There are certain capabilities in us and sometimes even we are unaware of them but motivation can help us find that hidden talent and improve it further and these hidden capabilities can take us to unimaginable heights in life. Motivation is the most helpful tool for self improvement as it gives us the courage to do something positive and creative. I would like to share my personal experience that how motivation helped me achieve something that was unimaginable for me.
I was working as a finance officer in a private company. One day my CEO called me up and told me he wanted to implement an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) computer program for accounting in the company and for that he wanted to recruit an ERP specialist and asked me if I know someone for that job? I called a friend of mine for an interview who was an ERP specialist. Few days after the interview my friend rejected the offer because the company for which he was already working wanted to retain him and offered him a higher pay so he informed my CEO about it. The next day my CEO came to me and asked me that if I can try and implement the ERP program myself as I also had a lot of interest in computer and softwares. I was stunned and didn’t know how to respond because it was a huge responsibility and I had no idea what an ERP was until my CEO told me about it in a meeting about a month a ago. He told me that he believed I can do it, his believe generated a lot of confidence in me as I was only an accounts officer and he was the CEO of the company and he said that he believed in me which was actually a huge honor for me. The next morning I stared and learned how things work in an ERP system, at first I struggled but once I gained knowledge of the system things started to become easy and then I got a few colleagues involved with me. There were some people in our organization who wanted to do things the old way and were allergic to new technology and they created some trouble as they wanted the system to fail but the CEO kept on motivating me and as I was highly motivated I was not bothered by any obstacles. I figured out how the whole system worked and now it was the time to implement it and it was an enriching experience as now I had to train the whole organization to use the system which included all my serious as well and this motivated me even more and boosted my confidence as now I was actually training my seniors. After that I went to another city to train the staff there and conducted sessions for training the salesmen as well.
It took me 6 months to implement the system completely in the company but that experience changed everything for me. I got promoted for two consecutive years and from just a finance officer know by only a few people in the company I became an ERP implementer know by each and every employee of the company across the country. There was only one thing behind it all and that was motivation. It is also very important for the bosses to motivate their employees if they want to achieve their desired result. Motivation always proves to be a powerful tool for success.
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