I am back again with the second part of the training.The Corporate Readiness Program(CRP),in one word is AWESOME.My trainer was a nice madam,but she says calling a lady MADAM in corporate world is inappropriate.The corporate practice is to call the lady by name.That is how my training started.The very first day i studied the names of my 58 colleages.The first day progressed with little ice break sessions,knowing each other,everything happening without we even knowing that we are interacting very much.One exercise was to find differences between COLLEGE & CORPORATE life.For this we were divided into small groups of 8-9 and she gave each group with a big chart paper so that we can portray what the changes are.The excercise was to make us realize that we are no more college students,so the bottomline is act like professionals,in everyway.Think, behave,and dress like one.The next exercise was also something weird,she told us to write down five of our fears.After all of us finished she made us pin those papers on the wall and told us to read all those.The aim was to make us realize that most people share common fears.The session was very good.With this the first day exercises was over.

             The second day was even more interesting with things like how to engage in a good conversation.Importance of listening in a conversation.How to converse properly,what are the skills required in a good conversation other than language etc.The stress was on non-verbal communication.Like gestures,eye contact,importance of a smile,noding while talking,postive replys to a sender etc.She made us do small skits to make us understand the importance of each of these.It was all fun plus informative.There were small group tasks to help us improve our group planing and behaviour in a group.There was one special excercise which helped us understand what each of us are.It was kind of physcological.A paper consisted of a lot of words in four columns.We were told to underline whichever words we feel like are related to us.Each column represented a particular behaviour.The column with max words underline will show your dominant character.DRIVER,EXPRESSOR,RELATOR,ANALYTICAL were the four types.Driver is one who always wants to be in control of the situation,Expressor is active kind adjusts with conditions,Relator needs some care and Analyst needs more and more data.She explained how to interact with each kind.Which might be usefull once we start meeting more and more people.With this day two also got over.

The third day was also resourcefull.Less activities more theory.Theory included E-mail etiquittes,dining etiquettes etc.One other excercise during last day which needs mentioning is a small group activity.It started like this, 8-9 people in a group and 7-8 groups.We were first told that she will give us small cubes,15 for each group and we have to make the tallest tower.We have choices for time and count of cubes required.Like 5 cubes 10 minutes ,15 cube 10 minutes,10 cube 15 minutes,each group can select their choice.After everybody made their choices she said the rules of the game.Only one person touches the cube,and that one is blindfolded.He can listen to others in the group and place the cubes one above another.Those who thought like 15 cube and 10 minutes is enough failed miserably.We thought she will declare winners,but nothing happened, she said in this game nobody is a loser and nobody is a winner.The moral of the exercise was in a project anything can be expected,rules can change on the run,listen to others,every team is different with different goals.With this the three days CRP finished,rest of the corporate etiquettes we have to study ourselves from experiance only.

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