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
