Yesterday we were all at Egerton university, Kilimo complex where we had a powerful training on leadership from the perspective of cooperatives. The training was dubbed 'I'm a cooperator' and was a joint initiative by CIC Insurance and Edge Consult. This was a training with a difference. We learnt that one of the strongest route to financial sustainability is through joining the cooperative movement.
PLO Lumumba was present virtuously and gave a hot talk on getting rid of the jiggers of the mind. He was very disgusted by the fact that the young people are getting more and more infested by the jiggers of watching soap operas and Arsenal while their fellow colleagues in the Western countries are busy learning Nano technology. At this rate, we are not headed in the right direction.Personally my point of highlight was when AIESEC EGERTON got an opportunity to show the audience a short video. I mean leadership and AIESEC go hand in hand. And when talking about training university students about leadership, there is no better platform to work on other than AIESEC. This is because AIESEC is ran in universities and one of our values as AIESEC is 'activating leadership'. As an employer, you would be very delighted to employ a person who has had previous experience in leadership through AIESEC. Such an employee won't need much of your organizations time and resources doing on the job training.
AIESEC Team Leader
The other huge lesson learnt from the training was in the form of demystifying the whole idea of cooperatives. Like someone in the audience commented, the training made us see cooperatives as what they are, not what we have been made to perceive them to be by some few bad examples out there. These training was one of those trainings that ensures you leave as a more enlightened person if not different than the way you came.
-By S.K.
(VP Comm & IM)
And actually that's what differentiates AIESEC members from the common students in campuses. One thing that the author of the article forgot to mention is that during the same event in Egerton University, Abner Michieka who is among the leaders of AIESEC Egerton University was chosen to represent the university in the CIC Insurance Group reality TV show-The Expedition which runs in the local TV station, NTV every Sunday at 9.50pm.Together with Abner was Jemimah the first Lady of Egerton in the reality tv show.
ReplyDeleteYou can point them out from the pictures; Jemimah aka Jemy holding the cooperative mantle in the last picture. Abner seated right in green and blue t-shirt.
I believe that once these two individuals return back to their respective campuses they will be able to show case the learning points of the expedition but all in all would like everyone to continue watching the show and vote.
I think this is just a preview of the kind of leadership opportunities one can get while in AIESEC. Therefore for all campus students i think you better understand yourself better and bigger as you choose the best club/ organization to join as this will also contribute to your employerbility skills....
By Abner Michieka.