Sunday, December 16, 2007

Where are you in your tresonance journey?

I realize that it took me almost 26 years of my working life to give tresonance its name.

When i was a kid, i used to like teaching other kids. I would help my sister with her maths and was generally popular in school and college for helping others with their studies, mostly in maths and stats.

As i grew older, i realized that i liked to run training and facilitation programs. Even as a sales manager, i was more keen to participate in the training day for my sales reps than i was in reviewing their performance numbers.

This convinced me of my thrill. Interestingly, the thrill definition evolved from 'teaching others' to 'spreading knowledge'.

Even today, this is clearly my thrill area. I take more pains than others to share what i find out and what i know. Sometimes, i share indiscriminately. The persons may not even be interested, yet i do so.

I guess that is what thrill means.

Discovering skill was an equally interesting and evolving journey. I had discovered my elocution abilities in school and my flair for theatre in college. However, it took me almost 20 years of work life to comprehensively discover my skills or core competence. It is also interesting how my definitions in this area also evolved.

From labelling them as presentation, communication and facilitation skils, i graduated to calling these influencing skills. I also figured i had an ability to build and engage teams, many a time from scratch.

With this combination of thrill and skill, i finally figured out the drill - engaging in the business of transformation; which aligns my thrill and skill wonderfully.

Interestingly, this drill is neutral to my choice of organization or function. I could well be in a hospital or in an NGO or even in a consulting company. Or, where i am today, in a large telecom company working to transform the way our customer service processes ought to work.

The alignment anchors one internally and creates a sense of joy.

I am extremely keen to know if you have managed to figure out your skill and thrill and have you found the right drill?

It is more of an introspection. Do write in your comments and own story to enrich mine.

It would be great to get an enrichment through multiple perspectives.

cheers

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Tresonance - an introduction

Well. Let me start by saying what tresonance is, in brief.
We are joyful and successful in life if we are able to align 3 things in ourselves
1. Our thrill - when doing something gives us pleasure, time stands still, we are willing to re-schedule our priorities for it. This, in short, is our passion area
2. Our skill - this is a core competence area for us. This is our skin. We are better than many in this. The competence has been tested in different situations and acknowledged and validated by friends, family members and professional colleagues
3. Our drill - our career, profession or choice of lifestyle is such that it provides ample opportunities to do those things that give us thrill and that use our skill
This alignment is what i call tresonance, or transformational resonance.
For, when this alignment happens, there is a significant impact that the individual begins to make on his or her immediate surroundings, materially and spiritually. The size of this impact grows with time and can make a 'dent' in the universe if this state is maintained.
It is my belief that we must seek to understand our 'thrill' and 'skill' and to look for a 'drill' that creates this alignment. That is a sure way to joy and also success in the end.