Monday, April 19, 2010

Part time mother

One of my friends sends Good Morning mail everyday with beautiful message. One day he sent a mail with message "Being a full time mother is one of the highest paid job,since the payment is pure love."

I read and thought for a while. Am I part time mother :). May be yes. I think all working mothers are part time mother. We keep struggling between professional and family life.

Sometimes I am so involved in this struggling that I cannot exactly recall when my daughter started crawling, standing or took her first step. Then I realized that she is growing so fast :).

In morning, I ignore her small small demands, make her quickly do all tasks. Sometimes being harsh with her. And while leaving her when she says softly "Mam'aa Bye" bring tears in my eyes.

In the evening, i just rush to see her and cannot express her happiness when she jumps saying "My mam'aa has come" :).
In night when I think of spending time with her, she is so tired and wants to sleep. I can't help.

This cycle continues from sunrise to sunset.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Career Growth for Women

Few days back one of my friend asked me about the career growth of women. Specially In today’s competitive world, where we are always measure on our performance. It is really difficult for women to show her excellence in specified time.

It is the fact that men have advantage over women as they can spend more time in workplace.
But still, I have listed down some of the ways to impress your seniors and colleagues.

1. Be proactive.
2. Always Ask questions (Why, How)
3. Discuss and bring your discussion to some conclusion.
4. Take call or initiative yourself. Don’t think this is not my job.
5. Whatever you do, do it in the best way. Simple writing mail reflects your professionalism.
6. Pay more attention to your communication. Be it a written or verbal. It should be clear and to the point.
7. Whenever you get time from your project work, start hunting for knowledge. Share that with your team.
8. Suggest anything which you think is good for your project or team or company.
9. Time management. Very important for women.
10. Prioritizing work.
11. Problem Solving. Try to solve your difficulties yourself first. If not possible then discuss and then show what all you tried to solve your problem?

Thanks for reading



Sujata Wagh
Sr. Quality Analyst
Infospectrum India Private Limited