Every organization, team or group of people are together for a common reason, a common or single purpose, objective or direction. Here are a couple of items which I think are essential foundations for such group of people.
In our very busy corporate lives performing our job objectives and routinary task, add emotional baggage accumulated emotions from the interactions we have with our colleagues and personal lives. It is therefore very important to once in a while have a positive distraction, an outlet or channel to vent it all out.
It’s so hard to find true mentors now a days, and to find one that fits and gels with is nearly impossible, I think it only comes ones in your life that you find a perfect fit for you, if a second one comes, then you are extremely lucky and the Lord probably thinks you need more mentoring.
Aside from what you see on during the day to day operations of an organization, meetings, presentation and company sponsored activities gives a fairly general view of the organizations people, culture, systems, procedures and health. However, if you really want to get a good grasp of the real situation, take a peek behind the curtain.
An office colleague shared to me how one of our executives shed light on what the truth is. She liked it so much that she repeats it as often as she can get away with it (:p you know who you are). It did also strike me and I now believe in its context.
For a month now, I have enable “location in signature” feature of the gmail. At first I did not think it would work for my location but after a month, it consistently detected my location and appended it on my email signature.
Just a couple of months ago, I was in one of the deepest episodes of my life and as I already posted before, I believe that personal and work life is one, I therefore asked our HR executive if we had a shrink in the company that I could talk to, bounce off and generally just listen. Sort of a guidance councilor in school.
in any organization, you will in sometime encounter a ass kisser, the goody two shoes who is always so close to the ears of the boss you’d think they were making out. But that is just a over exaggeration. In this post, I will try to classify, categorize or stereotype the kinds of ass kissers.
For the later part of this week, I have hear the term “Back to basics” or “back to fundamentals” a lot. It has been predicted that the economic crisis will get worse before getting better and that the solution is to get back to basics. I also read from Jason Seidens’ blog about “applying management advice at home” and much of this post will be in part because of reading that post.
I read recently that 83% of the best in class organization value “execution” in the leaders most. I would totally agree with this, as I myself believe that only through results and how a initiative is implemented will speak for itself. It is also through these that we define how we work as well as our credibility.