It is amazing to find that the degree of education need not determine the level of wisdom a person gains through the experiences of life. There are loads of examples on this earth of people who were very bad or very low in terms of their formal education but were really marvellous at their intellectual quotient to handle all the circumstances to create a nische for themselves in this world. I am not going to speak about any such personality today. I am going to narrate you about my very own grandmother's high level management technique.
I have been doing a lot of variety of work right from my schooling. I don't like to spend away the time of my life. Rather, I like to invest it like how I am doing while writing this blog. In this continuous spree of doing different things I couldn't keep up to the normal expected timing standards of a typical Indian family of coming back home before it's too dark. Also I had come up with some serious decisions for my own life to turn around things on my own shoulders which were quite far-fetched ideas for a conventional type of family like mine who were all into jobs. At this time all the elders in my family had a worry about the path that I was pursuing but none could question me about the same since I was very adamant to follow the path I had chosen. All the information that they could get was only from me and they couldn't share their fears with me. At this time my grandmother who has studied just upto 4th standard came up with a wonderful technique.
She was supportive of everything I was doing in front of me. When I was not at home, she shared her part of the worry with my uncle and got him to come over and see me work and colleagues without me knowing at all. She was so intelligent that she made sure that I didn't feel that my family didn't trust me but still got the confirmation of all that I was saying was true. She is 80 plus years of age now but has this immense wisdom of balancing fears and emotions. This can be one of the best management lessons of how to gather information but still make sure that the person in concern doesn't feel hurt because emotions and trust are the two main important entities in management and business. I hope you found my grandma's technique useful for you as well. You can write to me on is.mohanbn@gmail.com
Sometimes
God showers blessings as a double dhamaka offer. All thanks to the Almighty
that my desire to address more and more people came true as my craving for it
grew stronger day by day. It was just couple of days back when I was invited to
Sri Laksmi Group of Institutions to address the nursing students, some of who
were pursuing their diploma in nursing and some were from
B.Sc (nursing). There was a batch of students who were in their masters as
well. Two sessions back to back were planned for one hour each and students
from different classes were combined in one classroom and that's where the
dreams party began.
The
first session started around 11am and there were more than 80 students in the
class, many were from north-eastern part of India. Kunal Taswalaji took up the
introduction to introduce me for the first ever time. I was invited with a
thunderous applause as I embarked upon the stage. I spoke about how I being
from engineering and them being from nursing background didn't have anything
common to talk about. Then I took them back in their memories of childhood and
reminded them that they too had dreams like me to become highly successful in
life. After that, we spoke about how fears have stopped us from even accepting
our own dreams. Lack of self-confidence and scarcity of appreciation have
ruined our self-respect and self-image. I addressed about these issues and
shared my mantra with them. The mantra was 'BREAK YOUR FEAR AND LOVE YOURSELF'.
The same topics were touched in a different style during the second session
that started by 12:15pm. I was shocked to see students saying that their dreams
have become smaller as they grew more. That's where I reminded them that dreams
seemed to be smaller because they had pushed them away and taught the same
lesson as mentioned above. The one hour sessions were elongated to 90 minutes each
because students were enjoying the sessions.
Both
the sessions were highly humourous and students laughed their heart out. Yet,
the impact was tremendous. When I called up the principal, Smt. Bhagyalakshmi
mam, I got to know that one of her students who was running around with a
document from one week to quit her nursing, after the session went to her
principal and committed that she would never quit but would stay back and
complete her education. I was very glad to hear this feedback along with
reading pages of feedback that the students had written. Over all, it was an
amazing experience to address students from completely different stream and
background from that of me but still be able to trigger the passion for dreams
and break the fears in them. I would like to thank the principal mam for
providing us the opportunity. I would like to congratulate Mr. Arun
Chikmarappa, competing for Your Big Year competition 2013 because of whom close
to 200 students were made aware about global platforms like World MERIT
and Your Big Year. Last but not the least, I must thank my team
IU(Inspiration Unlimited) and my mentors, Lalwani brothers for their amazing
support and mentoring.