It has been a long time since I posted here last time. But now I'll try to rehabilitate;)

You may wonder why I decided to write about my EB team. And even called it "living" rather than "working".


The answer is as easy as it follows: on January, 1 it will be exactly 6 months since we became EB - current and 9 months after our elections.


6 months.... 184 days... 4416 hours... 264 960 minutes... 15 897 600 seconds...

Working in a TEAM of absolutely different people with a common dream. Working in a mosaic of personalities, professionals on the greatest endeavor - to develop AIESEC in Kiev, to attract here the best people and ensure they get the best experiences possible.

Together we passed through successes and challenges, became almost a real family with our own traditions, jokes, stories, memories.

We started with planning. I guess, the most exciting period any EB might have: the time when you create the vision of your LC in several years, at the end of your term, choose the road you will take, learn to cooperate with each other, learn each other's differences. yep, when I come back to those crazy summer months with those planning-LDS-recruitment meetings 7 times per week 3-4 hours long I can say that they were among the best in my whole life. At this time you also learn to be a "executing body" - you get accustomed to the new level of responsibility, here you can really "feel" how the decisions you make influence the development of your LC, how important it is to be a role model, and how fast and much you need to learn to be able to deliver knowledge to your LC members.

Oh, I just finished that paragraph and recollected that the very first thing we developed as a team was the code of conduct within our team, within our LC, anywhere and any time.

Anyway, coming back to the beginning of my term... our term... It was not easy. We went through an intensive process of determining the main challenges for our LC, motivating members to work and research for those wonderful projects we have now, creating the culture of our LC and at the same time developing our own plans and organising one of the biggest national conferences - LDS in a new innovative way:)

Then we had recruitment... a cool one-in-a-lifetime process. The time when you can really "feel" changes in your LC. You create an image of the people you wish to see in your LC, you plan how you will attract them, you run AIESEC Days, Discussions Clubs (thank you Lena!!!!, our dear DC Coordinator:), interview them, prepare LTS for them, then go to Adapchak with them and for them, plan and run probation period, select them, then New Horizons, then they are your members. Well, it seems so easy and quick in just 2-3 dozens words. In reality, it takes the whole LC the whole piece of energy to manage all this. Thank you our dear oldies, thank you for your support and understanding, thank you for your sincere wish to bring the best poeple possible to our LC!

At the same time you continue working on your functional direction and prepare education for newies. You work on your own, in pairs, in small task forces, bring the resluts of your work together and then develop what later becomes an innovation in your LC, a new partner, a new approach.

However, maybe one of the most important things we had throughout this span is our DEAR LC. Yes, without you, we would never be doing what we do now, without you there would be no sense to work, without you and other some 800 LCs around the globe there wouldn't be this organisation activating leadership called AIESEC, without you there would be no point to be professional in this organisation, attract top talent and help them find the way in this orgnasation and outside it.