it's been a really really terrible week for me. expected it to be so. but did not expect it to be so so so so terrible. it's one thing after another at work and having to cover for one after another. came home close to midnight every night since the start of the new course.
downsizing and rightsizing? and rightsizing to rationalize manpower requirements and optimize ops cost? well, all sound good and logical from an organisational management point of view. but regrettably, when it comes to the crunch, and where people are assessed by their ability to implement new things, invariably, it will boil down to imposing new objectives, new demands on the people at the end of the food chain.
and there is a limit to this. if not managed well, things will one day just collapse and come to a stand still. that, it perhaps what is happening now. everything that management wants, it's ok. and this ended up with everyone being drawn to all different directions. there is absolutely no capacity anymore to do what we are supposed to do. as trainers, we are now everything but trainers. yet, the direction is that we have to be with our trainees all the time to coach and guide the learning process. how? how? how to manage?
we cannot expect rightsizing to mean we can do news things immediately. we need new processes, we need new solutions, and even if there are new procedures drawn out, it needs time to stabilize. it needs time to reach an equilibrium.
these are basic management axioms. but sadly management does not realize this.
rat race...
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