My Motivation

Things that give me strength and energy to work - Process - Impressions - Goal - Feedback When I take up a new assignment, I have no idea what the outcome will be like – it is almost always a challenge. Some people can spend years upon years managing the same projects – something that would get me bored senseless. Nothing does more to kill my capacity for work than invariable routine operations. They are on the other extreme of what's interesting. When you have an interest in a job, the process never fails to give you pleasure and you find yourself living the process. While...

Corporate culture. Training

Training as part of work I accept working in an office as an intrinsic part of life. The more time it takes during the course of a day, month, year, then the more use should be drawn from this process. In the other case this is an empty waste of time.  In my first post dedicated to corporate culture I mention the necessity for comfortable personal space to become oneself. Today I want to write about training, i.e. to go further and expand my principle and understanding of the working process as it is for me and others who set themselves the aim of a conscious approach to one’s activities...

Mistakes in Management

If you want something done the way it was thought up – participate in all its stages.  Today I would like to refer to widespread mistakes in managing projects. I don’t want to focus my attention on precise methodologies, rules and procedures that have been elaborated in hundreds of books. These is all instrumentation, but the key factor in management is not the instrument, but in the person who is holding it in their hands. So, for example, you can learn to say the right thing or smile nicely in conversation, train yourself psychologically, have a to-do list, study how to do something...

Corporate culture. Personal space

Personal space Over the years I’ve visited the offices of dozens of clients, suppliers and competitors. It should be said that in ten years little has changed – people work as before in a right-angled space of straight lines and corners with a window to the middle. The back of the chair could also be part of these fixed contours, as well as the bends in the toilet bowl and the sink in the washroom... With the appearance of A-Class and higher business centres there is more light in these boxes and something resembling space, although I find it hard to imagine spending a happy 8-9 hours...

Sincere Interest

Why I enjoy working For me life is a search. I cannot settle on just one thing and spend a lot of time on it without development. From time to time, once every eighteen months or even more often, I need to “shake” myself, give myself a kick up the backside. In the introduction to my blog I referred to interest in the result – now I would like to write about this in a little more detail.  In every person’s life there are a huge number of external factors which constantly direct us. Surely we have all experienced a situation in life when they completed something and hit the ‘ceiling,’...

To-do list

A ‘to-do’ list is quite a useful thing. I acknowledge myself that I carry one when all tasks accumulate, but this is a lot. Аnd beside, it is one of the things that helps our brain complete planned tasks at the necessary time and in the right order.  Why does this happen?  Practically any idea that appears in my head begins from a thought which gradually, if I retain in my memory, becomes overgrown with new similar thoughts like a snowball into an idea, complemented by different shapes and pictures from reality. But all this is still sitting in my head, i.e. it is guarded...

Human Resource Management

By virtue of the specifics of my work I often have the chance to talk to different people. First of all, I just like to talk. Any socialising is always very emotional and gives you the chance to get a feeling about the person. The telephone and social networks lack this part of live communication, they do not have this taste for looking into someone’s eyes when you can understand in three seconds what you can’t write in even ten offers. Communication is priceless experience.  Secondly, I always personally choose the people who’ll end up working with me. This is really important because...

Love to work

In my previous two posts I formulated the first two principles of whole-hearted management which I adhere to in my work. They are connected with the impressions that clients receive, and with my responsibilities. Today, I would like to share a third principle. In just two words they are – ease and simplicity.  Whatever we refer to our work is reflected in its execution. I’m not just talking about “quality” here as a measure of client satisfaction and correlation to their expectations. In my view this is the shell or cover of what lies deeper. For me quality has...

Treat the Client, as if it were You

It has always happened to me that, in any activity, whether it’s personal life, work or relaxation, that there is a time and place when I can see myself from the sidelines. It happens that I can feel myself in a crowd of people or in discussion, or simply just walking down the road, I start hearing my own words and almost feel outside my body, as if inside me there’s another person in charge. These moments can be very useful, e.g. they enable me to see and hear what is frequently concealed by the succession of events that follow one after the other throughout the day. They enable me to step...

Principal of Development

Each and every one of us who undertakes any activity in life, when beginning a process gives it a start at a certain point in time and gradually reaches its conclusion. The simplest example in management could be job presentation as the beginning of the process and the Result as its completion phase.  There are also some even more long-term processes, like, for example, the strategic development of a company or state over a long period of time. Simple and complicated, short and long processes have something in common and that is the people who are engaged in them. And if you want to be...

Responsibility to...

This term is loved by many when it comes to decision-making, choice of supplier or worker, when “blame-storming” a project, evaluating the work of employees and so on. I have myself witnessed on more than one occasion situations when someone has been entrusted a task for which he had barely had an idea how to complete, who had the necessary management skills and internal potential for completing the task handed to him. He had been “conferred with responsibility” and he should carry it triumphantly barely understanding with what exactly he had been entrusted. Everyone’s head is filled with...

Good impressions

Impressions – are a food for human awareness, for our feelings and emotions. Impressions have immediate effect on our emotional perceptions that are linked with a desire to achieve a Result from some activity or other. To put it simply – a “bad impression” is one that doesn’t fit our perceptions while a “good” or “surprisingly pleasant” impression is one that meets or exceeds our expectations leading to positive feelings. Positive feelings strengthen us, while on the other hand negative emotions drain it, therefore people instinctively look for good impressions and return to the place where...

Some words before...

It so happened, that having been working for over 8 years providing localisation services and providing support to marketing companies, that one glorious day I realised that I had acquired the baggage of practical knowledge and experience, and I wanted to share it! As they say, there’s no smoke without fire, but it didn’t just happen like that, but thanks to the influence of a number of factors peculiar to the Russian market in this and other areas. Money Everyone really wants it, as well as receiving more and spending less. In the overwhelming majority of cases money is the main argument...