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A rewarding work
experience
Mahesh S Rao, GM of AATCO, gives some tips on maintaining a
positive atmosphere in the office which will boost your
productivity and maintain cordial relationships
Know your responsibilities and capabilities well! Your
priorities will be clearer:
Knowing your key result areas (KRAs or KPIs) as per your job
description (and Balanced Scorecard requirements), will help in
prioritising your own skill sets and capabilities required for
the task. If you feel that for doing justice to your assignment,
you need further training inputs or supervision from your
supervisor, it is your right to ask rather than keep quiet about
it and delay the tasks/responsibilities given to your position.
Knowing that people depend on you (as per organogram) for
specific tasks to be completed by you within early timeframes,
helps to also avoid conflict, delays and confusion.
When given a task not in your priority list... be assertive,
clarify the expectations and communicate positively:
It is very important for personal growth to take on more tasks
beyond your job description as this will help in career growth
with increased responsibilities given to you as a good
performer. However, please know your own strengths and
weaknesses or gap areas before committing to the same. Remember,
that people giving you an additional task beyond organogram job
description, trust that you may be capable of handling the
additional burden but do not know the existing pressures of your
main KRAs. It is your right to spell it out clearly so that
needless pressure is avoided.
Don’t let emotions rule your tasks! Do what is needed and
what is right:
Whist in office/factory, be a professional. Do not bring in
emotions into discussions and respect hierarchy/designations.
This is the toughest part but most critical since emotions drain
you of valuable time with needless personality or ego-clashes
and time spent on worrying.
Learn from others and do it right the first time:
George Bernard Shaw had said: “If history repeats itself, the
unexpected always happens, how incapable man must be from
learning from past experiences.” Let this motto rule your life.
Be a learner always because learning from other’s experiences
and building on it, saves a lot of time.
Keep your mind fresh and uncluttered! More the clutter...
slower will be your action:
Your mind has endless potential but treat it with respect.
Consider it as your very own CPU or personal computer. The more
number of non-job related folders you possess or keep in your
mind, the slower the processing speed becomes…thus delaying your
tasks. Manage your time well without distractions at work. Work
is indeed worship and our means of livelihood or food.
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Striking
the right note
Moulding the manpower
matters with simple solutions has never been easy. But with the ministry
getting into the act to set Omanisation in order, businesses have
to buck up. A report by Visvas Paul D Karra |
Editorial
Emerging markets emerge winners
As one looked forward to a relaxed Eid holidays, came
the shocking news of Dubai World asking its creditors for a standstill
agreement till May 2010, for restructuring debt worth $26bn. The developments
affected sentiment across the globe – stock markets across the world
fell by five per cent on fears that this could delay the economic
recovery for much longer. Moody’s and S&P immediately cut their
rating for Dubai-based government related entities and placed them
on credit watch. In a world where perceptions matter more than reality,
the crisis has given a body blow to the emirate’s reputation as a
destination of choice for tourists, investors and capital. The ramifications
of the problem goes much further than what meets the eye. |
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Sand Castles
The Dubai debt crisis has put a question mark on the sustainability
of the emirate’s build-and-they-will-come development model. Mayank
Singh reports |
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The coming rise in interest rates
If the US Federal reserve decides that inflation is its
greatest threat and decides to stop the pumping of cash into the banking
system then the 1994 history could repeat itself with a vengeance
in 2010 |
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Competitive regional hub
MOROCCO provides an excellent platform for reaching a
wide range of international markets due to its geographic location
and cultural ties |
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Understanding different cultures is very important
Abdul Rahman Busaidy is probably the only Omani, who looked
east by landing a top position at Jet Airways, an Indian company.
But then boundaries have never been a barrier for him, writes Visvas
Paul D Karra |
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Simplicity begets success
Taking charge of a mobile reselling company which is on
a roll is by no means an easy task, but Joakim Klingefjord, CEO of
renna, has his task cut out, finds out Visvas Paul D Karra |
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The Yemen Question
It has become clear to GCC officials and international
observers that the collateral damage from conflicts cannot be easily
contained within Yemen’s borders |
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Emerging markets – way to go
David Bloom, Global Head of FX Research, HSBC, was in
Oman to deliver his annual address on currency movements and the outlook
on the world economy in 2010, recently. Mayank Singh catches up with
him on the sidelines of the event |
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GCC’s extraordinary hydrocarbons resources
The hydrocarbons sector largely stands behind GCC’s financial
capability. Latest estimates put the value of sovereign wealth funds
of GCC states at $1.5trn |
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A school with a difference
Professor S Sundararajan, Dean, Gulf School of Business,
shares with Mayank Singh the roadmap of the institute and how it will
contribute in fostering better management practices in Oman |
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A lifestyle statement
David Crickmore, CEO, Amouage speaks to Mayank Singh about
the brand’s foray into leather goods, its retail strategy and his
aspirations about being on the same table with internationally reputed
luxury brands like Gucci, Prada and Louis Vuitton |
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Pre-eminent position
OER became the first of the media to catch up with Omar
Adli Al Sharif and congratulate him on becoming a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers
Oman |
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A Success Story
Haitham M J Al Lawati just turned 30 last month but despite
his young age he has achieved success that take most people many more
years to achieve. OER chats him up to just to see how he has accomplished
such a feat |
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