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Is True Learning? Still a Dream


I have always been a great fan of workplace coz that’s where I found rejuvenation and I found life. Like always I am also part of a big team of fourteen under four different structures internally and we make us of the opportunity the normal as always.

We meet as a team every week for our regular weekly team huddle and that’s where we discuss our day to day analysis of the week and also discuss our plan for the upcoming weeks.

There was this one week, when we sat for the usual huddle where the team decided to plan for a newly migrated process into our workplace and there was this least expectation to train at least eight of them in the battalion.

The Head informs that there will be this eight of us who will get cross trained and the other two will get to train to take care of the rest, and the remaining two will continue to take care of the rest as there has been so much escalation leading to financial loss because of them.

I t made me a bit angry and I was quite upset about it, which made me realize? Where is true learning? How do we define ourselves just because one doesn’t do work in a proper way? And only when one gets a chance to learn something new? , then alone he/ she can make or get a better chance to prove that one is capable to moving mountain, it possibly made me understand where is the modern workplace leading? a basic understanding is where are today’s leaders guiding the team members to?

True learning to define is a way of life which comes where one that puts an extra step to get to know something from the normal routine in which he or she is into leading the ultimate goal of change. It is not a process of unlearning or relearning but a way of life that one continues till eternity.

Learning doesn’t get stopped just because one makes mistakes in life. We believe a known fact that failure is also a stepping stone to success and that’s when we get opportunities we get to move ahead in life, chances we take in life, we get to prove who we are and it makes us special.

Now understanding, that this is a common situation that happens in almost everywhere, we need to understand that there arose a greater sense of understanding that leaders who lead teams need to take note into, coz, no one is special and everyone is special and motivating them to do the best matters a must.

The world at large is so captivating and there is this common known fact of unequal society which we have been talking for almost generations and it is no one else rather we who have made it as we have found it.

As Young leaders it is time, we need to be a little aware of our individuals whom we move along wherever we are, and be more adaptive for life.

As leaders at workplace, we need to be proactive in adapting what it takes to be a universal leader one who portrays empathy as a priority and only when a just society is born.

Our way of life is adapted to where we started way a long time back, but is always matters to take that extra eight steps than the usual two to reach the ultimate goal of learning for life where everyone is given his/ her due to be there and to prove that his strength which will benefit none the less where one supports.

Cheers

Joe       
Joseph Kamal Francis

   




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