Exceed

Jakarta, August 7, 2014

"You guys, has done something that I may call as exceed.  What is exceed?  It's something that beyond expectation.  To be honest,  I've never had apprentices succeed to pull something off this great. Great job, totally.  Let's give our superb apprentices a superb applause.  They deserve it."

Exceed, maybe the greatest compliment we could hear from him, the MVP of TPB, a directorate where we held our apprenticeship  for almost 7 months.  He said that on our farewell party. We called it The Day.  The very last day we were gathered as a full team, working together as a team, laughing together as a team, eating together as a team, and crying together as a team.

So, what did we do that can make the MVP said that?  Quite a lot I think.  Started from January when the first time we were assigned to be apprentices in TPB, until the day we would be assigned definitively in new places, we were able to do our best, not only for our real program designed by Kitsda but also several extra projects from TPB. 

For our real program, we had specifically designed things to do.  The first one month was the internship periode.  We were asked to watch and learn, observe and understand bisnis proces in each section we were placed.  Sit back and relax, I think that was my motto back then.

Next part, the apprenticeship program. Sometime it's called the OJT program. We were rolled to another section once in a couple week.  In this part, we were given assignment to learn about the SOP, and finished jobs from our head of section. The jobs given to us were according to the SOP and rules from Kitsda.

So, were those something called exceed?  Maybe those were a bit part of it.  But I think there were more than that.  Something more that came in the right timing to the right situation.  We call it the Projects, as follows.

The first one, we, as a team, were asked to help TPB prepared some props to be displayed on DJP Expo.  On that occasion, we created a video showing what was happening all this time in TPB.  A quite unique video made from a programe named Freezi. That video was shown all 3 days long during the Expo.

Being happy and satisfied with our performance, lead to the next project.  The second one, we were asked to conducted a brainstorm and pulled out some ideas to extend one program that had already existed but with a few weaknesses, called e-Filling.  At first, we only thought about what programs would it be as the extension of e-Filling which were more friendly user ones. Then, we made a presentation in front of several head of sections about the ideas and the business process to be like.  Not to mention about the analysis document of it.

And the final project, wich was the biggest one, we were asked to create another tool for presentation about Change Management, that shall be used by TPB when they have a schedule to do it.  Not only for internal presentation, but all over Indonesia.  Thus, we should make it in an interesting format, to explain what  Change Management was about and how would it happen.  It was a very challenging task to do, since our time was quite occupied by a Pra-jabatan training.  And to make it more interesting, just several days after we finished our training and still had to finish our Change Management presentation, we had an announcement about definite placement, making us more anxious to finish the job in such a hurry.  Thank God we were able to finalize the presentation.

So, when we were on our Farewell party, with our signature style, we reported those acitivities to TPB member, including the MVP.  We made a presentation explaining our journey in TPB.  We showed all three presentations, submit the document analysis that had been perfected, even with two extra documents related with e-Filing.  And I thought, based on his expression, he couldn't be more proud of us than he was.

Was that an exceed?  I believed it was. Our "exceed" was not about how perfect our results or products were.  Our "exceed" was about, how did we manage our time to deliver, meet and fulfill every single task given to us; how could we be able to gather our skill and divide the task according to our ability and skill; or how did we success to keep our unsatisfied and anxiety for not influencing our performance in working.

You guys, had been one of the best team I've ever been in.  You taught me how to work well in every conditions, how to pull out our very best talent in every conditions, and how to bring the best behave in every conditions.  Keep doing that guys, and we shall conquer our world, and become everything that we wanna be.

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