1. General Questionnaire
I see this year, as being part of the 13/14 MC
1. What is team of AIESEC Romania, as a year of personal and
your inner professional discipline. I see it as a year where I will
motivation use all my passion and experience in order to develop
to apply in a stronger network for the MC and for the country as “You do not merely want to
well, by sharing all my lessons, that I’ve had as Sales be considered the best of the
the MC of best. You want to be
AIESEC member, Vice President External Relations and
considered the only one that
Romania President of AIESEC Craiova. does what you do.”
In all my AIESEC experience I was inspired by Jerry Garcia
2013-2014?
Poto to create external relations for my organization;
now I’m inspired by my experience and results, which
will make me able to create a powerful network for
AIESEC in Romania.
Ethical, authentic, collaborative, globally minded.
What AIESEC is adding to all these characteristics is a I would like to ask another question:
2. What is the
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strong sense of purpose in people. Romania still has AIESEC can take people and
leadership people who own these characteristics but what is make them better leaders
that the World missing is their sense of purpose in or for Romania, or
& Romania is purpose that they find in other countries. and finally AIESEC can take leaders and
expecting leave. make them better people
from AIESEC? What our members should realize is that on our
shoulders stands more than a position of OCP, VP, LCP,
it is a responsibility.
3. Having in mind a SWOT analysis for AIESEC in Romania, what’s the role of AIESEC in
Romania? Based on that, how can AIESEC in Romania be more relevant?
• Strong membership • Weak iGIP culture
• Strong iGCDP culture • Decrease in GIP (in & out) realizations in the last 3
• Strong brand for oGIP EPs terms
• Project based structure • Lack of marketing knowledge and implementation
• New Financial model • 5 out of 14 LCs are bringing 60% of the country
• Planning process (MCP+LCP team) results
• 4 LCs without membership criteria
• Weak or no relationship with our universities
• Inefficient educational • 77% of romanian students
system (not covering would go to work abroad
students needs) • Low highschool graduation
• ERASMUS funds cut rate – 43%
• 2013: European Year of • Weak opposition parties in
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2. My personal feeling is that Romania, as a country, still needs to be “colonized”, still needs
to learn from others how to see the positive things in here, we still need to learn how to fulfill
our potential (it is a statement well known: “Romania is a country with loads of potential!”), we
still need to learn how to appreciate our values, our top talents and stop “sending” them to live
their life and give their best for other countries than Romania. That’s why looking at the short
SWOT analysis, correlating each of the underlined points, we can draw the conclusion that our
main product (iGCDP) can lead us to growth and change in our educational systems (our
projects cover the needs of students). Furthermore, another turning point can be in iGIP, where
potential growth can benefit from the impact brought by our mature iGCDP.
Moreover, impact can be brought by increasing our oGCDP culture, by having
internationals to share life-changing experiences that they have in Romania. AIESEC as an
organization itself is relevant through its purpose and programs and this is how I see growth in
our programs, by growing more and more in iGCDP in all the LCs.
4. AIESEC Romania is halfway towards our 2015 midterm ambition. Evaluate our key
achievements from 2010 and key things that should happen in the next 3 years.
In the first two years, AIESEC Romania’s approach towards the 2015 midterm ambition was
directed towards creating a proper mindset and educating the country towards the meaning and
strategic direction of 2015 and downscaling it into more specific objectives and activities. This
was done by downscaling information and strategies from IC, developing frameworks of creation
and implementation for projects and structures (in the term 2011-2012), creating a GCDP/GIP
driven mindset and creating specific products that contribute to the 2015 ambition (in the term
2012-2013). We can draw the conclusion that the past two terms have been terms of
consolidation, meaning that AIESEC Romania has the guidelines and the tools that are needed in
order to perform. What we need to focus on in the next three years is simply doing the things.
The key thing that should happen is: action. This can be translated in terms of tracking the
activities of the country and making sure the planning is followed, starting to use the tools,
frameworks and guidelines created in the past two terms instead of creating new ones and
pushing the mindset of action through each activity that we have: national conferences,
education cycle, LC visits, personal example of the MC team and so on.
5. What will be the changes that will increase the volume of AIESEC in Romania ELD
realizations for 2013-2014 term (have in mind the connection between our products and
external environment)?
GCDPi – being a product in maturity, there aren’t a lot of changes to be made to this programme,
as it is running itself. In order to grow even more in realizations, what the MC can do is provide
more flexibility (in terms of specific timeline, partnerships, implementation) regarding GCDPi
projects, especially in terms of national initiatives, by providing a general framework that each LC
can customize accordingly, thus allowing them to match easier and deliver more experiences.

3. GIPi
• Scaling GIPi projects and initiatives at national level (idea of project, general framework and
implementation guidelines).
• Reshaping GCDPi projects to fit the corporate market (especially on Education for students or
NGOs) and generate GIP (example: Teaching Romanian Youth).
GCDPo
• Focus on redeveloping regional or national ICPSs for EPs (well prepared EPs with the right
expectations)
• Continuing recruitment on specific opportunities
GIPo
• Focus on redeveloping regional or national ICPSs for EPs (well prepared EPs with the right
expectations)
• Continuing recruitment on specific sub-products.
• Shifting corporate products to generate exchange.
TMP
• Creation of project and initiative teams for all exchange products (TMP generator).
• Profile-based recruitments (increase in retention rate and TMP pool).
TLP
• Involving potential TLPs in project development (increasing knowledge and leadership pipeline).
• Local Leadership Development Seminars.
• Middle management preparation for TMPs (potential TLP candidates).
• Downscaling LEAD to TLP in national conferences.
6. What will AIESEC in Romania remember about 2013-2014 term? Describe which will be
the key milestones you commit to strive for during next term.
AIESEC in Romania should see the 2013-2014 term as one of action, one in which the MC
team and the entire country are leveraging on the previous terms, implementing the strategies
and activities developed by the last two MC teams. The trend is that each new MC tries to
establish a new basis of processes that needs to be continued by the next generations, but the
bottleneck is the fact that we are continuously reinventing the processes, without giving them
time to be implemented and consolidated properly.
In my vision, this new MC term should be about continuity, about acting upon strategies,
instead of developing new ones.
More specifically, what we need to do is to look at the Experiential Leadership
Development phase and analyze the products according to life cycle. Analyzing the past four
terms, AIESEC in Romania has one programme in maturity (GCDPi), one programme in growth
(GCDPo) and two programs in decrease (GIPo and GIPi). According to this analysis, there are
two programmes with potential to grow: GCDPo (already in growth phase) and GIPi (which even
though is in decrease can be developed by customizing GCDPi). Summing up, the milestones
for 2013-2014 term be: growth on GCDPo and GIPi.

4. 7. In 2014, AIESEC in Romania is the winner of the Global Excellence UBS award.
Explain why.
Starting with the term 2011-2012, AIESEC in Romania developed a lot in terms of
frameworks and processes and has focused on developing products according to the AIESEC
Experience. Adding another MC term, focusing on implementation and generating results
based on the previous strategies and the quality of our processes, will make the country
perform on all the AIESEC programmes, thus being a strong candidate for the UBS award.