How you overcame challenges to achieve your ambitions in life so far.
We face many challenges throughout our lives. How we overcome them forms the crux of our personalities. Of all the challenges I have faced, one of them changed me completely. Though being a diligent employee, I was always the kind of person who shied away from taking responsibilities. While working at a firm, I was asked to take charge of training a group of new recruits in our project and together complete a work with approaching deadline. With this task at hand, I became nervous and started making excuses. I took a casual approach in training the new recruits and planned on using their inexperience as an excuse. After sometime I realized my actions were not only a waste of opportunity, my selfishness would also result in a bad experience for others too. I decided to take ownership. I started training the group and laid out a timeline we needed to complete the work. I also ensured that I led by example and put in extra hours to identify our shortcomings and modified the plan of action every day. I also gave each one of them feedback of their daily progress and areas they could improve on. With these activities we were able to complete the work on time. Our efforts were appreciated by the leadership and I was recognized for my efforts. This experience transformed my outlook towards taking responsibilities and I decided to take ownership where it was needed, in both my professional and personal life. This has made me grow as a leader and my approach towards teamwork has been improving ever since. While studying at IIFT, my mindset not only helps me network with so many talented individuals, but also recently helped our team win an intra college sales pitch competition.
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