Year Of Innovation

What did I do in the entire 0607 session?

It's time to review and try to summarize about my term, 0607, in several aspects.

It is never easy to conclude and express my feeling and works done in the past session. The time in AIESEC has never been boring and easy as I take it very serious. Always keeping in mind that to strive for the best in LC and bring LC-HKU into a new level in what we wish to align in both global and national level.

• More than 70 members working in LC at the same time, until now, there are still more than 40 ppl working actively in LC, more than 200% growth in active membership.
• Increasing exchange impact to individuals
• Increasing account diversification
• Increasing possible roles of stakeholders to engage in LC
• Enhanced @XP implementation, leadership sustainability and leadership roles creation
• Increasing global positioning of LC by both exchange and global involvement
• Record-breaking national conference delegates from LC-HKU
• LC restructure in both culture and management

Yet, there are still many things to be improved. We do not contend with the results simply because we CAN BE better. Am I making a difference or differences? I think we should have an answer.

P.S. I just checked my outlook and there are nearly 1200 e-mails sent out just from outlook from 23^rd Aug 2006. I can’t imagine how many e-mails I have sent out in total in 0607 session.

What did I do and learn then?

Disciplined/ Balanced life

Finally, this is what I always tell and “educate” others. But I did not succeed it though the situation keeps improving. (but in sometime, not disciplined is quite a good idea!) My scope to define balanced life was too narrow and I did manage it quite good under my previous definition. By now, it is not that narrow already and that’s SO challenging to be disciplined and balanced. However, it is so fruitful when you feel that you really do so many things in one day. I still remember that I did it last summer and I shared this with Raymond as well. I wish I can keep doing this in the future.

Passion to step forward

To pursue many different roles in AIESEC which keep myself learning in a diverse yet excellent environment. I took up the roles as facilitator in national conference, chief internal auditor, Global LCP virtual taskforce and Global Communications Crew in 0607 session and some of the roles are still having the responsibilities at this moment. This keeps me learning continuously. This passion has never ended in the life in AIESEC and begins to spread in other areas of my life but not just confine in AIESEC.

Change

Resistance to change happens in every corner of the world. As my secondary school teacher said, “the only thing that never changes is indeed “Change””. What do we need to hesitate to change? We keep changing and improving ourselves for own good. That’s no big deal anymore if you know the reasons and rationale behind. Of course, I learnt a lot through managing this change and I believe that no one can share the same things with me and the XP that I had during that moment. This is the unique yet uncommon XP as an LCP. ^.^

Enjoying and connecting

Many people would say, “if you love or are interested in the works you are doing, then you will create good result and have a good experience.” I cannot agree more on this and last year, it did give me lots of chance to connect others in external environment, both in campus and outside campus. This connection and network inspire me a lot on many different issues like my career, goals and perspectives in different issues. I remembered the chat with Gary back to 2 weeks ago, “Socializing makes one’s learning much faster”. I can say it is really true especially to my learning style through interaction.

Positive thinking

My professor, Rich, has recently told me that forgetting things is an important part in our life. He really inspired me about the positive attitude to the future. When I looked back, this is the same attitude which I always promote. There is no excuse anywhere and anytime but it is just a matter of how we prioritize the importance of the things we are going to do and achieve.

Appreciation and action

Similar thing to positive thinking but I bet this is one of the greatest changes in last session. Not just appreciating people working with me but all the others. Not just appreciating people but the things happen around. Taking actions to appreciate and treasure the people and things around. This is a great impact to me and I know better how to deal with different people. (still learning but I believe I can learn a lot more in the coming year.)

Reflection, self-awareness and focused

Honestly speaking, compared with the role I played in 0506 session, I have relatively much less time to do reflection but I should say that it was an excuse. Realize that my self-awareness was not high enough in the past few months when immersed into loads of works. Nevertheless, I am glad that my self-awareness still made and helped me stay focused to what I want to achieve. This is an important element as a leader.

What I can say more?

Keep on learning and challenging myself become one of my core belief as a future leader, keep asking questions to status quo and find out a better and better way to achieve it is another characteristic that an achiever and executor differs!