Litty Josekutty
GM (E&T) at ONGC
Litty is a true professional committed to her job. She is keeping ONGC flag high by her devotion to job while on deputation with CVC. Presently, the GM (E&T) at Oil and Natural Gas...
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Tricky Workplace Situation Handled
- Tom is just shooting his mouth. He should first listen to the customers requirements then start suggesting. He didn't even let them complete their sentence
- Look into the eyes, paraphrase, ask questions, repeat some ideas, regkect
- Tell them the importance of listening because without understanding what the other person wants to say, no point at jumping to conclusions, which may be wrong as well.
- Face. The eyes tells lot of things. Hand gesture also matters
- Most of the time
- Can share some incidents that happens regularly in the internal meetings or conferences. Telling them the importance of the mon verbal cues and to be alert about it
- 2nd is the ideal one as Brian, appreciated the team for their work and creativity as well as subtly put the fact about the performance. Instead of giving a negative feedback, he took the things in stride and looked forward to the team reviewing their performance to improve.
- Should be able to communicate in such a way that the listener would like to follow, and not being upset. We should be able to confront ourselves. Just saying yes to everything to keep them happy is not good.
- Open cubicles, where you cannot talk freely. Neighbours are listening.
- We try to discuss. Try to get intervention when cannot handle myself. We try to get a consensus and discuss what is the best.
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- I always try to communicate or talk to my team members to find out what is going in their minds and give the freedom to do be innovative. That itself is an example to follow. Having discussions or brain storming sessions when a new project comes up, involving everyone is also how I try to show and make them feel inclusive
- Showing patience. Apologising at first, then coolly making the points clear or justify Always wear a smile or being composed. Never get agitated and fight back
- Address it publicly. Accept mistakes and agree to do the rectification. Don't remove negative comments. Resolve the problem immediately. Someone points out a bug, accepting it and improving it is the best way.
- Look at it with a positive attitude. Accept the responsibility or mistake and immediately try to rectify Learn to Apologise
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- Have to teach them to take it in good spirit and take it as a testing to improve upon the matter. Shouldn't feel ashamed to accept a mistake and apologise. Shouldn't fight back or be defensive
- Always be the person I preach. Try to smile at all the times and bring it to the eyes even. Show interest in the other person always.
- I got angry myself, but could have cooled that person down with a smile, a pleasant face.
- Bored, not concerned, not interested, annoyed.
- Its our belief system, social and moral values which we want to see high in the leaders. We want leaders to be ethical in all their actions. They should reflect balance, truth humility and self confidence, how they achieve their goals
- You will loose respect trust of your team & customers. Loose self confidence and dignity infront of others. We loose temper on others and not able to empathise
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- Upfront you should be a person with values. Tell the importance of empathy, respect in all the actions. Being a leader, they should become role models to all team members Leaders should be able to get trust amongst others and develop confidence in achieving the goals
- Appreciative leadership Democratic leader - sharing his thoughts, taking inputs from his team Inclusive leader who gets along with his team well and participates in their discussions
- One who takes away all the credit for himself, this is very demotivating One who is very negative than encouraging the teammates, so even if we make mistakes, not helping to make improvements One who pokes his nose in all the work than trusting the teammates Feedbacks should have been given in a positive way,
- Based on the feedbacks, they should come together and think of ways to improve. Look for more ideas and put the rightly skilled team in the right areas of improvement. Take third party support where ever required like the compatibility issue. Take up training or development course for the team to increase knowledge
- By examples where the mentee could have done differently. I should also walk the walk along with my mentee
- Poor communication and sharing of information within the organisation. All good and bad news should be shared on the internal portals or mails, to keep the employees abrest with what is happening in the organisation and what should be presented to the world
- Having thought of various situations that can arise, list it down. Prepare an SOP how to tackle each Procure all the minimum required things and keep it handy Share the SOP with employees on regular basis. Give trainings to all for their area of work
- Brainstorming Trying to find the solution Try to follow SOPs Involve as many possible Select 2-3 alternative solutions, Discuss pro and cons Try to implement the best for damage control. Share the results with stakeholders
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- I faced a fire situation in our SCADA data center in Agartala. It gave a very good opportunity to handle a crisis situation. The entire section participated for the initial actions of dousing the fire with help of fire section, then saving all the possible equipments out of the room. Few colleagues came forward to try to salvage the wet hardware on the following days and finally could save almost all the equipments and put them back into use within 4-5 days without much data lose. The entire management was involved in fact finding and committees were formed to do RCA. But with the help of section and our discussion we could handle without any problems
- Trust and confidence is important to have and develop in others around us. Have competency and become trust worthy. This will help people to come together and take any action to successfully complete the projects. The team members can also grow and become hood leaders
- Real confidence is when I believe in myself. I will have values and emotions in my behaviour. Fake is when we act arrogant. It will not give a good feel
- Confident leader can take challenges and involve a team to get the job done. Insecure person will always keep changing the ideas and not trust the team members to delegate
- Talk to the people individually and try to find out what went wrong. Try to work with values and give importance to the skill in the team members. Brainstorm the situation with all. Have a casual chat with them. Assign jobs to the group accordingly
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- Hope my daily actions should be good enough for the mentee. I will teach
- Accepting the challenge, being persistent, goal oriented, having will power, and consistency
- Be perser,learn to accept failure, be courageous, always do self assessment. Learn and grow always
- Never to run away from a situation. Face the challenge. Talk to mentor or coach for guidance. Learning is, if you are sincere, others come forward to help
- Sharing my life experience with mentee. My troubles i had with the Asse
- I wouldn’t take my CEO’s comment as an attack, but as an opportunity to improve the current situation. I would take accountability for the shortcomings and lack of performance caused by me and my team.
- She should make friends in the new place. Discuss the trends, needs of people in that area. Learn the requirements of the area. Leverage all the help available to get established
- We collaborate on every task. Discuss about various steps to be taken. Assign jobs according to each ones capability. Trust each other.
- Discuss, listen, brainstorm, share assignments , have lots of conversations sometimes personal
- Teach them to listen Share information Get together sometime Have parties and outdoor activities Form groups
- Taking care of parents Meeting the educational expenses of children Taking care of family Managing the team in office to deliver the job assigned Takibg care of my own health
- Too much commitments puts lot of stress, cannot concentrate on a single task. Prioritising becomes very important Can cause havoc sometimes, become disoriented. Making an unhappy individual
- My office assignment: its my bread and butter My family My health without which I won't b
- It really helps because the immediate action requires to be taken is clear and I can act upon it. Finish the job step by step
- Help reduce thrir stress. Talk to them, be cheerful help in planning the jobs at hand. Assist wherever required. Encourage and be positive
- Due to lack of focus. Lack confidence Lack of direction Increases anxiety
- 7 I should do more planning and keep focus on the zctions to be done
- Investigate the problem Look for good alternatives Evaluate each and select the best option Communicate with all stakeholders
- Wish the customer Ask for his interest and requirements Suggest accordingly Then seeing the interest dhow better options too
- Gender bias is automatically coming into picture due to work environment. Sometimes appearance also come into picture. For gender bias, I normally speak up to let all be given equal opportunities. Coaxing women employees to take up challenges Appearance can be misnomer. So I shouldn't fall for it
- I always explain my experiences in various forums I faced to fight the gender bias. Explain that if we give up easily we fall prey to it. Men are apprehensive about women, they know we can do better given the right environment, so never let down the guards
- identifying the overhead costs suggestions to reduce the overhead costs What can be dropped out or out sourced
- Identifying the problems Working on new Scope of work Discussing with the boss Taking approvals Going for fresh tendering
- Sharing my experiences should help. Helping in identifying the people and connecting to them for future help
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- Will reach goal Have time to think n plan Time to rework or correct No stress Time to relax and do more Organise
- Breaking task into small jobs Prioritising the jobs Planning various tasks Looking for best time to do the mist important work
- With my experience teaching how to do multitasking. How to identify the important jobs and prioritise them as while I worked as incharge Infocom in Agartala
- Now the organisations are giving more importance to innovation. People with innovative ideas are very important. They can give unique solutions to problems. Out of the box thinking To make life more easy and use resources in different ways
- Ask more questions. Like why not. How to make customers more happy Looks for ideas there might be a problem which is not visible More voices to the marketing people. Surrounding with people who looks at problem in different ways. Who uses latest technologies, who are creative. Have to come out of marketing silo and become more interactive
- Yes. Recently a portal has been launched for collecting innovative ideas. Bosses are ready to listen Encourage youngsters and experienced officers to come out with out of the box thinking
- Allow voicing of new ideas. Respect views from all range of people Take some amount of risk Think big Embrace creativity
- Making them more responsible and help to adopt their ideas. Give them confidence to think out of the box and carefully look around for ways to improve things around us. Take them for meetings for addressing problems. Have brain storming sessions with all. Give ears to all the ideas
- It is a process of inventing tools to make life more comfortable. By observing and interactingwith people looking for solutions to make their life easy. Its an innovative process which is human centric
- They should thoroughly check the requirements of the customer. Once the customer arrives and occupies the room, should check on them for comfort, feedback and additional requirements. Not down all their comments and share with the hotel staff. Make necessary improvements in the system where ever needed.
- We normally apply this at home for our parents who due to age have discomfort in doing certain activities. We try to work around some solutions for making their life comfortable. This can be shared as an experience. At work during emergency we think out of the box to mitigate the immediate problems
- I heard a sermon by a priest in our church. He had a wonderful flow. All relevant points explained with examples and information. Spoke very confidently. Said humorous things in between and asked questions to keep everyone engaged. So it was interesting and I didn't go day dreaming
- Give opportunity to my mentee to give presentation. Prepare for a presentation with the mentee. After the presentation give feedbacks Share the experience I had on the occasions of my presentations
- If we miss something of whatever is memorised we may miss the flow, panic and fumble. This can put us in an embarrassing situation
- He lost the flow of his presentation. Might have got scared and started repeating instead of giving proper repky
Tricky Workplace Situation Handled
- Tom is just shooting his mouth. He should first listen to the customers requirements then start suggesting. He didn't even let them complete their sentence
- Look into the eyes, paraphrase, ask questions, repeat some ideas, regkect
- Tell them the importance of listening because without understanding what the other person wants to say, no point at jumping to conclusions, which may be wrong as well.
- Face. The eyes tells lot of things. Hand gesture also matters
- Most of the time
- Can share some incidents that happens regularly in the internal meetings or conferences. Telling them the importance of the mon verbal cues and to be alert about it
- 2nd is the ideal one as Brian, appreciated the team for their work and creativity as well as subtly put the fact about the performance. Instead of giving a negative feedback, he took the things in stride and looked forward to the team reviewing their performance to improve.
- Should be able to communicate in such a way that the listener would like to follow, and not being upset. We should be able to confront ourselves. Just saying yes to everything to keep them happy is not good.
- Open cubicles, where you cannot talk freely. Neighbours are listening.
- We try to discuss. Try to get intervention when cannot handle myself. We try to get a consensus and discuss what is the best.
- I always try to communicate or talk to my team members to find out what is going in their minds and give the freedom to do be innovative. That itself is an example to follow. Having discussions or brain storming sessions when a new project comes up, involving everyone is also how I try to show and make them feel inclusive
- Showing patience. Apologising at first, then coolly making the points clear or justify Always wear a smile or being composed. Never get agitated and fight back
- Address it publicly. Accept mistakes and agree to do the rectification. Don't remove negative comments. Resolve the problem immediately. Someone points out a bug, accepting it and improving it is the best way.
- Look at it with a positive attitude. Accept the responsibility or mistake and immediately try to rectify Learn to Apologise
- Have to teach them to take it in good spirit and take it as a testing to improve upon the matter. Shouldn't feel ashamed to accept a mistake and apologise. Shouldn't fight back or be defensive
- Always be the person I preach. Try to smile at all the times and bring it to the eyes even. Show interest in the other person always.
- I got angry myself, but could have cooled that person down with a smile, a pleasant face.
- Bored, not concerned, not interested, annoyed.
- Its our belief system, social and moral values which we want to see high in the leaders. We want leaders to be ethical in all their actions. They should reflect balance, truth humility and self confidence, how they achieve their goals
- You will loose respect trust of your team & customers. Loose self confidence and dignity infront of others. We loose temper on others and not able to empathise
- Upfront you should be a person with values. Tell the importance of empathy, respect in all the actions. Being a leader, they should become role models to all team members Leaders should be able to get trust amongst others and develop confidence in achieving the goals
- Appreciative leadership Democratic leader - sharing his thoughts, taking inputs from his team Inclusive leader who gets along with his team well and participates in their discussions
- One who takes away all the credit for himself, this is very demotivating One who is very negative than encouraging the teammates, so even if we make mistakes, not helping to make improvements One who pokes his nose in all the work than trusting the teammates Feedbacks should have been given in a positive way,
- Based on the feedbacks, they should come together and think of ways to improve. Look for more ideas and put the rightly skilled team in the right areas of improvement. Take third party support where ever required like the compatibility issue. Take up training or development course for the team to increase knowledge
- By examples where the mentee could have done differently. I should also walk the walk along with my mentee
- Poor communication and sharing of information within the organisation. All good and bad news should be shared on the internal portals or mails, to keep the employees abrest with what is happening in the organisation and what should be presented to the world
- Having thought of various situations that can arise, list it down. Prepare an SOP how to tackle each Procure all the minimum required things and keep it handy Share the SOP with employees on regular basis. Give trainings to all for their area of work
- Brainstorming Trying to find the solution Try to follow SOPs Involve as many possible Select 2-3 alternative solutions, Discuss pro and cons Try to implement the best for damage control. Share the results with stakeholders
- I faced a fire situation in our SCADA data center in Agartala. It gave a very good opportunity to handle a crisis situation. The entire section participated for the initial actions of dousing the fire with help of fire section, then saving all the possible equipments out of the room. Few colleagues came forward to try to salvage the wet hardware on the following days and finally could save almost all the equipments and put them back into use within 4-5 days without much data lose. The entire management was involved in fact finding and committees were formed to do RCA. But with the help of section and our discussion we could handle without any problems
- Trust and confidence is important to have and develop in others around us. Have competency and become trust worthy. This will help people to come together and take any action to successfully complete the projects. The team members can also grow and become hood leaders
- Real confidence is when I believe in myself. I will have values and emotions in my behaviour. Fake is when we act arrogant. It will not give a good feel
- Confident leader can take challenges and involve a team to get the job done. Insecure person will always keep changing the ideas and not trust the team members to delegate
- Talk to the people individually and try to find out what went wrong. Try to work with values and give importance to the skill in the team members. Brainstorm the situation with all. Have a casual chat with them. Assign jobs to the group accordingly
- Hope my daily actions should be good enough for the mentee. I will teach
- Accepting the challenge, being persistent, goal oriented, having will power, and consistency
- Be perser,learn to accept failure, be courageous, always do self assessment. Learn and grow always
- Never to run away from a situation. Face the challenge. Talk to mentor or coach for guidance. Learning is, if you are sincere, others come forward to help
- Sharing my life experience with mentee. My troubles i had with the Asse
- I wouldn’t take my CEO’s comment as an attack, but as an opportunity to improve the current situation. I would take accountability for the shortcomings and lack of performance caused by me and my team.
- She should make friends in the new place. Discuss the trends, needs of people in that area. Learn the requirements of the area. Leverage all the help available to get established
- We collaborate on every task. Discuss about various steps to be taken. Assign jobs according to each ones capability. Trust each other.
- Discuss, listen, brainstorm, share assignments , have lots of conversations sometimes personal
- Teach them to listen Share information Get together sometime Have parties and outdoor activities Form groups
- Taking care of parents Meeting the educational expenses of children Taking care of family Managing the team in office to deliver the job assigned Takibg care of my own health
- Too much commitments puts lot of stress, cannot concentrate on a single task. Prioritising becomes very important Can cause havoc sometimes, become disoriented. Making an unhappy individual
- My office assignment: its my bread and butter My family My health without which I won't b
- It really helps because the immediate action requires to be taken is clear and I can act upon it. Finish the job step by step
- Help reduce thrir stress. Talk to them, be cheerful help in planning the jobs at hand. Assist wherever required. Encourage and be positive
- Due to lack of focus. Lack confidence Lack of direction Increases anxiety
- 7 I should do more planning and keep focus on the zctions to be done
- Investigate the problem Look for good alternatives Evaluate each and select the best option Communicate with all stakeholders
- Wish the customer Ask for his interest and requirements Suggest accordingly Then seeing the interest dhow better options too
- Gender bias is automatically coming into picture due to work environment. Sometimes appearance also come into picture. For gender bias, I normally speak up to let all be given equal opportunities. Coaxing women employees to take up challenges Appearance can be misnomer. So I shouldn't fall for it
- I always explain my experiences in various forums I faced to fight the gender bias. Explain that if we give up easily we fall prey to it. Men are apprehensive about women, they know we can do better given the right environment, so never let down the guards
- identifying the overhead costs suggestions to reduce the overhead costs What can be dropped out or out sourced
- Identifying the problems Working on new Scope of work Discussing with the boss Taking approvals Going for fresh tendering
- Sharing my experiences should help. Helping in identifying the people and connecting to them for future help
- Will reach goal Have time to think n plan Time to rework or correct No stress Time to relax and do more Organise
- Breaking task into small jobs Prioritising the jobs Planning various tasks Looking for best time to do the mist important work
- With my experience teaching how to do multitasking. How to identify the important jobs and prioritise them as while I worked as incharge Infocom in Agartala
- Now the organisations are giving more importance to innovation. People with innovative ideas are very important. They can give unique solutions to problems. Out of the box thinking To make life more easy and use resources in different ways
- Ask more questions. Like why not. How to make customers more happy Looks for ideas there might be a problem which is not visible More voices to the marketing people. Surrounding with people who looks at problem in different ways. Who uses latest technologies, who are creative. Have to come out of marketing silo and become more interactive
- Yes. Recently a portal has been launched for collecting innovative ideas. Bosses are ready to listen Encourage youngsters and experienced officers to come out with out of the box thinking
- Allow voicing of new ideas. Respect views from all range of people Take some amount of risk Think big Embrace creativity
- Making them more responsible and help to adopt their ideas. Give them confidence to think out of the box and carefully look around for ways to improve things around us. Take them for meetings for addressing problems. Have brain storming sessions with all. Give ears to all the ideas
- It is a process of inventing tools to make life more comfortable. By observing and interactingwith people looking for solutions to make their life easy. Its an innovative process which is human centric
- They should thoroughly check the requirements of the customer. Once the customer arrives and occupies the room, should check on them for comfort, feedback and additional requirements. Not down all their comments and share with the hotel staff. Make necessary improvements in the system where ever needed.
- We normally apply this at home for our parents who due to age have discomfort in doing certain activities. We try to work around some solutions for making their life comfortable. This can be shared as an experience. At work during emergency we think out of the box to mitigate the immediate problems
- I heard a sermon by a priest in our church. He had a wonderful flow. All relevant points explained with examples and information. Spoke very confidently. Said humorous things in between and asked questions to keep everyone engaged. So it was interesting and I didn't go day dreaming
- Give opportunity to my mentee to give presentation. Prepare for a presentation with the mentee. After the presentation give feedbacks Share the experience I had on the occasions of my presentations
- If we miss something of whatever is memorised we may miss the flow, panic and fumble. This can put us in an embarrassing situation
- He lost the flow of his presentation. Might have got scared and started repeating instead of giving proper repky
