps moving. -Around the time I was in my 8th-9th grade in school, I watched a small commercial by Times of India where they launched their Lead India movement. One line from that commercial has stayed with me in my mind always – Tum Chalo, toh Hindustaan Chale – literally translating to “Be the front-runner; because when you walk, India walks with you.” -Why do I want this to be my theme? Because I visualize AIESEC for Pune to become that Kaarwaan. I visualise AIESEC for Pune becoming the kind of movement which challenges convention, which is fearless, which is inclusive and one which is creating leaders everyday. And as you have read till now, when I talk about this Kaarwaan, I don’t talk about an AIESEC in Pune. I talk about an AIESEC for Pune. And to achieve that, I need all of you to be the frontrunners. Because when you walk… We live in an era of movements. In the last 2 years itself, movements have left a massive impact on the world. Egypt had fallen, Libyans had overthrown a powerful leader and there was a massive movement in Syria. Europe’s economic turmoil sparked movements in the UK, Spain and Greece. Protests targeting government corruption were occurring in India, led by Kejriwal and Hazare. Israelis took to the streets to rail against the rising costs of housing. Across countries, women dressed provocatively in the SlutWalk movement to change mindsets of people around the world. Every icon to the right symbolizes a movement. This is the power of movements – they can start out with just a small group of people who believe passionately in something and they can end up changing the culture around the world. As I watched these movements transpire, I couldn’t help but wonder how I can be part of something like that? Or if I could possibly help start something like that based around an issue that matters deeply to me? And I found my answer in this opportunity – To lead an AIESEC for Pune. Movements are all about people being united behind a shared purpose – a Kaarwaan. If we all work together to generate ideas that create more and more meaningful cultural connections, which drive our business as well as the societal impact that we create, more involved and meaningful relationships with our stakeholders, it puts us in the centre of communities, organizations and colleges as a virtual cycle of interactivity. This in turn, would help us not only identify but also effect the kind of relevant change required in all social, corporate and student sectors. AIESEC for Pune needs to be a Kaarwaan. AIESEC for Pune needs to be a Movement. And AIESECers for Pune need to be the frontrunners; because when you walk…
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Organization Understanding 1. What is your Understanding of AIESEC 2020? Envision the year 2020 for AIESEC in Pune in three statements as a leader of 2016. BEING
ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE
We envision a world where its possible for everyone to have access to an AIESEC experience - a world where engagement with AIESEC has no limits. I envision a Pune where AIESEC is present in all universities across the city and our digital systems are accessible across sectors.
GROWING DISRUPTIVELY
We envision AIESECers disruptively changing the world with their innovative ideas and activities. I envision AIESEC being that movement which changes the city disruptively with its innovative projects and creates a better Pune with its Leadership experiences.
PRESENT IN ALL
UNIVERSITIES AND ACROSS
DIGITAL PLATFORMS.
A
MOVEMENT THAT CREATES A BETTER PUNE THROUGH
LEADERSHIP
SHAPING WHAT WE DO We envision an AIESEC which addresses world issues through its AROUND projects and is dynamic in its response and collaborations with WHAT THE other organizations. I visualize not an AIESEC in Pune, but an AIESEC for Pune. I WORLD NEEDS
envision AIESEC being the solution to the problems in the city and being an AIESEC for Pune in collaboration with other organizations and legal authorities.
AIESEC
FOR PUNE
“Peace & Fulfillment of Humankind’s Potential” – We envision and strive for this everyday through our activities. But exactly how do we achieve Peace and ensure the humankind’s potential is fulfilled to the maximum? 70% of the world is at peace today – Is the vision of AIESEC relevant then? 7 billion people in the world today – How does AIESEC fulfill everyone’s potential? These are the kinds of questions we need to keep answering because these are the questions which will help us evolve with time. The AIESEC experience needs to evolve for the world. We don’t need to fulfill 7 billion people’s potential! We need to create young leaders who can do that for us. We don’t need to partake in political agendas and propagate peace! We need to create young leaders who have gone through a fulfilling experience and understand the concept of peace! And hence, our BHAG - Engage and Develop every young person in the world. What is it that we have to do to take us closer to engaging and developing every young person in the world? That is the most powerful question, we as AIESECers can ask ourselves and that is the question which has lead to the formation of the evolved ambitions of the movement. A2020 is important because it gives us a sense of direction in which we need to move to reach closer to Peace and Fulfillment of Humankind’s Potential by making sure we Engage and Develop every young person in the world. And to reach there, AIESEC needs to become the world’s largest Youth Leadership Movement which shapes its activities around what the world needs, grows disruptively and is accessible to everyone, everywhere.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Organization Understanding 2. We are moving towards a more customer centric organization. How will you in your year make AIESEC a customer centric organization? How will you increase customer experience in all the programs that we offer? I believe the simplest way I can answer this question is by saying if we want to become Customer-centric, we need to change only one thing – Behavior. Why do we need to change our behavior? -We go through inductions, learn about the portfolio, talk about experiences, we learn how to sell through sales sessions, we sell, we sell and we sell. What about delivery? Is delivery a formality or is it a behavior? Delivery is a behavior! The best organizations that we always remember and have respect for, are the organizations which stand-out because of their customer centricity. Take into context the Customer Flows - We as AIESECers focus all our energies on the attraction and consideration phases. We take inductions, we go for meetings, we sell, we ‘Raise’. This is precisely why the new CFs have come into place and implementation of the CFs along with all the Standards and Satisfaction checkpoints is the only way forward to becoming a customer centric movement. 5 questions we need to ask ourselves at every single stage in the customer flow – INTENT: What does the customer want to achieve at each step? EXPERIENCE: What actually happens at each step to serve the customer’s intent? ARTIFACTS: What does the customer physically touch, see, hear or encounter? OPERATIONS: What operations take place in the local committee? PEOPLE: Who, from our local committee manages the experience? As much as I want AIESEC for Pune to be a bottom-up movement where I only play the role of a mentor and the actual front-runners are the AIESECers, I believe customer centricity is one thing where the process needs to be top-down. But how? An LCP doesn’t even handle customers! -Being a customer centric organization does not only mean thinking about our external stakeholders. Our most valuable customers are the AIESECers themselves! I believe the behavior I demonstrate reflects on my team as well as the movement. Walt Disney liked taking walks around Disneyland whenever he got a chance. If he ever happened to see a paper on the ground, he’d stoop down and pick it up. He called this Stooping to Excellence. He knew that as he walked through the park, all of the employees were watching him. He had to demonstrate excellence. He had to demonstrate that he wasn’t beyond picking up trash off of the ground. If he didn’t pick it up, he was effectively giving permission to all of the other Disney employees to walk past the trash. Simply put, when I demonstrate a certain behavior, my team shall do so too creating a kind of a culture. -How will that help us be customer centric? The top-rated customer service organizations are often the best organizations to work for as well. The reason is that the culture within the organization offers a similar experience to what the customer experiences on the outside. Hence, when we become centric to our biggest customers – the AIESECers, we become centric to our stakeholders. Bottom line being that customer-centric organizations stand out. They are more enjoyable to work in and are desirable to work with! This not only helps us build our brand, but also helps us move towards becoming a Lovemark for people across sectors. I shall explain more about the concept of being a Lovemark in the Marketing specific questionnaire ahead.
“Lovemarks are the future beyond brands, they inspire Loyalty Beyond Reason and deliver beyond your expectations of great performance.” Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Organization Understanding 3. Evaluate the new AIESEC way and LDM. How do you think they play an important role in an AIESECers life? If given a chance, what changes do you suggest in both? (If any) When Steve Jobs and Steve Woz started their venture in a garage, they named it Apple Computers Inc. – because they made computers. Around the beginning of the 21st century, the same company revolutionalized the music industry with the launch of the iPod. Few years later they came out with the iTouch and changed the way people used gadgets. By this time, they had changed the name of their company from Apple Computers Inc. to Apple Inc. for a simple reason that the company had moved beyond making just computers and was rolling out other gadgets.
The AIESEC Way as we knew it since the last few years, underwent an evolution and is now based around the Golden Circle theory. But why did the AIESEC Way have to change? Are we changing like Apple did? No, we aren’t changing. Our core value still remains the same – Leadership. Understand that this is not the first time AIESEC has evolved and changed. AIESEC being the dynamic movement that it is, has evolved several times to best represent its relevance in that period of time. With the changing times, we need to evolve to ensure we are relevant to the world. The new and refreshed AIESEC Way has been simplified – explaining in brief our WHY, our HOW, our WHAT, WHO we are and what VALUES we live by. It is a much simpler guide to any member working in AIESEC to understand the purpose of our existence and also the unique way in which we are achieving it.
LDM //
The LEADERS we develop.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Organization Understanding
This is the LEADERSHIP we believe in and develop. The AIESEC Way coupled with our Leadership Development Model creates a perfect portrayal of what AIESEC as a movement envisions and how it visualizes to reach there. I don’t believe I would change or add anything in the AIESEC Way and the Leadership Development Model.
“We live in the most complex, interdependent and interconnected era in human history – a reality we know as the hyper-connected world. This reality presents a new leadership context - shaped by adaptive challenges as well as transformational opportunities” These parameters require a new type of LEADERSHIP. Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Organization Understanding 4. What is your understanding of the AIESEC Customer f low. Compare it with a different company’s customer f low and suggest what changes and improvement can you get in AIESEC Customer f low in Pune to achieve more results. Business Model Canvas
Customer Relationships
Simply put, The Customer Flow of AIESEC refers to the relationships we establish and maintain with our customers since the moment they have their first interaction with AIESEC until the moment the end their experience with us.
Flipkart’s Customer Flow
You can see the workflow of e-commerce websites like Flipkart on the left. Similarities to observe: They too have an internal portal - the OMS like our EXPA and they have their main website, which is the public domain, like our OP. Once people order on their website, the order is downloaded on the OMS – when the person registers on OP, the home LC can see it in the registrations. Once the order is generated, inventory allocation is done against that product – Once a person registers, he is given access to our portal to browse internships (our inventory). After the inventory allocation, the order is packed along with the invoice and shipping label – Once the person selects an internship, he is given a chance to apply and get matched. Once packed, the product is ready to be shipped from the warehouse to the customer – once matched, the person is eligible to go for that internship and starts prepping! Order is handed over to the courier company to deliver it to the customer – our EP is realized in the country and begins his internship. Finally, the product reaches the customer – Our EP finishes the internship and comes back home.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Organization Understanding The Customer Flow does not need any changes to increase the value of the Customer Experience. The only thing that needs to be changed to help improve the customer flow efficiency is again – behavior. Human minds are calibrated in such a manner that if we continue to do something as a process – it becomes a habit, a behavior. Big organizations have fallen prey to this and hence, we need to change our behavior. We as a movement need to move beyond the Sales behavior to the Delivery behavior. If we want to become a customer centric movement, the only way forward is delivery beyond the greatest of expectations. Our promise to the world is Leadership. Our delivery cannot be exchanges, our delivery needs to be life changing leadership experiences.
5. How will you use the 4DX model in you year? Explain each in detail. The biggest learning for me from 4Dx was that it is not just a step-by-step process that needs to be followed but it is a behavior. If implemented well, it doesn’t just reflect on the performance but also develops a healthy culture. To understand my thought process behind implementing 4DX, you need to understand the 2nd biggest learning I gained from the model.
Keep A Compelling Scoreboard.
Focus On The Wildly Important
Act On The Lead Measures
Create A Cadence Of Accountability
4DX is not driven by the Leader, it is driven by those in the ecosystem of execution.
As you read on in this answer, you will understand the importance of the above statement. A simple thing to notice from the figure – the flow moves from right to left and not left to right. Further in the answer, you will understand the significance of this point too. 1st discipline – Focus on the Wildly Important Goal (The WIG) : Every organization that tries to focus on 10-20 goals at a time, ensure they achieve none of them. Simple reason being that our efforts in execution are diverted towards 10 different goals and not more than 10% effort can be given to any. Focusing on the WIG is important to ensure the maximum efforts from us are put behind what is wildly important for us at the moment. I believe AIESEC for Pune needs to grow, and grow exponentially, in terms of not only the number of experiences we deliver but also the reach of our impact. Unfortunately the reach of our impact is constrained in the regular 8-10 countries we deliver experiences with. I don’t have multiple WIGs for the LC, I have only one. My WIG for Pune -
Experience delivery with 30 countries.
The one way, I believe AIESEC for Pune can grow is by increasing the number of countries we do experience delivery with from a low 8-10 to at least 30 by the end of the year. It not only increases the reach of our impact but also creates presence across the AIESEC network. I have witnessed Pune do exchanges with 30-35 countries in the past and I believe it is very much possible if we put all our focus behind this one big Wildly Important Goal.
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Organization Understanding 2nd discipline – Act on the Lead Measures : Lag measures are what tell you the tangible status of the goal. Lead measures are the measures you can influence and are predictive in the sense that you can say it will impact and lead you the WIG. Organizations fail in execution simply because their focus is on the end goal and not on the measures that can lead them there. Here are the Lead and Lag measures in accordance to the WIG we have –
Number of countries reached
Experience delivery with 30 countries.
Number of ICX experiences delivered
Number of OGX experiences delivered
Marketing
GC(o)
Lag measures Lead measures
IR
The Lead Measures are mentioned in the Focus Areas for the year (Q.no. 4- LC Admin). Simple reason being, these are the 3 major areas we can act on to ensure we reach our WIG. IR : This is 1 major area we as an AIESEC entity lack. Something as simple as IR has been neglected in the recent few years and we have not moved beyond the same old 8-10 countries we do exchanges with. This has a direct impact on the number of experiences we deliver as we fail to reach out to more opportunities or more EPs. Marketing : I envision marketing playing a big role in the city working on the 2 major projects I have mentioned ahead in the manifesto. (a) Brand refresh of the city (b) Brand refresh in the city. Marketing needs to move beyond the spheres of digital media and needs a lot of groundwork. By the end of the year, I envision marketing playing a big role towards developing AIESEC for Pune as a lovemark in the eyes of our stakeholders. GC(o) : I cannot emphasize more on the importance of this portfolio. The portfolio itself is a the biggest lead measure if we want to achieve our WIG. Our oGX is strong and will always keep growing consistently owing to the fact that we are a student city. But GC(o) is one measure we need to influence and scale up disruptively to get closer to our WIG. 3rd discipline – A Compelling Scoreboard: The WIG and the lead measures being so simple to understand, something as simple as a world map can be used as a scoreboard. Every program team could have their own map which shows the countries reached out to. To add a fun aspect, I’d want every member to pin down the countries and cities in which they’ve established contact and made friends! This not only drives a sporty competition between the teams but also the spirit to WIN!
4th discipline - Cadence of Accountability: This is the last but the most important discipline in 4DX. The reason why the flow in the figure moves from right to left is because accountability is the most important when it comes to execution. The ring surrounding the figure begins from accountability and ends with it. It is important that the strategies devised to work on the lead measures come from the people and not the leader because that gives an added value of ownership and accountability. Weekly team meetings, leadership body meetings are important to create a cadence of accountability.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Local Committee Administration 1. Analyze the trends of the past four years (including 2015) of AIESEC Pune’s strategic direction (include performance & culture). How do you see the organizational direction of AIESEC Pune shaping up in the coming 2 years? Also, give a SWO T analysis of the LC for 2015.
Matches Realizations
2012
2013
2014
2013 -The year of achievements! Steep growth in oGCDP, while iGCDP was shut down. - Most progressive oGCDP in India, - Most progressive in Asia Pac. - Very less membership and leadership retention - LC in debt free 253 exp.
2012 -The year of stability! Marked a stable growth from previous year w.r.t exchanges. - Most exchanges till date in Pune - First ever CSR Projects sold. - Strong membership and leadership pipeline - LC in 12L debt 262 exp.
2011 -The year of boom! Marked a steep growth of almost 400% from previous year. - Most progressive iGCDP in India, - Most progressive BD in India - Strong membership and leadership pipeline - LC in debt of 6L 256 exp.
2011
2014 The year marked with ups and downs. oGCDP missed cycles. No ICX contribution. F due to JNC ‘14. Nagpur upgraded & 2 events delivered. Culture of nonachievement in the LC. Only 146 exp.
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Local Committee Administration 2015
- GC(s) started with a slow summer, SU contribution negligible, - GC(o) failed to pick up throughout the year, missed summer matching peak. - GT(s) went through a slow matching period with a lot of unmatched EPs - GT(o) positive growth compared to last year, stable client delivery, lot of receivables in market. - You can read the Exchange Support analysis in the functions specific questionnaire.
Strong financial base Number of members Strong VPs for all portfolios Good membership in Nagpur Lack of IR in the network. Lack of recognition in the network. Disgruntled membership in the HR of the LC. Member retention.
Lack of senior membership. Negativity and culture of failure in the LC. No LC brand name as such in the city as well as in the international network. No pipeline. 2 set SU’s Financial base for investments Marketing evolution in 2014 – good base for 2015. Membership base in Nagpur
The organizational direction that I visualize AIESEC for Pune to move towards in the next 2 years is reflected through what I envision for 2020. I envision AIESEC for Pune starting to work upon creating a base in all universities and across digital platforms to provide ease of access, I envision AIESEC for carrying out innovative activities and changing the city through leadership and I envision AIESEC for Pune to collaborate with like minded organizations and legal authorities and start working towards becoming an AIESEC for Pune. And last but not the least, I envision AIESEC as not just a brand but as a Lovemark for all our stakeholders as it is for me.
2. What is the stand you have for the LC in the year 2016? What are the key factors that will make AIESEC in Pune fulfill this stand and how? A simple stand for the LC To make AIESEC in Pune, an AIESEC for Pune by becoming the karwaan which symbolizes the Youth Leadership Movement that the city needs. What factors will fulfill this? AIESECers for Pune become the frontrunners of the LC, AIESEC becomes a lovemark for all stakeholders. How will that happen? When AIESECers for Pune get out of the trap of the current behavior of followership.
“Leaders don’t create followers, They create more leaders. Because leaders create movements and movements shake the world.”
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Local Committee Administration 3. What is your understanding of Lead and Lag Measures? Propose 3 lead and Lag measures that you will incorporate in your year? You can read about the same in my answer to Q no. 5 in the section - Organization Understanding
4. What according tot you will be focus areas for AIESEC in Pune in 2016 and why? Explain. My focus areas are the lead measures we need to act on. My focus areas directly relate to the WIG I have envisioned for 2016. You can refer to my answer to Q no. 5 in the section Organization Understanding - while your read this answer.
Int’l Marketing Relations
“Lovemarks are the future beyond brands. They inspire Loyalty Beyond Reason and deliver beyond expectations of great performance.” Take away a brand from a person, and he’ll find an alternative. Lovemarks don’t have an alternative. AIESEC for Pune needs to be the Lovemark that - keeps our clients coming back - makes young people strive for leadership. Eg: We are a Lovemark for Taj Goa, who come to us each year! We are a lovemark for all the aspiring LCP candidates!
My WIG that you should be able to relate here, is to do experience delivery with at least 35 countries. AIESEC for Pune cannot grow beyond stagnancy if we keep doing exchange with the same old 7-8 major countries. IR is huge focus area for me because if we can create a presence in more and more countries, it will directly impact the number of experiences we deliver every year. The first focus area – Marketing – will also be instrumental in the efforts behind IR.
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Global Citizen (org)
My WIG of doing experience delivery with more than 35 countries can only be fulfilled if Pune starts performing in this portfolio again. Pune has a history of being the topmost LC for GC(o) in the beginning of Gen2015 era and has been neglected in the latter half of the Gen2015 era. My Vision of becoming an AIESEC for Pune is meaningless if we are not shaping our activities around what Pune needs. The first 2 focus areas are the biggest Lead measure for GC(o) to score big in the coming years.
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Local Committee Administration 5. Propose the organizational structure (Executive Body) that you plan to follow for the next year.
I’d still want to keep the same OS as this year – a flat structure. The changes that I would propose are1- An added VP for GCo considering the kind of focus I want to drive in the program. 2- An added VP for GTo considering it is one of the programs which can get in a major share of our exchange numbers. 3- Single VPs in all Exchange Support function unlike 2015. Simple reason – Clarity on job role, better and increased responsibilities. Wide open field for M, BD. Added VP X due to amount of responsibilities in the portfolio.
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Local Committee Administration 6. Propose a Governance & Accountability model for the LC for the year 2016. The 4DX model has a major focus on the accountability aspect. The implementation of 4DX itself will ensure the culture of accountability, not only in the EB but also the LC as a whole. For more details, you can read Q no. 5 in the sec - Organization Understanding. The points mentioned below are all the important aspects of Governance that will be followed in the year
1. Leadership Bodies - Duties and responsibilities: I believe one major thing required in terms of Governance is crystal clear clarity on the roles and responsibilities of all the Leadership Body (EB/MB) positions in the LC. This ensures that the end responsible understand their role and can be hold accountable to the same. 2. EB/LCP performance Review: I believe assessments and review is very important in any working body. It helps understand how far we are from the lag measures as well as understand which are the lead measures which will impact the operations the most. I also believe that the leader’s performance needs to be reviewed as well from time to time to ensure there are no problems top-down. 3. GB/MB review - Permanency grant: Membership review and grant of Voting rights and permanency shall be done twice - at the 2 LCongs. The criteria for permanency shall be decided by the LCP and VP GL together. 4. Task Forces on the Executive Board: - Finance Task Force: FTF plays an important part and will be an important aspect of the governance model. The current finance policy shall be reviewed and revamped if necessary by FTF. The LCP, VP F and BD, M shall be on the FTF with VP F as the chair. - IR Task Force: This is one aspect we failed to capitalize on. Considering it is one of my focus areas, IRTF is important. All exchange VPs shall be on the TF with VP GCo as the chair. 5. Conduct, HR Policy, F Policy: - Conduct: Simply put, the LC shall not be involved in unethical practices, non-transparent operations. - HR Policy: Something that we have never taken into consideration in Pune. HR Policy shall be a complete guide to management related governance policies. - F Policy: Again something that has never been strictly followed by Pune - the F Policy shall be crucial to the working of FTF as well as financial transparency in the LC. 6. Culture of Leadership: - Last but not the least, I believe the leadership bodies play the most important role when it comes to organizational behavior and culture. Encouraging a culture of leadership to break away from this trap of followership will be an important role in the governance of the LC.
“Mere good governance is not enough. it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of the development process.”
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Local Committee Administration 7. According to you, what role will AIESEC play in the city of Pune as an International Youth Organization in 2016? Throughout the application, the one thing I have consistently mentioned is that I want this movement to not just be an AIESEC in Pune but to strive towards becoming an AIESEC for Pune. 3 focus areas to ensure AIESEC in Pune becomes AIESEC for Pune and in turn, plays its role as a International Youth Organization that changes the city in the next few years -
Presence across all major colleges in the city.
Collaborations with the legal authorities
GC(O) scaling up its impact in numbers
Presence across all major colleges For AIESEC to create an impact in the student sector as an International Youth Organization in 2016, we need to be present in all major colleges not only in terms of the people we send for internships, but also members - representatives of AIESEC in that college. Just having University Relations is not enough. We need to create a University Base inside all colleges. It is the only way we as a movement will move towards “Being accessible to everyone, everywhere”.
Collaborations with the legal authorities The one major way AIESEC can grow in the city, FOR the city, is by collaborating with the concerned legal authorities and delivering projects in tandem to impact the city. This is one major factor if we as an International Youth Organization want to contribute to the ‘Smart City’ initiative of the Indian govt. under which Pune has been selected. (You can read more about this in Q no.2 in sec – Programs). This is a major way forward if we want to be “Shaping our activities around what the world needs”
GC(O) scaling up its impact in numbers Simple question - how do we ever plan to change the city if our incoming exchanges do not even cross 50? I’ve seen an AIESEC where we have delivered more than 200+ GC(o). I refuse to believe we can’t even do 100 now. The only way AIESEC for Pune can increase the number of experiences we deliver every year is through GC(o). Our student sector is strong and shall keep growing, no doubt. OGX has been the focus throughout the Gen2015 era for Pune and we have grown immensely in the same. But again, here’s the question - how do we measure our impact in the city? Are we even having any? The only way for AIESEC to grow in Pune is through GC(o) and we cannot afford to grow by 5-10 experiences a year. We need to start “Growing Disruptively” to have any kind of impact on the society.
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Programs 1. What according to you are going to be your five key synergy corners in the term? Why are these going to be the most important? Suggest specific projects you will work on in each corner for the exchange portfolios.
Marketing
Marketing being one of the focus areas, it will be a big synergy corner for the term. AIESEC has evolved in Marketing in only the last 2 years in Pune and still has a long way to go in terms of the “Brand” in the city. Brand refresh in the city and brand refresh of the city are 2 major projects for us to create any sort of presence not only in Pune but also in the AIESEC network which shall help us in the next point mentioned.
Our strongest portfolio needs to be working in tandem with our weakest portfolio at the moment. IR being the focus project here, GC as a whole shall play a big role. Our WIG of delivering experiences with at least 35 countries, shall be done majorly through GC. GC + M shall be a major synergy corner as well considering the above point.
M + BD
- Events: delivery module right from conceptualization to sales, to be changed to M+BD being responsible for all events irrespective of the exchange portfolio in question. Whether it is a Nexus or a BKK, M+BD will be responsible and not GT(o) or GC(o) – for example. - Collaborations with legal authorities: We require the full force of M+BD to be behind this project as it is not easy, but a necessity if we want growth.
As mentioned before, our membership is our biggest customer and they cannot be left unsatisfied. Even though LnD failed as a portfolio in 2015, I want to inculcate LnD as a project for GL in synergy with the EB and the MB. Culture of Leadership: AIESECers from Pune needs to fall out of the trap of followership. The leadership bodies play a major role in developing a culture of Leadership.
Task Forces
Global Citizen
GL + EB/MB
Task forces weren’t utilized in 2015. Only 2 task forces to be in place. IRTF: Consisting of all Program VPs with GC(o) as the chair. FTF: Consisting of LCP, VPF, M, BD – VP F being the chair. While IR is a focus project not only for IRTF but for the whole LC. This TF will be crucial in reaching our WIG. Finance policy refresh is a major project for FTF
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Programs 2. What will be the changes that will leverage the volume of AIESEC in Pune ELD Experiences in 2016? How are these connected with the external environment? I’ve answered this question in the manner that you understand the following 4 points1- the current state 2- the direction in which the program should move in 3- the lead measures than can take us there 4- the relevance of these visions to the external environment. I do not propose any age-old strategies, for a simple reason that strategies are something that I believe need to come from my team; which, like I mentioned in the 4DX model, will not only increase ownership and accountability but also reflect on the performance 1- GC(o) has been the most underperforming portfolio for us since 2 years now and that needs to change if we want the city to change in any manner.
1-GC(s) has been the most consistently growing portfolio in the last 3 years. But it has reached a phase of stagnancy with no significant change in 2014-15.
2- Develop GC(o) to be the driving factor for an AIESEC for Pune.
2- GC(s) to be the first choice volunteership program for students in the city.
3- Lead Measures to take us closer: - Collaboration with legal authorities. - Umbrella projects creation in collaboration with organizations who have the similar vision of changing the city. - Cultural projects in accordance to the Marketing focus area.
3- Lead Measures to take us closer: - Moving beyond University Relations; Development of University Bases. - IR being focus, wider range of countries to give wider range of opportunities to EPs. - Marketing focus to be utilized to drive growth.
4- External Relevance: - Collaborating with the legal authorities to run projects in coordination with them ensures we are not just doing exchange, but actually shaping our activities according to the city’s needs. - Umbrella projects will help us to pin-point the problems of the city and solve them in collaboration with similar organizations. - Cultural projects will not only help us increase the brand of AIESEC but Pune as a city in general in the AIESEC network.
4- External Relevance: - A lot of colleges in the city are coming up with compulsory social internship programs for their students in the first/second years. This is an external factor we can capitalize on to create relevance in universities. - An AIESEC base in the university will help them understand the edge of an AIESEC experience over local volunteership.
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Programs 1- GT(o) has been the most inconsistent portfolio for us since 4 years now. No proper CRM, lack of delivery and no track of clients has been the trend over the years.
1- GT(s) has been slow in 2015, but the base set up will provide a good support for the future.
2- GT(o) to focus on delivering stakeholder experiences which last.
2- GT(s) to be a premium partner in colleges for internship opportunities for students
3- Lead Measures to take us closer: - Constant update on CRM tool to ensure good IM. - IR focus to ensure wider range of country options to help grow sales as well as penetrate the startup market. - SnS implementation to be a behavior.
3- Lead Measures to take us closer: - Collaborations with colleges to provide their top students internship opportunities through AIESEC. - Utilization of the Japan IR to boost growth in the city.
4- External Relevance: - Pune has been selected in the 100 Smart Cities initiative by the Government. This is the brightest ray of hope for GT(o) as it will kickstart economy boost in the city along with influx of companies. - Pune ranks 2nd only after Bangalore in the country in terms of the startup ecosystem. Startups are always on the lookout for young working professionals and GT(o) can capitalize with short term, cost friendly internships.
4- External Relevance: - Many students nowadays prefer doing a job or finding an internship after graduation before they go for Master’s. This is one major trend we can capitalize on. - Capitalizing on the global startup trend to provide students short term, professional experiences.
3. P lease give probable targets for the next year. P lease justify the same, especially along the lines of : a. Membership Volume & Experience b. Logistical Management c. Stakeholders Experience Delivery d. International Relations GC(o) Re 135
GC(s) Re 120
GT(o) Re 75
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Programs Membership Volume & Experience:
-2 major recruitment cycles with the focus shifting to Feb recruitments more than Aug. -4 MB cycles - TMP required to the LC on the basis of targets – Q1 - 51 Q2 - 60 Q3 - 73 Q4 - 90 - TLP (MB) Q1 – 12 Q2 – 20 Q3 – 14 Q4 – 18 LnD as the focus project w.r.t HR to ensure strong leadership experiences. Stakeholder Experience Delivery: Focus on AIESECers to move out of sales behavior to adapt delivery behavior. SnS, IM and accountability are important aspects.
Logistical Management: Logistics includes 3 things if you take a look at the SnS – Airport pick up, Documentation, Departure support. Simple IM and tracking required to ensure smooth delivery, no other complicated processes. Exchange VPs and MBs responsible for the same. Like I keep saying - not a process, a behavior. International Relatiions: IR is a major focus area as you have read before. To achieve the WIG of reaching out to deliver experiences with at least 30 countries requires us to contact 35, 40+ countries in search of partnerships. There are no alternatives to IR unless we want to be stagnant and keep delivering exchanges with the same 8-10 countries.
4. What action steps do you propose for a stronger quality of experiences delivered ? Propose Action steps for NEP, IGC, IGT, OGC and OGT. As I mentioned above – Delivery needs to be a behaviour. We have our customer flow in place, we know Standards & Satisfactions, what is missing? If you refer to Q.no.2 in sec - Organization Understanding, I mentioned 5 questions that we need to ask ourselves when it comes to experience delivery. 5 questions every single stage in the experience delivery flow– INTENT: What does the customer want to achieve at each step? EXPERIENCE: What actually happens at each step to serve the customer’s intent? ARTIFACTS: What does the customer physically touch, see, hear or encounter? OPERATIONS: What operations take place in the local committee? PEOPLE: Who, from our local committee manages the experience?
Given below is a small example of only the attraction phase of out customer flow. By the end of the answer you shall understand why these questions are important and how they will help us in ensuring strong experience delivery. While you go through the example, keep in mind the SnS .
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Programs
This is just an example of how these questions will answer exactly what happens in every phase of our customer flow. But only following the customer flow or the SnS will not make a customer’s experience good. It is the behavior which makes or breaks any experience. Are we treating our clients like we’d like to be treated in any professional setting? If the processes are in place and the answer is still no, then the only changes required are behavioral. Keeping in mind these 5 questions and simple changes in behavior will ensure stakeholder delivery and experience.
“Customer service is the new MARKETING. CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE is our biggest PRODUCT!” Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Functions – BD/ER 1. Propose key projects for BD in 2016 for Pune and Expansions. Key projects
Youth Speak ForumFebruary
Youth Speak ForumAugust
Nexus – May
BKK – November
Youth Speak ForumNagpur
Joint Board Meeting.
Events delivery module to be changed – No involvement of any portfolio apart from M+BD to be in charge of all events. YSF: Key project, twice in the year right after recruitments and before the summer/winter peaks. Nexus: Project for May to boost attraction phase for GT(o), board leverage important. Balakalakaar: Not just a PR event for the newspapers, I want BKK to be an event to mark the end of the education project as it is supposed to. JBM : Important to ensure we capitalize on the renewed board relations from 2015 and strengthen. YSF Nagpur : Before summer peak to boost GC(s) attraction in Nagpur.
2. Evaluate the performance of BD in the year 2015 for Pune. Business Development – 2015 - 2 new BoA members at the beginning of the year. - Slow start to Q1 for BDx. -Failure to sell GC(o) projects. - CSR Summit delivery failure. - Renewed board contact with all the BoA.
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Functions – BD/ER -
Business Development – 2015 Contribution to JNC with raised conference requirements. Failure to deliver any youth centric event. No cash flow Joint Board Meeting for the first time after 4 years. Board contribution to upcoming Nexus. Lack of synergy with M/GC(s) for YSF or college penetration. Lack of any events in the city. No membership/leadership development from the department.
3. Give your (probable) BD target for the next year. Justify the same, considering the ground realities faced in the LC in 2015 and 2014. Business Development Targets for the year 2016 as according to the budget –
Business Development Annual Budget 2016 Head
Area
Total
Description
Budgeted
Income
Board contribution + Alumni Funds Raised through Events events NEP Income (Considering Exchange Income avg Rs.8000 and 20 Re.) TOTAL Grand Total Expenses Season's Greetings, CRM Activities Partnership Launches Events Expenses for LC events Sales Development Databases etc TOTAL ER Income
Funds Raised
Investments
Net Earning
75,000 350,000 160,000 585,000 585,000 20,000 175,000 5,000 200,000 385,000
According to the budgeted figure, Rs.3,85,000 is the Net Earning from Business Development. - Lack of sales in the last 2 years itself is a justification to the low target numbers. - Efforts to be put to capitalize on the recently made Alumni Board as well as the newly renewed relations with the BoA. - Other than the money aspect, collaboration with the legal authorities to boost ELD is a major focus for BD/ER this year.
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Functions – Finance 1. Define a financially sustainable LC. How do you envision AIESEC in Pune in 2016 with respect to being financial profitable and investment-friendly? I believe the following points need to be taken into consideration when defining a financially sustainable LC: 1- Operational Reserve: The operational reserve for an organization is to cover and sustain an organization in case of stall of operations. An operational reserve should ideally range from 4-6 months of average operational cost and importance needs to be given to increase of these funds for AIESEC for Pune in 2016. 2- Corpus fund: The implementation of “the Corpus fund” model is of utmost importance for a financially sustainable LC. Corpus fund is the fund generated and preserved for the sustenance of an organization and is restricted from use for other purposes. 3 – Capital Reserve: I believe the LCs having potential of creating short-term funds that help in creation of assets for the LC can be termed as a financially sustainable LC (office space, furniture, etc) Focus in 2016 needs to be on the following to ensure smooth management and sustainability:
Training and Education
Periodic Internal Assessment
Reserve Creation & Investment
Financial Policy refresh
Training and Education – Training and education in the LC for the financial processes not only ensures an AIESECers understanding of the financial processes but also the importance of the efforts they put in to achieve the goals of the LC. Periodic Internal Assessment – Periodic assessment internally ensures smooth tracking of finances. It helps us hold a person accountable on their TvA along with maintaining transparency in the LC. Reserve Creation & Investment strategies – Something I believe has lacked in our LC is strategizing for reserve creation and investments. But as much as the LC needs to build its reserves, it is also important to make stipulated amount of investments in areas which will give us good RoI. The role of a VPF is not to maintain finances, but to make smart investments. Financial Policy refresh – I simply fail to understand why a 28 year old LC still doesn’t have a concrete financial policy or follows any financial compendium. This is a major project for VPF to ensure the financial processes in our LC are standardized, starting this year. Major investment focus on: 1 – International Relations and Internal Branding 2 – Marketing and PR 3 – Events 4 – TM/LnD
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Functions - finance 2. Attach an outline budget with respect to your ELD program targets, including BD income from events, collaborations etc. The following table is only an outline budget showing the cash inflow and outflow. The detailed budget with the annual budget, admin, functions and programs is attached with the application package.
AIESEC in Pune Annual Budget 2016 Head
Area
Total
Income Exchange
Global Citizen (Org) Global Citizen (Students) Global Talent (Org) Global Talent (Students)
TOTAL Support Income Expansion Income
Business Development GL
TOTAL Exchange Income Support Income
TOTAL
Grand Total Expenses Exchange
Global Citizen (Org) Global Citizen (Students) Global Talent (Org) Global Talent (Students)
TOTAL Support Expense
Promotion & Marketing Human Resources Administration Event Expenses
TOTAL Expansion Expense MC Fees
Exchange Expense Admin Expense
TOTAL Affiliation Fee + NERF TMP TLP Fee
TOTAL
624,000 1,465,000 832,500 397,500 3,319,000 535,000 25,000 560,000 663000
0 663,000
4,542,000 537,500 490,000 367,500 52,500 1,447,500 190,000 182,000 812,400 200,000 1,354,400 276,500 100,000 376,500 170,000 61,200 231,200
Total Expenses excluding Exchange Fees
1,685,600
Total Expenses including Exchange Fees
3,409,600
Net Total/ Profit
1,102,400
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Functions - finance 3. Evaluate the performance of Finance in the year 2015. Starting with the financial status Pune started off 2015 on, I believe finance could have played a much more proactive role in operations. -Decent financial tracking -Lack of investment planning -No adherence to any sort of financial policy -Financial knowledge in the LC negligible -FTF did not play any role in finance matters post May. -Lack of any financial strategy -New office, one of the biggest investments -Too many investments, too little ROI -Free internship -PR Investment showed no ROI -Marketing investment showed no ROI - CSR Summit was a loss making event - Receivables still in market.
functions - TM & LnD 1. What is your understanding of the distinction between TM as a function and TM as a program? Evaluate the performance of both in 2015. Something we always fail to take into consideration when we talk about ELD, is the aspect of TM as a program. TM as a function is what we as AIESEC implement internally keeping in mind the HR of the entity. Whereas TM as the program is what we offer to our biggest customer base - our members. To understand the difference between both, relate it to any exchange portfolio. For eg- GC(s) GC(s) as function is what we do internally in AIESEC to recruit people for volunteer experiences abroad. Whereas GC(s) as a program is what we offer to the students who go abroad, the experience. If you refer to the quote after Q.no.4 in Programs, you will understand exactly why I refer to our members as our customers and the experience as your product. FUNCTION: TM as a function involves all the internal processes as following1- Tracking membership experience/journey 2- Tracking productivity, efficiency, learning & development 3- Fulfilling talent needs of portfolios 4- Induction modules for members 5- Performance evaluation and appraisals 6- Coaching and mentoring throughout TMP/TLP These are the various functions of TM
PROGRAM: Understanding what TM as a program offers is as easy as reflecting on your own experience. The Global Leaders Program is what we all are going through. 1- Learning and development in personal as well as professional aspects 2- Practical team experiences 3- Practical leadership experiences 4- Entrepreneurial outlook 5- Corporate exposure etc are the few value we provide along with TM as a program – or GLP.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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functions - TM & LnD
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TM as a portfolio has shown a lot of holistic growth in terms of the operations and processes we implement in the LC. And yet it has had its ups & downs. AIESEC for Pune has never had set processes for TM as a portfolio and membership experiences have been going for a toss. TM/LnD in 2015 HR managers concept worked well in Q1 Failure to retain members from the first recruitment (more on this in the next answer) None of the MBs have been up to the mark Lack of retention of senior members from last year No LnD contribution whatsoever. No induction/training modules prepared by LnD for the LC until August No external learning for the membership Mentorship circles failed to optimize any advantage New and improved recruitment module – one of the big innovations of the year. Lack of leadership development initiatives from LnD
2. Analyse the recruitment conducted this year. What innovations do you propose in the existing processes to make them even more effective for next year? Feb Recruitment –
The only way I could describe the Feb recruitment would be by saying it was unplanned, underprepared and not thought through. We don’t have any of those people still working in the LC apart from the senior members and the recruitment did not contribute to any kind of operational support to the LC. Keep in mind, TM or LnD as a portfolio is not at fault here as all departments failed to retain members and create any kind of leadership experiences.
Aug Recruitment – This recruitment was one of the major innovation projects of the LC for 2015.
We implemented the Myers-Briggs personality assessment test as the focal point of the recruitment. 1- The EB went through the test and the results were obtained. 2- The people who came for recruitments were put through this test to understand their personality traits, helping to gauge the compatibility with the EB. 3- The simple point was that people falling in same personality traits groups tend to work together better. This factor would have ensured retention as well as good engagement,
Drawbacks post recruitment: -failure to generate productivity inspite of a good selection procedure. - lack of organizational knowledge in the membership - culture of low engagement and lack of office culture.
Innovations to the existing recruitment module – I would not like to propose any innovations the existing model, I believe it is good enough. The aspect of recruitment which needs more work on is the post-recruitment phase of a new member. Analyzing personality traits of a person doesn’t only help us understand which portfolio is he/she suitable for but also understanding him/her as a person. One thing I want the recruitment model to help in the next recruitment is understanding values of a person and not just the competencies.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
KAARWAAN TUM CHALȫ, TOH...
functions - TM & LnD Value Based Recruitments Value based recruitment is a concept of talent selection on the basis of the values that drive the organization. The idea is to select the candidates who best demonstrate the behaviors connected to the values and can be aligned to the purpose of the organization. These people are generally culture-fits and engage within the LC easily. Why value? Why not competencies? Competencies of a person are something that can be developed along the course with training and development. Whereas values are a part of the personality of a person that are very difficult to change. He/she would immediately align themselves to the purpose of AIESEC.
3. Propose key projects for TM and L&D for the year 2016.
IXP
lnd
CULTURE OF LEADERSHIP
IXP: iXP is one major focus area for GL which will lead us closer to our WIG. I visualize at least 20 AIESECers from Pune going abroad for iXPs. One way we can get closer to our WIG is by sending our own people to the countries we want to penetrate for the focus IR project. I have set aside a budget of Rs.1L only for iXP subsidies as it is one big lead measure towards our WIG.
Lnd: As mentioned before, I visualize using LnD as a project and not just a portfolio. LnD modules to be created for every portfolio. LnD project not only for the members but also for the EB/MB because I believe the leadership bodies of any organization are the ones who need the most amount of knowledge and training even more than the members. Alumni Board, BoA offices to be utilized for the project.
Culture of Leadership: This is not only a TM project as a whole but also for both the leadership bodies in the LC. I see the MB and EB playing a big role in development of a culture of leadership for us to fall out of the culture of followership. The whole motive behind creating a Kaarwaan is to create a leadership movement in the city, not for you to follow me, but for you to be the front-runners of this LC.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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functions - TM & LnD 4. How do you see LDM contributing to 2016 and customer experiences? Propose a model for the same. Our Leadership Development Model AIESEC’s leadership development model seeks to prepare youth to take a stand on what they care about and become capable to make a difference through their everyday actions. We place our confidence in the youth because they possess the passion, dynamism and entrepreneurial spirit that is needed to shape the future. But we already know all this. Then why am I repeating it multiple times? Because that is what we as AIESECers fail to do externally. We know all these things and we discuss them internally. But do our customers know why we exist? Do they know why they’re taking interns from us? Do they know how we develop leaders? Mostly, the answer is no.
3 important aspects where we need to utilize LDM to ensure good customer experience
Sales
We love Sales, don’t we all? But have we ever thought about including the LDM in our sales? We go and sell to a customer without the customer understanding why we want to develop leaders or how we do the same. Using Leadership Development Model in our sales not only makes them understand the fundamental solution we seek to develop but also gives them an idea of the credibility of our organization looking at the leaders we develop. It helps us take a step ahead and become a strategic partner for a company and not just an organization who fills their talent gaps. It helps us become the platform the youth always wanted and not just a vacation abroad.
We have been calling ourselves the Youth Leadership Providers of the world since 2010, we say AIESEC is not an exchange organization, it is a leadership organization. But like I asked before, do we say it externally? For students, we are still an exchange organization and for companies we are still like an HR consultancy. Using LDM in our promotion by explaining AIESEC through LDM, showcasing leadership stories will help us in the following: 1- A ‘brand’ as a leadership organization. 2 -Clear expectation setting for students, companies regarding their experience . 3- Overall, leading to better understanding of AIESEC by the customer, leading to better experiences.
Education
Promotion
Lastly, but most importantly, education of AIESECers themselves. How many of our members actually understand the value behind adoption of the LDM? How many of them even realize these are the leadership qualities they are developing? Our members are the biggest brand ambassadors of AIESEC and need to be educated well in terms of organizational knowledge. One thing I have always believed in is selling AIESEC and not selling internships or events. That’s where we need to go.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Functions - MARKETING 1. What emphasis does Marketing as a function hold currently for AIESEC in Pune ? Critically analyze the same. Also evaluate its contribution to growth in all ELD programs, including Global Leaders Program in 2015 . I cannot emphasize more on the importance of marketing for AIESEC today. Unfortunately enough, we stand at a phase in time where we do not understand what we require of marketing as a function in local realities. Every exchange portfolio wants marketing to boost their numbers, TM wants marketing to bring people for recruitments, BD wants marketing to promote their events, in short, all we ask from marketing is promotion. Is promotion, marketing? I want to emphasize here on this fact because ever since we first started evolving the function of Marketing in Pune, we have only banked on promotions. But beyond promotions, what next? Our promotions are becoming stagnant year by year and not much growth has been noticed in the exchange numbers even after having marketing as focus since 2 years. Marketing in 2015 – -Lack of synergy with BD - no outcome out of YSF -No onground partnerships to boost brand or ELD - blog page only got ready around Aug-Sept. - No events in the city - no concrete contribution to any exchange portfolio apart from GCs, which was the focus all year long - Online registrations for GLP did not turn out to be a good output for TM in recruitments - started linkedin marketing and email marketing. As seen above, marketing hasn’t really been able to do much and we yet ask for more promotions. You can read about how marketing needs to move beyond promotions and social media to evolve and develop as a function.
2. How should Marketing evolve in the LC in 2016? How do you see it contributing to ELD programs in 2016? Before we get to 2016, lets answer these simple questions and judge ourselves on where we actually stand. 1- Are we growing as a movement? 2- Are we a brand? Are we a lovemark for anyone? Who are these people? 3- Less than 100 exchanges incoming, are we creating impact? Does our LC have any presence globally? 4- Are we delivering the best experiences? Are we creating Advocates? 5- Are we solving problems in the city? Is AIESEC the solution? 6- Are we an exchange organization? Are we a leadership organization? 7- Who are we? What is AIESEC?
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
KAARWAAN TUM CHALȫ, TOH...
Functions - MARKETING Evolution of Marketing What answers do we get when we read the above questions? Not sure, maybe, unclear! Marketing as a function needs to evolve from being the function which is only utilized in the Attraction phase of the CF to becoming a portfolio which is at the center of all activities. Anyone who has studied basic marketing will understand the 4 Ps of marketing – Product, Promotion, Price, Place Product – being an analysis of what actually a customer wants Promotion – being an analysis of how we promote the product Price – being an analysis of how feasible a product is to a customer Place – being the place where the product meets the customer and is bought. Why are these things important? Since years now, we have been doing exchange and not experience delivery. Experience delivery needs to be the core of our operations because when we do experience delivery, we create advocates. “Customer Service is the new Marketing, Customer Experience is the biggest Product” Marketing needs to evolve into becoming the function which not only promotes the leadership programs of AIESEC but also ensures the delivery of our promise. Our promise to the world is Leadership. Our delivery cannot be exchange, our delivery has to be lifechanging leadership experiences. I believe all VPs have to be VP marketing when it comes to experience delivery. And their focus only needs to be to create Advocates. Because when we create advocates, we become a lovemark. 2 major projects for Marketing-Brand refresh in the city: Focus on showcasing leadership stories and advocacy through our marketing activities. YSF is a big project in itself to ensure we reach out to our customers and understand what they actually want and how we can deliver it. -Brand refresh of the city: Focus on delivering beyond expectations to all incoming interns to ensure our presence globally. IR is also a major project which in synergy with marketing will have to ensure the showcasing of our experiences and again create and showcase advocates.
Functions - ciM 1. What are the various spheres in the LC in which communication & Information Management plays a huge role or can a play a huge role? Propose innovations for all of the spheres. Data analysis and interpretation
Internal communication
External communication
Knowledge Management
Policy Management
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
EXPA usage, delivery analysis
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Functions - cim Simple question – Why do we need innovations in the field of CIM if we don’t have any basic process set? The most important field where CIM needs to grow is to become a behavior in the LC. That is the only we need to implement this portfolio in right now and we don’t need any innovations for the same. Information Management is something that goes with Governance as a whole according to me and needs to be driven down by the leadership bodies. The tools used for information management along with the channels used for internal as well as external communication are some vital parts of CIM that need to be put in place for this portfolio to start functioning. Database management, impact reports, event reports, client newsletters, LC newsletters, any and every kind of information flow needs to be recorded and documented. Like I said before for marketing, every VP needs to be VP CIM.
2. Comment on how you envision the role of Information Systems in the functioning and administration of the local committee in 2016. -EXPA being our biggest information system at the moment, first and foremost important step is educating our members about EXPA and the online processes. - The support tool needs to be utilized by Marketing to understand our customer’s thoughts for us to take action. - Expanding and establishing our City’s presence in the global network -Implementation of the CF begins with expa and ends with EXPA, leveraging out of marketing to drive all traffic to EXPA - Brand establishment through external communication. -Storing experience records to increase internal as well as external brand presence.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Proposal Letter To, Gorkey Patwal, Local Committee President, AIESEC in Pune, India. Subject: Proposer for Karteek Hoshangabade’s application for the position of Local Committee President 2016. Of the past ten months I’ve been in AIESEC in Pune, Karteek has been a very vital part of my experiences as a member. He has always been someone I, as a member, as a mentee or as a team leader, have looked up to in terms of his leadership style and his selfless love and dedication for the organization. As VP BD Exchange, he worked tirelessly towards sustaining the department and to provide support to his team, which was essential in a department as tough as BD. Karteek, despite his calm demeanour, believes fiercely in his goals, and does not give up until it is successfully carried out. As members, we have idolized Karteek as someone who works hard in silence, and lets his success speak for itself. The cumulation of all his efforts was the delivery of Pune’s first ever CSR Summit 2015 as its EBC. In spite of many hurdles faced by the team, he made sure the event was delivered to its full glory. His passion and fervour towards his work is something we all have looked up to in BD-X. Karteek has been a mentor and a guide to a large part of the membership body and irrespective of not having mentors anymore, he is someone who we still approach for unbiased and sound advice. Thus, his natural ease in taking up the post of VP Learning & Development within no time was no surprise. Karteek is the leader who AIESEC in Pune has never witnessed in its full potential - a leader, a listener, a guide, a friend, and someone who has the zeal to give his all to the organization. It is an honour for me to thank him for my growth in this organization, by writing this proposal for his application for the post of Local Committee President. I am assured that under his leadership, many such experiences can be delivered, creating leaders that inspire, motivate and carry on the same values that makes AIESEC what it is today. With this, I, Shivi Singh, propose Karteek Hoshangabade’s application for the post of Local Committee President of AIESEC in Pune 2016. Yours Faithfully, Shivi Singh, Team Leader Global Citizen (Students) AIESEC in Pune, India.
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
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Seconding letter To, Gorkey Patwal, Local Committee President, AIESEC in Pune, India. Subject: Seconding Karteek Hoshangabade’s application for the position of Local Committee President 2016. Walking into the doors of this wonderful Local Committee, I had my very first professional interaction with a confident and intelligent young man. This person had an aura of motivation, dedication and serious commitment towards what he was doing in this organization, this person was Karteek Hoshangabade. Karteek started his journey in AIESEC in Pune in 2012 and has come a long way ever since. His achievements are innumerable. In 2014, Karteek played the role of a Vice President for the first time. As Vice President Expansions, he was exposed to the experience of leading not only one, but two major entities at the tender age of 19. His role required him to put in hours of continuous effort, sleepless nights and constant tracking of all front office and back office operations of these entities. Having worked under his leadership, I witnessed the belief he had in AIESEC in Pune's abilities. In the same year, he also earned the opportunity of playing the role of an EBC not once but twice – February LCong 2014 and June National Conference, 2014. Karteek's helpful nature acted as a support system for all members working under him. His ability to balance leadership and responsibility with membership is a very rare quality that AIESEC in Pune has seen in a very few individuals. In 2015, Karteek re-termed as Vice President, Business Development and Vice President Learning and Development, playing two massive roles in a minute span of one year. As VP BD, he played the role of EBC for the year's very first event, the CSR summit. I had the privilege of working with Karteek in the same team where I learned that he not only had an inspirational style of leadership but was an enthusiastic team player as well. His work ethics, respectable attitude and calmness made him a pleasure to work with. In times of extreme doubt, his belief in the vision of this organization and his team was never shaken. His hard work, dedication and consistency has acted as an motivation for a large number of people who have stepped into this organization. As a friend, as a colleague and as a leader, Karteek has been a guiding light for this local committee ever since he was recruited. Having gained a large amount of knowledge about this local committee in a period of 3 years, I strongly believe that Karteek is a strong candidate for this prestigious position. Karteek‘s never say never attitude has been a constant push for me and I strongly believe in his vision for this organisation. Putting my utmost faith in him, I, Rhea Ghotgalkar, second Karteek Hoshangabade's application for the position of the Local Committee President 2016 of AIESEC in Pune, India. Yours Faithfully, Rhea Ghotgalkar, Vice President Global Citizen (Organizations) AIESEC in Pune, India (2015-2016)
Karteek Hoshangabade applicant – President, 2016 AIESEC for Pune, India
KAARWAAN TUM CHALȫ, TOH...