Reactive or Pro-active
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.
Corporate Travel Tips
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.
Willing to Travel ?
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.
The World is Flat
And It Starts
I started working while I was still studying college. To be honest, college bored me to death. At that stage, I thought I knew more than what the school was teaching. I had the opportunity to learn Multimedia from a rigorous six months training conducted by Japanese trained instructors sponsored by the government.
Hard Lesson to Learn
One hard lesson to learn in the coporate world is that it is a dog eat dog world and it is a colorful and vibrant as a rainbow. You get to meet all kinds of people, the genuinely good, the seemingly good, the sometimes good, the sarcastics and cynic, the one with an ultirior motive, the one with an agenda, the bad eggs, the egotistic and worse of all..... the incompetents.