Prathima's Miles & Milestones

This post draws inspiration from many incidents from my professional life. Understanding English in an amalgamation of people’s perspective of reading and understanding.

I always had a dilemma in framing sentences in business and negotiation emails with clients whether the phrases are polite or rude leading it to a constructive ending. Whenever I committed mistakes, it would lead to embarrassments and as everybody I tend to avoid unpleasant conversations just like we avoid a bad medicine.

My mentor coached me on handling the toughest conversations. Our clientele is derived from various domains like statistics, entertainment industry, medicine, and so on. The organisational behaviour is quite different from one another. It’s tricky to handle at times.

Certain conversion sounded like riddles to me. My team and I had to jot down the implications individually and later discussed so that we don’t get biased from each other’s point of view.

I am very thankful to my mentors’ for reading my drafts, sprint planning, retrospectives, release notes, queries to support teams, making suggestions and cheering me along the way. It’s been an amazing journey so far.

Be it shopping or fitness or a new skill — We have accomplished it together. From learning Aerobics, Shaimak’s dance classes, various stage performances, relationship advices, get togethers’ with close friends, negotiating a pay raise, transforming an argument into a learning conversation, when to speak and listen, communication improvements, managing a teammates, making decisions in my life, updating our bucket lists with crazy ideas, you have been there for me always. I am glad I met you all in my life 🙂

This post to dedicated to my mentors and my dearest friends — Ashwini Mayakar, Firoz Khursheed and Ashish Dingreja.