HR from kids

Yes the conquest of observing activities and trying to learn from those to improve my skill inventory as a HR moves on and the recent place from where I observed a lot of it was on 10/01/10 or the 10th of Jan when it was the nationwide pulse polio campaign and millions of kids were administered with two drops of medicine two eradicate polio from India.

I had gone to this little suburb outside of Chennai to serve as a volunteer for one of the camps and what I had considered initially as a burden turned out to be a stress busters this was because when you deal with kids who are 0-5 alone the worlds seems such a nice place but some of my crucial learning’s were

1) Patience to ensure all the kids are administered with the dosage and thus ensuring you complete the job effectively and efficiently. Reluctance was highly there but it was persuasion which succeeded

2)A trust building process with a kid that the liquid we were giving was not bitter but rather sweet thus I wondered if an innocent kid needs quite a bit of attention and focus to get its approval how tough will it be with much matured and well planned individuals when they have to addressed for an Organizational Change

3) It’s not over till it's over - I certainly learnt that whenever we believed the crowd was over and we could take a breather! Pop the next bunch of kids came in and thus it went till the end

4) Contingency is crucial- For all predictions and levels we exceeded our targets and more and more kids coming for the dosage, it was necessary that we had adequate contingencies to complete our work as we had national interest at stake!

All in all a great day

Cheers

Arvind