The Six Thinking Hats

An interesting session on "Creativity Tool" was conducted today by Shiva of HR Department. The principle of the session is to organise your thinking power and thereby generate ideas in a structured way.

In simple "If you are given a apple and asked to cut into pieces, What will you do? " . You may say "What is there in it , I will take a knife and cut into proper pieces" . But if u r not given knife then u may break with u r hands or may stab it against wall to get into pieces.

Thats how the Six Thinking Hats differs from normal thinking. It is the tool (like knife) .
This is the first tool I learnt for thinking. What about You?

Here is the Concept of that
White Hat - gives information (What I know ? What i need to know?)
Yellow Hat - gives positive ideas
Black Hat - gives negative ideas
Red Hat - expresses the feelings
Green Hat - Solutions to Black & Enhancements to White Hat
Blue Hat- Organiser

My Mid Term in TCS ILP

The most awaiting exam (midterm) that decides my place of work (after training) falls on 24/8/04, Tuesday. I have been playing badminton, lesss concentrated in studies.

The pattern is that the midterm comprises of 20 ques of which 13 tech, 7 lifeskills
Tech has
RE-Requirements Engg [ DFD, ERD]
SE- Systems Engg [ Archetypes]
SDP-S/w development Process [ waterfall model, TCS model, ETVX]
SDO- System Design Overview

LifeSkills has
Dining Etiquette
Personal Grooming
Email Etiquette
Telephone Etiquette

The Lifeskills course is really worth , making us to know more about the Way of Life.
Hope i will get Chennai.Let us see

Believe it or not

Ich heisse Karthi.
Ich Sprache spreche German,Tamil&English.
Ich bin Zwanzig
Ich komme aus Pondicherry

Dont get confused,
I am learning 2 foreign languages in Technopark. One is German , the other is (believe it or not ) English. My training involves Effective Communication and Effective Technical Writing.
I need to pronunce as well as write like a professional.

Really these practices help us to gain something out of hugething.
Hope i will get Chennai after training. For this I have perform well in the forthcoming MidTerm.

Why Chennai?
Coz it is near my home .
It is where i can get abroad chance.

Till now i have taken no steps.Something must be done in this regard.

Beautiful TCS (Trivandrum)

I admired by the efforts the TCS has taken in training the Executives. What they want is "An TCS Professional not only must be strong in Techs but also in their life skills". Thats pushed us to have training on Etiquette of Dressing, Dining etc.For me, TCS is really taking pains in training profs.

We joined TCS in the auspicious day of TCS, yes 29th July 2004 is the day of TCS IPO. So the TCS cared for us in making us eligible to buy TCS shares. The process is going on & i hope i will be an employee as well as shareholder.

The first TWO days of TCS Training was just Induction classes where
we learned how the different departments inside TCS,TVM(Trivandrum).
Some of them are
Library Induction
Admin Induction

I am assigned T27 batch.

The second day goes with formalities of Surety Verification & documents. Only enjoyable moment is the "Lifestyle induction class"
where we were asked to spell out the names of our batchmates along with their fav dish. That was funny .

The climate is mild and dizzles not so often.

TCS goes public & VK goes TCS

The most important feature of the 29th July is " It is the day of JRD Tata's Birthday, TCS goes public & myself joining TCS"

Really this is a big news for software industries in India & for the Stockmarkets of Mumbai(BSE).The crucial mark of 5000 Sensex can be crossed when TCS releases its share on July 29.

To say why TCS is an attractive buy look here

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)