Teacher of mistake!

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Academy Schwarzkopf

A long journey has been through to the next round of new roles and time has gone so far that I thought it was just a quick moment, but of course not, it has gone so fast. I started gearing up within the team – regional marketing team  for Schwarzkopf Professional. Having no experiences at all in hair sector, I had difficulties tackling with understanding technical terms used in the team and also in my daily work. As it turns out, there was a great  deal  of amounts of mistakes came up.  A first mistake was related to cultural shock, that I and my manager had trouble understanding each other even the way of communication and thinking, so it took quite a long time for us to understand more clearly to adapt to each other.

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Compared to the other interns from all over the world, I was a bit slower than them even the amount of works, speed of working, and English ability, so the productivity of working is not really competitive if we benchmark the progressive works of other interns from different elites of the world vis-a-vis mine.  As assigned to work on various projects with different countries in APAC region, the second mistake was managing the right time to follow up with the countries on time as there is a huge interval of time constraint  from Asia to Europe; but luckily, I managed to control it by opening an official website to check the time difference for each country, but sometimes I got a crisis as well since I could not prepare everything on time.

Getting used to the new version of Ms. Office programs, I faced another challenging thing which was related to computer software as my company used only Ms. Office version in 2003 and Lotus Note instead of Ms. Outlook, so I could not work quite well with this issue. However,  It seems better now. Looking backwards to the last three months, I could not see any development I could make and produce such a great task at all, yet I never belittle myself and my strengths, still keep asking how I could work out better.

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By asking the same questions "What should I do to solve this problem?" , "Who is supposed to be contacted for help?", and "What can I do to improve this task even more better?" everyday, I found out a new and profound way through which I implemented and executed for my daily work. Most importantly, I could see there is a huge and unbelievable change I could make and see how progressively I could evolve. Thankfully, I also feel so confident to imply what I could do to improve my daily work as well as my future. Before I would say I am a teacher of making mistakes, now I would rather say mistake is my teacher, sharing me the ideal and wise ways  how to leverage my working ability and results.  There is no perfect man in the world, yet there is a perfect way man could do, if he never gives up, to improve themselves to get more and more better in life.