This document provides suggestions for LEAD activities to strengthen AIESEC's leadership development model (LDM). It recommends choosing activities that specifically target improving qualities weak or missing in leadership programs. Examples of activities are provided for each of AIESEC's LDM elements: learning circles, team experiences, individual reflection, global learning environment, virtual spaces, one-to-one interactions like coaching. Suggested activities include self-assessments, journaling, goal-setting, team-building, feedback, and hosted online spaces. The document stresses customizing activities based on needs and objectives. It aims to use LEAD to catalyze leadership development in all of AIESEC's experiences.

1. How can LEAD
boost our LDM
Guide with suggestions of specific LEAD activities to
boost the leadership we aim to develop
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2. What we aim to do is to use LEAD as a catalyst to achieve
leadership development in every experience we deliver.
Thus, the LEAD activities we choose to deliver should have
specific purposes to boost the LDM
quality is weak or missing
in the different ELD
programs.

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Learning Circles
Team Experiences
Individual Discovery
and Reflection
Global Learning
Environment
Virtual Spaces
@
One to One
(Mentoring, Coaching)
Conferences
and Seminars

4. Proposed LEAD activities
to boost our LDM

5. “I am aware of what is going on in the
world and enjoy taking an active role in
contributing towards making it a better
place for everyone.”
BELIEVES IN THEIR ABILITY TO
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE
WORLD
INTERESTED IN
WORLD ISSUES
ENJOYS TAKING
RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPROVING
THE WORLD
LEAD Activities
Team Experience
Virtual Spaces
Training
Individual Reflection
Learning Circles
Conferences
Virtual Spaces
Team Experience
Journaling
Personal Goal Setting
Virtual Spaces

6. “I know what I am good at, what’s
important to me, and what I am passionate
about. I am constantly exploring what I
want to achieve in my life.”
UNDERSTANDS AND LIVES
PERSONAL VALUES
FOCUSES ON STRENGTHS
OVER WEAKNESSES
EXPLORES ONE’S PASSIONS
LEAD Activities
Self Assessment Tools
Team Values
Journaling
Self Assessment Tools
Personal development Plan
Coaching
Learning Circles
Team Building
Self Assessment Tools
Personal development Plan
Team Building

7. “I am able to communicate ideas clearly,
engage in meaningful conversations with
others, and co-create spaces of collaboration
that empower people to take action.”
COMMUNICATES EFFECTIVELY
IN DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS
DEVELOPS & EMPOWERS
OTHER PEOPLE
ENGAGES WITH OTHERS TO
ACHIEVE A BIGGER PURPOSE
LEAD Activities
Team Experience
Learning Circles
Conferences
Team Experience
Trainings/Conferences
Working Groups
Shadowing
Coaching/O2O Feedback
Team Experience
Team Planning
Learning Circles

8. “I come up with solutions to challenges. I am
flexible and
I am always ready to take the necessary risks.
Every time I fall I always stand back up.”
ADAPTS AND SHOWS RESILIENCE
IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES
TRANSMITS POSITIVITY TO MOVE
FORWARD THROUGHOUT
UNCERTAINTY
TAKES RISKS WHEN ITS NEEDED
LEAD Activities
Team Experience
Team Feedback
Team Experience
Team Building
Team Feedback
Coaching
Team Experience
Learning Circles

9. What other new
tools and activities
can you identify
or create?

10. Examples on Using
GLE for LEAD

11. Individual Discovery
and Reflection
Self Assessment Tools
Journaling
Personal Development Plan
and goal setting
1. Set your objective for the space (strength
finder, leadershipstyle, personal values…)
2. Research and share an online survey with
your participants (example)
3. Participants have time to answer the survey
and analyze their results following reflection
questions (previous experiences, situations..)
4. In pairs, they share their thoughts
When finishing an intense day or week (e.g. OPS,
transition…), journaling can be used to give the
participants a space to gather their own thoughts
and write them in a personalnotebook.
Make sure you prepare questions to guide their
reflection: “What is emerging here? What is
important for you and why do you care? What
mattered the most for you?...”
This tool can be used mostly for new members
and EP’s at the start of their experience. Provide a
template of PDP for them to set their own path of
development for their upcoming experience and
set goals for themselves. Most useful for EP’s and
TL’s following-up their members.

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Team Experiences
Team Building
Team Feedback
At the beginning of the team experience LEAD
can play an important role in setting the new
team culture.
1.Define the purpose of the team experience in
the society we want to impact on.
2.Develop and empower other people and learn
how to communicate effectively. What are our
strengths as team? What can you give to the
team and what can we take? How can we
allocate projects using our individual strengths
best? Some examples exercises: Team DNA,
Bestof us.
These spaces should be organized by the TL or an
external partner.
To come up with solutions to face challenges and
to empower others people. Feedback can be
delivered in different ways: written feedback, face
to face or group feedback. Some rules need to be
established at the beginning of the space to
ensure people are getting the learning experience
they need.

13. Learning Circles
Hosted Spaces
It’s a space to host meaningful
conversation. The facilitator “host” is
holding a space to support the process of
learning without giving direct inputs. The
outputs coming from the conversation the
people have: dynamic might be different
based on the group size. The conversation
are triggered by 1 or more questions the
host proposes and delegates start sharing
about. This delivery method is the most
used and common when you deliver LEAD
for large groups and the learning is
facilitate in smaller groups or in pairs.
Ensure to have a specific purpose and
wanted output/outcome of the hosted
space, which should explore deep thoughts
before creating the flow, powerful
questions and hosting the space.

14. Conferences
and Seminars
Conferences
Trainings
For reaching higher amount of participants,
conferences is an excellent platform especially
when combined with Hosted Spaces, Individual
Reflection& O2O activities.
1. Identify your need and/or purpose
2. Determine what is the specific outcome and
action you want in your participants out of
the space in conference
3. Create blocks that will build up to your
session objectives to have a flow
4. Choose the best activities for each block!
There’s a difference between a regular Training or
Workshopto be consideredaLEADactivity.
Usually, trainings and workshops are connected
with hard skills and operational knowledge to
performinaspecificrole.
For this to be a LEAD training, we recommendto:
- Ensure the soft skill is a basis for the LDM (for
example, public speaking to improve
“EmpoweringOthers”)
- The delivery is not only one-way but gives space
for participantsto reflect, share anddiscuss
- Include training on LEAD skills to deliver to
EP’s

15. One to One
(Mentoring, Coaching)
Coaching
Shadowing
This method can be used to follow up on LEAD
individually. Considering LEAD is an individual
learning experience, the coach can follow up on
the learning path of the coachee in an individual
space trough self assessment or self reflection
based on the objective the coach design for the
coachee. Remember to take notes of things to
work on to follow-up on your next coaching
meeting!

16. Virtual Spaces
@
Webinars
Resource Hub
The delivery through virtual channel can
reproduce a physical environment of assessment
or reflection. You can use the space to guide
conversation or to organize space of reflection.
The virtual channels can be used as intermediate
touch point when the physical one cannot happen
as follow up to activities already delivered. For
example a monthly space for LCP to follow up on
their LEAD program.
Ensure to have a clear flow shared with the
virtual delegates and to also add interactive
elements such as spaces for sharing, either with
everyone or in groups through private chats.
The hub can be a space with meaningful
article/lectures about different topics based on
the objectives of the LEAD journey. The reading
of these materials can trigger the mindset and
being a self facilitate learning experience. It can
be books, online articles, magazines covering
different topic about leadership, self awareness,
etc.

17. Please note that these are overall examples and
it is crucial for you to customize the purpose and
delivery based on your needs, reality and main
objective out of the LEAD space!

18. Thank you!
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By Angela Alesci (MCVP TM @Egypt) & Ana Sofia Espejo (AIVP TM)