WI-PIE SEMINAR

I attended a seminar called WI-PIE – “Work Improvement – Program for Improving Efficiency” last December 26, 2006…The speaker was Mr. Jose Edward Cunanan…and the sponsor organization for the seminar was CFIF…Cebu Furniture Industry Foundation…It was held at the Rajah Park Hotel in Fuente Osmena Cebu City...there were only 12 participants and It was a one-day affair and generally the seminar was good although there were so many concepts that was discussed…the speaker was a Human Resources Organization Development Consultant although his inclination was driven by his education and training in Industrial Engineering…while my forte is also in HROD but I’m more inclined with Industrial Psychology although there is a similarity among the two disciplines…there is also a marked contrast such as that I.E. basically deals with Work Study and Method study…related to time motion studies….process engineering…while Industrial psychology deals with psycho-social concepts of motivation…behavior modification…performance metrics… I could tell that the speaker was conducting the seminar for the 1st time as I could clearly notice that he was not keeping time on his topics…and when a participant would ask him a question he would delve on the matter too much that along the later part of his seminar he was already skipping topics…which is not a good sign…I also notice that his power point presentation is mostly words…no graphical presentation of ideas…this makes the material less interesting because of the lack of visual cues…my experience is power point presentations is that your presentation is as good as the graphical cartoons or pictures that you include in your presentation…My vast experience in conducting power point presentations is very good compared with the pitfalls that I used to experience when seminars are conducted…and these raised my beliefs that my Training and seminar skills are still on top of the line...

Mass at the Plant Site

Its the 3rd week of September and we have a scheduled Eucharistic Celebration on September 22, 2006...I brought my guitar and amps and a pre-amp mixer fot the choir to use on the mass...the mass was successful and the comments made by the other staff and employees were good because of the livelier ambience of the musical instruments...I'd like to train the choir to sing christian songs such as those sung by Hillsong United...maybe I'll try to take the time to teach them ...

Staff Meeting

We had another Staff meeting last September 16, 2006...it was supposed to be scheduled on September 15, Friday evening but a change of plans...so we had the meeting on the morning of Saturday...So various departments were required to report their activities...targets vs. actual reports...some of the departments were able to present a power point presentation of their reports...but some were not able to do so...they still need to be able to adopt to the changes that I have been pushing for...but I guess I still need to give them time to adjust...the meeting went well...we started at 10:00 am and wrap up the activity at 4:00 pm...

Cafe Adriatico

We had a special meeting at Cafe Adriatico last September 9, 2006...It somewhere at crossroads...in cebu city...the meeting went well as the bossess just came from Manila and had a scheduled meeting upon their arrival...they just came from the Tendence Lifestyle Show in Frankfurt, germany...work...work...work...guess its the call of the times...

Kawai Digital Piano

Last September 2 I went for a walk and saw a second hand store near our home...most of the items there were second hand stereo amps, tuners, speakers, etc...well I never thought I would get to see a digital piano although here were lots of Yamaha electone organs which were the creme dela creme in the 70s and 80s for keyboad musical instruments...so I cam to rest at a Kawai Digital Piano...I checked and played the keys...which were weighted...and truly feels like an acoustic piano...even its touch sensor was good...I had fallen in love with the sound of the keyboard...although I had no room for a grand or upright piano at home...I decide to but this digital piano...it was truly a beauty...100 volts...dual tone functionality...