Sunday, June 7, 2009
MC TEAM MANAGEMENT
Yiiieey..!! Finally after NPM, we met again almost full team (except Cath since she’s still in China) in our MC meeting on May 27th – 29th at our new office in Kelapa Gading area. For three days, we talked about our personal thingy, team characteristic building, and ended it up by continuing our planning.
On the 1st day, should be started at 9 am, but we made it at 11 am! Since some of MCs (Andra, Dessy, and Noach) just come from Bandung, Masaru was stuck in traffic jam from Lila’s house, and I (Mya) was little bit sick, so I should take a rest little bit longer in the morning. When we arrived at the office, Jenni was ready to kick our asses; otherwise we treat her at dinner. Started from talking about Sempu Island stories, the post tour of Natcon 3, we could discover our characteristic individually. It reflected our role and contribution to the team as well. It was extremely interesting to know ourselves from such an outbound activity like that!
After that we discussed about MC Image in the NPM. We should know about image that we want to build and understand our contribution toward that. Because it’s a very interesting discussion, we forgot that we haven’t had our dinner yet! And for today’s dinner, we had it in a seafood restaurant around Kelapa Gading. Spicy but yummy! After back, we continue to discuss about feedback framework. Even feedback should be given in a constructive way! Then we talked about our working culture that we want to have. Coffee talks in the morning! After that the time was showing around 00.30 am. At first, we want to stay at the office together, but since Dessy was offering her house to stay and continue the meeting, then we moved there! Thanks DessY..
On the 2nd day, we did the meeting at Dessy’s house with full of foods! Dessy’s mom is so nice and she loves cooking! Thank you, Tante (it means aunty, our call for her mom). On this day, we started from our common vision and mission that is aligned with AIESEC International. From that we can know our contribution and align our target for next term. Then we discussed about our team character, and ended it up with personal talks about personal development with Jenni. After long talks, we had break for pray and dinner. Yuppy, we had dinner at traditional food place nearby Dessy’s house. There are fried rice, cap cay, sop kaki kambing, nasi uduk, etc. Very traditional foods from Indonesia with cheap price and yummy taste! Then we continued with discussing about conference cycle. So far we decided to have 4 conferences in this term with different focus in each conference. So cool!
On the 3rd day, we just had short meeting until 12am since all of us have other tasks to do as well. On this day, we focused on planning thingy. We updated about planning progress from each functional and decided a lot of tasks to be done for planning. And finally we decided our team name for AIESEC Indonesia 09/10, which is RAINBOW, with tagline Together We Shine!
Hopefully in term 09/10 AIESEC Indonesia will be really shining across the AIESEC network and in the world!
On the 1st day, should be started at 9 am, but we made it at 11 am! Since some of MCs (Andra, Dessy, and Noach) just come from Bandung, Masaru was stuck in traffic jam from Lila’s house, and I (Mya) was little bit sick, so I should take a rest little bit longer in the morning. When we arrived at the office, Jenni was ready to kick our asses; otherwise we treat her at dinner. Started from talking about Sempu Island stories, the post tour of Natcon 3, we could discover our characteristic individually. It reflected our role and contribution to the team as well. It was extremely interesting to know ourselves from such an outbound activity like that!
After that we discussed about MC Image in the NPM. We should know about image that we want to build and understand our contribution toward that. Because it’s a very interesting discussion, we forgot that we haven’t had our dinner yet! And for today’s dinner, we had it in a seafood restaurant around Kelapa Gading. Spicy but yummy! After back, we continue to discuss about feedback framework. Even feedback should be given in a constructive way! Then we talked about our working culture that we want to have. Coffee talks in the morning! After that the time was showing around 00.30 am. At first, we want to stay at the office together, but since Dessy was offering her house to stay and continue the meeting, then we moved there! Thanks DessY..
On the 2nd day, we did the meeting at Dessy’s house with full of foods! Dessy’s mom is so nice and she loves cooking! Thank you, Tante (it means aunty, our call for her mom). On this day, we started from our common vision and mission that is aligned with AIESEC International. From that we can know our contribution and align our target for next term. Then we discussed about our team character, and ended it up with personal talks about personal development with Jenni. After long talks, we had break for pray and dinner. Yuppy, we had dinner at traditional food place nearby Dessy’s house. There are fried rice, cap cay, sop kaki kambing, nasi uduk, etc. Very traditional foods from Indonesia with cheap price and yummy taste! Then we continued with discussing about conference cycle. So far we decided to have 4 conferences in this term with different focus in each conference. So cool!
On the 3rd day, we just had short meeting until 12am since all of us have other tasks to do as well. On this day, we focused on planning thingy. We updated about planning progress from each functional and decided a lot of tasks to be done for planning. And finally we decided our team name for AIESEC Indonesia 09/10, which is RAINBOW, with tagline Together We Shine!
Hopefully in term 09/10 AIESEC Indonesia will be really shining across the AIESEC network and in the world!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
On 21st of May 2009, MC of AIESEC Indonesia have the opportunities to have SG meeting in Mbak Habsari, who is also one of the Supervisory Groups members, Villa in Dago Bengkok, Bandung.
There are Jenni, Ap, Lila, Masaru, Noach, Dessy, and me (andra) who AMAZED with the beauty of the Villa. The villa is consist of two building of houses. One building is owned by Mbak Habsari and the other one is owned by her best friends. They build it together in the same land.
We had the chance to look around the villa. The villa is not big but it has many open windows, so it is has a very fresh nature air inside. The furniture is also makes us very comfortable, it is just like a getaway place for holiday ;). Moreover, there is continuous sustainable food offered by Mbak Ari, from the lemper, sweet bread, comro (unique food from Bandung) to the main dish, and if its already finished Mbak Ari always offer new food which makes us gaining more weight :D
Mbak Ari has a really sweet and lovely family. His husband is very warm, friendly, and also talkative. She has a two boys, the older is very smart, he can remembered all countries flags and the younger one is very friendly and cute.
Mas Bido comes later to mbak ari house. Since he became the SG chair, he conducts and led the SG Meeting. The meeting is discussing about being focus on your strengths, put 10,000 hours for your strengths, and to accelerate the learning.
1) Focus on your Strength
Never focus on your weaknesses! Focus on your strengths. We have limited time in this world so differentiate ourselves with the strengths that we already had. Do you know how to differentiate between hobby and strength? Hobby is something that we had the interest on it but strength is something that we had the interest plus everybody is recognize it and they also like it when we do it. So, if you also had the time to win some award then it means that people also recognized your strength
2) Put 10,000 hours for your strength
It has the research on successful people like David Beckham, Tiger Woods, and Bill Gates is putting more than 10,000 hours in the professional skill which also their strengths. They are practicing from the very beginning from every details to enhance and sharpen their strength. Bill Gates also learns how to make the computer not suddenly becoming CEO of Microsoft. So, its very that successful people put more time on their strengths. Even mbak Ari already manage her financial matters since she were young.
3) Accelerate Learning
Mas Bido suggest to us that AIESEC Indonesia should accelerate the learning process that they made now. The faster the learning process, the more growth we can get. That is why many successful people also becomes success at a young age. Mbak Ari also said that learning is can start anytime, even when she is still young she already manage her personal financial
The topic that we discussed is very interesting from 3pm until 6pm not only SG and MC who involved but also Mbak Ari’s boy is also joining the discussion. At the end of our meeting we had sharing time to discuss about what each of MC will going to do for the next term of 09/10 and their dreams. After the meeting finished actually, Mbak Ari is inviting us to have dinner together but unfortunately we had a meeting so we didn’t join the dinner. So, It was a really nice topic discussion in a very comfortable place. Thank you very much for SG who brings a very interesting topics and Mbak Ari for allowing us to conduct it in her villa.
MC AIESEC Indonesia 09/10
The Rainbow “Together We Shine”
Never focus on your weaknesses! Focus on your strengths. We have limited time in this world so differentiate ourselves with the strengths that we already had. Do you know how to differentiate between hobby and strength? Hobby is something that we had the interest on it but strength is something that we had the interest plus everybody is recognize it and they also like it when we do it. So, if you also had the time to win some award then it means that people also recognized your strength
2) Put 10,000 hours for your strength
It has the research on successful people like David Beckham, Tiger Woods, and Bill Gates is putting more than 10,000 hours in the professional skill which also their strengths. They are practicing from the very beginning from every details to enhance and sharpen their strength. Bill Gates also learns how to make the computer not suddenly becoming CEO of Microsoft. So, its very that successful people put more time on their strengths. Even mbak Ari already manage her financial matters since she were young.
3) Accelerate Learning
Mas Bido suggest to us that AIESEC Indonesia should accelerate the learning process that they made now. The faster the learning process, the more growth we can get. That is why many successful people also becomes success at a young age. Mbak Ari also said that learning is can start anytime, even when she is still young she already manage her personal financial
The topic that we discussed is very interesting from 3pm until 6pm not only SG and MC who involved but also Mbak Ari’s boy is also joining the discussion. At the end of our meeting we had sharing time to discuss about what each of MC will going to do for the next term of 09/10 and their dreams. After the meeting finished actually, Mbak Ari is inviting us to have dinner together but unfortunately we had a meeting so we didn’t join the dinner. So, It was a really nice topic discussion in a very comfortable place. Thank you very much for SG who brings a very interesting topics and Mbak Ari for allowing us to conduct it in her villa.
MC AIESEC Indonesia 09/10
The Rainbow “Together We Shine”
AIESEC INDONESIA MEMBER COMMITEE 2009/2010
Yaaayy !! The term of AIESEC Indonesia 2009/2010 is starting already !
So proud that in the beginning of the term, the MC Team which consist of 7 energetic young people already selected and so ready to start the engine, fully passion and giving the best commitment towards growth and sustainability of AIESEC Indonesia.
MC Team 09/10 - The Rainbow
"Together We Shine"
\from left to right : Dessy (MCVP ER Non Corp&MCVP Comm), Noach (MCVP Talent Management), Masaru (MCVP Outgoing Exchange), Mya (MCVP ER Corp), Cath (MCVP Incoming Exchange), Jenny (President), Andra (MCVP Finance)
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Supervisory Group Meeting of AIESEC in Indonesia
MC team had a SG meeting on May 23rd!!The meeting was comprized from MC08/09,09/10 and the SGs.
My first impression as experiencing the similar meeting in AIESEC in Japan,I was expecting a very formal and tight discussion.
The atmosphere of the meeting turned out to be very diffent then I expected,having meeting at a restaurant with eating and drinking, friendly and fun talks,and of course also the intensive discussion according to the agenda.
It was quite surprising for me to know that the relation with the SG is not only a partner giving critical feedbacks from a professional perspective but also listening and understanding about the situation of AIESEC Indonesia and the MC body.
That is why we can discuss our realities and also about our problems frankly, which makes the meeting very useful and essential for the MC. I am really looking forward to have further coaching and discussion about our conditions and reality in the next SG meeting!!
AND the greatest part is that we get treated for the whole meal and drinks!! Cant wait for the next time!!
Monday, March 16, 2009
I am an AIESECer - Aidy Steveany
In 2004, I was joined AIESEC Bandung when I was at 3rd year in Padjadjaran and Parahyangan University. I chose AIESEC because I can see that AIESEC can become a perfect platform for me to practice my management and administration knowledge, gain practical experience, and expand my personal and professional network.
Personally, I see my every involvement in AIESEC as invaluable investment to develop my personal, interpersonal, and professional life. Joining international conference and involving in various activities in local and national level expanded my network and perspectives and two years of experience in operational and strategic level enhanced my analytical and entrepreneurial skills.
The development has been more than tremendous. Giving the best contribution, I learnt more than I could imagine. In many times, I fought my thought and my fear until I dare to apply as President of AIESEC Bandung 2006/07 and once more as President of AIESEC Indonesia 2007/08. At the end, It is rather sweet and not scary at all. These experiences are not easy but every leaders said, once we conquered it, it made us realized that people are able to do big things when they are dare to starting thinking about it and do it.
After my leadership experience, I did not stop with my personal and professional exploration in AIESEC. Moreover, I want to explore the world and new concept, social business. I went to Brazil to be part of Artemisia-Ashoka project through AIESEC Internship program. Working in a social business and helping them to build sustainability while learning for its model have given deep learning on transfering world capital to the poor.
From meeting with billionaire in Brazil to visiting the most slum and closed community in Brazil, I can see the meaning behind my work, my passion, and my aspiration. And now I have no doubt to take another stage of learning in life after my internship program in one of best university in Europe. Thank you to previous leaders in AIESEC who gave me a lot of inspiration and motivation to make all these happened in my life.
And AIESEC for these opportunities to make a life changing experience has become reality.
Aidy Steveany, I am An AIESECer
Friday, September 19, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Principle centered leadership
Today is Sunday and after watching Olympics men's volleyball finals between US and Brazil (After which I changed my Gmail tag to "Unforced errors make you the second best") I decided to search for some Internet. Luckily here you find many wifi cafes. All you have to do is to buy some snacks of a drink and they let you access Internet through their secured wifi connection. If you want you can spend the whole day there.
So now some reflections from the last few weeks...
A lot being discussed about what brings organizational success and what can contribute to thriving organizations. This is parallel to setting up the platform for National conference of AIESEC Indonesia in November. The reality has been such that being in the top organizational body you try hard to encourage and make your subordinates perform and bring results, but also you find the output is not proportional to the effort that you put in. And also you find that your role increasingly become high directive and less supportive which means you are "Telling" what needs to happen and rest follows - missing key self driven and learning culture in the organization.
This is when we started our topic of discussion about "Principle centered leadership". Influenced by the concepts shown in Stephen Covey's literature, we discussed and discovered the importance of having a never changing core for this organization (Especially for an organization where leadership changes every year, it is an utmost necessity to have a strong unifying direction that can hold everything together).
These set of "Principles" once commonly shared and when combined with deep organizational understanding, will be the foundation for creating the required organizational culture that will drive more self driven learning, leadership and behaviors that we want to cultivate in our organization.
We believe that we are on the right track for leading a better and more effective organizational culture. And we are looking forward to make the fullest commitment to make things happen...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
From FX to PIM - MC Bonding
After caught from daily activities, finally The Garuda's had MC Bonding on Saturday, 16th August 2008. Our fist meeting point is in FX, new mall in Sudirman.
Some us wanted to try ATMOSTFEAR, Extremely High Slide after saw some people scream and shout in ATMOTSFEAR. We continued our adventure to PIM, we had our dinner and a challenging game there, even though Buddi got fever, he enjoyed our team bonding. That's so fun and connecting each other.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
I am ready to KICK ASS :)
When I decided to apply for MCP in Feburary, I felt I was ready and was looking forward to a very challenging and a great learning experience. I never reaslised that I will not only get it but in a larger scale, in just the 1st month of my term.
Being MCP is truly a very different and unique experience, specially for me since I have never before been in a President position. The last month (July) was one of the MOST challenging and difficult month for me. Mainly because of new, unexpected situations coming up, making hard decisions and thinking about so many perspectives to ensure the right choices are made and it is beneficial for all and making sacrifices. This of course took a toll on my emotions, I have never felt such extreme and diverse emotions in a short period. Catching up with these emotions was a challenge by its self. When I look back in this one and a half months, I believe that I am so blessed and fortunate to have such amazing life changing experience is just one and a half months. When I think about how I survived all this, the credit undoubtedly goes to my MC team; who is a constant inspiration for me, my parents; who are always supporting me and SG members; who is always there for me and the team when we need them. At this point, I feel so excited and eager to see what ten and a half months have in store for me.
I am ready to KICK ASS :)
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Bernice Johnson Reagon quotes
