"Communication"
Today during the stroll after the dinner, me and my friends discussed a very important topic which i feel affects each and every person..My friend who has neither taken PGL( Personal Growth Laboratory) and OCD( Organisational Change & Development) asked what is this subjects all about ? It made me think and what i felt and said, i would like to share with u all..for those who have no clue what PGL is all about i will just give a brief description of it( Though actually u can appreciate it better when u participate in it)
"A Personal Growth Laboratory (sometimes called Human Process or Human Interaction or Sensitivity Training Laboratory or T-Group) is an event designed for a group of 8 - 12 individuals to study themselves on the basis of their experience of participation in the group. The event covers a minimum number of hours of interaction.
The group is not provided with any predetermined agenda or schedule, except the objectives and the time schedule of the group's meetings. A professional trainer also participates in the group as a facilitator of individual and group processes. The methods of learning are experiencing, expressing, data collecting, hypothesising, reflecting, experimenting, and conceptualising. Typically, the concepts generated are not abstract, but derived from the live data of the group's life-history during the event.
Objectives of PGL are to enable the participant to :
become more deeply and clearly aware of himself or herself and his or her patterns of behaviour;
focus on his or her interpersonal interaction, and to act towards finding greater meaning and satisfaction from such interaction; and
improve his or her ability to deal with conflict."
Now this is what the text says..as a participant of PGL what i make out from it was that it is basically about communication..communicating the feelings ( both good and bad ) that u have regarding the other participants, about urself.. and the good thing about PGL is the set up is such that it actually helps in people speaking out whatever they have in their mind regarding others and self..Many a times in our life, we keep the feelings within ourselves...e.g. we didnt like a thing about a person but we dont express the same to it..may be becoz we feel that it may hurt him/her or may be becoz of our ego does not allow us to do that... and there can be 100 such reasons..
What i personally has experienced is that keeping things within ourselves actually makes us feel too heavy and it affects our normal life and behavior whereas speaking the heart out actually makes us feel so lighter and believe me..u will love the feeling..
u can take this in any context..between lovers who never expressed their feelings and hence their true love died .. between good friends who somehow got into an misunderstanding and never expressed themselves and lost a good friend in the process..between an employee and the HR/Superior , wherein the employee was never able to explain his/her dissatisfaction and hence leaves the company he never wished to and the company also looses a good employee...between parents and children, wherein parents tried to force their wishes on the child and never let the child spoke his interests and ambition in life...between husband and wife...between teacher and student...between siblings...between saas bahu :).. i mean it can happen between anybody...
i was imagining an ideal world wherein everybody expresses their feeeling and "Thoughts" to others and there is no misunderstanding and we will not be needing things like PGL for speaking out our heart...
i really like people who are clear from heart and speak out what they feel..although sometimes at the first instance, they seems to be rude but their genuine comments actually make me think and i try to work on that which leads to my self improvement..and to tell you the bond of frienship or any other relationship tht u have actually strengthens..u look up to the person for his genuine comments...
specially in this world wherein there is so much of backbiting and hypocrisy going on, people really look forward for genuine people..atleast i do..
What i firmly believe and used to say is that most of the problems, misunderstandings, etc will get resolved if we start "communicating"... People who have read my earlier blog "I love U" may appreciate better the importance of communication and how communication helped my friend getting his ladylove..
It will be not wrong now to say that " Communication is the key to most of the problems in the world" ...
Also before ending the post, i would to like to underscore the point that while communicating please make sure that the reciever percieves what u intended to say( Remember IBHA madam's funda of I = I'' ) i mean sometimes there is a misunderstanding here also..Infact many a times, i feel that some of my points are not percieved the way i intended..many people somehow percieve me very differently of what i am...I would like to thank bloggers.com for giving me an oppurtunity to portray the real myself to the world...I believe in my blog title which is Thoughts "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" ..I hope u can make out from reading my " Thoughts" what type of person i am :D
Keep communicating :)
"A Personal Growth Laboratory (sometimes called Human Process or Human Interaction or Sensitivity Training Laboratory or T-Group) is an event designed for a group of 8 - 12 individuals to study themselves on the basis of their experience of participation in the group. The event covers a minimum number of hours of interaction.
The group is not provided with any predetermined agenda or schedule, except the objectives and the time schedule of the group's meetings. A professional trainer also participates in the group as a facilitator of individual and group processes. The methods of learning are experiencing, expressing, data collecting, hypothesising, reflecting, experimenting, and conceptualising. Typically, the concepts generated are not abstract, but derived from the live data of the group's life-history during the event.
Objectives of PGL are to enable the participant to :
become more deeply and clearly aware of himself or herself and his or her patterns of behaviour;
focus on his or her interpersonal interaction, and to act towards finding greater meaning and satisfaction from such interaction; and
improve his or her ability to deal with conflict."
Now this is what the text says..as a participant of PGL what i make out from it was that it is basically about communication..communicating the feelings ( both good and bad ) that u have regarding the other participants, about urself.. and the good thing about PGL is the set up is such that it actually helps in people speaking out whatever they have in their mind regarding others and self..Many a times in our life, we keep the feelings within ourselves...e.g. we didnt like a thing about a person but we dont express the same to it..may be becoz we feel that it may hurt him/her or may be becoz of our ego does not allow us to do that... and there can be 100 such reasons..
What i personally has experienced is that keeping things within ourselves actually makes us feel too heavy and it affects our normal life and behavior whereas speaking the heart out actually makes us feel so lighter and believe me..u will love the feeling..
u can take this in any context..between lovers who never expressed their feelings and hence their true love died .. between good friends who somehow got into an misunderstanding and never expressed themselves and lost a good friend in the process..between an employee and the HR/Superior , wherein the employee was never able to explain his/her dissatisfaction and hence leaves the company he never wished to and the company also looses a good employee...between parents and children, wherein parents tried to force their wishes on the child and never let the child spoke his interests and ambition in life...between husband and wife...between teacher and student...between siblings...between saas bahu :).. i mean it can happen between anybody...
i was imagining an ideal world wherein everybody expresses their feeeling and "Thoughts" to others and there is no misunderstanding and we will not be needing things like PGL for speaking out our heart...
i really like people who are clear from heart and speak out what they feel..although sometimes at the first instance, they seems to be rude but their genuine comments actually make me think and i try to work on that which leads to my self improvement..and to tell you the bond of frienship or any other relationship tht u have actually strengthens..u look up to the person for his genuine comments...
specially in this world wherein there is so much of backbiting and hypocrisy going on, people really look forward for genuine people..atleast i do..
What i firmly believe and used to say is that most of the problems, misunderstandings, etc will get resolved if we start "communicating"... People who have read my earlier blog "I love U" may appreciate better the importance of communication and how communication helped my friend getting his ladylove..
It will be not wrong now to say that " Communication is the key to most of the problems in the world" ...
Also before ending the post, i would to like to underscore the point that while communicating please make sure that the reciever percieves what u intended to say( Remember IBHA madam's funda of I = I'' ) i mean sometimes there is a misunderstanding here also..Infact many a times, i feel that some of my points are not percieved the way i intended..many people somehow percieve me very differently of what i am...I would like to thank bloggers.com for giving me an oppurtunity to portray the real myself to the world...I believe in my blog title which is Thoughts "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" ..I hope u can make out from reading my " Thoughts" what type of person i am :D
Keep communicating :)
posted by Anand Jalan | 2/02/2006 10:20:00 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Jalan,
Got your blog address from Asik day before yesterday...And this was the first post I read.
Man, i got to tell you this, i've seen very few people who were as determined and single minded about what they want in life and what they did to get it. And, one of them is definitely you.
Recently i was talking to one of our batchmates in college and he didn't know that you were in XIMB. He said if you could get there then anyone can. I got irked and asked him what he meant by that, and then he explained how you used to think south indians spoke very good english and you were fascinated with him. And, if you could learn all that and more and do so well in life, why not others...I apologized to him because i'd taken his statement in the wrong sense...
Well, we all are what we make ourselves to be and you will remain an inspiration.
P.S - Hey, i heard you'll be coming to Infy, Hyderabad as H.R...I'm just a lowly S.E here, do contact me when you get here. Hope you won't disown me when you see me ;).
Cya then,
Ajay Reddy
Hey ajay, nice to be in touch with u after so long :) Thnks a lot for all the complements :D happy to know that i can be a source of inspiration :) and saale how can disown u.. i remember how much u irritated all of us..isse acha badla lene ka moka kaha milega :)
Jst joking :D i am eagerly waiting for the day i will all my engg day friends which i know are in lots in HYD..and then being a localite u can be of great help ;)
chalo keep in touch
have a nice day :)
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