My first blog....

A person who love machine, should become an Engineer; a person who love food start a hotel; a person who love human being, should become a Saint or a Manager !! Do you agree with me that ability to love human being is a competency of a managerial role? Today I am going to attempt a story of appreciation!! One young academically excellent person went for an interview for a managerial role. His final interview was going on the company director. By looking at this young man’s CV, the director understood that the candidate has obtain great achievement in academics from school to his post graduate research. The director asked the young – Have you obtain any scholarship in school? Youth answered (smooth voice) none. Director – Was it your father who paid your school fee? Youth answered (slowly) My father passed away when I was one year old and my mother who paid all my education fees. Director (sharp voice) – Where is she working? Youth (light voice) My mother worked as a cloth...

Today I am going to write about an open secret. Work politics. When I thought about this topic, I started reading a lot of document on work politics and I did talk to my peers, managers and reports as well. I asked my reports do you this we have politics in our organisation? They said yes. I asked why? Some people good with managers are getting undue advantages. I asked to my peers, they asked do you want hear from my month? It is obvious man all are politicians, look at this guy, he himself no sure what is he doing but he is in managers good book. Asked my manager too, he also agreed. Next thing I asked everyone except my manager, are you involved in politics? They had a shock in their face. You mean me.  Couple of month before, I had session with a senior manager for all my department managers on work politics. Facilitator have asked, does politics there in this organisation? Since all managers present in this session, most people had a politically correct answer, Ye...

How many of you know Luz Long? I can give some glue here. Olympics, 1936. This Olympics happened in Berlin.   Now understood? How many of you know Jesse Owens? Now re collect Luz Long. Luz long won the silver medal in the same Olympics where Jesse won gold and Luz long showed the best sport man ship in this event. Good morning fellow toastmasters and guest today I am going talk a story of a real sport man ship!   1936 Olympics – Berlin was a blessed event for Jesse Owen. This kind of achievement will be a dream and not many can dare to dream what Jesse has achieved. Jesse was a favourite before this event itself. This African American won 4 gold medal, that was maximum gold medal by any Olympian till 1936 Olympics. His success was a major blow to Adolf Hitler, who hoped to show Aryan supremacy at this event. The grandson of a slave and son of sharecropper Owen’s victory was noticed in due to many reasons.   He won his 100 m race edging his team mate Ralph Metcal...

My Birthday !! I am at work. It is normal for me to work on my birthday. My birthday’s are more like brining memories of my AMMA. I didn’t really celebrate my birthday after she left me. Thanks some good friends around me, they celebrated my birthday to make me happy. Yesterday I went to meet one my family friend. They invited me and family to lunch and we went to a nice Italian restaurant near to their house. After lunch the waiter bought cake and placed in front of me. For a second I thought is someone else birthday in their family. Thanks to my sense social media presence I understood that it is my birthday celebration. It is big thing that I am knowing someone is caring me. I didn’t show more emotion to them but I said a heartfelt thanks to Naveen chettan and family. I don’t how they can treat others happiness like theirs. It may be because they are good heart and both husband and wife think alike. Definitely, they are my role models. I have only one prayer to God I should ...

India is an amazing country where we have different languages, culture, religions but even then we all stay united. Each religion and state celebrate different festivals. Each festival is celebrated differently in many states. Diwali is a festival celebrated in most part of India and some other parts of the world. It is a festival of lights. This hindu festival has different stories attached. The most famous legend behind celebration of Diwali is return of Lord Ram to Ayodhya. Lord Ram along with his wife Sita devi and brother Laxmanan had to stay in jungle as per their fathers instruction and during that time King Lanka Ravana kidnapped Sita devi. Lord Ram had to defeat Ravana in war. On the arrival of Lord Ram along with Sita devi and brother, People of Ayodhya decorated their homes and city by lighting tiny diyas in order welcome their prince. Another story is that of Lord Krishna destroying the Demon Narakasur; then the return of The Pandavas from their 13 years exile. All s...

How many of you attended any workshop or class room training recently? Did you learn anything new that could be use for your life time? I am sure most of you would have attended some soft skill training. But end of the training you would be in square one. Or may one or two point, but I would say, if you have one or two points to remember, that was a great training. In my previous department we had a workshop where we tried to build a certain culture within the department. I would like to take all of you to this workshop. What I am going to present here is something I had observed at that workshop and how I’d grasped the whole theory to build a culture in our team as well as in my own lives. First thing I have noticed in every meeting is that there are three types of participants. The first type is people who want to show all that I know everything; second type is the people who want to show others that even I know a lot of thing; don’t think that I am not someone not to be her...

Dream Dream Dream Dream transform in to thoughts... thoughts results in action - APJ Abdul Kalam Said. Fellow Toastmasters and dear guest, Today I would like to talk about roadblocks that are on the path of converting thoughts to actions. We all dream of becoming someone or achieving a particular goal. When I was a kid I wanted to be Sachin Tendulker like many of the kids. I used to watch all the cricket matches and with the  remaining time my parents would force me to sit in front of a book. I did nt go for practise to become Sachin, my dream stayed as dream forever. This was mostly the case when I dream about something. There was a time when I never bothered about acheiving goal.I would imagine all my dream in my sleep. One point of time I wanted to do PHD and become an industrialist. I have spent good amount of money and time for travelling and searching a suitable business. I was so conscious of showing people that I was doing the right thing and sometimes I even wanted...

The beauty of management is we all know what right is but we don't know it at right time. Today I am going to talk about we well know topic from the management theory. Fellow toastmasters and dear guest today I am going to talk about Productivity. The theory behind how to improve productivity! Let me put it very simple. We know that we should be punctual to the meetings, but hardly anyone does. Before I got in to managerial role I thought the passion within a leader is all about driving the team to success. How does the leader inculcate the same passion in his team members? With sparkling speeches! With directing step by step actions to deliver! Then check the result! I have done exactly the same formula when I got a group of people to lead. I had to work with different composition of people, with respect to their experience and gender. I have used my power to improve their productivity. I have directed all of them, follow step 1, step 2, step 3. If step 4 is needed so...

I am going to attempt a short story this time. The protagonist of this story always wanted to be a hero just like all of us. It may seem like a real story if I could write well, otherwise  please imagine properly. It is very difficult to tell a story with a name attached to the characters specifically if you are writing a story for the first time. So let me call the Hero as Rajappan  and his wife as Rani. Rajappan is a very handsome man. He was a really an adorable adult and all his college mates wanted to be his love, don’t worry I talking about only girls. He never disappoints any girls who shows a special interest in him. He always is a friend, brother or a part time boy friend as well for girls. The best thing that happened in my life is he is blessed with a wife who knows his past.  But as all good  wife she  can forget past but she cant forgive the present and future. So she is keeping track of his behavior always. After marriage he was gaining ...

My father was very furious and angry after seeing my Pre degree result. He could not digest the fact that his son barely passed. He went ahead to check with one of my professor for any option to re evaluate my answer sheet. He came back from my professor’s house and he seems very relaxed. He got to know from my professor that they never thought I will pass because of activities in college. My name is Nikhil. Today I stand before you to deliver my first prepared speech on myself. I am so glad to get this topic because I love myself like all of you love yourself. When I was in my 10th std an external trainer visited my school to conduct a workshop. He asked the crowd who they love the most in their lives and many answered mother, father etc. But then, he asked again that if we ever got a photo of us in it who would we look for first. The answer was obvious, isn’t it. Yes, we unknowingly search for us. That was self realization and I accepted that. That incident ...

A very good morning to the toastmaster and to my fellow members of this club.My name is Nikhil.Today I stand before you to deliver my first prepared speech on myself.I am so glad to get this topic because I love myself so much like all of you love yourself. Not sure if you agree that you are your favorite. when I was in my 10th std an external trainer visited my school to conduct a workshop. He asked the crowd who they love the most in their lives and many answered mother, father etc. But then, he asked again that if we ever got a photo of us in it who would we look for first. The answer was obvious, isnt it. Yes, we unknowingly search for us. That was self realization and I accepted that. That incident taught me to love myself even more ever since. I was born and brought up in kodungalloor, kerala. After completing my school, I joined a good college in Kerala for Business Administration. Even though I was not good student I got admission there through sport quota. I was really an...

Last day I got a follower for this blog, my cousin Abhichettan. This reminds my previous two incidents when I was participated in some competitions during my college days. During my college days I was an unsuccessful sports man. Like all sports man I have dreams to have fans and followers. I used to play Kabadi and handball for college team. Kabadi we were very amateur team and my physical trainer give me admission to college to build a good team. In first year I have played for the team and as junior player I could not influence anyone to come for regular practice or build a good team. 2nd year as well my team couldn’t qualify. in our last qualifying match I could play a good game but team last against my previous college team. that’s the issue I am not lucky enough to called a good player. 3rd year I became captain of the college team and made sure we had enough practice and we won the qualifying matches and reached to finals of university championship. But none of my friends we...

This month I didnt write anything this blog. some or the other things I was busy but I havent done anything specific as usual. Mid of last month I came back from my vacation and joined back the work. I did take couple of weeks to back from my vacation hang over. not much change at work, all same. The projects which we started before my vacation stay in same stage. Another good thing about vacation was I put weight like pig. It ususally happens during my vacation. this time also no change. Now I have to increase my pant size.

When I take my wife out for shopping I had noticed a shop where they have put a board that Momo Burger, Sandwich available there. That shop look like typical Chinese restaurant. The board is in black color written the name in red color. Some Chinese decoration stuffs are put up out site. My wife loves hotel food especially momos and burgers.   I always wanted to have food from there but this place is near to my place. So on the way to malls I will not be in the mood to stop there and way back always in hurry to reach home. I am not a hotel person; I love to eat from home. Even plain rice and any vegetable dish are better than hotel food for me. Not sure is it because of cost cutting but I enjoy home food better.   Due to this justification and root cause I didn’t take my wife there to buy her best combination, Momo Burger. One day while coming back from a small shopping we had to eat dinner. We had missed to eat from the mall. So thought to stop this place and eat momo bur...

I have come down to Dubai for my vacation. I thought 3 weeks would not be enough as I have a lot of relatives and friends are here. But now looking at the current situation this time span is more. Because here every one is so busy and it is 5 days 24 hours work and just 2 days leave for rest. Some people even work on those 2 days as well. So a person who is with 24 hours free time on all days is just worthless here. I don’t have people except my family to communicate. I am just sitting at home starring at TV or new paper or 2 books I have borrowed from my company library, it is nice sleeping piles. I have started using public transport and going out whole alone. Today I went to a shopping mall and burj khalifa, world's tallest building. It is an amazing feel to watch at that huge building. Different nationalities are coming here and looking at the building. Most of them are taking the photo in front of that. Definitely it will be a memorable moment for all who visit here. I di...

I am in Dubai for three weeks with my in laws. It is my wife’s birth place. She always gets goose booms when she hears about Dubai and visit here is a heaven for her. It is second time we are coming here after our marriage, first time after little stars arrival. Since it’s in laws place my wife has an expectation to take some rest from take care the baby whole alone at home. Before I came here, my father gave his friends contact details and asked me to contact everyone; if possible I have to visit them personally. When I came last time also he asked me to do this. I did that some people were positive and others were ok. No bad experience though. But I always have a tension before I call them. Even the same thing is continuing... I am thinking that may be these people will be think why am I calling them. Most of the time I am confuse about the subjects to talk. They will ask how am I. 10 times in my 5 minutes conversation. This entire topic less talks creates me unnecessary tension. B...

My wife and daughter went to my in laws place a week before and I have joined them now. I missed my Christmas this year with them, my daughter first Christmas. that’s fine, let her have good time with her grant parents. But I have joined them for New Year :). After three month of my daughter birth my wife joined me with the daughter. We are together since then. It was little difficult without both of them so I was having movie shows in the night and my sleep restricted to 4 to 5 hours. First few days of my daughter arrival at my in laws place was not comfortable for her. She wanted her mother always with her. Actually she is not really comfortable with anyone except us and our maid. Even when we went my parents place also my daughter didn’t go to them. But after couple of days she becomes comfortable with all of them. I could hear the playful sound when I call my wife. She liked company with her grandparents and aunt. I started thinking that when join them whether she will recognise ...