BUILDING BLOCKS OF CAREER..

After the first lecture with Dr. Mandi, I was eagerly waiting for the next class. Every class turns out to be a new and an interesting  experience. The lecture gave gyaan about the levels of management and the levels of performance management. It taught about how working in a team or working individually could affect the outcome.  The class started with the students being given wooden cubes to build a tower.The students were supposed to build a tower with the help of small cubes by placing one over the other and once a cube falls then the game is UP.



There were two cases. Once the person is Blindfolded and  in another case the person is open eyed. In each case people had set a target to accomplish.The students were asked to follow certain RULES while building the TOWER . The students had to build the tower with one cube as base and placing one cube at a time. The blindfolded person had to build the tower by placing the cube with left hand.

Initially sir had asked everyone for the predictions . The open eyed person had set a target of 22. He succeeded in placing the 22 cubes. After reaching 25 plus one of the cube fell down so the game was UP.

Then came the more interesting part. 3 people had volunteered to do the blindfolded task.They had kept a target of 22 plus The blindfolded person  was assisted by another person who was giving instructions as to where to place the cubes . These two persons were supervised by another person. They had successfully completed placing the cubes. 

In the first case while setting the target they had kept a target which could be achieved. The target was kept in mind bearing the capacity as to how many cubes could be placed. This tells about setting the target. The target should be set in such a way that, they are realistic and are achievable. Aiming for higher targets becomes cumbersome to achieve. At the same time setting lower tasks and achieving is also not a good indication.In the blindfolded  scenario, it gave a  replica as to what happens in the real world.The blindfolded person was synonymous to any other employee of the organization. The person assisting is synonymous to the manager of the organization who has been entitled to manage a set of resources under him and given targets to accomplish. Finally, the person who was supervising the entire activity and was interfering in the process occasionally to give them suggestions can be synonymous to the Top Management. This case primarily taught as to how the  efficiency and the strategies of the manager and the aligned work of worker would lead to achieving good results.