Ola...
Never ever thought this mind would think about the word "farewell".....yes there came a day all of a sudden to say adieu to a nice friend...
People come and people leave from your life....but people with right attitude and great qualities leave with nice memories that will stay forever in several other minds.... So was this friend of mine who suddenly bid adieu to our organization...
I saw the good bye mail when instantaneously the mind gloomed...can't express how much..n still feels...why it was really difficult to find such a joyous, humble,notorious, expert, human with good thoughts in a professional environment....
It was fun and frolic and knowledgeable working with that meister..and was really surprising and shocking to see my friend working with such dedication even on the last day....never ever saw one such...
however unable to join in the farewell party across borders this crazy lazy mind just lets out the thoughts here for the day....and wishes best forever for my friend
hats off to such a great person and m thankful and happy for having an opportunity to work with the great guy....and to close I would say...lots to learn from every individual in this beautiful life....
keep going my friend!
Cheers,
Akshatha
Friday, October 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Log and learn
Yet again feel like I am coming to the same point of thinking suddenly one day "oh what I have been doing" What am I doing and many more questions pondering into this mind again and again.
As a quick dose immediately start to read some personality books...get motivated and then feel good ... but do nothing...Feel this is what this lazy mind has been doing again and again..
When consulted my sirs I got some thoughts which I felt I have heard somewhere in my meeting this day and a year back when I was feeling my work was monotonous...That was nothing but to log what to you want to do and do it...or track it and learn it....
So did I see the effect already or feel something??? yes few mins ago...and hence this post..
Few year back when I was at the same point I started with this blogging activity when everyday I took some time to look back over the day and log certain things that I learnt over the day..which is a good exercise..later once I got busier there was no time and somehow could update only at times....
Today we had a retospection meeting when yet again the comment was when you want to track or learn something just log it down and try to follow it up and learn....ok! registered in mind...
Went on with the evening and then when stuck with a conversation with one of my sirs, yet again heard the same thought of looking back over the day log the learnings and track the curve...
and just when I put my requirements/activities over the day in a paper I could see how constantly they were visibile rather than being volatile in the mind....
And when I open the next day for sure those would get tracked down.....
this was it for today and more in the days to come on the progress....simple but when followed consistently will derive efficient results...
Cheers,
Akshatha
As a quick dose immediately start to read some personality books...get motivated and then feel good ... but do nothing...Feel this is what this lazy mind has been doing again and again..
When consulted my sirs I got some thoughts which I felt I have heard somewhere in my meeting this day and a year back when I was feeling my work was monotonous...That was nothing but to log what to you want to do and do it...or track it and learn it....
So did I see the effect already or feel something??? yes few mins ago...and hence this post..
Few year back when I was at the same point I started with this blogging activity when everyday I took some time to look back over the day and log certain things that I learnt over the day..which is a good exercise..later once I got busier there was no time and somehow could update only at times....
Today we had a retospection meeting when yet again the comment was when you want to track or learn something just log it down and try to follow it up and learn....ok! registered in mind...
Went on with the evening and then when stuck with a conversation with one of my sirs, yet again heard the same thought of looking back over the day log the learnings and track the curve...
and just when I put my requirements/activities over the day in a paper I could see how constantly they were visibile rather than being volatile in the mind....
And when I open the next day for sure those would get tracked down.....
this was it for today and more in the days to come on the progress....simple but when followed consistently will derive efficient results...
Cheers,
Akshatha
Friday, October 9, 2009
Is this works for you
What is this?Is this works for you :) ...Strange title...yes but it works for me....and I am sure it will work well for you as well :) ...Follow the rest to see how well it helps or works for you....
Just few lines of admiration I derived out of a activity from my lead....
I was all to extreme excitement yesterday whenever I read the line or heard the line "Is this works for you" .. as it really worked like a little magic.... Not a big thing but a small learning I took out of interaction with my customers and lead...
For past several days, I felt I was getting little bit impatient...and also sometimes confused...on how to cater to our customers efficiently....When I answer to every single request then I felt it is getting silly..in the sense...the customers just raise some request and when we try to help them..unknowingly they take advantage of it...without thinking of time priority start pouring so many requests....As customer oriented it is our duty to anwser but when we do not get sufficient time to plan or prioritize I used to get annoyed...
One such request came in couple of weeks back and I was really amazed to see the way it was handled by my lead..simply worked well with the statement "Is this works for you" ;-)
Request came in
My lead : Without declining crudely...simply explains the current status and says wud get back in 2 days..with a simple question at the end "Is this works for you"
My customer: Happy because request not declined and happy when his consensus is asked upon
Simply reverts back saying...it works for me ;-)
Week passes by silently...and the customer comes back with a reminder...or looking for some update....
At our side ..no major progress..still works well...
Yet again in the meeting the customer raises the point...and yet again in crisp lines my lead says...we are at this stage...we would revert back to customer in 2 days....again with a note..is this works for you ;-)
My customer happily --> works for me...who actually could have got annoyed...
If Analysed..the request posed by my customer was not so critical..on the other hand the workload at our end would not let us cater to the customer request as quick as expected by customer...
what I learnt..if my lead had also handled it the way I did impatiently honestly explainig the current workstatus without making the customer feel that his concern is as well valued...then by now it could have brought some escalation...Rather on the other hand my customer seems to have gained more respect for my lead and reverts back nicely....and all moving calmly...
I see a humble request coming from my customer to my lead requesting his participation in several other events....My down to earth busy lead who really does not have single minute free sadly explains it's difficult...but the customer wants my leads presence to simply learn many things and requests again...Guess what yes...Yet again My lead comes with a proposal with a note at the end "Is this works for you" ?? ;)
My customer replies "CHEERS" ;-)
I was laughing the whole evening yesterday thinking about this and for sure...works with me as well...
Simple ethic that could be noticed here....Experience brings patience..working with patience brings good ideas/thoughts....Valuing customer's concern, making him/her realize the same with a simple like "Is this works for you" brings good gains interms of respect,reliability and several other dependent factors...
Worked well for me..hope it works well for all those who stumble on "Is this works for you" anecdote of gain...
Cheers,
Akshatha
Just few lines of admiration I derived out of a activity from my lead....
I was all to extreme excitement yesterday whenever I read the line or heard the line "Is this works for you" .. as it really worked like a little magic.... Not a big thing but a small learning I took out of interaction with my customers and lead...
For past several days, I felt I was getting little bit impatient...and also sometimes confused...on how to cater to our customers efficiently....When I answer to every single request then I felt it is getting silly..in the sense...the customers just raise some request and when we try to help them..unknowingly they take advantage of it...without thinking of time priority start pouring so many requests....As customer oriented it is our duty to anwser but when we do not get sufficient time to plan or prioritize I used to get annoyed...
One such request came in couple of weeks back and I was really amazed to see the way it was handled by my lead..simply worked well with the statement "Is this works for you" ;-)
Request came in
My lead : Without declining crudely...simply explains the current status and says wud get back in 2 days..with a simple question at the end "Is this works for you"
My customer: Happy because request not declined and happy when his consensus is asked upon
Simply reverts back saying...it works for me ;-)
Week passes by silently...and the customer comes back with a reminder...or looking for some update....
At our side ..no major progress..still works well...
Yet again in the meeting the customer raises the point...and yet again in crisp lines my lead says...we are at this stage...we would revert back to customer in 2 days....again with a note..is this works for you ;-)
My customer happily --> works for me...who actually could have got annoyed...
If Analysed..the request posed by my customer was not so critical..on the other hand the workload at our end would not let us cater to the customer request as quick as expected by customer...
what I learnt..if my lead had also handled it the way I did impatiently honestly explainig the current workstatus without making the customer feel that his concern is as well valued...then by now it could have brought some escalation...Rather on the other hand my customer seems to have gained more respect for my lead and reverts back nicely....and all moving calmly...
I see a humble request coming from my customer to my lead requesting his participation in several other events....My down to earth busy lead who really does not have single minute free sadly explains it's difficult...but the customer wants my leads presence to simply learn many things and requests again...Guess what yes...Yet again My lead comes with a proposal with a note at the end "Is this works for you" ?? ;)
My customer replies "CHEERS" ;-)
I was laughing the whole evening yesterday thinking about this and for sure...works with me as well...
Simple ethic that could be noticed here....Experience brings patience..working with patience brings good ideas/thoughts....Valuing customer's concern, making him/her realize the same with a simple like "Is this works for you" brings good gains interms of respect,reliability and several other dependent factors...
Worked well for me..hope it works well for all those who stumble on "Is this works for you" anecdote of gain...
Cheers,
Akshatha
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Strangers in the night
Crazy mind is getting crazier day by day listening to some pleasant music very much these days. One song that sweeps away this mind is the song “strangers in the night” by Frank Sinatra.
A week before I stumbled on this song while on a wonderful drive with one of my friends into the beautiful city of Manheim. It was about 7.00 p.m in the evening the car moving slowly into the streets and myself enjoying th beauty of city with marvelous building amongst the night lights, when I heard this song….”Strangers in the night”…Just the starting music itself swept away my soul for a minute..But that was just momentary…as I was enjoying the beauty of silent city…Never knew at that point in time that I could enjoy the song even better….
Today around same time but in different Garden city while I was walking tired on the roads back home..my eyes caught a glimpse on a white beauty….yes yet again my heart swept away for a second when I could hear the song at the background in my mind with the white moon in front of my eyes…
I quickly walked home and told my roommate that I need to quickly have dinner and enjoy the song with the moon light ;-)…
As always whenever you plan to do something early you always get late due to some unexpected interruptions…same was the case with me and when I came out late moon went behind the clouds and my mind went L…
Not bad though..after an hour luckily I walked out of my room while talking to my cousin on phone..the white beauty welcomed me once again with a shining smile..and yes it was finally the time for me to enjoy a song to the fullest…
I quickly complete my telecal and was carried away by the white beauty…So how did my soul enjoy…Wonderful when I just think of it and here it goes….
With checked grills in my gallery, white beauty smiling through the squared grills… silence at night, my MP3 into my ears the song smoothly rolling down “Strangers in the night….” and then slowly thinking of a ballet dancing with my legs starting to move around…wow simply amazing……
Couple of minute’s passes by with few more verses and then soon you feel the white beauty dancing with you…wow…just wonderful…. This crazy mind was enjoying it like anything…..
Played the song again and again…danced with the white beauty and just wondered how to the fullest you could pair pleasant music with nature and enjoy to the fullest….
Really a wonderful evening with wonderful song under wonderful moon light for a pleasant relaxation of the mind that’s gets exhausted over a day’s routine work ;-) !!
Strangers in the night..yes 2 lonely people..we were strangers in the night..yes it's me and the white beauty...exchanging glances..wondering in the night...
Something in your eyes was so inviting,
Something in you smile was so exciting,
Something in my heart,
Told me I must enjoy the moonlight along with the crazy mind dancing around...
Awesome song..awesome lyrics..awesome moon light..awesome fun!!
Cheers,
Akshatha
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