JUMP FACI APPLICATION

ALEXANDRE “ ” BENAVIDES

Alexandre Benavides Silva

Panamenian

Panama

6755-43-60

alexandre.benavides@aiesec.net

chande333

RST Webmaster & IM Coordinator

NST Webmaster AIESEC in Greece

UTP

Please indicate your order of preferences (using numbers).

1. What is your AIESEC XP and what are the 3 major

achievements/results in each position held?

1.

AIESEC XP Area Position Brief Description OGX Promotion & Communication

Coordinator

EPs promotion, exchange

campaigns, OGX newsletter, OGX wiki

design

EPs Ongoing

Recruitment

OCP Recruit EPs for the 2011

Pipeline

NST AIESEC Greece Webmaster Design of the

www.aiesec.gr page, newsletter designer,

coaching

RST in CAS Webmaster & IM Coordinator New wesite design,

newsletter and wikis improvement. Knowledge

management

Biggest Achievements in AIESEC

I. Successful OC Ongoing Recruitment (LC UTP): surpassed the expectations and structured

a confortable EPs Pipelines for the next term. I also managed to work in synegy wotk the

other OCs at the time creating a OC3 campaign. It improved my understanding of the need

of recruitment by receiving feedback from the people we recruited.

II. Successful CoCAS 2010 (CAS): I was OCP for this event and the work of the OC was

praised. I’m happy to know that the members of my OC applied for Leadership roles after

the OC has ended. So the development of my team was my biggest satisfaction. This

experience developed my Team Work understanding.

III. AIESEC Greece Webmaster: Changed the whole site design and improve his usability

and filled it with relevant information. The site receives aprox. 70 visits per day.

AIESEC Conferences & Events

Event, year Country Role Responsibility or Key

Learning Points

2009,

Panama Delegate Leadership skills (SDL)

2009, MAX

Costa Rica OCVP Comm Marketing and

Communication,

Working under

pressure, team work. Many things I’ve

suggested here are still

used in many CAS conferences

2009,

Panama Delegate

(Growth)

EB Understanding /

Giving my point of view in how the LC

UTP should work

2010,

Panama OCP Work under pressure,

team management,

team development. Close follow up on the

OC

2010, ILC

Peru Delegate

(eXpro)

New OGX strategies Learned how other

countries work Multicultural understanding

Effective Networking

Good Case Practices Best Leadership Skills

2010,

Panama Delegate (OPS)

Exchange flow understanding

Things I need to know before leaving

2010,

Costa Rica Delegate

(TTT)

Teaching Skills How to face an audience

Body language

understanding

2010,

Panama Faci

(OPS)

Receiving feedback Interacting with EPs

2011

Panama Delegate Giving my point of view in

the EB’s decisions. Work for the first time with the CAS

Communication Crew

2011,

Costa Rica Delegate As a RST, to help VP

Comms in the IM area and give my opinion in the Cas

Communication Crew

1. What would be your unique contribution to the facilitators’ team and conference?

You may use this space to specify additional skills that you can bring to a

facilitator team (eg. IT skills, video making etc.)

I’ve been to many AIESEC in CAS conference and I got to understand the personality of

committee in the region. I came from the LC UTP, the committee with the hardest

delegates. I used to see how we gave though feedback to facis and what they like to see.

When I was in those feedbacks sections with them I always told them not to only give bad

feedback not everything is bad, you have to tell the facis what they’ve done good as well.

I have many new ideas thanks to the friendship I’ve created with AIESECer abroad and met

many of them in ILC Perú. The flow of the sessions there were different and this is a plus.

I also like to innovate. I was speaking with other AIESECer that wants to be faci and I gave

a lot of ideas, things Facis could wear in each day or how we should behave. In JUMP 2009

the conference team used a different T-Shirt every day, so I was thinking of something

similar. I’ve gave a similar suggestion to the OC regarding the delegaste T-shirts, so I

always like new ideas.

Some of the sessions I’ve created were UNIQUE. In the OPS I’ve facilitated I used to make

sessions were delegates have to guess some things and everybody was involved, even the

OC.

I have knowledge in Flash animations, and some sessions were made using this program.

Some delegates were impressed with the quality of the sessions and were asking me how I

did it. I love to call the attention and make delegates laugh or react with my sessions.

Well, I love to make and edit videos. They must be funny and creative. Always have to be

different from everything I’ve done before.

Design a session outline (1 page) around one topic you believe that should be included in

the agenda you’re applying for as first option. (Session duration = 2 hours – feel free to use

any session outline template). Please use the following session outline template:

Session Outline

Identification

Conference TTT

Name of the

Session Communication Skills

Day 1st Day

Hour 2:00 PM GMT -05:00

Available

Time 1 hour and half

responsible Alexandre Benavides

Sequence

Previous

Session How adults learn

Next

Session Active Learning & Delivery

Objectives TTT delegates should find their communications strengths and weakness. Find out their

styles and explores differents ways to send the message.

Sss

Time Specific topic Description Materials

# of

requir

ed

Facis

Comments

5 minutes Intro

Make a small intro about the

way that they are going to

learn different ways to

communicate with each

other.

Projector 1

5 minutes Explanation

What exactly is by

definition, the importance

and evolution of the

communication in society.

Projector 1

20 Minutes

Game - Oral

Instructions

Providing oral instructions for a

task or activity, without visual

clues, forces participants to use

precise language, emphasizing

10 sheets

25 wooden sticks

Masking Tape

5 empty botles

3

effective communication skills.

10 Minutes

Game

Conclusion

and Outputs

Putting the delegates to

discuss the communication

difficulties between facis and

delegates

--- 1

10 Minutes How to improve

communication

Effective ways to finally get

over all the communication

issues and develop yourself

and the audience is

receiving the message. Put

some examples

Projector

1 piece of paper

to each delegate

3

20 Minutes Back-to-Back

Communication

activity

This activity eliminates two

communication factors (body

language and eye contact).

Have the two participants sit

back to back, and ask each

person tell a story to his

partner. Then put them face to

face and tell the same story.

They will notice the difference

and discuss it.

Blindfolds 3

We may

separate the

delagates in

distant places-

As a final comment. This session comes after a short sessions and before that came the

lunch, so I don’t want delegates to move too much, that is why the games are simple but

EFFECTIVE. They will get impress with the results. The conclusion is very important.

Depending of the decision of the agenda manager, the last activity could be moved to the

first one as an ice breaker or a waking up activity.

This session has some PPTs presentation during activities, so we should be moving the

delegates and make it fast. They must not return to their places before the session is over,

but we should try to make them all look forward.

D. Questions for TtT facilitators

1. What are the differences between coaching and training for you? What will be the

flow of your session in order to down properly the information to the delegates in

a simple way?

Coaching is usually an individual teaching you give someone about real life issues and how

to bear them. Trainings are giving in groups, teaching them about specific skills and

knowledge. Coaching is more wide and training is more specific. Both can be a theory or a

practice.

In order to give the delegates the proper information in a simple way, we should ALWAYS

give examples. They clarify every spoken definition, because they have an image of what

we are trying to say. But we should use both resources, since some of them catch the

message by only listening to it, or writing it or doing it. We should try to cover all the

possibilities.

2. If you have a session with the next objective: "To show the delegates how to do

effectively training and coaching when they are in a Leadership Role". What will

be your main activities to facilitate this session considering that your public is

40% Kinesthetic, 30% Visual and 30% auditory?

For me, even none were Kinesthetic, I would put them in all the situations. I would put

every single one of them in a Leader’s position and try to transmit a message to their

members giving an specific situation and make them use their imagination to face those

case scenarios. Before the session, or even better, before the conference I would send a

survey to the TTT delegates so they can fill it, then we would know what kind of learning

they prefer and try to split the groups making sure we have the 3 types in each group.

3. What are the three main soft skills that a trainer must have and how do you think

we can ensure the development in the whole conference?

Effective communication - the facilitator must send effectively the information he’s handling.

In order to do so, he needs to study the material, understand it and figure out the best way

to display it. He must have the ability to improvise, because during the sessions he must

study the delegates and see their body language (to see if they are responding to the

message).

Interact with delegates – we as the conference team, must approach to every single

delegate and make sure they’re comfortable with the learning environment. It’s a good idea

to change from a seminar formation to a discussion circle, so the delegates can interact with

each other and not only with the facis.

Work with feedbacks – In order to deliver an excellent seminar, a faci must analyze his work

and improve it. There is no better way to do this than receive feedbacks from the delegates.

4. The delegate profile for this conference is members with one year or more in the

organization, in EB positions or with a relevant AIESEC XP, and they already

participate in LDS. What will be the specific added value that you will give as a

faci to impact and put your footprint on this agenda?

Encourage them to facilitate in other countries. Show them the options they have and the

possibilities. Give examples, like the MC CAS sent abroad and EP (Katrina Him as an

example, she went on exchange and made an impact facilitating in AIESEC France). We see

few AIESECer from CAS that take the challenge because they are afraid or don’t find the

meaning on this. Facilitating in another country gives you a lot of opportunities. Sometimes

it could be boring to always facilitate in the same region, so this could give you a chance to

reboot your AIESEC XP and face new challenges.

I love to give examples and talk about good case practices. And all the time I will be saying

this guy have done this, this other that, etc and etc. It works, and I can tell this because

many delegates had approach me and told me they want to take the challenge and ask me

how.

Also I will interact with delegates before and after the TTT. This will connect me with them

even more and awake the curiosity in them.

C. Questions for LDS facilitators

1. Why have you decided to apply for facilitator at LDS track? Why do you think this

track is relevant? (max. 150 words)

I want to give a different perspective to the facis, delegates and conference team about this

agenda. When I was a delegate at this one, I left the plenary without having clear what I’ve

learn and what I could do with this. I wasn’t the only one, in fact the newbies left the

conference more confused. I want to avoid this by making effective sessions and tell them

the opportunities they have in AIESEC as a leader, what it means and where it can take

you.

2. What does leadership mean to you? Describe how you would explain leadership

having the conversation with one of the delegates during the conference. (max.

150 words)

Leadership for me is the action to lead a team to a common goal, the one that benefits the

interest of the entire group. Leadership is not management. A leader must inspire, be an

excellent communicator, be aware of the feelings of their members, set goals, track their

member, become friends of them, take risks. A leader must be strong and have a good

presence. Everybody can be a leader, and in my opinion, all the AIESEC members must take

a LR.

3. Please describe your team experience (in or outside of AIESEC). Which were the

main difficulties while working with others? What did you learn from this

experience? (max. 250 words)

My team experience in AIESEC has always been difficult. Many times I wanted to left

AIESEC but I believe more in the vision and mission of the association than the barriers that

were presented to my along the way. I’ve always been the most active member of my

teams. Even when I was in a regional OC, I kept working in my functional area with the

same passion. When I finally became a leader, I understood the problems my leaders had

faced and changed my manners. My LR had amazing results and OCP still ask me for

advices. I learned to understand more my team and my leaders. How to please them and to

approach. I like to become close friends to all of them and not treat persons as numbers.

This helped me A LOT in my work at the office. I grew so fast in AIESEC and in my work life

that everyone got impressed. Now I had new job offers, many LR offers in CAS and abroad,

and I always thanks everyone that helped me get were I’m today.

4. How do you align your personal goals with goals of the organization? (max. 200

words)

If I failed in AIESEC, I failed in life. This simple. AIESEC is the perfect school I found. The

problems I’ve to face in AIESEC are the same I had in my life and this organization saved

my life. I tried to impact as many lives as possible in order to repay the favor. Now my goal

is to have my exchange with AIESEC as I think this is the best choice I can make in my life

and seeing how much this helped my fellows.

In every area I am in, I must create an impact. I do not accept to see things gone bad in

places I’m in, so I always give an extra effort in order to keep thing up.

5. What does dual XP means to you? (max. 150 words). Would you separate the

projects we offer to leaders who join AIESEC after having been leaders in other

organizations and the leaders we develop internally in AIESEC in the Team

Leader Program of the new AIESEC XP?

You can’t have one without the other. The member will not feel complete if only had an

exchange or a leadership role. I will not separate the leader from others. An AIESEC XP is

different from other organizations. I’ve been a leader in some projects in the University and

met some leader from similar associations, the XP they had in AIESEC is different. If it’s a

good leader, we should give him an opportunity to fill some gaps in our organization.

VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEC3lVEG65o

Thanks for the opportunity

You will not get disappointed if you elect me. I’m really excited about the OC and MC work

in order to make this conference EPIC and I will love to impact people.

Sincerely,

Chandé