Todays Meeting
Friday, 13. February 2009, 12:51:26
Today, I had a pretty emergency meeting my employers.
Soon as I got the invitation call last night from the MD, I could only try to forget how serious the agenda will be.
Stepping in, I exercise great effort to remain calm. And then the Director's first reference was a reminder that his presence, shows how serious the issue was...I thought as if I didn't know...
The essential bits of the meeting:-
- someone had been reporting me for what was said, as a reflection of what was done..
- A director had reported me on my attitude to work as to how output had been diminishing.
Initially, I tried to react with a wry laughter, but on deeper on-the-spot analysis of the situation, I began to see the import of their accusations & assessment.
They wanted to find out, how it was I was losing grips with basic methods of the work, despite being one of the most senior engineers on site....
- how I it was, that I wasn't taking initiative enough
- how I wasn't producing the maximum level of support that I am capble of.
My scheduling of the job routine was suffering, but I didn't realise it.
I had fell into the habit of pushing duties to either the first hour fix, or the last minute rush - with the effect that in the end, something(s) get totally missed, causing a turn-over of duties for the other staff..
And then the M.D made the most startling, if stark, pronouncement of the day:-
How my recent behaviors hasn't portrayed me as cognizant of the fact that
But there was more. M.D asserted:-
By this time, I was no longer in denial, taking a strong, long and hard look at myself. I could see how acute dis-organisation could lead to chronic dis-organisation.
I took off the final lesson that I was actually at a point best termed "negligent dis-organisation".
So, I came off, promising myself to
- never tune the background music when working.
- Never forget to do/check/recheck the TODO's
- Keep focus on the timeline + essentials work to the maximum.
- Keep distractions off ( MSN + Private Email + forum etc )
- Keep communication with other member of staff open and functional.
- Second guess my work every minute.
- Take charge of responsibilities and network with other team-members to resolve issues as a rule.
- keep reminding myself: YOU ARE AN ASSET to this company, Make it count!
- Always remember the 3H.
- Be firm to delegate, and be firm to track down pending issues, all the time.
- Take issues to/from the Directors - as it is open and free for all.
- Remember to forge a focal point with the rest of the operations team.
- ultimately do what it takes, to reposition my PERFORMANCE INDEX, in quantity and in percpetion.
- Never Lose sight of where I am, and where I could be.
So help me God.
Soon as I got the invitation call last night from the MD, I could only try to forget how serious the agenda will be.
Stepping in, I exercise great effort to remain calm. And then the Director's first reference was a reminder that his presence, shows how serious the issue was...I thought as if I didn't know...
The essential bits of the meeting:-
- someone had been reporting me for what was said, as a reflection of what was done..
- A director had reported me on my attitude to work as to how output had been diminishing.
Initially, I tried to react with a wry laughter, but on deeper on-the-spot analysis of the situation, I began to see the import of their accusations & assessment.
They wanted to find out, how it was I was losing grips with basic methods of the work, despite being one of the most senior engineers on site....
- how I it was, that I wasn't taking initiative enough
- how I wasn't producing the maximum level of support that I am capble of.
My scheduling of the job routine was suffering, but I didn't realise it.
I had fell into the habit of pushing duties to either the first hour fix, or the last minute rush - with the effect that in the end, something(s) get totally missed, causing a turn-over of duties for the other staff..
And then the M.D made the most startling, if stark, pronouncement of the day:-
How my recent behaviors hasn't portrayed me as cognizant of the fact that
Gosh! that hit home!I was an asset
But there was more. M.D asserted:-
everything we were discussing boiled down to poor organisation.
By this time, I was no longer in denial, taking a strong, long and hard look at myself. I could see how acute dis-organisation could lead to chronic dis-organisation.
I took off the final lesson that I was actually at a point best termed "negligent dis-organisation".
So, I came off, promising myself to
- never tune the background music when working.
- Never forget to do/check/recheck the TODO's
- Keep focus on the timeline + essentials work to the maximum.
- Keep distractions off ( MSN + Private Email + forum etc )
- Keep communication with other member of staff open and functional.
- Second guess my work every minute.
- Take charge of responsibilities and network with other team-members to resolve issues as a rule.
- keep reminding myself: YOU ARE AN ASSET to this company, Make it count!
- Always remember the 3H.
- Be firm to delegate, and be firm to track down pending issues, all the time.
- Take issues to/from the Directors - as it is open and free for all.
- Remember to forge a focal point with the rest of the operations team.
- ultimately do what it takes, to reposition my PERFORMANCE INDEX, in quantity and in percpetion.
- Never Lose sight of where I am, and where I could be.
So help me God.
) just try the beat. It rocks ! 
WIDGETIZE