We have experienced significant difficulties in overcoming fear
of uncertainties. We have bounded
ourselves in self-limiting boundaries and prevent ourselves from thinking out-of-box.
Dr T. Prasad’s first session on principle of organization management provoked
us to think beyond self comforting boundaries. He encouraged us to start with
our own ventures ‘Hamara Dhandha’ where we can apply our management learning’s
of next 2 years to grow it up to self sustainable level. Few students in our
class made money by writing blogs in their area of interests.
Moreover he also raised question on our education system
which gives more emphasis on theoretical knowledge rather than knowing practicality
of the concepts. Also, he showed us few
toys which can be innovatively used to explain and derive basic mathematical
formulas rather than traditional rote learning. Video of ‘Another brick on the
wall’ by Pink Floyd best describes the above said situation.
He showed us the video of ‘Maha-Mandi’, an initiative by Dr.
T Prasad to make student have firsthand experience about how marketing and
sales has been done in real world. I have gained few key learning’s through
this video .
- Strategizing before approaching the customer plays a very pivotal role. Like, explaining the educational aspects of the toys to the parent as they are very concern about their children’s education. Giving chocolates to the children and inviting them to see our product.
- One should not get disheartened by initial failures. One should keep trying till he gets the success.
Latter we were introduced to term SMART goals. Goal setting
plays a very vital role in growth of the organization or individual. It
provides sense of direction and purpose. These five key letter means:
Goal
setting encourages participants to put in substantial effort. Also, because
every member has defined expectations for their role. Importance of
goals setting was explained through ‘Tower Building’ activity.
Team
of 3 was divided into different hierarchy:
- - Top Management
- - Manager
- - Sub-ordinate
These
levels are fundamental and basic hierarchy of any organization. I could co-relate
this to my organizational structure of my previous employer. Each member has specific
and defined roles and responsibilities.
There
few take-aways from the above activity. These are:
- Goals can lead to more effort. Goals serve as an energizer; higher goals induce greater effort while low goals induce lesser effort. For example, most of the students were of opinion that tower of more than 15 cube can’t be build with sub-ordinate being blind-folded and using his odd hand. But they set the goal of 18 cubes which they achieved in the end with their determination.
- Persistence – Persistence is also their
- Goals can lead individuals to develop and change their behaviour. Initially, the sub-ordinate was of opinion that tower of more 10 cubes can’t be built looking at the difficulty level of the task. But later, he started believing in himself and with proper guidance from management they attained the milestone.
- The more employees are motivated, the more they are more interested in accepting goals.
- One's belief that he is able to achieve the goals plays a very important role in attainment of goals.
The
session on Goal-setting suggests that it's an effective tool for making
progress by ensuring that participants in a group with a common goal are
clearly aware of what is expected from them.
