Transforming Your Organization

Prof. (Dr.) MP PooniaDirector, NITTTR

Chandigarh (India)

Why Teaching is a Great Why Teaching is a Great ProfessionProfession

Once a teacher closes the door of his classroom and begins teaching, he really is one who decides what is going to happen in the classroom. Not many jobs provide an individual with so much room to be creative and autonomous each day

1. Autonomy in the Class1. Autonomy in the Class

It is the only profession where you have summer vacation, winter holidays, and weekends which can really be a huge benefit and provide much needed rest time

2. Summer off2. Summer off

In many communities teachers are scarce commodity. It is certain that you will be able to find a job as a teacher if you have proven yourself a successful teacher.

3. Job Security3. Job Security

If you are married and have children, academic calendar will typically allow you to have the same days off as your kids.

4. Conducive to Family Life4. Conducive to Family Life

Being around young people everyday will help you remain knowledgeable about current trends, fashions and ideas.

5. Staying Younger5. Staying Younger

When you are teaching in a class, you, in fact, are also exercising your own influences upon your students who are our future.

6. Affecting the Future 6. Affecting the Future

If you have positive attitude and a sense of humour, you will find things to laugh about each day. So find the fun in your class and enjoy your profession.

7. Daily Humour7. Daily Humour

7. Daily Humour (contd.)7. Daily Humour (contd.)

You will never learn a topic better than when you start teaching it.

8. Teaching Helps You8. Teaching Helps You

Learn a SubjectLearn a Subject

It can be a means of great happiness when a student who did not understand a concept and then he learned it through your help.

9. Student Success and 9. Student Success and Teacher’s HappinessTeacher’s Happiness

Unfortunately, not every student will succeed in

your class. However, this fact should not stop a

teacher from believing that every student has the

potential for success. This potential is so existing

that each new year presents new challenges and

new potential successes.

10 Student Potential10 Student Potential

Just be Thankful for Your Job Just be Thankful for Your Job

and Loveand Loveto Your Job to Your Job

You are not an Electrician You are not an Electrician in Chinain China

......or a Plumber......or a Plumberin Hungary …in Hungary …

…………or a Deodorant or a Deodorant Tester in Tester in Germany…..Germany…..

or a Ditch Diggeror a Ditch Diggerin Poland …in Poland …

………….or A Mobile Toilet.or A Mobile Toilet

But have Integrity But have Integrity and Loyaltyand Loyalty

Punctuality andPunctuality and ResponsibilityResponsibility

SHOWSHOW

Take InitiativesTake Initiatives

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesEmployee “Zim” in an organisation walked up to his manager and asked what my job for the day?

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesThe manager took “Zim” to the bank of a river and asked him to cross the river and reach the other side of the bank and bring the box back in less than an hour without using the bridge.

Take InitiativesTake Initiatives“Zim” completed this task successfully by taking a shared boat for $10 and reported back to the manager about the completion of the task assigned in 55 minutes. The manager smiled and said

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesNext day Employee “Sandil” reported to the same manager and asked him the job for the day. The manager assigned the same task as above to this person also.

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesThe employee “Sandil” before starting the task saw employee “Sam” struggling in the river to reach the other side of the bank. He realized “Sam” has the same task. Now “Sandil” hired a moto scooter for $30 and crossed the river and also took “Sam” along.

Take InitiativesTake Initiatives“Sandil” reported back to the manager that they did the job in 30 minutes and the manager smiled and said,

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesThe following day employee “Mark” reported to the same manager and asked him the job for the day. The manager assigned the same task again.

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesEmployee “Mark” before starting the work did some home work and realized “Zim”, “Sandil” & “Sam” all has done this task before. He met them and understood how they performed (time spent 2 hours)

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesHe realized that there is a need for Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for doing this task as there was huge time and money variations.

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesHe sat down and wrote down the detailed SOP for crossing the river, he documented the common mistakes people made, various means of achieving the tasks, and tricks to do the task efficiently. (Time spent – 4 hours)

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesUsing the SOP he had written down he crossed the river and reported back to the manager along with SOP material. The manager said,

Awesome “Mark”

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesThe following day employee “Steve” reported to the manager and asked him the job for the day. The manager assigned the same task again.

Take InitiativesTake Initiatives“Steve” studied the SOP written down by “Mark” and sat and thought about the whole task (5 minutes). He realized company is spending a lot of money in sending the person over when they can just ask the boatman to bring the box.

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesHe decided not to cross the river, negotiated with the boatman who agreed to do the same for $3, sat down and enjoyed his beer while the boatman brought his box in the assigned time. He went back to his manager and said,

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesOn Steve’s performance, the manager smiled and said,

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesWhat is the difference between Zim, Sandil, Mark & Steve????

Many a times in life we get tasks to be done at home, at office, at play. Most of us end up doing what is expected out of us. Do we feel happy? Most probably yes. We would be often disappointed when the recognition is not meeting our expectation.

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesFrom a company point of view “John” has saved time but spent huge money on something that was not critical. While he achieved the task in 50% time of the assigned task, he was focussed on the task and not on the relevance of it.

Take InitiativesTake Initiatives“Mark” created knowledge base and more paperwork for the team. More often than not, huge procedures, timelines and methods exist without questioning the rationale. This knowledge creation for the team is of immense help but always needs to be preceded by the question WHY???

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesNow to the outstanding person, “Steve” made the task, what it was anyway, irrelevant; he created a Permanent Asset to the organization, freeing up precious time for more useful work – saved time (full one hour eliminated) and money (only spending $3) too.

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesIf u have notice ‘Sandil’, ‘Mark’ and ‘Steve’ all have demonstrated “team spirit” over and above individual performance; also they have demonstrated a very invaluable characteristic known as “INITIATIVE”. Initiative pays of every where whether at work or at personal life.

Take InitiativesTake InitiativesIf you put initiative you will succeed. Initiative is a continual process and it never ends. This is because this year’s achievement is next year’s task. You cannot use the same success story every year. But always work for the organisation.

Honesty PaysHonesty Pays

Honesty PaysHonesty PaysA business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose A successor. He called all the executives together. I am going to give each one of you a seed today - a very special seed. To plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today. Jim, l ike the others, told his wife the story. She helped him get A pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Every day, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After three weeks, other executives began to talk about , Jim kept Checking his seed, but nothing grew

Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing.

Others were talking about their plants Jim didn’t have a plant and He felt like a failure. He just kept watering the soil A year finally went by and all the young

executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection.

Jim told his wife that He wasn’t going to take an empty pot.

But she asked him to be honest About what happened.

When Jim arrived, he was amazed At the variety of plants grown by the other executives.

When the CEO arrived, Jim just tried to hide in the back

‘Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!’

Honesty PaysHonesty Pays

He ordered the director to bring Jim to the front.

The CEO asked him what had happened to his Seed.

Jim told him the story. The CEO asked everyone to sit down except

Jim. ‘Here is your next Chief Executive! His name

is Jim!’ I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it,

and bring it back to me Today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not Possible for them to grow.

Jim was the only one with the Courage and Honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it.

Therefore, he is the one Who will be the new Chief Executive!’

Honesty PaysHonesty Pays

TeamworkTeamwork

Good old lessons in teamwork from an age-old fable

The TortoiseAnd

The Hare

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster.

They decided to settle the argument with a race, they agreed on a route and started off the race.

The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he’d sit under a tree for sometime and relax before continuing the race.

He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep.

The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ.

The hare woke up and realized that he’d lost the race.

The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race.

This is the version of the story that we’ve all grown up with.

The story continues…

The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some soul-searching. He realized that he’d lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax. If he had not taken things for granted, there’s no way the tortoise could have beaten him.

So, he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed.

This time, the hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish. He won by several miles.

The moral of the story?

Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady. If you have two people in your organization, one slow, methodical and reliable, and the other fast and still reliable at what he does, the fast and reliable chap will consistently climb the organizational ladder faster than the slow, methodical chap.

It’s good to be slow and steady; but it’s better to be fast and reliable.

But the story doesn’t end here…

The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realized that there’s no way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted.

He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route. The hare agreed.

They started off. In keeping with his self-made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river.

The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got in to river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.

The moral of the story?

First identify your core competency and then change the playing field to suit your core competency. In an organization, if you are a good speaker, make sure you create opportunities to give presentations that enable the senior management to notice you. If your strength is analysis, make sure you do some sort of research, make a report and send it upstairs.

Working to your strengths will not only get you noticed, but will also create opportunities for growth and advancement.

The story still hasn’t ended…

The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did some thinking together. Both realized that the last race could have been run much better.

So they decided to do the last race again, but to run as a team this time.

They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank.

There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back.

On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. They both felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.

The moral of the story?

It's good to be individually brilliant and to have strong core competencies; but unless you're able to work in a team and harness each other's core competencies, you'll always perform below par because there will always be situations at which you'll do poorly and someone else does well. Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership.

There are more lessons to be learnt from this story. Note that neither the hare nor the tortoise gave up after failures. The hare decided to work harder and put in more effort after his failure. The tortoise changed his strategy because he was already working as hard as he could.

In life, when faced with failure, sometimes it is appropriate to work harder and put in more effort. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both. The hare and the tortoise also learnt another vital lesson. When we stop competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation,

we perform far better.

When Roberto Goizueta took over as CEO of Coca-Cola in the 1980s, he was faced with intense competition from Pepsi that was eating into Coke's growth. His executives were Pepsi-focused and intent on increasing market share 0.1 per cent a time. Roberto decided to stop competing against Pepsi and instead compete against the situation of 0.1 per cent growth.

He asked his executives what was the average fluid intake of an American per day? The answer was 14 ounces. What was Coke's share of that? Two ounces. Roberto said Coke needed a larger share of that market. The competition wasn't Pepsi. It was the water, tea, coffee, milk and fruit juices that went into the remaining 12 ounces. The public should reach for a Coke whenever they felt like drinking something. To this end, Coke put up vending machines at every street corner. Sales took a quantum jump and Pepsi has never quite caught up since.

To sum up, the story of the hare and tortoise teaches us many things:

Never give up when faced with failure Fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady Work to your competenciesCompete against the situation, not against a rival. Pooling resources and working as a team will

always beat individual performers

Let’s go and build stronger teams!Let’s go and build stronger teams!

A Paradigm About EmployeesA Paradigm About Employees

1. You can buy people’s time; 2. You can buy their physical presence at

a given place; 3. You can even buy a measured number

of their skilled muscular motions per hr. 4. But you cannot buy the devotion of their hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

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