Programme Report | Team Leader Programme Nationally, there was a great focus on the empowerment of the leaders in AIESEC Denmark. For the first time in Denmark, the global LEAD Programme was launched. This is a year-long leadership programme that aimed to support every leader in his or her leadership journey. This programme included several elements such as customized leadership training for different types of leadership roles, engagement of external partners for leadership training and Alumni mentors for several leaders. As part of the LEAD programme, leaders also had a chance to participate in “Train the Trainers Seminars” in order to improve their communication, training and facilitation skills. A detailed Member Education Cycle was created which has laid the basis for Talent Development & Leadership development in the coming year. All of these initiatives created a very good leadership pipeline in the country and resulted in most of the local offices having complete newly elected leadership teams for the coming term. Finally, in order to provide higher credibility for AIESEC Denmark’s Team Leader Programme, the national committee also issued individual Team Leader Certificates which recorded the performance and development of the leaders in the country.
Performance Report | Team Leader programme STORY Sophia Schroeder, Vice President Talent Management, AIESEC AAU (Aalborg), 2011/2012 When I joined AIESEC, I was as an Exchange Participant wanting to go on the Summer Abroad Programme. I was soon persuaded to go to an AIESEC Conference in hopes of learning more about my internship. However, bitten by the AIESEC-bug, I was convinced to apply for a Vice President position in my local committee and got elected. Ever since then my personal development has been growing and my learning-curve has been more or less horizontal. The Local Committee AAU placed me in Talent Management and from the beginning is has been an exciting journey. With the help from the network I managed to create two successful recruitments with my team, implement a quality education culture and create unity. Our Local Committee went from being a small underdog to being an example of many national good case practices and to be bigger and better functioning. We managed to create a foundation for amazing exchange-opportunities for our successors. Personally I have learned how to manage myself as well as others, I have found more confidence within myself, made amazing friends for life and found out what I am really good at. AIESEC gave me the best year of my life and set the path for my future and success. If I had not taken the plunge and thrown myself out there in the deep end, I would never have experienced all the good things that I have in my life today. 17: AIESEC Denmark Annual Report 2011-2012