Listen up carefully my boy he said,
we have learned so far the importance of Humility,
Uncovering The Hidden Talent and Matching The Skill-Set. We all know that it
takes several months and years together to produce a nice harvest. A plant
cannot offer shade to hundreds but a peeple tree can….
The problem with all major business
houses of today, is that they expect results pretty quick. We are like people
wanting baby in a night; we would not want to waste our time nourishing the
baby. We want to him to be grown, mature are probably in a good Job in a month.
Can this be possible?
I voluntarily said” no Sir, how can
that be possible”… I know how every one wants quick success including myself.
I assume that he knew the answer as
I stopped he was quick to add” On the same context once we have Uncovered the
Talent and Matched The Skill-Set. We need to give some time to an employee to
find and explore.
He stopped and asked me “what does
your dad do”.
I said” Sir, he is a farmer.
Well that’s great news; he said, but
I was shocked being a farmer’s son is never a great news. People look at me as
if I m an alien, I still remember how my cousins use to treat me.. Because a
farmer son in India
He asked me” Do you know anything
about farming”.
Well Sir I m a farmer’s son and I
know bits and pieces about farming, I wanted to as honest as possible.
Explain me the process of Farming?
He said…
Now I was feeling little intelligent
here, I felt important because I m going to teach about farming to an old
intellect. It’s great to teach an intellect, you feel great about yourself… I
cleaned my throat and started as if I m a scientist and just found out the way
to be Immortal.
Sir as I said earlier I know a
little.. First thing my dad does is to clean the field and keep it ready for
harvesting and sowing. Then in rainy season he will proceed with sowing, after
about 25 days he will spray the fertilizers and some times pesticides. He will
closely monitor the plant; he will go at least once a day to the farm to check
the progress, if its required he will have workers working with him to remove
the unwanted plants so that the crop doesn’t get affected. These unwanted
plants can harm the growth of the crop hence affecting the yield of the crop.
The worst thing about a farmer, you
have to closely monitor, and keep an eye on your crop as if you are raising a
small baby. The more you care the better the crop… that’s what my dad said when
I asked him last time.
He was patiently listening as if he
never knew about all these things. His eyes and ears were wide open. I haven’t
seen anyone listening with such curiosity and elegance.
I went on with the process of
Farming, then when the crop is up for plucking we take the help of others and
carefully pluck it.. After doing all these it’s not guaranteed that we get good
returns it depends upon the market, and he some times stores the crop for at
least a month or two for the right price…
He was patiently waiting for me to
stop, that’s superb… you know all about farming, Employee Development similar
to Farming…. As we learned in the previous chapter, Humility is nothing but
cleaning the ground and keeping it ready for harvesting and sowing. Uncovering
The Hidden Talent is nothing but sowing the crop, Matching The Skill-Set is
nothing but removing unwanted plants from farm so to make sure that it grows
effectively. You might ask me what does Achievable Target means. It basically
means it takes time for the crop to give a great yield, until it does you have
to wait, monitor, some times take others help, and guard it carefully. As your
dad does you have to keep an eye and monitor, nurture, and destroy the bad
influence so to make sure that you reap the desired result.
I was literally shocked by what I
heard, actually Vivekananda what right ….. We know everything it’s just that we
need to uncover. We need to explore and as my wise old friend dig deep and
wide. Sir Isaac Newton said it aptly once “If
I have seen further than others, it is only because I have stood on the
shoulders of giants.”
I was getting more curious by now
and asked “how do you think we need to set Achievable Goals to our employees”…
“ When you know where you want to
go, your brain will guide you”… you don’t need to do anything apart from asking
your asking yourself … how can I do that….
I will share some of the secrets
about how to set Achievable goal that might help you, but as I said earlier…
keep digging deep, and keep digging wider… There are several techniques to set
and achieve goals that complement each other so you can use multiple techniques
to increase the likelihood of achieving your goal. For an example Smart Goal
setting model is just great, there is nothing wrong with that. Many
organizations use this model however the success rate is very minimal. I will
tell you how you can increase the success rate today….
Ø Involve employees before
setting up a goal, ask them, counsel them, help them…Goals must always have a
purpose, a goal without purpose and clear definition of why we do that is never
considered as a goal at all. The purpose of goal isn’t to be a superstar; the
purpose of goal is better ourselves as Individuals.
Ø Never set a vague goal, a
goal must be specific and simple, we are not trying to solve a puzzle, and we
are trying to get a step ahead so that we can solve an equation.
Ø Consider this when you
set a goal with purpose, there isn’t called failure… there is only learning…….
And Einstein sweetly said “The day you
stop learning you start dying”. You can never fail until you stop trying….
Ø Get personal while you
are setting Achievable Goals to your
team, they should see and feel that there is some one who can steer us through
the tough times.
Ø Keep your team members
and yourself informed about the difficulties they face, motivate them do never
say It’s hard to do but let us see…
Ø Creativity and innovation
comes from Knowledge, motivation and environment, set a goal which unleash the
beast, challenge their status quo, and challenge their belief.
Ø A goal must see forward
and inward, not backward and outward. Let me not confuse you… when I say inward
and forward, Goal must take them from where they are to where they want to be,
and they should feel that there self worth is bigger than anything else.
That’s all I suppose
about setting Achievable goals, I would like to tell you a secret, listen to me
carefully “The real purpose of a goal is to make you a human”, and other goals
are just waste of time. You wouldn’t enjoy them for long… I could not….. And he
paused…….
By this time, the time
was already eleven “0” clock… Conductor opened the front door and said “here we
go ladies and gentleman, we got a hotel hear if guys want to eat some thing you
can, I suppose we will reach our destination little late today because of the
heavy rain”…
I felt all were waiting
for this stop because we were feeling hungry and I badly wanted to smoke a
cigarette. First thing a smoker does whenever he gets time is to smoke
Cigarette, rest is not important to him.
We got down I saw a hotel
which might have been built in late 80, they had Gandhi, Subhas Chandra bose
and Nehru’s picture hanging at the front door. And as usual all India
I was desperately
searching for a place to smoke; I told my new old friend that I shall go for
pee and he rather quickly said please… I ran and lit a cigarette and stood in
dark and starting enjoying and polluting the air. While I was doing that I felt
little insane about myself however I recollected what Gandhi had said “you must burn all which destroys humanity”
and I was doing the same.. I was burning the bad thing and trying to create a
great world.
I came back to the hotel
and joined my mystic friend, he was busy in eating and I ordered a Dosa started
seriously concentrating on eating.. We were hungry and famished and we really
wanted to eat some thing…
Conductor started
shouting again” Hello come back soon we shall leave this place, please check if
there is any one missing”…
We all got back and sat
in the bus….
Until Next Time... Learning Karma Be With You...
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