Front Line Managers Training (FLM)

Just an hour ago, I completed a three training in my company – Front Line Managers training arranged by the company to train first level managers. It started on 24th and ended today 26th August 2009.

Though I manage a team of 60 people, it has never been easy for me to find ways and means to deal with various situations that come in my way. Everyone has his or her own way of approach and everything they do. Sometimes it might work and other times it might not. There is no right or wrong answers to say which approach is correct. It all depends on what situation you handle and what kind of people you handle. The training gave us ideas to manage different kind of people and face different kind of difficult situations.

The three days training consists of well-organized Agenda, which includes Games, Activities, Fun filled exercises, exciting videos and presentations.
We also had an hour session on Day 1 by one of our senior manager, which was quite useful. He shared lot of interesting facts about leadership. He also shared his own experience of handling the situations. The most important factor what we learned from him was about continuous learning.

I must also add a line about faculty who facilitated us for this training. They were very polite, punctual, focus on topic, and allowed us to talk freely and express our ideas and thinking. They let us talk rather than only listen.
To conclude, it was a wonderful session.

Omar Abdulla

Omar Abdulla, the CM of J&K, created a stunt last week when he was alleged by opposition party that he was involved in a sex scandal in 2006.

In stead of facing the charge and proving himself innocence, Omar took a surprise root to resign and walked out of the assembly to meet the Governor and submit the resignation. What cleverly did was he added a line in the resignation letter that Governor should accept the resignation only if he was convinced that he was involved in the case. What a situation for the Governor?

It all started sometime back in 2006 that one of minor girl exposed a sex crime in which lot of top officials names were rolling on. It was said that Omar's name was registered at position 102 as the list of accused. But later CBI refused the inclusion of Omar's name. Since his name is not in the CBI list currently, central govt. reported to governor that he was innocence. Based on the report, Governor rejected the resignation and Omar started his duty in the office as usual. What a drama?

As a Chief Ministor, if he is so vunerable like this what he can achieve for the state? The main opposition party Mufti Muhammad's PDP will always put charges against him like this (may be ture or false) and will he resign every time? How many times do you have resign if you are going to take all charges seriously? As a CM, he should have the courage to face the charges, instead of hiding behind the people by inducing the emotional.

Stray Dogs

I read a news in Times Of India about stray dogs biting Children and morning Walkers. Also, they reported that no action has been taken so far from Chennai Corporation. It indeed is true that stray dogs are becoming a threatening factor in our every day life. There are always news about children being targeted by the street dogs every now and then.

It was a surprise for me that one of the animal well wisher commented that it was parent's mistake by letting their children play in the street. He also mentioned that we have to learn how to live with animals. What I am wondering is, why there is no common sense for most of the so called animal well wishers. It looks like these people don't have brain at all. They always care about Animals and not about the humans. For argument sake I am asking, if you can live with stray dogs side by side why don't you live with Tigers and Lions, as end of the day they are also animals?

I dont come to say all dogs to be curbed. At least those dogs that are not owned by anyone can be put into an end as the first phase. If anyone has pet dogs, they should keep the dog in their home only with a rope tied around the neck.