一转眼五个星期的新人培训在上个周末结束了.课程结束之后，新生们都会分散回国，然后被调到不同的单位工作.离开前一天，上完最后一天课后，负责培训的我们就让新生自由发言表示他们在这一个多月的感想和意见.大家都说在这几个星期里学到了很多商业和职场的知识，也说自己能结识到这么多不同国籍的新朋友而感到高兴.要和不同国籍和背景的人相处固然不简单，但是做得到也算是一种成功.
毕竟大多数的新生都是刚毕业的年轻人，所以还没有在社会上工作的经验.对他们来讲, 这次培训能够让他们见识到什么是职场的心理准备。因为他们还没经历过工作的磨练，所以很纯，感情非常丰富.有好几位在发言时，可能是回想到培训中的苦与乐，还有将要和新朋友离别的事实，激动到哭了，话也只说了一半就说不下去.有一位来自摩洛哥的表示他曾经上过几家公司的训练，但是没有遇到过这么会照顾新人的培训员.听了这些感激的话，我们都感到很欣慰.
大家离开之后，我却因为行程的关系，在饭店多住了几天.每天下班回到饭店，看到Lobby空荡荡的，和之前以经熟悉看到那里一大群人集合在聊天说笑的情景相比之下,觉得气氛很不一样. 这段时间大家在一起生活的情景不断在脑海浮现，感觉满温馨的.
这次培训我参与的部分最少，跟新生接触的时间也比较少，不过跟大家相处了也有一段时间，觉得他们都有成长.有一位阿尔及利亚的男新生，在培训开始时，因为没有自信心所以一句英语都不敢讲，但是在最后一天，他却在大家的鼓励之下，在众人面前大胆的用英语发表自己的感触.虽然英语还是说得很烂，可是他却得到了很重要的自信心！
我参与这次公司办的新人培训（其实是没有选择）而却能够做出一点小贡献，让这些刚毕业的公司新生学到在社会里工作所需要的宝贵知识和态度（比如自信心，尊重他人意见之类），我也算尽了份力吧.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
Casablanca: Freshmen Orientation Camp / Being a Teacher!
I'm way overdue in updating my blog *checks the date* for like more than a month. This period had been very hectic for me because of work. First a little update, although the crisis situation in Beirut has subsided much, I still don't have plans to return to Beirut because of work commitments. From the looks of it, I will not be returning for quite some months.
Freshmen Orientation Camp
It's quite unheard of for a company to run a Freshmen Orientation Camp for its new associates. Actually, this is the second one conducted within our organization and the number of freshmen has increased from 7 to 40+!
The Camp began at the end of August and will run it's course until end of September. During these 5 weeks of Freshmen training, the 40 or so management trainees will receive an education on a variety of topics ranging from the TW foundations, BR Kaizen principles, vehicle, service and parts marketing. This kind of training is rare even in TMC group.
Our "camp" happens to be a very plush compound that calls itself Casablanca Appart Hotel. The place reminds me of the Hollywood-ish apartments in popular soaps starring A-list wannabes suntanning besides the pool. Anyway, it's a great place with great hospitality and great food. I'm definitely missing it after September. My involvement in the camp was to be a trainer and coordinator for the freshmen.
My Worst Nightmare: Being a Teacher!
If I knew that in the course of my job I have to lecture to a big class, I will think twice before accepting the offer. Teachers are not in my good books and I have a deep dread for public speaking.
My involvement in the Camp is to be one of the trainers and coordinator. When I learned about it two months ago, I felt shivers down my spine. Panic buttons couldn't stop ringing. Then the "top" assigned me my topics: Vehicle Marketing, Logistics and TW Sales and Marketing.
Are you kidding me?...I was thinking to myself. I never had a day of marketing lesson in my entire 16 years of education (kindergarten excluded). I didn't even know who is Kotler or what the 4Ps are until last month! And I was expected to stand in front of 40+ people, including a number of marketing graduates, to tell them about marketing and selling vehicles for 3 days!?
And then came the late nights trying to cram what I can glean from borrowed texts and the internet into a presentation, all the while thinking to myself if I have enough content to last an entire lecture. Fortunately, the late nights came in handy as I was too tired to worry on the night before my lecture.
The Lesson?
I didn't give the best of lectures but I didn't ruin it entirely either. The deep fear of speaking in public quickly subsided after a few minutes into the lecture. I was defintely nervous throughout but the fear didn't turn out to be a big ugly monster that I thought it will be. The responsive audience helped alot in easing the tension. Sometimes my mind run blank and no words came but asking the audience questions gave me sometime to think about what to say. And the best trick to avoid public speaking? Throw a couple of questions and break the audience out for discussion groups. Once the ball is in their court, they must now do the talking now. I just need to listen. =P
(...having sweaty palms)
Freshmen Orientation Camp
It's quite unheard of for a company to run a Freshmen Orientation Camp for its new associates. Actually, this is the second one conducted within our organization and the number of freshmen has increased from 7 to 40+!
The Camp began at the end of August and will run it's course until end of September. During these 5 weeks of Freshmen training, the 40 or so management trainees will receive an education on a variety of topics ranging from the TW foundations, BR Kaizen principles, vehicle, service and parts marketing. This kind of training is rare even in TMC group.
Our "camp" happens to be a very plush compound that calls itself Casablanca Appart Hotel. The place reminds me of the Hollywood-ish apartments in popular soaps starring A-list wannabes suntanning besides the pool. Anyway, it's a great place with great hospitality and great food. I'm definitely missing it after September. My involvement in the camp was to be a trainer and coordinator for the freshmen.
My Worst Nightmare: Being a Teacher!
If I knew that in the course of my job I have to lecture to a big class, I will think twice before accepting the offer. Teachers are not in my good books and I have a deep dread for public speaking.
My involvement in the Camp is to be one of the trainers and coordinator. When I learned about it two months ago, I felt shivers down my spine. Panic buttons couldn't stop ringing. Then the "top" assigned me my topics: Vehicle Marketing, Logistics and TW Sales and Marketing.
Are you kidding me?...I was thinking to myself. I never had a day of marketing lesson in my entire 16 years of education (kindergarten excluded). I didn't even know who is Kotler or what the 4Ps are until last month! And I was expected to stand in front of 40+ people, including a number of marketing graduates, to tell them about marketing and selling vehicles for 3 days!?
And then came the late nights trying to cram what I can glean from borrowed texts and the internet into a presentation, all the while thinking to myself if I have enough content to last an entire lecture. Fortunately, the late nights came in handy as I was too tired to worry on the night before my lecture.
The Lesson?
I didn't give the best of lectures but I didn't ruin it entirely either. The deep fear of speaking in public quickly subsided after a few minutes into the lecture. I was defintely nervous throughout but the fear didn't turn out to be a big ugly monster that I thought it will be. The responsive audience helped alot in easing the tension. Sometimes my mind run blank and no words came but asking the audience questions gave me sometime to think about what to say. And the best trick to avoid public speaking? Throw a couple of questions and break the audience out for discussion groups. Once the ball is in their court, they must now do the talking now. I just need to listen. =P
(...having sweaty palms)
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The Epitome of Cute
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