From my unexpected job profile...

Life is full of unexpected things, and in every unexpected happening there is some expectation hidden inside. These hidden expectations once realised people started learning more. At last he realised most of the part of learning is realisation. Realisation of what he knows already. Common sense is so uncommon in common life.

One guy did MBA with not expectation of what he is doing now. Does it hurt him? It did but vanishes when he found the expectations inside the unexpected happening. Every coin has both head and tail likewise every job has both positive and negative. Sharing positive increases positive and reduces negative. The greatest art is converting negative into positive. Convincing self is tougher than convincing a customer. Learning is the best tool for convincing self. Realising the learning is the result of self convincing. Realising is an art, the art of telling what I have learnt. This art is a continuous process where many dots have to connect. I am working like a teacher that I have never expected. Oh! The word “teacher” the most respected one, but most pain to me because it is not what I have expected. But there is something that people cannot see, the challenges that look easy but most difficult.

Being a teacher is not teaching, it is learning indeed. In a class thirty students learn from one teacher, but the teacher learns from 30 teachers. Every student teaches something, they collectively teach many things.

A class room with thirty students means thirty different people with different levels of understanding. The biggest challenge is defining what actually I am teaching. Is the Logistics or Supply chain management? Or is it teaching how to learn Logistics or Supply Chain Management? Why should they learn? Being a teacher, is it my responsibility to answer the question why should they learn? I do not have the answer but for making them understand what I am teaching, growing the interest of the subject inside them is necessary.
There are some attribute to be possess for being a student manager, I prefer to use student manager, since I am not yet a teacher.

The first quality to be possessed for being a student manager is ignorance. Like unlearning is harder than learning, ignorance is sometime very difficult. The most difficult is to identify what to ignore and what not to.

Second attribute is forgiveness, forgiving someone is really tough job. And students do many mistakes, knowingly and unknowingly, since mistake is a part of student. Ignorance may make it easy.

Third is balancing ego. Every day is a test; every class is an examination hall where many examiners are there to judge my performance. Their body language tells how I am performing. That makes me happy, that makes me sad too. All the examiners are not alike, some are too bad, that hurts ego. How to handle it is an art, most important skill to possess. Ego sometime hurts the most and wounded person is a weak person.

Fourth is empathy, without that I cannot understand them. A tool to understand for giving best is empathy.

The fifth is, loving my job. Loving my job make me feel good, a good mind is a happy mind. Happy mind is a productive mind, since happy is unconditional; the unconditional mind work in right brain that put my work into my day dreams. That let me visualize, visualization is a mental practice. And practice make perfect.

Learning is easy; expressing what I have learnt is difficult. Easy things forget soon, difficult things are difficult to forget. What I have expressed is just a small part of what I have learnt. Since tomorrow is there, I will come again to express more.

Everything changes with time, the meaning of lesson I am learning today will also change. But still let me realise that change.