Newbie on the Blog (Block)

Hello folks,

After reading GC's blog, inspiration beckons thus penning my thots down. Btw this is my maiden entry into a BLOG. :) I love to read blogs but never did put it into action.

Being a total newbie in BD, I was filled with apprehension b4 coming back from my maternity leave. I'm so used to working day and night on excel sheets and analysing numbers. So this is really a leap of faith. :)

I take this journey into BD akin to my baby learning and coping with the brand new world. Baby steps...I know there will be helping hands extended to me along the way...I need to be discerning and walk the route to "adulthood" in the BD team. ;)

I do agree that team spirit and camaraderie among the team is essential to make our work life more palatable. I experienced it myself with the Data pricing team, and with that, it doesnt make coming to work a drag - REALLY! Let's make our team THE team to be in! :D

*grin*
Lynette

Work Life Integration...and hence Harmony

Dear Team,

I was hoping to see some response/feedback or blog contributions by any of you since I had started posting my thoughts. Remember we wanted to have our "Dream Day" and you are allowed to do that away from office once a month? Don't think anyone is yet to practise that. Probably too many things to settle and we just can't pull ourselves away from work. Yes..we are all working longer and longer hours. Staying later in the office, coming in for breakfast meeting, having more lunch meetings, late meetings without dinners and even working during weekends.

Someone asked me how we can achieve work life balance and how I manage the balance between my family and my work. Well, truely, it's tough and I don't think it is possible to really do a 50:50 balance between the two in terms of time. With the pace of life and environment changing faster and faster, we can only look for ways to optimise how we work and I believe in Work-Life integration.

Work life integration as in, squeezing in time to do my own thinking or clearing mails in pockets of time when my kids are taking their lessons (Like now...writing this blog at Starbuck cafe using our lovely Broadband-on-Mobile),working out in Gym overlooking the pool where my kids are taking their swimming lessons etc. I have also seen colleagues running errands during lunch time, go gym during lunch where we strive to stay healthy amidst the stressful work.

As we spend more and more time in the office, office is no longer just a place where we earn our living. Colleagues are no longer just co-workers. We need to enjoy our work place and have fun with our colleagues. I don't see a problem with the later as I constantly hear laughters and jokes from outside my cubicle from the team and from the many nicknames going round...(our drama queen, ET, Penguin, Ronny@ShangHai, Hong Kong ABC etc...). It's great to see that the team enjoys each other's company and who says you can't have fun while working hard.

Now, we wanted to make our work place more fun as well! That's where Kai Hock spoke about converting his old cubicle into a "dreaming corner" where we can have a more relax setting for quick discussions (or lunch time fun?), putting in table football at pantry at 12th floor etc. Pls think about it and suggest more ideas of how we can make this "second home" a better place where we enjoy even more.

Team, I hope the next blog would be posted by one of you...not me alone, talking to myself? I am sure you will not disappoint me..

Have an enjoyable weekend,

Geok Chwee

IRR - From Ideas to Reality to RESULTS!

Dear team mates,

The team had been busy juggling with many key tasks at hand, from creating new solutions, to driving marketing activities to ensuring i.Luminate really illuminates.... I know, I know, it is VERY Challenging. But, I believe, we are all in an exciting time. I was reading a book on "Marketing Personality" which gave a case study of how microsoft changes their own perception of themselves from an incumbent, bully of the software world to one that is embracing the new changing world and making a difference.

I would like to borrow the campaign that was spun from their ground people up: Change the world or Go home!

Everyday, we spend many hours in our work (or Career, or job, depending on how you view this..or hobby...) and in the office. The last thing you want in your life is to go home and look back, not knowing what you had done in the day, or what difference you had made. If you are doing the same thing day in day out, spending 10 years in a job is like having only 1 year of work experience but doing it 10 time! We need to constantly challenge ourselves in making a difference to our organization, our people around us and of course, ourselves. Pushing the envelope, looking for new horizons, solving the problems that will always crop up are all but part of the journey.

So, let's all push on together and MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Imagine the fruit of your labour after plouging through the raw land:

SingTel breaking new grounds in providing ICT solution in key industries!
SingTel being the innovator in Mobility solutions empowering 21st century workers!
SingTel, the leading digital marketing guru in ICT industry!

Yes, we need to dream. Being able to dream and work toward transforming Ideas to Reality to Results would enable us to be make the difference in where we are today.

I enjoy working with you and looking forward to hearing your dreams in this space.

Best Regards,

Happy Dreamer... Geok Chwee