This I Believe

The skill of a team player was still developing within me when i got my first job as a software consultant in India. I worked for 3 years in that position, watching every year as fresh undergraduates made it aboard our expanding enterprise

It was when I was wondering as to when I would get an opportunity to work with them that it presented itself to me.

I was assigned a project .The project was to design a software and to show that it worked for any given design of a hardware chip. This project had to be done as early as possible as the clients were scheduled to arrive from New Zeeland the same week. My team consisted of 6 employees including me and four others who were fresh graduates and one who had a worked just over a year then. It was also my first time as a leader of a group. Overall the group was inexperienced under an inexperienced leadership.I assigned a part of the software to each member; keeping the most important part to myself .I thought that we could comfortably finish the project in time but what i had overlooked was the integrity of the team .Nothing can be accomplished as long as your team has lost its integrity ,unfortunately for me I learnt this a little too late. Almost all the team members had not completed their part of their respective parts of the project. By the end of the week and mine was the only part that was complete. At the end the company needed to get corporate level help to get the project done before the clients arrived

I was totally dejected with the result. I knew that lack of interaction with the team was what had lead to this result. I came to know later that most my team thought that they would not be successful under an inexperienced leader like me and that is when they had decided to give up on the project.

I had let them realise that I was an inexperienced leader and a team player on the whole. That was when i did some serious self evaluation and jotted down the skills i was lacking and when i viewed the list on the whole all the points seem to point at only one solution and that was to graduate with a MBA degree, specialising in team based work.

I would bring the inexperienced leader within me believing it to change into a world class leader. I know that at queens students come from diverse group of backgrounds

so a team is likely to consist of varying opinions and varying skills and understanding each team member fully is very crucial and this could prove to be a challenge that i would like to confront

At queens there is a very competitive environment and for any idea that I bring to the table, there is bound to be a better idea which again makes me think of something better. This makes me improve my capabilities constantly.

I visualise myself managing my own enterprise after I have completed this learning module and I know that the learning modules and the experienced staff at queens would help turn the vision into a reality