The AIESEC Way Is The Members Guide That Explains What Is The Purpose of Our
The AIESEC Way Is The Members Guide That Explains What Is The Purpose of Our
The AIESEC Way Is The Members Guide That Explains What Is The Purpose of Our
The AIESEC Way is explained through the Golden Circle model which provides
REMINDER:
The goal of this document is not for members to try and memorise all words or concepts. This
document you should only glance through. It will not solve all your problems or answer all of your
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Since then, the world has been changing
faster than ever before. We believe that
Second World War by a group of young
people from Europe (Belgium, Denmark,
and they must learn to adapt quickly and
Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, and
solve problems. This is why AIESEC strives
Sweden). Our fundamentals were shaped
for Peace & Fulfilment of Humankind´s
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We place our confidence in youth because explore and develop their leadership
they have the passion, dynamism and
entrepreneurial spirit that are needed to
shape the future. They have the
responsibility to improve tomorrow by sphere they would choose.
choosing who they will be today.
Self Aware
Declining Trust in Understands and lives personal values
Formal Leaders Focuses on strengths over weaknesses
Explores one’s passions
Empowering Others
Complex and
Interconnected World Develops & empowers other people
Engages with others to achieve a bigger purpose
connected world.
Team Experiences
AIESEC members work in teams to create and manage these cross-cultural exchange experiences. This
provides an opportunity for our members to live powerful team experiences and develop their own
framework AIESEC provides in every experience, enabling young people to learn the most from every
that what someone learns from any experience will stay with them forever.
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WHAT WE ENVISION:
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Our Values
future years.
We support each other and we build on what has been done in the past.
of others.
Some examples of living this value:
We encourage and delegate responsibility to the new members of AIESEC in
Living Diversity
experiences.
To shape our culture we keep in mind to:
Reinforce our values constantly Engage and align our Confront contradictory behavior
stakeholders with our values that goes against our values
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Global
Independent
them.
Not-For-Profit
Youth-Run
AIESEC is completely run by young people - the majority of
whom are students and recent graduates.
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Appendix 1: Our Leadership Development Model and Inner and Outer Journey
for everyone.”
The Inner and Outer Journey concept grew out of a “new models of leadership”
discussion held with the World Economic Forum. Based on research of the best
leadership experiences provided by AIESEC, the following elements describe what
people go through during their AIESEC experience(s) and what helps them learn
and develop the most.
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Impact
Individual responsibility
Taking individual responsibility with clear goals is a first step in the outer journey of leadership
development
Support system
In the outer journey there should be some support system for the inner journey. It can be a
mentor, coach, buddy, etc. A support system can be provided by AIESEC or any other external
stakeholder.
Reinvent yourself
Capturing the learning from this experience to use it in the future; Understanding your ‘new self.
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THE AIESEC WAY has evolved through the years of its existence.
AIESEC in 1964:
of students”.
AIESEC in 1978:
AIESEC in 1989:
VISION:
PURPOSE: To contribute to the development of our countries and their people with an
Offering people the opportunity to interact with their social and economic environment at
AIESEC in 1999:
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called AIESEC 2005. It was created and used by The Rae Group at IPM 1999 to help the AI team
process of defining and agreeing upon those values was planned to be done later.
WHAT WE ENVISION:
OUR IMPACT:
AIESEC members mainly run the process for other university students. Few AIESEC members
Our members are just the engine that makes the process happen and not necessarily
AIESEC in 2000:
South Africa we ran through a process for doing this and also explored what we needed to do to
results. At that moment the challenge that we had in front of us was to act upon that agreement
ideals – through agreeing upon OUR VALUES and simplifying THE WAY WE DO IT statement –
WHAT WE ENVISION:
OUR IMPACT: By developing individuals, we contribute to the development of our communities with
an overriding commitment to international co-operation and understanding.
THE WAY WE DO IT:
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OUR VALUES:
:
:
fulfil our commitments and conduct ourselves in a way that is true to our ideals.
Living Diversity: We seek to learn from the different ways of life and opinions represented in
individual.
E :
Striving for Excellence : We aim to deliver the highest quality performance in everything we
AIESEC in 2005:
The most recent global discussion about revising THE AIESEC WAY content started in 2004 and
different viewpoints, it symbolised increased unity and common vision among the membership
students and indirect service to society by providing it with capable future leaders without
considering the formal development of its members as those future leaders. The ‘AIESEC
– this needed to be reflected in THE AIESEC WAY statements. As well, the fact that AIESEC
the world.
the ‘AIESEC Experience’ as the essence of what we do stated in THE WAY WE DO IT.
AIESEC in 2008:
The RAE Group, we have been using a language that is property of the consultancy firm due to
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In order to handle the property of this consultancy company properly, and find our way to
supported us in the process of defining something that we think suits the unique needs of
AIESEC. In this context THE AIESEC WAY was born. THE AIESEC WAY describes not only
we have for AIESEC in 2010. The OUR IMPACT statement as well as our GLOBAL DESCRIPTOR
changes were implemented (the AIESEC experience changed to being program-based and the
focus switched to leadership development in every experience we provide). It became necessary
refresh the AIESEC Way. The AIESEC way was changed based on the trends of current
and Develop every young person in the world”. This significantly changed our approach toward
How?
world issues, leadership and management. AIESEC does not
We place our confidence in youth, who hold the keys to discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, sexual
What we envision
What?
impact in society.
We enable young people to develop their leadership
The Way We Do It
challenging environments. We do this through AIESEC provides its members with an integrated development
Who we are
globally.
The external world message is clear: skills are just not enough. There is no leadership without ethics. AIESEC strives
the world lies in AIESEC’s ability to create, for each and every member, a steering wheel that will shape his/her
AIESEC’s ethical process is a deep and steady move to make the AIESEC Experience the gateway to the values-driven
Ethics adopted by the global plenary at IPM 2007 in Egypt was a key event in THE AIESEC WAY to develop ethical
leaders.
Open the gateway for what is needed for impact on the individuals that live an AIESEC EXPERIENCE.
The AIESEC CODE OF ETHICS is about the ethical principles we all adhere to, and the enforcement mechanisms to
align them with OUR VALUES.
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