AIESEC Riga Students Learning Environment


What skills can you develop?

In AIESEC you can develop functional and soft skills:

Functional skills:	Soft skills:
Sales and marketing Strategic planning Human resources Budgeting / accounting Project management	Team management Presentation skills and public speaking Cultural understanding Facilitating skills

The learning environment in AIESEC helps to develop these skills. It’s a synergy enabling all components to influence everyone through a frame of activities, that ensure passing through different stages of members’ AIESEC experience.

AIESEC learning environment enables the development of specific competencies in two ways:

• Direct development of competencies through taking responsibilities.
• Creation of own plan for development of competencies by using individual assessment tool on our virtual platform, presented by Career Innovation.

The different components of AIESEC learning environment could be described by the following scheme:



1.    Individual discovery – Are you aware of who you are? What do you want in life? What makes you happy? Our actions help you to discover the sense of your life and guide you towards the best decisions in your personal and professional opportunities.
 
2.    Team Experiences - Teams are the basis of our current organizational structure. You start in a small local team and you can end up leading the organization of over 35,000 members. Our teams’ experiences are comprised of a common goal, plan, specific period of time and constant evaluation and recognition of success. You can manage projects, organizational processes and operations, organize events and much more. Teams also bring forward the aspect of ‘learning by doing’.

3.    Mentoring – Mentoring relationships are important source of external feedback – with other AIESEC members or AIESEC partners/supporters - about your decisions in AIESEC and outside of AIESEC. Through mentoring we create friendly relationships among all our stakeholders that grow into powerful networks.

4.    Virtual Spaces - Our virtual spaces play the role of tying together the entire learning environment and AIESEC network. MyAIESEC.net is our unique online platform of resources, contact information, forums, news, classifieds and constant promotion of exchange and leadership opportunities on local, national and international level. At the same time AIESEC is present in the main online channels such as Youtube, Flickr, Facebook to keep you connected to your AIESEC friends all over the world.

5.    Conferences and Seminars - AIESEC holds over 470 national and international conferences every year which gather AIESEC members, partners, alumni, etc. These conferences currently serve to support major organisational activities. You can either attend or organize these conferences in your city/country and receive AIESEC members from all over the world.

6.    Learning Circles - AIESEC Learning Circles are local learning communities to discuss and share information about issues or topics that are common for members, partners or sponsors. The learning circles – virtual and physical - are formed by AIESECers who share a common interest in gaining experience, knowledge and networks in a certain sector or topic.