Self Learning and Importance of Coaching

When I saw back into my past, I feel what is lost due to absence of proper coaching.  Where I stand today is no doubt a great achievement, both at personal as well as on professional level.

Whole of my life is full of self-learning.  I started working while my result of Diploma in Commerce (D.Com) was awaited.  I stayed alone without my parents or guardian miles away from my home.  It was some divine power that always guided me.  I learned Short Hand, did graduation (in Arts subjects) as private candidate and tried Masters (Political Science).  I also try to be a Homeo Doctor and so on.  Look at it; does it make any connection with my current profession, IT?  No!

It is common problem with most of young guys, especially ones like me who came to big cities with some level of education and start working there.  Our education system does not provide any sort of professional coaching.  When we start working, we come across many professionals, i.e. Accounting, HR, IT, Marketing, Sales etc. etc. 

People like me become fascinated by the progress people from these fields have made.  However, we forget that if someone has got accolade in his/her professional, behind it is focused struggle of many years, structured education, guidance and learning through experience.

Had I have proper coaching, focused education, proper training, I would have been where I’m today a long while ago.  Nevertheless, I thanks in million to Almighty Allah for keeping me on right path and saved going astray.

So for anyone who is self-learner, it’s my message.  Self-learning is no doubt a great spirit.  However, if it’s done under professional guidance, it can bear fruits much earlier than anticipated.

In the end, choose your friends carefully and wisely.  The circle of friends has ever lasting impact on what you are and what you want to be!

Management Style, which one you are?

We all have to different phases of our life.  And in some capacity, we all have some sort of leadership and managerial roles, either at home or at office.

Do we ever wonder what kind of leader or manager we are.  Personally, I've been to various roles and worked under leadership of visionary people.  I learned and follow the leadership/management style of my ex-bosses.  But its' not enough for me as I'm not the soul who can be satisfied by something lesser.  I believe every process in life has tremendous chance of improvement so why should I not try?

I searched Google for management styles and found very good articles like :

6 management styles and when best to use them – The Leaders Tool Kit

Leadership Styles

However, I like a style where people are encouraged to take initiatives, delegation of power is horizontally and vertically aligned,  accountability, credibility and ethics are norm of the business.

I also observe Nature's way of management.  Have anybody done that?  I wonder how a unfathomable universe if being managed?  Trillions of starts, billions of planetary movements each day, Sun, Moon, Starts, weather everything follows certain rule (SOPs) scripted by the Almighty Allah.  Every things moves in its own orbit, follows SOPs, Sun rises and sets at given times (both in winter and summer) and follow its route to set-in, Moon, Stars and every single object has its' own orbit and moves within it.

Nature's style of management has been working since trillions of years without conflict.  It's best and we can follow to same to create harmony, team work and human development.