Road Warrior : Enjoy Every Single Minute of the Trip
Our road warrior for this week is Sandra Thea Cristina Delantar. Her work with Aboitiz Equity Ventures bring her around the Philippines every fortnight or so. A road warrior in the sense of the phrase.
She has enthusiastically accepted my request to feature her and a my big thanks goes to her for that. Below is how she describes her travel lifestyle and how she enjoys it.
Long Weekend
Monday is almost upon us and the long weekend is coming to a close. Rain also came for an hour or two, just enough to cool things around. I'm looking forward to a full week of work and learning. We spent the later part of the day at the Expo and it sure had a lot in-store for us. First was the gamers event with a little tech show. The Blizzard section was huge and people got to play with the highly anticipated Starcraft 2.
Focus, Focus, Focus
Keeping your focus and sticking to the plan does not come easy to some but are natural to others. For those who are finding it a hard time to focus, here's a couple of Ts, I hope this will work for you. But do remember that each one of us is unique and what may work for me might not work for you so do try to find your own groove.
It helps to consider being focused as a habit, be consistent and do it regularly, as they say, 21 days to make it a habit.
Critical Mass
I was reading about finding information and one of the most important channels for this is obviously the internet. The material said that one of the criteria or second identifier to verify if the information is accurate or acceptable was critical mass. If the information is cited by more publications, the higher the probability the information is acceptable.
Types of Ass Kissers
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.
Back to Basics
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.
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.
Capacity Matters
Competency or Capacity
For as long as I could remember, my main goal was to develop my competency. Learning as much as I can on how to become a master of the specific field I was in.
Moving from one role to another, I had to increase my competency of each role. From reading books, magazines, articles, and such to attending seminars and trainings, I felt compeled, even to the point of not fully absorbing everything. I even developed speed reading to be able to absorb as much as I can in a shorter time.
Later, I realized that like good wine, competency building will take time and experience. I then turned to being able to get my hands on as many quality projects as I could.
Just recently, previous article, I came to a realization, by trying to develop my competency moving from one role to another, I indirectly developed my capacity. Now looking at the big picture, Thinking I was going at a certain direction, Actually brought me to another.
Capacity outweights competency in my book anytime. The buzzword these days say, What you know today may be irrelevant tomorrow. Which leads to my newly adopted passion statement, which I got from one of my technical training instructors as well as from a blog I read, “Strive to make yourself obsolete”.
Although Capacity can be manifested in many forms, I believe a balance of all is needed to succeed. I would probably split capacity into capacity to absord and capacity to adapt.
Capacity to absorb knowledge either from existing media or from other people is needed to be able to constantly learn and relearn. To be able to harness this type of capacity, reflective ability must also be developed. By absorbing and properly reflecting on the absorbed data, proper solutions and implementations will be the result.
Capacity to adapt to change will be the most critical, it is the timing aspect. Everything changes so fast these days that the first to adapt will have the leverage. To add to this, a time element must be include, capacity to quickly adapt to change is more suited for this fast changing times.
Team Dynamics
Personal capacity development is only one aspect. A team is as fast as the slowest member they say. As our environment will be an integral part of our development, our progress will only go as far as how our environment will progress.
To bring value to a team or a person, ability to increase the capacity of others will be a catalytic quality. Being able to help others increase their capacity in one way or another will lead to a multitude of benefits for everbody.
Relationships will constantly improve and progress will be balanced for all. Better team dynamics will develop and productivity will improve.
My Lightbulb
Rajesh Setty
Ways to distinguish yourself #183 - Increase your capacity to increase capacity of others
Wandering Around
Management by Wandering Around
I have been wandering around the office ever since I started working. I engage in often times quick and sometimes long conversations with my other colleagues and occassionaly managers.
Talent Attracts Talent
Attract, Retain and Develop
Talent attraction and retention has long been a very dynamic challenge of every organization. Organizations either passively bombard all possible channels with their attraction adverts and hope somebody with talent will bite while others aggressively find talents in every possible nook and crany.