IT Human Resources

META Group mengatakan bahwa akan terjadi shortage untuk tenaga kerja IT dalam 3 tahun kedepan mengingat kebutuhan akan IT yang tinggi (di Indonesia apakah demikian juga ya? Mengingat banyak sekali orang IT di Indonesia. Hem, memang kalau bicara mengenai skill ini lain lagi sih). Dengan demikian akan memberikan sentimen positif sebesar 15% di standard gaji IT. Dengan demikian kita penting memperhatikan anak buah kita dalam hal :

• Training – memberikan mereka pisau bermata dua, jika mereka makin cerdas dan memiliki skill maka “nilai” mereka cenderung naik. Sehingga 2 komponen lain dibawah ini menjadi semakin sulit?? Akan tetapi tanpa inipun mereka menjadi demoralized. So?
• Moral – adalah penting untuk menjaga perasaan mereka dan loyalitas mereka terhadap perusahaan. Penting agar mereka tidak berpindah ke perusahaan lain, apalagi kompetitor, apalagi perusahaan dengan standard gaji yang sama dan job desc yang sama – dikarenakan ketidakpuasan batiniah? – seperti di DELL ?
• Kompensasi – komponen yang sulit dibahas ya...hehehe

 

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My baby....

I will have a baby J my wife is pregnant and it’s already 1 months and 20 days (approximately) yippy…..

For shared unit

As you are a shared unit then : “Never say no to a business unit, say yes with a price tag”

Education in Indonesia

Kemarin saja aku baru saja lihat bagaimana gedung – gedung sekolah di berbagai area di Indonesia rusak berat. Ada sebagian yang disebabkan oleh tua nya umur bangunan, ada yang diperparah oleh karena buruknya cuaca belakangan ini, dll. Sangat menyedihkan melihat bagaimana anak – anak kecil itu harus belajar di lingkungan yang lebih layak disebut sebagai “gudang bobrok” daripada sebuah sekolah. Sangat menyedihkan pula mengingat bahwa di dalam kondisi yang demikian kualitas pelajaran yang mereka dapatkan-pun belum tentu mencukupi.

Entah bagaimana nasib negara ini, dari tahun ke tahun nampaknya pendidikan hanyalah menjadi milik orang berduit (yang notabene masih mengeluh dengan biaya sekolah yang makin lama makin mahal). Sekolah hanya milik mereka yang tinggal di kota. Sekolah hanyalah mimpi….mimpi yang demikian sulit digapai oleh sebagian masyarakat kita.

Dan betapa menyedihkannya bahwa sebagian orang yang beruntung bisa sekolah tidak pula sekolah dengan baik. Ada yang karena memang tidak ada niatan belajar, ada yang karena sekolahnya sendiri tidak berkualitas akibat sistem pendidikan nasional yang menyedihkan ini. Salah satu anak buahku merasa frustasi karena dia memiliki 4 orang anak dan 4 kali pula dia harus membeli set buku yang berbeda. Karena tiap kali anaknya duduk di tingkat pendidikan yang sama dengan anaknya yang terdahulu dia tidak bisa menggunakan buku / materi yang lama, karena kurikulum sudah berganti.

Bila ada yang membaca blog saya ini...coba ulurkan tangan anda, sejauh yang anda bisa, sumbangkan pendapatan anda, sumbangkan buku anda, koran anda, dll pada orang yang membutuhkan. Demikian banyak LSM di negara ini yang berusaha membantu orang – orang yang ingin sekolah tapi tak bisa sekolah. Dan buat yang masih sekolah...syukurilah anda masih bisa sekolah J adios.....

Expect what you give

Don’t expect your employees to convinced theirs for something if they are not convinced by themselves. Make them believe, then ask them to make their employees believe J

What a job....

Well today is another day in my new role. It is really not easy to become a leader huh? Well you know a little more, you have your own concern, etc. But well down there not everybody knows that, at least they know but the concern perhaps doesn’t get them as they get me. Kinda confused? Yea, me either.

One of my friends complaining since she feels like the other don’t trust her business decisions. She said, well we are not a bunch of children, we know how to decide. It makes me think that perhaps sometimes we really have to let it go. You know, just like when you have children and one time they say that they like to make their own decision and ask for us to trust him. Are we going to trust his decision?

I think it depends on 2 things. One thing is we ready to let it go, we have the gut to do that. The other is that you know that this person could do it. It works both way right, so you cannot hope it will come one way. What a life .. What a life..

Bless to give more....

I’m married at last J. Some experience huh? Well there are so many story behind my wedding day, but that’s not the purpose of this blogs anyway, so I’ll write it somewhere else hahaha. As a sneakpeak, married is a wonderful experience, once in a lifetime experience.

Ok, couple days ago I receive a very good news, I’m being promoted J. I know that this also mean a bunch of new jobs, new responsibility and problems. But I also think that this is a new challenge for me, I like it and I shall do my best. But my story is about something that I shall remember for the whole my life, it is my dad’s sentence when he hear about my promotion. He said “Thanks God for all that He gave you, pray dan thanks Him. You are being blessed by Him to give more to the other”

That’s one of the most wise sentences that I ever received. I know it’s right, and I know that’s also my job. It’s also everybody jobs you know, being blessed means that you need to give more to even more people. This not always mean that you need to spend more money for other (eventhough it’s a good thing to do J). You could spend more attention, you could do more for your employees, you could spend more quality time with your loving one and friends, you could also do more for them that don’t have that much lucky. Believe me that there are so many thing that you could do, and do not ever feel that do something will make you poor, make you don’t have time, make you too busy, etc. It will only make you even rich, make you even have more time, more friends, more … to give more again.

God do need you as His hands in this world, so for a moment just relax and take a look around you, who could you help? How could you do more from bless that you received from Him?

Adios…and have a good day, remember…bless to give even more

Hard to be manager...

One of my peers manager said to me that one of her subordinates is facing a real problem. See, she moved from her last job to this current job, hoping for a better life certainly. Since she is practically is a “head of the family” then her family surely depends on her. And with her current salary it is very hard, it a tough life for her. She need to pay for the house rent, living cost, his sisters education cost…..if that’s not hard enough, she didn’t have time to do a part time job right now, since to go home she need at least 2 hours. So no time to do a part time job.

The hardest part of a manager job is balancing company requirement (to become a profitable business) and humanity – such as raising her salary to match her requirement. It is merely an art job, this balancing task. If we don’t do something we will lose this briliant person, but if you want to raise his level / salary..then a question will show up, such as “Why your subordinates having higher level compare then me?” I really could not think right now, tommorrow perhaps better…gonna take a nap, huahemmmmm

Say it ?

If you prepare someone to become your next future leader, are you going to say to him/her that he/she is your future leaders? Do you tell them that they are potential? Some of my colleagues said that we shouldn’t do that. Since by doing this we give hope to them, make them “greedy” and so on and so on…

Well, I’m not quite agree with this opinion. It is true that when we do it wrong then all bad thing will arise, human is naturally full with ego. But if we do it correctly I think it is good. Motivation is provided externally and internally right? This is one of the most powerful internal motivations, so why don’t we use it? Emotional reward is strong.

I think that if we only one person then it is not good, because he will feel that no one compare to him and starts to become someone that we don’t wanted. So, 2-3 persons will be better. Remember how Jack Welch grooms his future leader? It is true that at the end he lost 2 of his most brilliant personnel because they loss, but well that the price you must pay for it right?

The other is that don’t promise anything, just said that they are good and they have the capabilities and potency to become a future leader. Don’t mess up external and internal motivation all together. External motivation is actually a nasty stuff; it could bring down all the internal motivation in the matter of second. So play nice with it, don’t promise anything, and just say that they are good and potential.

The last thing is that you must remember that their current position and future position are different. We are talking about the way they should think, act and behave. So don’t let them wondering around knowing nothing. They need you as their supervisor to coach them, make them learn about their future challenges. Don’t make them fail and moving from a star into a jerk just by letting them alone. Help them, and coach them.

Internal promotion

Yesterday I was telling one of our staff regarding an internal promotion that will be offered to her. You know what I am surprised how an internal promotion could bring so much happiness to someone. Well many books do write it down and make a good narration about it, but you know nothing is compare to experiencing it by yourself. The happy and cherish moment, hope that overflow around the room and all the joy shining from her face, nothing compare to this experience, none of the books. What she’s feel maybe I could not transferred it to you by this essay, but surely I could emphasized that internal promotion is good if you could manage it well. So, do as many internal promotion as you can to help yourself.

Recovery

Well, it’s recovery allright. Some of the problems are clear now, although still have to wait sometimes to make all the pain and sorrow gone. But surely God lead His way, everything is seems getting better. Thank you for all the hope and courage from all around me. Thanks Adel J

djsadhash$%#$#$%@%$bjbs.....DESPERATE AND NEED HELP !!!! :-(

I lied if I say that today is a great day….I have a terrible day since this couple days L

My mood is not good, something is pressing in my heart…aching and painful…I don’t know how to write it down, I don’t know to whom I could tell my problem, I don’t know, just don’t know. Let’s just hope that God will lead a way, will accompany me in this difficult time, a time when I feel so lonely, desperate and don’t have anybody beside me or whatsoever. This time is nasty, and tomorrow I think I will found another trouble at the office L. Just hoping that it will not going heavier each passing hours.

I’m sure God have a plan; just stick to it…just stick to it.

Here go again.....

After quite sometimes I have time to write again J. My business plan is done and it is quite relieved having finished that out. Now is Lebaran holiday, so I spend my time at home just hanging around and play game haha. However one of my staff is asking to resign late this November. It is a hard decision, it really is. He will resign to build his own business. Up to this moment it seems nice huh? But not when you already go through his plan, it is very risky. Although every business always have its own risk, but to let his job go and start this new business is really not making me comfortable. I really don’t want him to fail and make his family life harder. Well, let just pray that he’s considering any other options that currently available.

Trust and integrity

Do you ever wonder how easy trust is diminishing and how hard it is to get back? This couple day I lost my faith to one of my friend, and I found it so difficult to get it back. Even when I say on and on that I trust him, I trust him, I trust him..still the situations is not the same any longer. Don’t know how long do this problem will exist. But one thing I learn is that when you have trust from any of your colleagues or friend, don’t broke it just for a silly situations or conditions. Their trust is one thing that so valuable in this world, more valuable and is harder to get then a diamond or gold. Keep your integrity, keep their trust. Some of the coming day you shall see that it’s all worthed, it’s worthed then any single thing in the world….

Life is not easy...at all

Late this afternoon I hear a story about one of garbage-man (a man who collects garbage from one house to another). Do you think become a garbage-man is just as easy as become a garbage-man? Well that’s what I thought too just couple hours ago. But well, life is hard my friend…life is hard. To become a garbage-man (red: a man whose salary is so low that he even found a great amount of difficulty just to send his boy to public elementary school) he must give some of his revenue for each day to “centeng” (a man who ask for money without having a authority to do that). Just to get a small amount of money he must suffer from this kind of treatment.

When you say that life is easy, life is fun…think again my friend, there are so many people out there that found that life so so difficult. So my friend, if you thought that life is easy then share your easiness with others. But when you thought that your life is hard, you must admit that your life is easier compare to the garbage-man that I tell you previously right?

Enjoy your life today !!!!

So full :(

Sigh….this couple of weeks so hetics..so many meeting and job, wait for my essay later on ok?

"Gaptek" from design

This afternoon I’m proposing to my HR department about IT knowledge development. See, in my company there is a program to train employees in many aspects of business. Excluding IT of course, and no plan for it up till now…I just don’t understand how these people think that IT just a secondary knowledge. Do they don’t see that IT is driving so many business right now? Corporation that cannot manage their IT well they will suffer and lost their competitive advantage, since many of this competitive advantage is now created by IT.

So I wonder when do these company (and many Indonesian company) will start to think about IT. Do we want to make our company and nations “Gaptek” from the design? Doing think conventionally will not bring us anywhere these day isn’t? Sigh….I just don’t know how to make all of these people see…

Red : Gaptek is a buzzword for people who don’t understand IT

A drainer

Have you ever had a friend who have a capabilities to “drain” energy from other person just by show up? Haha, kinda ackward? But I have one friend who sometimes do that. Well this few days he’s been draining most of my energy, yea actually some other problem also take part in this draining session. Well I don’t know whether my energy is transferred to him, or it’s just gone into the thin air. I feel so tired and everything just seems not alright. And I think I’m gonna avoid him a bit, because this morning just by appearing beside me he kinda drain my energy that I gather last day.

I think people should increase the emotional reserve in every other people. As you probably know that everytime we talk nice to other people and help them we deposit something into our reserve in his/her emotional reserve for us. On the contrary talk bad, sarcastic opinion, bad treatment is a spending in our emotional reserve. So, I think it’s funny how is my friend handle this emotional reserve. He’s kinda deposit a lot sometimes by saying nice thing, help us, etc. But some other time he spend so much of his reserve and let the balance approaching zero (or negative? Hehe)

Well I just speak out here and learn from this experience..that’s all, I hope you all learn from here too, that sometimes people that you drained your reserve from is not willingly speak to you that your balance is approaching zero J

Singapore experiences

Last week I went to Singapore on business purposes. This is the first time I go outside of Indonesia, so believe me you’re gonna read so much about my experiences here. First impressions of this country is hilarious, wonderful and amazing. So what is the thing that make think that way? And what is the thing that we can learn from it?

Discipline & Order – one thing that amaze me most. I’m really surprise to see them queing, no one and no sign is being put there to say that they must queue. But they do actually. And the results is orderness. No heavy traffic jam, since every driver know how to drive well and every pedestrians know how to cross the street without causing a traffic jams. So I wonder, could we Indonesian, start from myself could copy this discipline and make the environment around us a little bit better place to work and life? Could we start with something small like : put the trash on its places, start meeting on time, cross the street using manner, not to smoke in public, give a way to other people while we’re driving? I know it would feel like hell if we do that in Indonesia, but do you….I mean YOU want to make your surrounding a better place to live and work?

Customer oriented – Like I told you previously that going to singapore is the first time. So there are so many experience there that are new for me. Like how to get to the MRT, how to buy the tickets, how to walk around there, etc. But amazingly everytime I need to ask something and I’m looking around…blast there you go the answer is put over a sign / billboard. For some of you who may be it’s an ordinary thing, but for me it’s amazing. Because I know that how do they prepare to do that? They think and feel like a customer (a tourist in this circumstances). So they try to think & feel how the tourist will start losing their way, and they put something to help them there. So it make a really nice place to go to, since you don’t get confused easily. So, do you put yourself in your customer shoes everytime you do your jobs? Do you think and feel like them? Or do you just assuming that they will know that, or that they will come to you at the end if they don’t know that? If you like to make you customer happy, then you should think like them and feel like them. Hire them if required.

Get dizzy with big thing – Singapore (compare to Indonesia) let their people dizzy with many other thing, and not many small thing like : traffic jam, security while we are walking in the street, polutions, smoke, public transport, etc. They let their people focus on their job and life by making all this “small” thing gone. Do you do that while you are working? Do you let your people, your subordinates, busy with many small things that are non-productive? Or do you provide all the thing that they required so that they could focus on their jobs, instead of many @*&!#(&#(! Kinda stuff J

Do it fast – They walk fast, they talk fast, they think fast, they anticipate fast, they work fast…do you?

Well I don’t really remember all the thing I got from there…actually I start to forget, that’s why I spend my time to write it down. May be next time if I remember anything else I shall write it down again, c u later on. Have a nice day.