AIESEC Videos!

Nabeel Khalid | Year 2 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Branding & Communications Coordinator

Guys, I have great news for all AIESECers!

I know many of us have had trouble finding AIESEC videos on youtube and elsewhere. Now all you need to do is go here:

http://aiesec.magnify.net/
OR
http://aiesecvideos.com/

You can even make a playlist and I think this is a great platform that is now available to us all. It is time to connect better and share more with each other!

So jump in, create a profile, upload stuff, make a playlist and lets get it started!

PS. Don't get carried away!

The Leadership Soft Skill Seminar

Are you tired of studying the same old books?

Are you tired of going to classes that don't teach you anything?

Do you fear you do not possess the skills you need?

Do you think you need to unleash the leader inside of you?

Well, wait no more!

AIESEC in NUS brings to you the Leadership Soft-skill seminar!

Yes that's right! Our very own professor William Koh from NUS will be coming over to share ideas and facts about leadership and working in groups. And he is coming especially for us AIESECers!

(Psst, Prof Koh is this really cheerful and passionate guy who also has a great sense of humour. He knows a lot about past and present leaders and knows what makes them so unique .)

When?
Friday October 12, 2007
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Where?
NUS Business School, LT 18

Who can come?
Any AIESECer from any LC who wants to get out of their comfort zone on a Friday evening to learn something. Just drop a mail to Shubhangi!!!

Do I Pay anything?

Just your Attention!!!!

See you all in NUS this Friday :) AIESEC Rocks the house!!!!!

Tata Crucible International - Business Quiz

Liana Tirta | Year 3 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Vice-President ER

Dear NUS AIESECers,

Rev up your think tanks, The Ultimate Business Quiz is here! The first ever Tata Crucible International storms into Singapore on 24th October 2007!

Not only will the Business Quiz receive wide media coverage (Channel News Asia), Dr Vivian Balakrishnan (Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports & Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts) will also be gracing the event as the Guest of Honour.

Why you must participate

Fantastic prizes to be won:

• Winning team will get cash prize of S$7000
• First runner up team gets cash prize of S$3000
• Second runner up team gets cash prize of S$2000

Entry is free, so hurry register now!

http://www.tatacrucible.com/intl/

To help you prepare!

There will be a briefing session exclusively for NUS AIESEC members on Monday, 8^th Oct 2007 at 6pm at NUS Business School (exact venue TBC)

You could also email me Lianna@nus.edu.sg to borrow a copy of Tata Crucible quiz book and VCD.

You could also come by the Business School Career Resource Library to browse through the copy of the Tata Crucible quiz book and view the VCD of the National Finals in India.

http://www.tatacrucible.com/intl/

We look forward to your active participation!

What is Tata?

The TATA Group is one of India's largest and most respected business conglomerates comprising of 96 operating companies in seven business sectors: information systems and communications; engineering; materials; services; energy; consumer products; and chemicals). It has operations in more than 85 countries across six continents, and its companies export products and services to 80 countries. Its annual revenue is estimated to be about US$ 28.8 billion (for 2006/07), and about US$ 49 billion inclusive of Corus, UK (acquired by Tata Steel).

History of Tata Crucible - The Business Quiz in India
Tata Crucible was launched in India in 2004 for young corporates across 8 cities, followed by a contest for campus students focused on Business schools and Engineering colleges, since they aspire to a career in business. Besides huge participation, the quiz in India has become famous for its sheer quality, and a commissioned research found that students of participating colleges rated the Campus Quiz the highest amongst all ground level quizzes.

‘Tata Crucible International - Business Quiz' seeks to bring together the sharpest young minds in Singapore to take on the heat of a very challenging business quiz. It is a quiz with multiple visual and audio-visual rounds of questions from the world of business administered to the participants (in teams of two) at a common venue. Post the initial rounds, the top 8 teams battle for the honours on stage in front of the rest of the participating teams.

National Sales Training

Jainita Dadlani | Year 4 NUS | Year 1 AIESEC | @ Department: ER

"I feel like Chee Soon Juan," quipped Imran, much to my amusement, in his opening lines on Saturday 29th September at the National Sales Training held in SMU. For those of you who are unaware, Chee Soon Juan is an ex NUS psychology professor who is (in)famous in his capacity as Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), for orchestrating rallies in public.


So why the reference to a political dissenter? Because believe it or not, our training session was held on the steps of some random empty space in the middle of SMU, after having been caught trying to sneak non-SMU AIESECers up the lift to the seminar room. After all this drama, we traipsed about in search of alternative space, but not before grabbing some breakfast along the way from this place that sells cheap and yummy tea drinks and toast. With our food and drink in tow, we all got comfy on the steps. Despite the unconventional setting and the lack of technological aid, the training session was a rather fruitful one. Presenters who had spent hours preparing elaborate powerpoint slides, had to suddenly change tactic to find ways to keep us engaged. This struck me as an interesting attestation to the AIESECer spirit and ability to think on our feet.

We started off by getting acquainted through a round of a “speed-dating” icebreaker game, which helped loosen up the atmosphere and got everyone somewhat acquainted with all the new faces. My head was still reeling from all the new names and faces when a bunch of handouts with information about AIESEC was passed around. I braced myself for more information overload, haha.

Imran, as the key speaker for the day, led the training session, equipping us with the best ways to sell AIESEC, how to be intuitive and read the signs during a meeting with big scary corporate people, the right questions to ask and the various ways in which AIESEC products, with their features, benefits and advantages, can be packaged to convince potential investors to give us a chance.

To make things interesting, Imran interspersed his “speech” (no powerpoint remember) with inspiring quotes. One quote that I can remember off the top of my head is, “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” This was meant to encourage us to create a 2-way process of communication through effective dialogue between AIESEC and various business corporations. To give us a feel of this dialogue process, we took turns to role play as Managers and AIESECers. I think the line, “AIESEC is the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential,” is ingrained on my mind forever because of the number of times I repeated it during our role-playing. This raised questions about how to avoid coming across as sounding scripted and mechanical. In response, Imran cited experience as the best way for being able to mean what you say.

We also went through the dry but important legal aspects of contracts and agreements. This was followed by pizza for lunch (yum!). After lunch, we had a quick session on branding and communications. (Everyone was quite restless by then!) We ended off with a requisite cam-whoring session! Fun! For those of you who couldn’t make it, you missed a great training session!

NUS @ers at National Sales Training

NTU @ers at National Sales Training

SMU @ers at National Sales Training