Managing People and Performance

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Assignment #2

Managing People and Performance

Submitted to: Prof. N.M. Agrawal

        

PGSEM 2005 Section B

Names:

Vikas Agarwal (2005115)

I believe that everyone is born in this world for some specific purpose. Career in my sense is a path that a person takes to reach his final goal in life. For a career, it is important for everyone to identify one's current position and one's goal in life. Simply speaking, career is like a road and goal is like a destination. For example, If someone wants to go from IIM-B to Electronics City, he/she has to first understand his current location and his/her destination. Career identification in my sense is an ongoing process and one keeps on refining one's career based on his/her exposure in the world.

Goal plays a very important role in framing someone's career. Sometime goals are very simple and people feel complacent after achieving them. Sometime goals are very difficult to achieve and people feel frustrated. It becomes very important to revise the goals once someone reaches near completion. Also the hard goals should be broken down into smaller and simpler milestones. Therefore, it becomes very important to identify the right goal. Goal identification can by following one or more of the following factors/methods:

  • God Gifted Abilities
  • Available opportunities, information and options
  • Current situation
  • Advice from well wishers
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God Gifted Abilities: It has been seen that some people are born with some natural talent. For example Sachin Tendulkar has natural talent of hand eye co-ordination for hitting the cricket ball, Lata Mangeshkar has natural talent in singing, Amitabh Bachchan has natural talent of his heavy voice etc. In such cases it is very easy to identify the goals. However, it is still needed to work or refine such natural talent. The challenge in such cases is to identify it and finding the right guru to refine such God gifted skills. Also it requires a lot of commitment and ...

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