From February to June..summary

Highlights from February to August...Part 1
March
Visit to Montevideo
It was my first visit to Montevideo, to Uruguay generally. They invited me for their local conference, and for coaching of ER and ICX area- generally sales. All my MC mates that came from Monte were very satisfied and relaxed so I was really looking forward to see that magic ;)..
.. aaand- was really great- the last cultural experience of ConoSur I was missing and very important part to get this mosaic of ConoSur together. The most open and relaxed part of ConoSur ..There are many many things to talk about but I will highlight just some..
Business Culture
That was incredible!! I went for several meetings with the guys and in each of them we spend first 30 min talking about our life, about Slovakia, about Czech Republic , cultural differences- whatever ad then like 1 hour on working stuff.. Record time on the meeting 2 hours! In Czech Republic that would be highly unprofessional.. yes - just small icebreaker at the beginning and then directly to the point… here? Uuuff talking about everything possible but business .. very interesting :).. But on the other side I could feel the “relationship building”.. Once I caught myself that I really liked the conversation so much that in fact I did not want to proceed to AIESEC stuff hehe :P..
Mate Culture
This was really really interesting- mate everywhere! All the time you take a mate cup, put there the mate herb almost until top and then all the time add water from a thermo bottle. Then pass it to other people.. yes everybody drinking from one cup, one straw.. no washing :P… it kind of shows the trust, friendship, relaxed attitude.. and I started to LOVE mate! Really!
What is the funniest thing about that that you see people going on the streets with Thermo under their arm and mate cup in the hand, there is one advertisement how Uruguayans do everything with right hand, cause in other they hold mate.. and it s not exaggerated!!
People
Amazing how people are open and directly accept you as friend .. the feeling there with all the people was great from the beginning. very open and very hospital- Thank you Juampa, Guille and Chechu for hosting me, Diego for invitation for family lunch!! I really hope once I can host you in my home and invite for lunch or dinner as well!!!!!And another thing- girls- if you want really hot guys.. well- I recommend Uruguay! ;)
The conference in Monte
At the conference I was really enjoying, delivering sessions about balanced scorecard or competencies and the one I liked the most was “Be One Day as” when I thought them how to be Slovaks :D.. Aaai that was soo funy- they are so much NON Slovaks :D.. I thought them how to say “Ako sa volas?”(what s your name) Volam sa” (My name is), we screamed the hockey shout, we said “No” what meant actually "yes" in our language as shortcut of “Ano” etc etc.. when they were trying to say our words was really great.. or when they just shaked hands and greet themselves just with ahoj without any kiss they were so unnatural and soo cute :)– was visibly very weird for them and for me was very interesting to observe :D
Well after the conference I got sick so I stayed in a home of one newie- they cared about me so much! Thank you Guille once more and to all your family!

March..
A hard month for me.. very much.. especially in terms of results, choices, decision, values.... That time I had to choose.. I knew I have a lot of work and I knew I need to bring sustainability and money to the MC.. and I knew I need to focus, cause working on 5 things at one time did not bring nothin positive..and I needed to bring sustainability to whole region, especially in sales in local level.. and I chose more the region than MC.. I focused on training, coaching, tracking and education and relied on results coming from LCs than bringing them by myself only..
Then imagine.. having a looot of work, doing a loot of stuff and.. no results were coming.. and in sales when you are not bringing money to the budget it affects the whole MC team.. I felt all the time very embarrassed and stressed coming to “Financial sustainability task force meeting” and declare the bad situation..It was like- Father of the family that is not earning enough money..Terrible feeling.. several times reflecting my decision and thinking should I persist in this way, should I still invest more in LCs? Or doing the things myself? I tried to do also by myself while involving them, I took them to the meetings..Still many times I did not feel it works.. but time after time the things started to move.. at least I saw people are getting more and more meetings, getting more people in their sales teams..
On the other side.. The projects I put totally aside.. and then it was very visible.. and I got depressed also from that - again that I was not able to show in ConoSur that yes projects, or- exchange done in project way- is a good strategy.. and many other things that I wanted to do and did not have time.. because I focused and prioritized.. and chose…
Just then when at the end of Q3 we raised the biggest number of X/Quarter in last years I realized – yes it was for something Yes it s GOOD to FOCUS!
Here I really want to thank to Rodrigo that supported me amazingly in these times.. :*

April
One of last working months in MC.. starting to prepare for leaving though do not want to leave.. strange feeling.. It s all the time at the end, when you get used to do the environment, you know finally how the things work, you get to know your team mates much better and finally get friends and trust in them.. and suddenly you need to think about finishing.. This month for me is connected with louds of fun at MC flat with the guys, a lot of jokes, sarcasm and laugh..

May
Our last conferences
In our last conferences I was responsible for External day- we got there very very great and interesting people! Many of them were actually those that I met during my term on the meetings and I told to myself: "Damn our memers have to get to know them!"
Then for example watching the panel discussion of Argentinean entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs was very interesting, they supported many of our messages and for me it was very incredible cause finally I understoood!! Finally I could react on their talks and everything.. :)
For me was great to go lunch with Francisco McKinley (Endeavor Entrepreneur) and talking about the failures he did in his Entrepreneurship.. as he told :” I will not tell you about my successes! You will not learn so much as when I will talk about my failures..” Very inspiring guy..also the conference itself- for me was first time I was facilitator on leadership development conference so I enjoyed a lot! Was something new but I really really loved that! That is topic that I enjoy!
And also the MC despedida (good bye) was cool- LC guys simulated MC in such a great way I almost peed from laughing! :D
Only thing that was sad, when we were crying with the guys while saying good bye… Was very strong, I had there many very very good friends and people that I really liked to talk, to have fun to work with... and I was preparing myself to not to see them again.. aaah… so sad that AIESEC is all the time about coming and leaving…

June
Month of transition- month when our successors came and we were teaching them what everything we learnt, lived, did last year.. Me personally I have to say I was very satisfied with my successors, how they were catching the things and using the inputs form us for their term, coming with new ideas and inputs… I saw in them he energy that in our case was already a bit missing, I saw in them the huge motivation adn DRIVE to move the things.. to show to ConoSur how to use it potential .. I was very happy they came.. in right time on right place.. :)
Leaving ConoSur MC happy and satisfied that it will be in good hands..:*

When reflecting on the year a bit- all the stress, all the tough situation, all the work, learning all the people all the experience made it tiring but very special and amazing year that really changed me and my team mates as well..
Was very interesting when on our last non-formal meeting with MC we were discussing who changed and how.. and generally all of us moved a lot, gained self-confidence, became stronger.. and us CEE girls became much happier :D.. then it moved in philosophizing where we will end up in several years and then much further how will be our children like :P….aai that was so funny! On request I can describe you our image of children of Marina, Maxi, Emil, Vika and Javi hehehe. aaaai I miss you guys!!!!
Was nice finish and then even better start of the new life - my family came with my sister and we went to travel around Latin America.. but that is already another story….