Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Patience .. pass it on!

 Pass it on!


While researching on what to show the young adults on the virtue of patience - came across this fun video! Click on the link and learn the value of the day!


Working in the social entrepreneurship space for the very first time has opened my eyes to a new world.

# 1 - Client is really very patient and comes prepared to answer all our questions. We can be quite tedious and also sometimes repetitive, but they are generous with their time.

#2 - At MessyBessy everyone is a multi-tasker. Multi-tasking in my definition till now was to be able to do many "related" items simultaneously around the domain that you are working on. Here I see Ms. Marge - HR with Messy Bessy also serving as the teacher ( of many subjects ), counselor for the young adults as well as the administrator reaching out to social foundations and tracking the performance of every young learner here. Then there is Mr. Jeff who does R&D for new Messy Bessy Products while also running the production activities. He deftly manages the modules of Production planning, quality control as well as trains and monitors the performance of the learner working with the production team. He also set in place the process that Messy Bessy uses for production.

#3 - People work here because they really want to and they give this job their 100%. May be it’s the social angle that motivates them, but it's truly refreshing to see and work with such committed individuals.

#4 - Young adults who work here part time and also study, exhibit a great deal of courage. Many of them are living away from their family- all in the hope of a better future for them. Some of the stories of the sacrifices that they have had to make- actually break my heart.

#5 - There is collaboration in the true sense here. Everyone is working towards the same larger goal and you don't get to see one-upmanship here. I saw some learners from the sales team helping the logistics team.

I know for sure that in one week here I have learnt a lot - possibly much more than what I can give back!

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