With all the multi-gen hullabaloo going around, I kinda feel it has already become a overused term and subject. Gen Y do get a lot of vindication and big smiles when the subject gets taken up, and other Gens most often cross eyebrows.
Continuous development is an integral part for the development of an organization, for a company is only as good as it’s human resource is. Most companies engage in a yearly planning and budgeting activity for the long and short term. Most of the time, short term takes the front seat and included in this planning is budgeting for training’s, seminars and other continuous learning activities.
It has been said that being young and new to a company or the corporate environment, freshmen are full of passion and energy, in 6 months or so it fades out and the freshman becomes part of the day to day routine.
Staying in place or in one place and position for too long makes it a comfort zone, tendency is that peoples head becomes big and we become full of ourselves, unmindful of what really is the true situation outside our box(comfort zone).
A couple more tips for corporate traveling or traveling in general. This is to supplement my earlier posts, “Willing to Travel” and “Corporate Travel Tips”.
It has long been a general and accepted conception that work and personal life and different and being such must not cross over into the other’s boundaries. I would however disagree to this, and I have come to this conviction just recently(a year or so back).
Two of the most over-used and hyper-inflated terms currently used in corporate environments, I think innovation is number one and I will dedicate one whole post/article specifically for innovation as it very close to my heart. Communication and Collaboration is vital in any organization, even in relationships and in our own families. It is therefore not new for private corporations to set it’s sights on these two to be capitalized.
Pro-activity is a business trait all organizations look for. It is one of the most important behaviors talent managers look for and is expected of everybody in the company. But sometimes ( for some, most of the time) some people confuse pro-activity with trying too hard to please someone and to agree with everything they say, in a way which other people find unpleasant.
To supplement my Willing to Travel post last Saturday, I would like to share some tips when traveling on official business. This includes trainings, seminars, meetings, conferences, project implementations, technical support, business support, initiative implementations and such.
In the Job Application form, one of the questions was “are you willing to travel”…. it was a no brainer question and I ticked the YES check box, after all not all companies regularly send their employees out, if they do, it will be very far apart from each other.