Of Passion, Prosperity and Personality

At this point in time I realize that to date, a total of 3 cheerios have blogged in this blog. What is this, le grande trio? To the people who read this.....we'll luuuuuvv to hear from ye.....cheerios for that matter.

Do not for a moment think that you can get away with saying "I don't know what to write" or "me not-a good in a engreesh" or "I'm not eloquent enough to publish in a blog". Yan can write, so can you!

This is probably the most irrelevant teaser/opening fer a post, ever. I'm trying my best to link 3 unnrelated concepts together (look at title), and it doesn't seem to be working so far. oh well.

Anyway, as I mentioned, 3 cheerios so far. The "serious stuff" HT (whom ye should contact if the blogging bug does bite by the way), the "fun facts" Lyn, and the"crap cHai".....yours truly. /bow =p So what I"m writing now is, in a sense, perfectly in line with the "blogging personalities" that seem to have developed here in CCI's very own blog. So come and join us. The more the merrier isn't it........

I write this entry in betweeen a day for loooovveeeeee.........and a festival of abundance. I hope everyone had a good Valentine's. ;p I'm tempted to link some stupid post I got in through my campus e-mail from Lynette, a fellow cheerio who is pretty big in the university programme community I happen to be a part of....some thing abt the 14th of Feb being so much more then just luuurrrvvvvee........but well you get the point. But seriously, consider: love does make the world go round. And to bring the point home, love is what drives cheerios to the extraordinary effort we give to our charges in activities. I have heard, from many cheerios, often remarking how much they "love the kids" (this is of course, selective, but I digress), and at the same time how much fun they have conducting activities, be it for the charges in activities or fellows in in-house stuff. Love, for your fellows.
"Let Love Be Your Energy" - Robbie Williams

"I actually managed to fit in a sliver of relevance into this whole crap post!"

I hope I dun offend anybody by speaking of smth so divine and sacred in such a spurious way, but I daresay it's pretty true. =)

I've been lopsided in my discussion.....so perhaps let me end this post by saying "Good Fortune and Prosperity to all", "May you have year after year of abundance", "The vitality of a dragon and the stamina of a horse".....blah blah....=)

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TFC IV - Leading the way!

CCI's very own Topography Facilitator Course is here again, now it its 4th edition!

As the name suggests, TFC is a course designed specially to equip participants with the skills and knowledge to become a Topography Facilitator. In addition to modules on topographic skills, TFC focuses on allowing participants to experience first hand the mental, physical and social challenges that comes with topography, making TFC an unforgettable experience for each and everyone of our participants!

Testimonials:

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Desired Leadership Qualities in Corporate World

Having facilitated the leadership camps and workshops that we have, it was most interesting to read what Business Times had to say about the poll done by the Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI). Is the content of the training courses that we're conducting relevant with equipping them with the skills necessary to make it as a leader in the corporate world?

If you happened to have read the article, yes the title reads "Do women make good bosses? Yes, say most top execs" (I can almost hear half of readers saying "yeah that's right"), what caught my eye was the graph of the various desired leadership qualities that these top execs suggested when polled. To get those who have not seen the article up to speed, SHRI polled 192 senior executives (HR Director and above) on various issues, including whether gender plays in part in a good boss, and on the desired leadership qualities.

Interestingly but not surprisingly, Ethics and Integrity was the most desired quality, according to 53% of those polled. Leading by example (52%), Visionary (51%), Communication (48%), and Accountability (37%) made up the rest of the top 5. (Click on the diagram to see the full graph.)

In addition, another thing to note from the report was that most of the bosses, "many of whom are chief executives and managing directors", possess the key traits of leading by example and being visionary, with 54 per cent of respondents indicating that there is still room for leadership training.

Having read this report, the next questions that came to mind included "Is CCI training our leaders and our participants right?" as well as "How can we train our participants to possess these qualities in order to prepare them to become better leaders of the society?" With 3 of the top 5 traits being linked with character development, the solution to these questions seem to point towards the same answer: CCI MUST carry on with character development.

The reason for this is rather simple. While communication skills can be trained, traits like Ethics, Integrity, Leading by example and Accountability are characteristics that are picked up from young, and are hard to "train" as it is simply a part of the person.

Hence, as facilitators that we at CCI are, instead of hoping that participants pick these traits up along the way, let us focus on inculcating such values into the future leaders as we contact them through our activities!

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To all employees.

Dear CCI,

This memo will be effective as of February 2007. Please kindly read it and comment.


Dress Code

1. It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary. If
we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we assume you are
doing well financially and therefore do not need a pay raise.

2. If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so
that you may buy nicer clothes, and therefore you do not need a pay raise.

3. If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and
therefore you do not need a pay raise.

Sick Days

We will no longer accept a doctor's certificate as proof of sickness.

If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

Holiday Days

Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called
Saturday & Sunday.

Compassionate Leave

This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for dead
friends, relatives or co-workers. Every effort should be made to have
non-employees attend to the arrangements.

In rare cases where employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should
be scheduled in the late afternoon. We will be glad to allow you to work
through your lunch hour and subsequently leave one hour early.

Toilet Use

1. Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilet. There is now a
strict three-minute time limit in the cubicles.

2. At the end of three minutes, an alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll
will retract, the cubicle door will open, and your picture will be taken.

3. After your second offence, your picture will be posted on the company
notice board under the "Chronic Offenders" category.

4. Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be sanctioned under the
company's mental health policy. Lunch Break

1. Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch, as they need to eat more so that
they can look healthy.

2. Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to
maintain their average figure.

3. Chubby people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that's all the time
needed to drink a Slim-Fast.

Thank you for your loyalty to our company. Remember we are an employer of choice and we are here to provide a positive employment experience.

Therefore, all questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations,irritations, aggravations, insinuations, allegations, accusations,
contemplations, consternation and input should be directed elsewhere.
Signed:

Your HR Manager.

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Sentosa.

I can't tell you how excited I am for tomorrow's CCI Sentosa trip. Although of course there are very many people not coming, but still, there is a substantial number of people. Unlike the boring numbers like two, or four people going. We actually have a good amount of say, at least more than 8.

So we can boogie..

I'm feeling the excitement because, those days when I went with the *ahem* lao jiao(old birds) for the Sentosa trip, it was just a few of us. 6? Or a definite undivided group of people. We're always either playing soccer together, or swimming together, or playing captain's ball in the waters together.

So I'm hoping this time around, we'll have a good number of people and people who wouldn't just separate from the team to play other game especially since it's CCI's first friendly match! And I've invited a good friend of mine to come, and a teacher-client of a school to come along. So come join the fun, cheerios. (: Don't be lazy on a sunday morning. We ought to start our routine back again. We used to go down to Sentosa EVERY saturday...without fail. We should practice that again!

Oh, and I want to go for blood donation too. Anybody?

So see you all tomorrow, 4th February 2007. 1030am @ Seah Inn Food Centre (harbourfront interchange). We'll have frisbee, soccer, volleyball, water activities and lots of bikini babe and hunks.


So come one, come all. Come join our fun in the waters!

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Joy from Googling - Testimonial by HCI Student

My secondary school teacher once put it, "The Internet will, in due time, prove to not only have the ability to serve as a portal to inform us, but also to become the sources of joy, depression, and may also become a spiritual home for all of us living on Earth!"

Being said back in the early 1990s, it is only natural that being a language teacher, she made an interesting assumption that the internet is "limitless" and that God (defined here as whoever you think is the supreme being ruling over the universe and beyond) can have a website and tell us about things from heaven (similarly defined by you the reader). Since the unfortunate earthquake in Taiwan late last year happened painfully taught us that the internet works by cables, we now know that this is not possible. However, what I have to agree with my teacher, is that today, the internet has indeed proven to be a source of joy.

As I was Googling (read web-searching) through the net for CCI's web presence, I came across several websites of participants of our activities writing entries in their blogs on how they took part in our activities and enjoyed themselves, or even made friends. One particularly interesting website, was this blog entry by a student from HCI, after we conducted CCI Challenge for them back in 2005 (look out for my name in the entry... hehe).

http://takingtheleap.blogspot.com/2005/08/post-sabbats-review.html

Seeing how he detailed every single clue and puzzle from every day, and uploaded memorable photos to illustrate his point, it filled my heart with delight reading through the entry. It once again goes to show how facilitation is always a joy, and to receive sincere recognition from a job well done, priceless.

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