2 Day Training Experience - Part 1

Alarm starts ringing from 7 'o' clock. It couldn't even complete 1 ring fully. It is trying to wake me up every 5 minutes, but instead i'm putting it in sleep every 5 minutes. Atlast it won at 7:40. Today I need to go to another branch of my office in borivali for a training. So i got ready soon to catch a town bus to go to Borivali. As i went to borivali National park before by bus, i reached there correctly. Then i found the office and entered inside. Security asked for the details and i said that i came for training. He told that i need a visitor pass and asked me to sit in reception till a person comes to escort me. In reception me and another person were there. He would be around 45 yrs age. Receptionsist called him in few minutes and took a photo off him and gave the visitor pass immediately. And she called me in few minutes and asked "Did you came for 'Leadership Skills for Project Leaders' Training ?". Guess what would have been my answer.

It is 'YES'.

Yes. I went for Project leaders training. Don't get surprised or shocked. I didn't become a PL and i won't be in near future. I'm just a backup PL in my team and i should have attended some PL training. So this was the only PL training in this month and as we have audit this month end, i must attend this training. This training is only for PLs and above and only for one particular Project members. But i requested and got permission to attend. If i go for normal training ,where there are people of my ages , i will get many bun experiences and lot of comic swill happen. Now i'm going for PL training, where everyone is PL and above, except me. Guess how it would have been.

After getting Visitor Pass, A lady who was organising the training came to escort, not me. To escort that 45 yr old man. He is the faculty for that training. I got the permission to attend the training from that lady only. But seems that she forgot that. So she didn't ask me anything. But i just followed them both wherever they went. Whichever door she is entering, i'm also just tail gating. As i'm going behind them, security didn't ask me anything. Atlast, while entering the training room, she signed the register to escort that man. I followed them upto there. Then only she saw me and found that i'm following them. She was starring at me like looking at a guy who was chasing a girl in the street. I don't know what to say at that moment. I showed the visitor pass and said 'Ela..vara..san, from Thaaaaane...'. Then she remembered and escorted me also.

Me and the Faculty are the 1st ones to enter into that room. No one else arrived yet. Then one by one some people came. All are working on the same office,same project. I'm the only one from different branch and different project. Around 17 ppl were there. Then Faculty started the training by asking the 1st Question:'Who are all working in IT since Y2K problem?'. Some people raised hands. Oh My God. I was studying 10th std at that time. I got freaked out. I thought experienced people would come for training, but not this much experienced. Then the 2nd Question he asked is: 'Who are all having Kids?'. For that also some people raised hands. I felt like an Alien there. Or like a human caught in between Aliens. I was thinking how to pass two days like this with these Uncles and Aunts.

Then training started and going with some slide shows,assessments etc. It was not as boring as i expected. Because for every topic, he told some stories as example. Somehow, time passed upto lunch. After Lunch, there comes the interesting part. That is Roleplay.

Roleplay 1:
Before saying about this, i need to say something about me. In my office, whenever my PL or any senior persons asks me to do any job, the immediate answer which comes from my mouth is "It's ok. No problem. I'll do it". I'll suffer later without knowing how to do, is a different thing. I don't have guts to oppose any one. That is the fact. Many of you know this. Now see what my role in Roleplay.

"I'm recently promoted to Module Leader Post. PL is asking me to generate some reports. Now i need to reject that by arguing that "I'm newly promoted and i have never generated any report before and also my teammates are not listening to me. So i won't be able to this now."

This is little difficult role for me. I did somewhat ok. But atleast i got a chance to practise on how to oppose your seniors/PLs.

RolePlay 2:
This one is more interesting. If you had read one of previous blog, you would have came to know how i used to talk to my clients in our weekly call. If you didn't read, here is the portion of that blog: (Last 2 Months... : Team Meetings:Mostly in our team meetings, i'll never talk. I'll try to say 'Hi' at the starting of the meeting. But before i try to say 'hi', others will enter into dicussion, so i'll leave that. At the end of meeting, before i try to say 'Bye' everyone will hangup the phone. So till now my only aim is to say 'Hi' and 'Bye' in meeting.)Now see my role in the Roleplay.

"I'm a PL and one of my teammember is working very good, but feeling very shy in talking to clients in weekly call. I have to advice her to start talking to clients in weekly call. Her role is to oppose me".

Guess how it could have been for me to advice. That too regarding this. The only person who i ever advised and only person who ever listen to my advice is my sister.Don't think that i'm caring too much for my sister or my sister has so much respect for me. I would have been ordered to advise her and she would have been ordered to listen to my advise. Every one knows where the order would have came from(My Dad). So i completed this roleplay by imagining the person who was sitting before me as my sister and the faculty who gave me this role as my father.

I'll share the Day 2 experiences soon.