Intern
Being an Intern... a stage that every AIESECer will go through. Yet, how to be a good intern, a good AIESEC intern, seems to be a very hard subject. At least, I know that we cannot go into aiesec.net and search for a good AIESEC University document to tell you about how to be a good intern. And if you go to ask an exchanger, probably they'll only tell you to do a good job in the company and help them do re-raising. If you go to ask a PD person, they would probably ask you to join teams. What does that actually mean?
If we think back to the origin of Core work Re-design and then the AIESEC experience, it comes by two big concept: "Unification of members and trainees" + "Structured Learning Process". And everyone who has been an exchanger before will understand how a "good intern" will make a difference. As we believe AIESECer can make a good intern, therefore we advocate this concept of "unification of members and trainees".
Many people have asked me before: is an non-AIESECer definitely not a good intern? Is an AIESECer definitely a good intern?
The question is how do we define "good".
good intern = one who does not require any reception?
good intern = one who makes the company very happy?
In this NLDS, I finally have a better answer for myself. Not necessarily a final answer, but an answer good enough for me to strive for to become a good intern.
A good intern is one who will leave a great impact to the local members.
In NLDS leadership track, we have 2 very good interns as our facilitators - Egle and Ren Chang.
The commitment they have put into the conference is higher than many people. When we talk about @HK's reality, how to make @HK better, we can sense our same passion, seeing things through same paradigm, same mindset, striving for same goal.
Throughout the whole conference, they always have in their mind on how to make @HK better. Say LC structure, they always have that in the context, therefore even in non-AIESEC session, like Time management, or other free time, Egle and Ren Change could just easily link those sessions into the context of @HK, and using the session content to give very relevant advice to all the delegates. That makes individual session much more powerful.
And most important thing is that as they are interns, they could provide a more objective and external perspective on issues. It's opening up ourselves in new paradigm, and to the delegates, it's definitely more convincing than the MC talk talk talk... haha.
And Jacso and I keep on saying that in NLDS we have suddenly more MC members haha. Definitely we felt that Ren Chang is our extra MC teammates. And Yali and Egle definitely MC CEEDers.
I'm easily impacted by non-HK @ers who are so deeply cared about @HK. Few years ago like Chien, I would never forget what he told me. Now like Ren Chang and Egle. The reason why I'm deeply impacted by them, and got touched easily, is probably throughout my @XP in @HK, I always see HK ppl who don't put priority in making OUR own organization better. There are always OUR own ppl who simply don't care about OURselves. Sometimes it's even more ridiculous that they could loudly say they just don't think they should care about it. [This might be stemming from a mindset that Ah Wai and Yali just talked with us earlier, could elaborate on that later on]
Anyway, in this conference, I am definitely greatly inspired by our lovely interns. When I'm moving to the exchange stage, I really want to be an intern in a AIESEC environment with relatively lower capacity, and I could contribute the most and share what we have in @HK for AIESEC in another country. I could pay it forward - what Egle and Ren Chang have done to @HK. I hope there would be another country which can feel the strong support of an intern as if "having an extra MC teammate/ CEED".
I believe this is the true impact of exchange after leadership experience, the impact of unification of trainees and members, the impact of AIESEC experience.
Egle and Ren Chang, Thanks for inspiring me to become a better intern myself in the future. Thanks for letting me realize what's the true impact of an intern.
If we think back to the origin of Core work Re-design and then the AIESEC experience, it comes by two big concept: "Unification of members and trainees" + "Structured Learning Process". And everyone who has been an exchanger before will understand how a "good intern" will make a difference. As we believe AIESECer can make a good intern, therefore we advocate this concept of "unification of members and trainees".
Many people have asked me before: is an non-AIESECer definitely not a good intern? Is an AIESECer definitely a good intern?
The question is how do we define "good".
good intern = one who does not require any reception?
good intern = one who makes the company very happy?
In this NLDS, I finally have a better answer for myself. Not necessarily a final answer, but an answer good enough for me to strive for to become a good intern.
A good intern is one who will leave a great impact to the local members.
In NLDS leadership track, we have 2 very good interns as our facilitators - Egle and Ren Chang.
The commitment they have put into the conference is higher than many people. When we talk about @HK's reality, how to make @HK better, we can sense our same passion, seeing things through same paradigm, same mindset, striving for same goal.
Throughout the whole conference, they always have in their mind on how to make @HK better. Say LC structure, they always have that in the context, therefore even in non-AIESEC session, like Time management, or other free time, Egle and Ren Change could just easily link those sessions into the context of @HK, and using the session content to give very relevant advice to all the delegates. That makes individual session much more powerful.
And most important thing is that as they are interns, they could provide a more objective and external perspective on issues. It's opening up ourselves in new paradigm, and to the delegates, it's definitely more convincing than the MC talk talk talk... haha.
And Jacso and I keep on saying that in NLDS we have suddenly more MC members haha. Definitely we felt that Ren Chang is our extra MC teammates. And Yali and Egle definitely MC CEEDers.
I'm easily impacted by non-HK @ers who are so deeply cared about @HK. Few years ago like Chien, I would never forget what he told me. Now like Ren Chang and Egle. The reason why I'm deeply impacted by them, and got touched easily, is probably throughout my @XP in @HK, I always see HK ppl who don't put priority in making OUR own organization better. There are always OUR own ppl who simply don't care about OURselves. Sometimes it's even more ridiculous that they could loudly say they just don't think they should care about it. [This might be stemming from a mindset that Ah Wai and Yali just talked with us earlier, could elaborate on that later on]
Anyway, in this conference, I am definitely greatly inspired by our lovely interns. When I'm moving to the exchange stage, I really want to be an intern in a AIESEC environment with relatively lower capacity, and I could contribute the most and share what we have in @HK for AIESEC in another country. I could pay it forward - what Egle and Ren Chang have done to @HK. I hope there would be another country which can feel the strong support of an intern as if "having an extra MC teammate/ CEED".
I believe this is the true impact of exchange after leadership experience, the impact of unification of trainees and members, the impact of AIESEC experience.
Egle and Ren Chang, Thanks for inspiring me to become a better intern myself in the future. Thanks for letting me realize what's the true impact of an intern.
2 Comments:
At 3:19 AM, imran said…
Wow Mindy, you always come up with really wise things to say! I totally agree with your definition of a good Intern! I hope you guys had a great conference, Adam has been telling us how great it was! Cheers
At 1:25 AM, Nikita said…
I had a really good intern from Hong Kong in my LC a couple of years ago. He brought a meaning to "Enjoy life to the fullest." Thanks for sending him all the way to New Zealand :)
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