How easy is our job !

I have been to a railway reservation counter recently and while standing in the 'Q', i was wondering the amount of patience the executives there should be having. They need to interact with sooo many customers, with sooo many queries.. each having their own requirement. On an average, the executive must be handling at least 10 people in an hour and just hats off to those people. Same is the case with all those people who interact with the customer for soo long, like doctors, sales executives, etc., They may love their job but still...
In comparison with the software industry where the client interaction will be every now and then or at the most once per day and for that only we may get frustrated at times... we will be nowhere to these people.

Wonderful test match to watch

While watching the Indians bating - first innings of the 2nd test match Vs Aus, i just loved it. It was very exciting the way Sachin, Laxman and other players played their innings. Though i watched the match only every now and then, I just felt i should watch the match for the entire day completely.... Each day of the Indian innings had its own beauty. Sachin made his century after sooo many misses and shut the mouth of soo many critics. Laxman known for his bad running between the wickets as well as good player vs aus - again proved himself.
Ha... and all that was spoilt because of whatever is happening...
This is definetely an even that none of the indian cricket fans can forget nor can the players..
Lets hope things will get better and we will have fair players and a fair game

Why is Dravid eating so many balls? Is he so hungry ?

I feel a Test Cricket opener should use or face as many balls as possible. This will make the ball used and it will ease the other batsmen who can play later to play better.
Why are we not understanding this but blaming Dravid for eating up so many balls and scoring few runs.
In the first test match of India Vs Australia, Dravid used 66+114 =180 and scored only 5+16 = 21 runs and there were many talks on changing Dravid from opening to down the order.
I agree that batsmen needs to keep the score board running or atleast walking ;) (second test Dravid scored 1 run after 40 balls - in the middle of his innings) but there is other side of the coin that we were not realizing.
Is he not making the ball lose its shine and become an old ball. Wont it not be easier now for other batsmen to play better. Why are the other batsmen unable to continue the game better ??Looks like Million $ ?s ?? ;)

Mentoring from Chak de India

Recently I have watched the movie Chak de India(not that interested in movies so mostly I watch the movies much later). It was a wonderful movie to watch. Everything in that can be corelated to life. I liked the way it was shown on how a perfect team can be made and also how important the mentor is to the team. Mentorship was one of the important things that we can observe and learn, apart from patriotism, unity in diversity, etc.,
We all form teams in our worklife for various tasks that we do. The team is usually made up of people with different backgrounds, different workstyles, etc., it is now the role of the mentor - may be an external person of the team or team lead in most cases to show the path to the team, get the teamwork and team going inspite of all the hurdles, problems (internal or external) to achieve the task for which the team was formed.
What is mentorship?
Mentorship refers to a developmental relationship between a more experienced mentor and a less experienced partner referred to as a mentee or protégé -- a person guided and protected by a more prominent person.
It again depends on the number of members in the team. Mentoring can be one-to-one, one-many(team), etc.,

One of the most important things in a mentor is to enable others grow, that is it also requires that the mentor be sincerely interested in someone else’s growth. Mentor may not win any awards, but he/she will have the satisfaction of having done an important job.
Following are some of the types
Team mentoring offers a methodology for facilitating the learning of an intact team.
Facilitated group mentoring allows a number of people to participate in a learning group and to benefit simultaneously from the experience and expertise of a mentor or mentors.
Peer-group mentoring brings together peers with similar learning interests or needs. The group is self-directed and self-managed. Source

How can mentoring be useful in work life

Even in our worklife, it is important for a mentor to train the team, to show them the direction and to orient them in performing better. The experienced members may become informal mentors and share their experiences, approaches to the babies in the team to enable them to know that approach to perform better. There can be various hurdles one might face during mentoring the team especially when one has to mould the team to go in one direction. There will be all kinds of members in the team having different experiences that may be related to that work we are performing or may not be related. For example in a software testing team working on one particular project may consisting of three or four members. Here each one may have different experiences on various projects or various amounts of experiences, etc.,

It is the challenge of the mentor to overcome these hurdles, to let the team/mentee understand the hurdles, know when to take what decision, utilize all the resources, set a feeling of oness in the team so that the task can be easily accomplished, improve the confidence of the team, eliminate the differences that may exists among the various members, improve the morale of the team, etc., and get things going on track.

Learn from everyone we meet and people learn from you :)