UNLEASHING THE NEW SUPERME!

Hey Friends! its been a while isn't it ?

Yeah I guess, its nothing to worry about I have simply gone on self discovery quest! But now Am Back I guess, just Like John Carter of Barsoom, Let me introduce to you the new Seun Ogunmola of Nigeria!

5 DOT AGENDA

    
    I want to believe you are reading this either because you are an IT student and need to get the best out of your IT defense or you will one day go on IT or maybe you just have a sibling who is on IT and might need this info...Either of the choices am happy to share my mind with you on this..
But first I will like you to take a good look at the Diagram/Webbing above,study it carefully and make some observations on it.
Have you done that ?? I want to believe YES ..so lets continue.
As the Famous Saying goes "If you want to be an eagle,you learn the ways of an eagle",you become sucessful by doing things that sucessful people do.In the same vein,you want to get the Best out of your IT follow the paths of people who have done so..
This I have taken time to do,studying the reports of 2--3 "5 dotters" as I call them ..I observe they had so many  things in common even though they did their ITs at Different places,at different times and specialised on different things..really ?? Yes its for real.!!..
These "in-commons" are those things I want to share with you in this write-up..
The first in-common was that there reports were all divided into 4 parts..namely:

• The Introduction
• Experienced Gained in Company
• Contribution to the company
• Conclusion and Recommendations

And that was it!! 5.00!!
Now let me take it step by step ..
The Introduction: here you are meant to give a brief intro. of the SIWES program (that made you go to the company in the first place),the objectives and other info.
This is to be followed by Information  about
The Company; the history (if possible),the nature of work they do,the location and any other info that is applicable
Experience Gained : This is a full documentation of every relevant experience you gained in the company..You can break them down into subheadings where you can write in details the "nuts and bolts"..
Contribution to the Company : This is by far the most inportant part of your report,Every sane person (Including your lecturers) believes if somebody spends 6 good Months in a company you must have something to show for it.In both ways (To yourself and your Company)...What I am saying in essence is that your lecturers expect a tangible contribution from you to the company or organisation...
I dont want to be selfish on this but based on my own field I will explain the contributions based on an Information Technology related Intern..
As an I.T. (Info. Tech.) related IT student so of your contributions might include :
A software Created for the company,no matter how small just observe the company..Look out for an area that needs to be automated,do your analysis and get your hands to work..develop something relevant and tangible..tell somebody about it..show your Boss ..and who knows that might be your way to FORTUNE (If everything Clicks just like a friend of mine used to say.)
Ouch!!! Programming! Programming!! ...If you are not a software person like some of us,here is another suggestion
How about working with the Programming group in your Company (If there is one),help them out on a project they are working on and there you are..
You can also design and develop websites and web applications for yourself,your company or any other person...
I want to believe you are getting some new ideas now..
So How do you report it ??
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS PART
First you give a description of the application or project you work on ..then you go ahead to talk about the tools you used..for example if you worked  on a web application then your report will include all the tools you used PHP (if thats what you used),MySQL (for database),JavaScript etc.. You get it ??


And Finally your conclusion and Recommendations..This is solely up to you...
Conclude based on your IT experience and recommend things you think should be added or removed...
There is your 5 Dot Report..


Up Next is your Defense ...Am still doing some research on that..Hope to get across to you soonest..
I want to believe you this was able to help. ?? I will like to hear your views and comments..Dont forget to click the FOLLOW link too.(it will keep you informed on my blog posts).....
So go ahead and Cook up the best IT report ever .....
Thanks for taking your time to read this

....seunOgunmola

Work on your Workables.

        I may not be a psychologist or a personality geek but I know for certain that most of US fail not because we aren't intelligent or we dont know what we are doing but because we fail to work on the seemingly "workables"...
         Most people are in the habit of reaching out to those things that are far beyond us and leaving those things that are just right within our reach...Hence the failure looks twice as much (Because we cant reach those things beyond us and also those things within our reach).. Luckily for me,after reading a few books on personal effectiveness I came across a concept which I believe is working for me (and will work for you too if you try it)
         Steven Covey in his famous book (the 7 habits of highly effective people)  explained this concept using two concentric circles ,He called  the inner one the Circle of Influence and the outer,larger one the Circle of concerns...
The Larger Circle as the name implies is filled with all our "Concerns" what I call the "Unworkables" whereas the inner circle (the circle of Influence) contains those things that we have direct influence on,that we can change,that we can reach,that we can affect and effect ..I call them the "Workables"...
         Every one of us no matter the age,race or color sure has a these two circles..We have those things that are completely out of our reach and those things that are within our reach..But the most unfortunate thing is that a larger percentage of our time and resources are been concentrated on those things in our circle of concern ..that we cant reach,making us look Uneffective,Unintelligent and sometimes like fools ..whereas we are not..Only if we have concentrated them on our circle of influence ..Somebody would probably have referred to us "a Genius"..
    So what is the way out ??
The simple way out is to concentrate our skills and resources on our Workables..
But how can we work on something we are not even aware of ??
That is why I will encourage you to take this simple exercise...
Take a look a the factors listed below..
(1) Your Boss (2) Your Company Structure (3) What you eat (4) Behavior of your colleagues at work (5) your dressing (6) Your Income (7) Your Spending (8) Your Church  or Mosque (9) Your walk with God.
Have you done that ??
Now Classify them into either "Workables" (that you can work on) or "Unworkables" (that you cant work on) ...After you have done that..proceed to take exercise two :
(1) Get a pencil and a writing pad..
(2) Draw two concentric circles..
Now fix those workables from your previous exercise into the inner circle and the unworkables put them in the larger circle...What do you have??
What you have is a Circle of Influence and a circle of concerns ..the ones I talked about earlier..
So with everything you have learnt so far ..you must take action ..
And what action??
       Find time to sit down and Brainstorm,list out evrything you think has been affecting your life till now...take time to classify them into workables and Unworkables..and also try to fix them into the concentric circles ...then you have your personal Circle of Influence and Concerns...



So what next ??...what you have in your hand is a road map to your personal effectiveness..I hope to talk more on this concept in my next article..
Thank you for reading this I want to believe it has helped you a bit if not much ..

I will like to hear yuor view and comments...

Problem! Problem!! Problem!!!

I want to believe this word is no longer new to any of us ..we hear it almost everyday of our lives to the extent that some of us have never even ventured to check the meaning in a dictionary.
   The major problem is that the word Problem does not most of the time mean what we have conditioned ourselves to beleive..
So what really is a problem ?? ..I will simply define a problem as any situation that calls for a solution...Did you get that?? Any situation whatsoever that calls for a solution ..Be it a damaged door,a faulty equipment, a feverish condition .anything you can think of that calls for a solution..
Now lets consider what I call The Categories of problems ..After much research and reading about problem solving I will classify problems into 4 categories which are:
(1) The Severe Problems
(2) The Important Problems
(3) The  Real Problems
(4) The Perceived  Problems..
We will take a much deeper look at this classifications in the next write up..
I want to believe you got some few things in this....will like to hear your view and comments...

Problem Solving 101

Over these years have got these ideas burning in my bones,"this is a problem that is a problem" almost everywhere I go there tends to be one problem or the other but of recent I just discovered those problems arent actually where I am seeing them...they are actually with me..in other words i carry them with me so automatically where ever I go I tend to see a problem...
This my new discovery prompted me to want to share my seemingly eye opener with some one out there...
In case you are just like me why not take some few minutes to skim through me eye openers as i call them..
The first shock I had was to learn that most of the "Problems" we have aren't real ..(shocked to hear that too??) ..Imagine you going to a Doctor for a diagnosis on an ailment that has been a disturbance for weeks ..and all your Doctor could say was ..."Young man your tests show that you are very okay!!" what a dilemma...

Blogging 101

Just started harnessing my blogging skills!