Radu Matei – for MCVP Organizational Development of AIESEC Romania

“Impossible is just another realized objective!”

For two years, I have been part of AIESEC Romania and have witnessed the

amazing things it does. Just from my example, it took a mediocre student with no future

perspectives and pushed him into doing and learning things he never thought possible.

From commuting a few days each week from one city to another just to be part of

AIESEC, to founding and leading AIESEC in his hometown, just after a few months of

experience.This story isn’t just mine, I was just one other actor, because people before

me, people who I worked with in EBs and LC and so many other people in AIESEC

Romania did the same things. They invested, they pushed themselves and proved that

impossibility is just another challenge to overcome and they still do it time and time

again, just to make sure we develop amazing people who will have that positive impact

in society we need so bad.

So my strategy (just like this organization) is all about the people – AIESEC

Romania’s members who deserve an organization that fully supports them, their needs

and their ambitions and that challenges them to grow beyond their limitations.

My first focus is on AIESEC Romania ensuring financial sustainability working

more with the external environment and our stakeholders. In order to be able to invest

more in our members we need to include this investment in our financial sustainability

plan, which means we need to generate more revenue. Every need we have comes

from our maket and stakeholders and every success and objective depends on them

aswell. Not only they provide resources, but also education for our members and whole

organization. It’s imperative that we are updated with the market and that we create

products to suit both our needs.

Another important thing is to make sure AIESEC Romania works properly as one

organization and to do so, we need everyone to pull together. I want to concentrate on

helping every LC become self manageable, aware of its capabilities and having the

know-how to get the resources in order to perform above standards. As important as all

this, and probably even more is learning how to use the network and collaborate among

eachother, for mutual results.

By combining the first two directions, we can create an organization with the

capability to grow beyond previous limitations and receive the official aknowledgements

it deserves. Sure, it requires some changes and that takes time, but still the biggest one

is to actually start exploring every possibility we have at our disposal.

These are the steps I see AIESEC Romania taking and I wish we take them

together, as one organization, because we’re not doing it just for ourselves, but for

every young person in Romania and the world.