Intro

So, let’s start! Past 2 months were one of the most intensive for AIESEC in Serbia, for MC team and my life. I hope that you enjoyed May and June and I hope that we will keep this spirit of high ambitions throughout the year.

MAY

• National Planning Meeting
  Jastrebac, April 27-29.

4 days of planning and setting year ambition. We’ve set our targets high and determined our direction. Here you can see our organization ambition for the year 2007-08:

148

Exchanges Realized

79

Experiences

27

Leadership Experience

261

Members

I want to congratulate LCPs for carrying out the planning process with their EB teams. Bravo, Bravo Bravo Bravisimo! :)a

Special thank you goes to dedicated OC and LC Kragujevac for being the host of this important meeting.

• 89^th National Conference – Results In Everything We Do!
  Velika Plana, June 9-13.

We want to thank amazing OC, LC BG EF, LC BG BK and LC BG FON for organizing this beautiful environment and together with facis and all the delegates contributed to conference success.

• MC planning

After 4 days of analysis, creative discussions, goal setting, setting priorities and creation of initiatives we finished national plan. Those were 4 days of hard work, fun and team bonding. Here you can see the 4 national priorities for 2007-08

Exchange growth

We have rapid growth in number of exchange experiences continuously during year with all of our Local Committees contributing to it.

Growth of number of members at each stage of AIESEC eXPerience

We have sufficient number of members at each stage of AIESEC experience to support all our activities.

External positioning & branding

We are consistent in our brand aligned communication with our external environment.

Information management

We are consistent and disciplined in our documents management and create favorable conditions for new Global Information System.

All of this happened in Damjan’s house in Arandjelovac – home town of Jasna. I want to thank Damjan for hosting or planning and Jasna and her parents for spending a great evening in their home.

The members of BoA:

- Sanja Kovandzic, HR / L&E Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers

- Sandra Savatic, AIESEC Alumni – President 06-07, AIESEC in Serbia

At the meeting BoA members were closely introduced with AIESEC and our plans for this year. This is extremely important for AIESEC in Serbia – for credibility, accountability, positioning and growth of our organization and brings special value to our work.

We want to thank Sandra Savatic, Srdjan Mirosavljevic and Hana Skero for their special efforts during past year to make this meeting possible. We also want to thank our partners - PricewaterhouseCoopers for hosting the meeting in their offices.

• First virtual AIESEC in Serbia Presidency Meeting (SPAS – Sastanak Predsednka AIESEC-a Srbije)

The first ever virtual presidency meeting was held on June 20. Recognizing the need to use more the modern technologies in our work we’ve decided to run presidency meeting through tool offered by www.webhuddle.com. This brought efficiency to our legislation and lower cost of the meeting.

At first virtual presidency meeting 2007-08 national plan and budget of AIESEC in Serbia were adopted. We are proud to represent you:

MC plan and budget 2007-08 (click to download)

We invite you to give us your feedback and ask any question related to plan or budget. Please send all of your comments and questions to vladimir.vujatovic@aiesec.org.yu

Jelena Grujic is the Internal Auditor for term 2007-08. Jelena has two years of MC experience, and LCP experience in LC Novi Sad. She is one of the most experience AIESECers that we can have for the position of Internal Auditor. We are very sure that with Jelena MC will be more transparent and accountable to you. We invite you to keep us accountable and to keep Jelena accountable in roles that we play this year. You can all contact her about her work and the work of MC team at grujic.jelena@gmail.com.

Now we have MC crew completed:

Vice President Exchange – Dragana Markovic

President – Vladimir Vujatovic

Tamara, Nebojsa, Maja and Nikola joined MC Crew and they brought new energy and passion.

• CEE MCP meeting – Prague – June 15-17

For 3 days all MCPs of Central Eastern Europe Growth Network (CEE GN) met in Prague. We discussed Future of CEE and CEE GN initiatives, such as EnterCEE. We met new GN board: Gery – CEE GN Board Programme Manager, Ira – CEE GN Board ER as well as new AI Director of CEE – Ivan. Gabitza the new PAI was also there. I am sure that more LCs will be involved in CEE GN initiatives that will be even better this year.

If I can summarize all 3 days in one sentence, it would definitely be the one that CEE MCPs choose as CEE motto this year:

EVERYTHING HAPPENS IN CEE THIS YEAR!

Check out how was the atmosphere in Prague at http://www.aieseccee.blogspot.com/

• At the end of June…

We can say that May and June were amazing by the things we all together accomplished and ambition that we set for the year ahead. I am sure that in months ahead we will strive to achievement with joy of being in AIESEC. I want to thank my team and all of you for the passion and contribution you’ve put in previous two months.

I am sure that if we make sure that we know our exact role, our measures of success, if we continue to believe in our goals and ambitions and if we enjoy our AIESEC experience every day we will for sure be the successful organization at the end of the year.

@ly yours,

Vlada

AIESEC Serbia COMMs 07-08 Role

"We are sending massage to the public how AIESEC with his activities have everyday positive impact on society and educate others how to transmit picture about AIESEC and his values on the best possible way!"

MAY

At 89^th National Conference in Velika Plana Communication Crew of AIESEC in Serbia was working very hard and as a result we have great team, perspective for great results and one of the first results of that team and work are finalized MUST DOs for those CFSs:

• CSF: Clear & Consistent External Positioning

Initiative: Brand Alignment
Main activities: "I am an AIESECer" campaign, Websites standardization, Aligned materials and texts, Education of all members

• CSF: Credited for High Quality Membership

Initiative: Alumni strategy
Main activities: Alumni criteria, Alumni database, Promotion of AIESEConnect, Involvement of Alumnus in Company Day, Alumnus meeting, "I am an AIESECer" campaign

JUNE

June was very hard working month. A lot of important things was started and happened. First of all I would like to congratulate Nebojsa Radovic for making a great step and being elected for IS Manager of AIESEC in Serbia.

• "I am an AIESECer" campaign - "Ja sam AIESECovac"

What is the "Ja sam AIESECovac" campaign?

The concept of the "Ja sam AIESECovac" pilot campaign is to showcase the incredible stories of our AIESEC members. We do incredible things in this organization and its about time that we talked about it more!
 

The objective of the campaign is to promote leadership and exchange experiences of our members who have gone on an AIESEC internship or had leadership position, and encourage others (current members, newly recruited members and potential members - yang people) to join AIESEC, took leadership position and/or go on exchange.

First examples of "Ja sam AIESECovac" campaign you can find on links:

Boris Zivkovic

Nikola Gavric

Nikola Jovanovic

Sandra Savatic
 

I would like to thank Boris, Gavra, Nino and Sandra for participation in first circle of campaign and to encourage other members who had leadership position or were on internship to participate in campaign and share their stories with others.

Full stories of Boris, Gavra, Nino and Sandra will be published soon. Stay tuned! ;)

If you want to share your story send mail to damjan.radenkovic@aiesec.org.yu

• AIESEC Serbia blog relaunched

With new MC team we also have got new, redesigned blog. We found that blog is the best platform to make our work more transparent, and give people opportunity to comment, suggest and, of course, praise our work.

Blog is on the same address as it used to be www.aiesec.org.yu/blog so, hurry up to check out fresh info from AIESEC Serbia.

If you have your blog, website or anything similar, and find this blog interesting and/or useful, don't hesitate to share address with your friends. Make a link from your page to AIESEC Serbia blog.

Of course, if you have your blog and you want to share your internship experiences with others, please visit link http://www.aiesec.net/web/interns/home/powerful_stories/trainees_weblogs/ and add your blog address to the list! Share your eXPerience with others!
 

• National Brandsite

With the aim of making work of AIESEC in Serbia Communicators, IS Managers and PRs easier and, more important, and with aim to create friendly and powerful environment for members education about AIESEC and AIESEC Brand, we decided to make National Brandsite.

Right now, structure and content of National Brandsite is created.

Stay tuned for National Brandsite launching!!!
 

AIESEC Serbia ERs 07-08 Role

"We are ER team of AIESEC Serbia who connects external environment with organizational directions in aim to increase our personal and professional capacity and partners involvement into AIESEC activities."

MAY

During this month we passed through ER transition period and through planning process with new MC team. It was very challenging period for all of us and I would like to use this opportunity to thank Sergio and Stefan for all useful information and feedbacks they gave me and to new MC team.

On 89^th National Conference of AIESEC in Serbia ERs put all initiatives into the year plans and we choose "MUST DO" initiatives for whole country:

• CSF: Sustainable Sources of Revenue:

Initiative: Selling and Partnership Education
Main activities: ER profiles define, Sales Tracks implementation, ER Principles Building

• CSF: Partners Actively Engaged into Activities

Initiative: Engaged partners into issue based activities
Main activities: Issue Product Package development, Promotion of Issue based products (internal & external)

JUNE

First I would like to congratulate Nikola Gavric for being elected for Partnership Manager of AIESEC Serbia. I wish you very successful year.

We would like to present you our results in June through planed initiatives – So, let’s go!

1. Opportunities Map (development and improvement of National Product Portfolio) – will be finished till 3^rd July
2. Product Development

Defined product selling timeline and targeted companies for contacting till the end of July

3. National Partnership Group development

-  Delivered meetings in:

Microsoft – they will provide us with support for national CRM database development. Also, they will participate in "Open IT" project of LC FON. Still we are in negotiation about the final definition of cooperation. Next meeting we’re going to have on Wednesday, 4th of July.

MPC Holding – started negotiation about their involvement into LC FON local partnership group and also into National Partnership Group. During next two-three months we will have more concrete outputs.

Pexim Solutions – they are interested in AIESEC activities and next meeting in this company with more concrete outputs will have for one-two weeks.

ComTrade Group – started negotiations about National X program and few other AIESEC activities. We are waiting for ComTrade responsible response.

Pakom Group – in cooperation with LC Nis we started with negotiation about involving this company into Local and some of National activities. New outputs we will have in few weeks.

-  Upcoming meetings: DHL, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berlitz, Human Synergistics, Ministry of Finance, Meridian Bank and many more.

We would like to thank to LCs for being proactive in our common efforts to achieve new results!

@ly yours,

AIESEC Serbia Fs 07-08 Role

"The role of the finance team is to make decisions of vital importance for local committees and in that way provide financial sustainability which is essential for development of the LCs and the members."

MAY

This was the month of transition, planning and team building. Although it was very challenging, this month was extremely exciting… Getting to know with your new team, new responsibilities, new challenges…

At NPM, finance team met for the first time and the avalanche started! :)

At 89^th National Conference of AIESEC Serbia finance guys (and girls :) ) choose MUST DOs initiative and developed activities for Effective Administrative Management.

• CSF: Effective Administrative Management:

Initiative: Setting up strong information management on MC/LC level
Main activities: Plan development, gathering all MC/LC documentation, classification of the documentation into folders, education about importance of Information Management, updating on-line database, implementation check.

On this national conference VPFs got through all of the essential financial management issues such as: What is the role of Finance responsible person, decision making process, budgeting & cash flow, budget making simulation, financial reporting and transparency etc.

It was unforgettable experience for all us and we grow as a team.

JUNE

June is the month when finance guys work on their first challenge in the term, which is very important, and it is budget making. All of the LC VPFs, altogether with MCVPF, developed budgets for 2007/08 and assemblies voted for it. New budget template has been made and all VPFs handle with it very good.

Second thing is election of Internal Auditor, which is btw going to have a significantly bigger role than before, and almost every LC elected one. I must also say that the IA team is consisting of really great individuals and this can be a very good starting point for improving the efficiency of all committees and also provide better accountability.

In order to be better prepared for developing financial reports, we organized a financial report simulation which helped us observe all possible mistakes.

Changing the official person in government or police altogether with changing signatures in the banks, is also the thing that finance responsible person is doing in this month. This June was no exception.

I was also working on developing the external auditor report for the year 2006 with PricewaterhouseCoopers in a way of delivering them all of the needed documentation and information.

There is no need to mention all of the operative stuff that one VPF is buried with :)

In the end, I’d like to thank all Vice Presidents for Finance for being so proactive, creative, for their willingness to change things, for all the sharing, for active participating in the discussions on the Finance Crew list (Surely it is best list, no hard feelings:)…

For being you! Thank you!

Finance team song :)))))))))))

Ti si moj kapital,
Trziste moje ljubavi.
Volim te racionalno, ekonomicno.
Bez obzira na amortizaciju,
Nikada te necu rashodovati
Iz svoje ljubavi
Na kontu sumnjivih
I spornih potraživanja.
Volim te,
Kao visak u proizvodnji!
Ti si moj kapital, trziste moje duse,
Volim te ekonomicno i racionalno,
Nikada te necu knjiziti na otpisanu vrednost
Jer si ti moj vanredan prihod.

Hvala Pero!

@ly yours,

Rasa
 

AIESEC Serbia TMs 07-08 Role

"We are supporting, motivating, educating our members by providing them life-changing experience through learning environment we create, help them to understand the organization and enable them opportunities to give their contribution to organizational growth and success."

MAY

89^th National Conference finished. It was great experience and opportunity for me to run the PD track. You can find output here. We developed MUST DOs for term 2007/08:

• CSF: A Structured Recruitment & Induction to AIESEC

Initiative: Talent Allocation
Main activities: Define AIESEC opportunities (JD booklet), Allocation based on application and interview.

• CSF: Right Person Doing the Right Activity

Initiative: Leadership development
Main activities: Promote leadership positions, Preparation and education of OCPs.

• CSF: Alignment Between Individual & Organizational Goals

Initiative: Performance appraisal
Main activities: Education of TLs, 1 on 1 meetings (TL-member, LCP-TL).

I would like to thank PDs for pro-activity and great time during conference. I hope that will have great year.

JUNE

We have new leaders in LCs who are preparing now for their TL or OCP experience. LCs are finishing allocation of members for the following 6 months. Congratulation! Use this unique opportunity for your personal development and contribute with you fully commitment in your LC in order to achieve results.

We selected NST. I was preparing context of Job Description and structure of NST interview. This year, for recruitment we will have person who will support LCs in recruitment processes. Role of Recruitment manager is to ensure realization of recruitment process 2007 with excellent quality. This person will support MC and LC in realizing full recruitment process, with the final aim of having high number of quality membership in each LC in AIESEC Serbia and ensure significant growth in membership. I want to congratulate Maja Pesic for being elected and to wish her all the best in the next 6 months.

This year we are starting with initiative about Personal Development in AIESEC, through Personal Development Newsletter in order to increase awareness of AIESEC Serbia members about their personal development. We want to provide you opportunity to develop your competencies. First edition will be launch in the first week of July.

Be prepared for incoming months, TM corner are preparing you surprises.

Use opportunities which AIESEC are providing you. Develop and discover your talents, be open for new ideas and enjoy in everything you do.

@ly yours,

Jaca & Maja
 

AIESEC Serbia Xs 07-08 Role

"We are motivated, enthusiastic, sexy, inspiring people who enables life changing experience for exchange participant by developing, educating and implementing X initiatives that will lead to the achievement of the AIESEC 2010."

AIESEC in Serbia X Current State

Regarding exchange growth comparing results from 2006 and 2007 result are these:
 

What will we do to increase these results?

From the beginning of the campaign until now is over 100 companies contacted and singed 9 TNs.

Raising campaign continues…..Let’s see how much we can, and how much more TNs we can raise.

OC Elections

After all the applications process and interviews we are proud to present new members of Leadership Forum Team 2007-08:

Aleksandra Arsic
Vice President PR

Vojin Zajic
Vice President HR

Martin Pelemis
Vice President Finance

Vladimir Milosevic
Vice President External Relations

And we also awe great thank you for all the applications who were also brave enough to apply: