if there is anything that i can write about now, its about my job..
and how i am loving it…
the simple discoveries that i am getting to make in my job..
i could go on and on about my factories..
and it could be simply a lot technical… i mean technical in HR..
can you believe it?
and i am amazed.. at the beauty of knowledge..
i am doing a negotiation with my representatives in the factory..
well, they are not a union but a set of representatives.
and its so much fun negotiating with them..
for the simple fact that they are intelligent…
you go in with this whole set of data that you have managed to dig out of all those folders that you have made and inherited from your predecessors.
they come in with just one thing – complete knowledge about their lives and that of people around them… and even a trust in your data..
its simply amazing..
i will have to write chapters to tell you what i am learning here…
but can put down some few things
– that its simply easy to be honest and straight forward
– that your success lies in recognising the individual as different from the general
( the reason for this was that in the negotiation, i was trying to force fit an incentive scheme
what worked well with another factory , but then it was only after a discussion with my representatives that i realised that they were different set of people, who had to be spoken to as if they were different – their motivations, their principles were different and you could reach out to them only if you recognised that)
they were a set of people completely aware of their rights… and the only thing that works here was honesty and logic…. and do you know how liberating that is?
yeah I guess thats the most exciting moment…when the rubber meets the road.. when we make those decisions with far-reaching impacts.. when our words are the words.. when people borrow our thoughts in their remarks..even I have experienced that..
I think those two things, honesty and logic, can make you work through most of the situations in life..
even if you are not honest, you have to come across as sincere..and even if you are not logical, you have to be convincing enough..
atleast it works in my consulting assignments…
..and to be successfull, all you need to add is some grains of discipline..or even if you are not, you have to sound as committed..
but what about the other extreme, hae u ever felt like, professional life or otherwise, being hit by a road-roller…or of falling ever towards netherland, or being marooned in kalahari desert..how did it feel.. I think in those situations its non of the three, but hope that gets you through..
oh hope, but the mightiest of the forces, the eternal steer of the being, I genuflect to your might and express my awe of you..
well, was thinking if should be giving a completely honest answer to your comment.. anyways, whats a blog without some disagreements.
novark,what you have said in this comment, is something that i am just not comfortable with. its not about ‘seeming’ to be honest or to be convincing without logic.. .to my mind, this would work once or twice but can never be a way of life.. i do understand that you are in consultancy. but then i think its just personally stressing to be always try and be something… my point was its far far more easier to be honest rather than seem honest!
The response tells ……that you are a person with a beautiful heart. Kudos…
Nice one! your reply esp “its far far more easier to be honest rather than seem honest”…its very easy to be cynical, to see light is the harder part. I call it realization…just like that. Great to know you are on it!
– BVN
well..atleast I am honest in my observations…
dont think one can be honest all the time, and if one cannot be then aleast he or she should not claim to be..that is my point..
even you force fited an incentive scheme at another factory that worked well…
I am not saying you are dishonest, just that you found honesty to be saleable in one situation..and thus relied on it..
nouvaark
haha haha… novark, dont think you got my point.
and thats perfectly fine.
i hate to justify myself…. so will not do that…!
its better to understand that we have our opinions!
take care..