May isang baguhang news writer na dumating sa Newspaper Publishing
company sa Amerika, sa loob ng almost 2 months, andun lang siya, nakaupo, pa
type-type, walang ginagawang importante, sa isang sulok lamang siya, dinadaanan
lang ng mga editors and his colleagues. Nang isang araw, naawa na lang cguro
ang Editor In chief at binigyan siya ng task to write a brief news story sa
business section about sa financial earnings ng isang private company. He wrote
a research that in the past 2 years, kumita ang kumpanya ng mahigit 4 million
and the past year nag-lose ang kita ng kumpanya ng mahigit 4 million pesos,
story of only 3 paragraphs. Na-publish ang news at the very next day, Yung
Stock ng kumpanya na iyon sa Stock Exchange bumaba ng 10%! Aba syempre, ang
iisipin ng mga investors na nag break-even lang ang kita ng kumpanya at hindi
kumita! Galit na galit ang CEO ng kumpanya at tumawag sa Newspaper Publishers,
the next day na-suspend ang binatang kawawa na nagsulat ng controversial story.
But he was happy, he felt powerful, kahit hindi sinasadya or didn’t know na ang
ginawa niya mag kaka-epekto ng ganun kalaki. Whatever he did, he moved
something significantly big! Naging sikat after 1 week of suspension, and
promised to be more careful. True to life story of now Famous author and
speaker, Malcolm Gladwell.
You don’t know how powerful you are.
I kind of experienced something similar in my workplace in the
past but resulted in a positive way. For months, there hasn’t been a regular
training for the staff or any refresh session lang about sa products or sa
selling skills for example. Staff seemed not to care na whatever ang earnings
nila everyday. Yung earnings everyday not so outstanding, average lang. So I volunteered
to collect training materials, and trained the whole staff twice every morning
bago mag start ang work. May ice breaker, and sharing of ideas and I tried to
make the training fun with powerpoint, role plays etc.
In a span, of 1 month of regular training sa staff, the management
sees a significant increase sa kita ng branch namin, and more customers ang nag
iiwan ng positive feedback sa service ng store na nag-improve or the customers
felt more happily served.
Di ako nagbuhat ng upuan, but I felt happy and satistied to have
pushed a change that it was because of the training we regularly did! Positive
feedback was sent to the head office, and been given a Commendation
certificate. Fast forward another few months, and I got promoted as a
Supervisor.
If you want to get promoted, and been wanting to for so long, you
must not only do what you are asked to do, sa job description mo. Or for a change
lang from doing the same thing over and over, you might want to add a skill or
two in the workplace and impress your boss, by volunteering to make a new
design of the company’s project kung magaling ka sa arts. Or if you know, you
are good with organizing, you can get an additional task to organize the filing
cabinet.
Or if you don’t have any plan to move up sa kumpanya ninyo due to
any reason, then promote yourself and sell something on the side for an added
bucks, makeup, perfume, tocino or embutido. Or join a legitimate or legal
Direct selling company, it’s all up to you.
We must always do or work on something with hardwork plus an extra
mile and with a happy face. That is a secret of achievers or if you want to
climb the corporate ladder or wish to save and invest for your future. You
don’t know how powerful you can be once you try to stretch yourself or go out
of your comfort zone once in a while.
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