I was enrolled with a conflict schedule. I was advised by Sir X to personally and humbly talk to the professors handling the conflict subjects. He gave me the chance because he knew that it would be my last subjects for my MIT course. I felt blessed after I talked to my prof in data structure subject because she kindheartedly understood my standing. Happily I walked myself to the next room for other subject thinking on how to explain the approved conflict schedule. Inside the room sitting a man in front of the class which I taught would be hard for me. With the name in a one fourth sheet of paper, the class was told to answer the simple mathematical equation written on the board. Confidently I passed my paper with the answer in it and it was accidentally correct. My name was called with the question about my simple background and my impression to RSG. There I started to introduce myself and since I was given the chance to talk so I decided to open up the conflict schedule and explained why I was granted to have it that way. It sounds like NO NO to my ear when I saw his negative opinion. Convincing him looks like really hard to do but when I told him that only the seminars and fieldtrip subject was affected and since we will not be having class with the subject so I had his approval. I should say “thank you” to RSG for the second time.
I started to listen the organization analysis topic with a smile. The idea that was discussed was in the circle of vision, mission, goals and objectives of an organization and strategic planning model. I can still remember how I failed to one of my exam during my college days because of not memorizing the school VMGO. I had a change for a removal so I did my share. Yeah I had VMGO memorized because it’s the only ticket to pass the removal exam but after that, VMGO was addressed to recycle bin of myself operating system.
Years gone by so fast that shifted my life to a new partition of life existence. Change was there constantly. I’ve experienced working in different companies without even reading its VMGO. It’s just like I’m working my task and have it done, complied all the necessary things that was set forth to me by the company. VMGO was still in nowhere to be recognized as guiding light to my work and to the company I served. Now I settled myself in the academe as a facilitator. I’ve been teaching in three years time and counting but never crossed my mind about living and embracing the school VMGO until my professor brilliantly deliberate its importance. First question was “do you know your organization VMGO?” it happened that I myself do not even memorized the academe VMGO. Somewhat a slap on my face and showed that for all those years of working I never recognized the core purpose of the school. I felt ashamed to myself. But healthy discussion directed me to see the parallel universe of endless success if all the employees will embrace organizations VMGO and works with it.
Now let’s talk about strategic planning model of an organization. Having VMGO set, organization must be always flexible enough to face changes and challenges that will open up more windows of opportunities. A strategic planning model is more about a different approach to the project. It's about stepping back from the execution-mode in order to examine and evaluate it from a different angle. I have some observation in my workplace specifically pertains to course offering and update. We had offered Computer Science course which I believe must be given a thorough review to its curriculum. There was no update to it for the past five years. Some subjects are not really helping in shaping the students future as it isn’t applicable anymore. Aside from that, the school doesn’t have enough facilities to cater major subjects of the course. I guess the school should make a strategic plan, implement changes, welcome new ideas like offering new courses like BSIT,BSIM or BSIS.
We must accept things that cannot or impossibly achieved. Strategic planning model show the possible outcome of a certain project and with a different approach you will have more options to consider rather than focusing on one direction that could have no room for re-engineering. Organization or even a person will not grow and cannot compete if by mind afraid to meet and accept the challenges that changing world has to offer.
As saying goes “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. Everything about strategic planning will largely depend upon the people who never planned to fail and how they are capable of handling unwanted changes or in any way can affect the project. One should have endless option that can address changes and can embrace it. In my workplace I can really say that we really need to revisited and refine solutions to address the problem especially to the department offered courses.
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