Which way.....

Today was another day of presentation. I presented to all the countries lead in the afternoon, sharing with them their achievement and review with them, what is working and what is not. I spent the whole morning preparing for a couple of slides to start my preaching at 1.30 pm. I finished the whole deck by 12 pm and I thought of taking a short nap until 1.30 pm before I start presenting (yes, I'm working from home again today.....nyek nyek nyek).

I turn on some soft instrumental music from a Japanese anime and I lied down on the bed. Tezel came and lied down next to me and we both slept. To my surprise, when I woke up, it was alreadt 1.35 pm and I quickly scooped Tezel up and put him back in his cage and initiate the conference call.

After apologized for being late due to the previous discussion (yes, I lied, I can't be telling them I overslept, can I.....) and I started off with the presentation. It went on well, I praised a few ppl here and there and try to motivate the team to do better in the program. I really have tough time motivating people where I myself, I'm stucked and confused with what will be the direction for me to drive this program.

That leads to another presentation that I have with the VP on clarifying the direction how he want this program to run in his organization. Yes...."mulut laser" session again which I was not really looking forward to. But, oh well, part of the job....

I spent the whole afternoon working on the slide deck that I want to sell the idea to him. Reviewed it with my lady Taiwanese boss, which I think she is kinda smart when she is focusing on your topic. Got a couple of valuable inputs from her to enhance my slides and off I go into the conference call with the VP at 5.30 pm. From the start of the presentation, as expected, multiple direct ammo were aiming at me but I would would gave myself some credit for dodging a few. (Kudos to myself.... yay)

Half way thru the presentation, he just stopped me and said :

VP: Have you been in touch with your WW (world-wide) counterpart?

Me: Yea..... (feeling puzzled)

VP: Who are those names that you are in contact with?

Me: Ermm.... they are....(naming the few WW people that I worked with)

VP: OK, good. This is the thing, soon you will see there will be a shift of direction from the management side and the top leaders has all agreed to it. ...(He start sharing the new strategy which I have not heard of)

Me: uumm.... uh huh.... errr.... OK. Well, to be honest, this comes as a surprise to me coz none of my WW contacts have shared this plan with us from the region.

VP: Expected.... (He start sharing with me how view and his plan and what to focus on and what I should spend my time working on.....)

Me: ...... (speechless and listen quietly).....

Basically, his approach is like this :

1. Don't stop the model you have today
2. Focus on a totally brand new model that you think it will work.
3. Don't work on improving the old model and relabel them as new.
4. Tear down the whole house and build a new one....

Hmmm.....I was totally speechless coz this is the first time ever I'm hearing all this. Oh well, guess one thing I need to do now is - go bug my WW counterpart and see if they are having the same insight of what my VP has shared with me. Gosh....I hate to be in a position where I don't know where to go or which direction should I focus on.

Oh well, the call with WW is 10 pm tonight (yes....night call and damn, those chirpy people who can't seems to stop talking in the early hours of their day) and I hope that they will share something which is align with what my VP was telling me. Else, I'll be stuck in a difficult situation again.

Let's hope that I don't have to end up in that deep hole again.....

Oh yea, first time ever, I got compliment from my lady boss that I did a very good presentation and I can articulate it very well.  Yay to me.... ^_^