.Friday, October 05, 2007 ; 7:48 PM -
.His Mercy is New everY mornInG.
Undecided. Or rather don't want to make the decision. Basically, I am being offered to go over to another team. Both teams are great. Driven and skillful people. If I ever decided to go over to the other team, it will be for that extra connection or easiness I have with that team leader.
How I arrived at this choosing place? The office has this policy of "adopt for a week". Member of a team will go over to the other team and learned from the team leader for a week. Delightfully, I took up the chance and moved over for a week to MK's team. He taught me a lot of things on how to convince and how to sell. Probably it's because his team is rather small, both me and another "adopted colleague" received more personal attention from him. There is an easiness working with him. The team joked a lot and I can see that he cares a lot for the team. Besides being demanding and result oriented. On the 3rd day, he asked me whether want to stay in his team. Of course I don't mind. I said okay but what about my current manager? He said it's alright coz they are very good friends. Easy to settle. Well, there is still some nagginess in me when he said that.
Well what about my current manager? She is a driven and optimistic person. First week, she set a target for me to meet. Fine, it's quite reasonable despite not knowing how and where to start in meeting that 10 deals target. I still can't reach the required number of decision makers and generate enough good call backs. She asked me why am I so slow? She is a blunt and straight forward person. I was quite taken aback and felt pressured to reach the target everyday (I sat beside her). Don't be mistaken. She is a nice lady, nice manager. Someone who won't mind to go all out to help her team. I was suppose to get some letter from the company for PR application. HR lady on maternity leave so she went to settle all the admin stuff for me. Saw her running around the office, I felt grateful and pai seh. Today, I went to ICA for PR application. She helped me get the pending decision and made sure that the guy confirmed his registration by today, which he did. Praise the Lord. It was like she was doing my job. Again, super grateful towards her. But, I can't seem to see her as a friend. She is my supervisor. period. Hopefully I can relate to her as a friend too. With MK, he is a supervisor and a friend.
In conclusion, I don't know who to choose. GC faced with the same choice before. But, she chose to stay with her current team. Her choice is clear. Mine is not. Someone who will help me but can't really relate to her other than my supervisor? Someone whom I can relate to as a friend but I am not sure whether he will go all out to help me? Both I can work with. Just whether at the end of the day we will be more than just colleague or not. On my side, whoever I choose, I will definitely stay there and do my best for the team. The question is who? But then again, I am there not to make friends. Ultimately work is still the priority.
After much contemplation and discussion with GC, I decided to stay with Sri's team. If MK wants me to be in his team, he must fight for it. ~^^~
Same for "prudential guy". He must make the effort to contact me. LOL
Settled!
