On the road at UNIMET

Durante las 4 días pasados, he trabajado con UNIMET en La Experiencia de ER. Para mí, fue una experiencia muy rica, muy educativa y muy divertida. Me gustaba mucho conectar con miembros que tienen mucho entusiasmo y grandes ideas.

Teníamos capacitaciones y discusiones muy bueno acerca de ER en UNIMET, Marca, Publicidad, Mercadeo, Reclutamiento y el proceso de Ventas. Hablé con Mish acerca de una idea para un proyecto - "Value-Based Responsible and Smart Marketing". Creamos una mapa de contactos y campeones de AIESEC UNIMET - empresas, media, alumnos, universidad.

Ahorita, UNIMET necesita a continuar este entusiasmo y dedicación. Necesitan trabajo a juntos para crear las cosas ellos quieren. Con todas estas personas fantásticas trabajando a juntos, sé que UNIMET tendrán resultados buenos en ventas, mercadeo y reclutamiento! Gracias a todos por participar y darme chocolates.

También, Risho ha trabajado en BQTO para la semana pasada. Ellos están haciendo muchas llamadas de ventas, citas de ventas y mucha acción.

Pero no terminemos aquí!

A continuación, La Experiencia de ER en estas LCs:

• UCAB: sábado 27, lunes 29 – miércoles 31 (Dan)
• UNITEC: lunes 29 – viernes 2 (Mario)
• USB: jueves 1 – martes 6 (Mario)

Nos gustaría a continuar trabajando con Uds y aprendiendo acerca de que están haciendo y ayudando tus nuevos LCs!

Dan y Mario
ER Experience Tour J-2007

Awesome days!

Hey guys!
We spent AWESOME days last week... We had a great visit here... Finally, after 2 years AI visitied us again, that means that ARAZ (our beautiful regional director) was here, for 10 days!

She arrived on friday 17th at 12 pm, Frank and Frank went to the airport to pick her up (he was a little bit late, shame on you!)... After that Araz and I came back to Caracas, in the office, our little but comfortable office :-) (as you can see we cleaned the office)... We prepared the agenda for her visit and went directly to the first meeting (TRS/IBS Conference team meeting), we were there 'till 12 am (my birthday was starting with an AIESEC meeting, uhu!)

Next two days... Saturday, the best ('cause of my birthday of course), the IBS/TRS started, the sessions, great!, people participating, Araz giving us knowledge to move faster with the Issue Based XPs and Ser Mas! implementation... and the best... The dances!

After some issues that we may solved and some others that we are still solving we had a great weekend. Full of energy and full of ideas and initiatives that the members want to implement ASAP! We were tired at 6 pm already wo we had a fast meeting to check the last feedbacks and go to celebrate my birthday (again)...

During the week... Meeting with Araz to review the identity and the purpose of what we are doing now with the Issue Based XPs and Ser Mas!, cool stories about José and Joel and their XPs had place there. And right after that individual meetings with the Director (coooool!). Long term planning, SN supply, revenue generation, competency model, ER goals, projects, etc. these were some of the topics during the individual meetings.

But it didnt end there... We had meetings with: Alianza Social, Transparencia Venezuela, Cadbury Adams, DHL, Alcatel, Ramón Sosa, Miguel Lascarov (Chair of the S.G.), Ambev (Brahma), Angloamerican and Opción Venezuela. All with different purposes but with really great outcomes, some for support projects, some others for develop projects. but at the end all of them are very interested in partnering with AIESEC somehow. They believe in the impact that we are having in each individual and in the impact that we may have in the society.

We finally have some awesome social moments, we enjoyed the international table with Araz, the same day that she ate an arepa. She had the chance to share with some of teh members and dance for a while Merengue :-). On friday we had the last meetings with Araz, and at the end of the day she had the chance to go to El Hatillo, where she spent a great time in the mountains having some wine.

On saturday morning we woke up early, was beach day!, we went to Higuerote to have our frist social activity as a team. We had a great time there, we slept on the sand and drank under the sun, play in the water and singed GAITAS!... And for the end of the day... funny drinking games prepared by Antje!

Sunday... last day with Araz... time to go back to Caracas... Everybody said goodbye to her and we went directly to the Airport with the former MCP (Ezequiel)... At 3 pm she was boarding the airplane that was taking her to Costa Rica... Right now we know that she's o.k. 'cause she have sent us 15 emails to each of us ;-)

Hopefully we'll have another visit soon :-)... I hope you've enjoyed this as we did... Awesome experience!

You inspire us!

ER Weekend!
Originally uploaded by Spanner Dan.

I cannot tell you how excited I am about External Relations after this weekend. We have an absolutely awesome team. You are all so motivated and committed and I just know we are going to achieve amazing things together!

Seeing the results of those local target sheets, seeing people writing "159" on their arms, seeing you all discussing things with such intensity and passion. We all love AIESEC and I can tell you are all ready to work hard to achieve these goals. We as an MC are ready too. Together, we have started things here. All we need to do is keep this fantastic momentum going and we will get to where we want to be.

For those who weren't at ER weekend, 159 is AIESEC Venezuela's national target for realised exchanges 2006/2007. That's 77 TNs and 82 SNs - around 11 of each for each LC.

Sounds like a lot? It may be, but it is doable. At ER Weekend we worked out exactly what needs to be done to get there. And it is achievable. Market segmentation will give us a huge head-start in selling exchange. We will be going to companies knowing that they are going to say yes. That is where the difference is. With this, plus the committment of the ER teams, every LC will be attending around 5 meetings per week and we can hit the target of 77 TNs by Christmas, let alone June!

So that is what we are going to do. 77 people experiencing Venezuela for the very first time. 82 people gaining international experience abroad.

159 life-changing experiences!

We can do it!
We will do it!

ER Weekend!!!

Well, Mario and I have been working round the clock preparing things for ER Weekend - presentations, sessions, workshops, role calls :-)

We will be doing lots of exciting things, including discussing our national exchange targets (think AIESEC Jaipur!), working out how issue-based exchange fits into and can help us gain results in ER, talking about ALL of our products, national support team roles, and the system and process that is going to revelotionise account management in AIESEC Venezuela, built around a customised version of SalesForce.com. Check out that web site for some really American training videos to get yourself acquainted with what that's all about.

It is certainly going to be a fully-packed weekend! I am so excited about ER this year. You will see why in just 2 days time!!!

After this huge amount of work we will all do at the weekend, our idea is, on Monday, to go up El Avila. Shout our exchange goals from the top of the mountain for all of Caracas to hear, that sort of thing. So if anybody is free on Monday please join me Risho and Mario for our first trip to Avila Magica. I hear there is a special student price for weekdays.

There weren't enough of you at International Table tonight. I know MCBO, UNITEC and BQTO would all be there if they were here. More next week please.

See you at the weekend ER!! Everyone else, be sure to ask your ER people about all the excitement after they return.

I love ER. If anyone else loves ER, please comment on this blog!