Boosting LDM through LEAD

How can LEAD boost our LDM Guide with suggestions of specific LEAD activities to boost the leadership we aim to develop

AIESEC International 14.15

What we aim to do is to use LEAD as a catalyst to achieve leadership development in every experience we deliver.

Thus, the LEAD activities we choose to deliver should have specific purposes to boost the LDM quality is weak or missing in the different ELD programs.

Individual Discovery and Reflection

Conferences and Seminars

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One to One

Team Experiences

Learning Circles

Global Learning Environment

(Mentoring, Coaching)

@ Virtual Spaces

Proposed LEAD activities to boost our LDM

“I am aware of what is going on in the world and enjoy taking an active role in contributing towards making it a better place for everyone.”

LEAD Activities BELIEVES IN THEIR ABILITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD

Team Experience Virtual Spaces Training Individual Reflection

INTERESTED IN WORLD ISSUES

Learning Circles Conferences Virtual Spaces

ENJOYS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPROVING THE WORLD

Team Experience Journaling Personal Goal Setting Virtual Spaces

“I know what I am good at, what’s important to me, and what I am passionate about. I am constantly exploring what I want to achieve in my life.”

LEAD Activities UNDERSTANDS AND LIVES PERSONAL VALUES

Self Assessment Tools Team Values Journaling

FOCUSES ON STRENGTHS OVER WEAKNESSES

Self Assessment Tools Personal development Plan Coaching Learning Circles Team Building

EXPLORES ONE’S PASSIONS

Self Assessment Tools Personal development Plan Team Building

“I am able to communicate ideas clearly, engage in meaningful conversations with others, and co-create spaces of collaboration that empower people to take action.”

LEAD Activities COMMUNICATES EFFECTIVELY IN DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS

Team Experience Learning Circles Conferences

DEVELOPS & EMPOWERS OTHER PEOPLE

Team Experience Trainings/Conferences Working Groups Shadowing Coaching/O2O Feedback

ENGAGES WITH OTHERS TO ACHIEVE A BIGGER PURPOSE

Team Experience Team Planning Learning Circles

“I come up with solutions to challenges. I am flexible and I am always ready to take the necessary risks.

Every time I fall I always stand back up.”

LEAD Activities ADAPTS AND SHOWS RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES

Team Experience Team Feedback

TRANSMITS POSITIVITY TO MOVE FORWARD THROUGHOUT UNCERTAINTY

Team Experience Team Building Team Feedback Coaching

TAKES RISKS WHEN ITS NEEDED

Team Experience Learning Circles

What other new tools and activities can you identify or create?

Examples on Using GLE for LEAD

Self Assessment Tools 1.

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Set your objective for the space (strength finder, leadership style, personal values…)

Research and share an online survey with your participants (example) Participants have time to answer the survey and analyze their results following reflection questions (previous experiences, situations..)

In pairs, they share their thoughts

Journaling

Individual Discovery and Reflection

When finishing an intense day or week (e.g. OPS, transition…), journaling can be used to give the participants a space to gather their own thoughts and write them in a personal notebook.

Make sure you prepare questions to guide their reflection: “What is emerging here? What is important for you and why do you care? What mattered the most for you?...”

Personal Development Plan and goal setting This tool can be used mostly for new members and EP’s at the start of their experience. Provide a template of PDP for them to set their own path of development for their upcoming experience and set goals for themselves. Most useful for EP’s and TL’s following-up their members.

Team Building

T Team Experiences

At the beginning of the team experience LEAD can play an important role in setting the new team culture.

1.Define the purpose of the team experience in the society we want to impact on.

2.Develop and empower other people and learn how to communicate effectively. What are our strengths as team? What can you give to the team and what can we take? How can we allocate projects using our individual strengths best? Some examples exercises: Team DNA, Bestof us.

These spaces should be organized by the TL or an external partner.

Team Feedback To come up with solutions to face challenges and to empower others people. Feedback can be delivered in different ways: written feedback, face to face or group feedback. Some rules need to be established at the beginning of the space to ensure people are getting the learning experience they need.

Hosted Spaces

Learning Circles

It’s a space to host meaningful conversation. The facilitator “host” is holding a space to support the process of learning without giving direct inputs. The outputs coming from the conversation the people have: dynamic might be different based on the group size. The conversation are triggered by 1 or more questions the host proposes and delegates start sharing about. This delivery method is the most used and common when you deliver LEAD for large groups and the learning is facilitate in smaller groups or in pairs.

Ensure to have a specific purpose and wanted output/outcome of the hosted space, which should explore deep thoughts before creating the flow, powerful questions and hosting the space.

Conferences For reaching higher amount of participants, conferences is an excellent platform especially when combined with Hosted Spaces, Individual Reflection & O2O activities.

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Identify your need and/or purpose Determine what is the specific outcome and action you want in your participants out of the space in conference Create blocks that will build up to your session objectives to have a flow Choose the best activities for each block!

Trainings There’s a difference between a regular Training or Workshop to be considered a LEAD activity.

Usually, trainings and workshops are connected with hard skills and operational knowledge to perform in a specific role.

For this to be a LEAD training, we recommend to: - Ensure the soft skill is a basis for the LDM (for example, public speaking to improve “Empowering Others”) - The delivery is not only one-way but gives space for participants to reflect, share and discuss - Include training on LEAD skills to deliver to EP’s

Conferences and Seminars

Coaching This method can be used to follow up on LEAD individually. Considering LEAD is an individual learning experience, the coach can follow up on the learning path of the coachee in an individual space trough self assessment or self reflection based on the objective the coach design for the coachee. Remember to take notes of things to work on to follow-up on your next coaching meeting!

Shadowing

One to One (Mentoring, Coaching)

Webinars The delivery through virtual channel can reproduce a physical environment of assessment or reflection. You can use the space to guide conversation or to organize space of reflection.

The virtual channels can be used as intermediate touch point when the physical one cannot happen as follow up to activities already delivered. For example a monthly space for LCP to follow up on their LEAD program.

Ensure to have a clear flow shared with the virtual delegates and to also add interactive elements such as spaces for sharing, either with everyone or in groups through private chats.

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Resource Hub The hub can be a space with meaningful article/lectures about different topics based on the objectives of the LEAD journey. The reading of these materials can trigger the mindset and being a self facilitate learning experience. It can be books, online articles, magazines covering different topic about leadership, self awareness, etc.

Virtual Spaces

Please note that these are overall examples and it is crucial for you to customize the purpose and delivery based on your needs, reality and main objective out of the LEAD space!

Thank you!

By Angela Alesci (MCVP TM @Egypt) & Ana Sofia Espejo (AIVP TM)

AIESEC International 14.15