Passing your skills and knowledge to other colleagues

last SG · 2007-07-20T21:37:18+00:00

i teach him what my job scope is. Ill devote 100% on this The rest, only when he enquire then i answer. If he dun ask, den when im gone, he go find out hims...

Gordonator SG

thsi should be interesting.

let say u are happy with your job. Your company hire a new staff as your understudy. will u teach everything u know to the understudy? or teach him only 80% and keep the rest of the 20% to yourself. Laughing

Wanda SG

If he/she is a nice, sincere person, can teach him/her as much as she needs to do the job well.

I can teach him/her 100% but it doesn't mean he/she can absorb 100%, bec. he/she may not have the same experience that I have or the ability to deal with the things in the same way that I can.

Paradise Lost SG

I will definitely try my best to impart all my knowledge and experience to my understudy because I myself was once in the unpleasant experience of needing to figure out almost everything myself when my upper-study did a [email protected] job in teaching me the ropes.

As for my understudy, I even went to the extent of providing him a "help desk support" whereby I gave him the assurance that whenever he needed me, I'll be a phone-call away, provided he does not abuse it. And during the last few days of my leaves, I went back to my office to check in on how he is doing and what his progress was like.

missqi SG

of course 50% only lah.
later kick me out how?
Evil or Very Mad

ispyyy SG

Ya... indeed is interesting...
Assuming those newcomers have a good learning attitude :

I think many will conserve their skills in order to have an advantage over somebody... It is very common... I have seen it everywhere...

But for me, I will teach whatever I noe to those newcomers... y ??? Coz, I am the type that when people noe my 100% , I will increase my skill lvl to 110%... Laughing

LIFE is boring without challenge

Gordonator SG

exactly. Laughing

some people might feel that by not teaching everything he/she knows and keeping some skills to himself, he cannot be easily replaced by younger newer staffs.

but qiqi, 50% is like too little. at least 80% lah. cos u still need him/her to share your workload. if not hire him for what? Laughing

Manager433 SG

He/She must ask, learn and pick up as much as he/she can because I dun spoon feed them. I'm only willing to pass my 1% knowledge to them and keep the remaining 99%.

Laughing

ispyyy SG

since, these is a common issue... Yr boss will also noe 1 lah... he or she will have tatics to help those newer staff too...

798 SG

if he/she is friendly n nice, i will impart everything to him/her. afterall it will make one feel great as a good master.

xcSz3firaSx SG

eh eh eh

no matter how friendly how sincere he/she is i know in their hearts.... they say they will look sincere and not fake to others.. so when they pretend toyou they are "well-prepared" U WILL NEVER KNOW THAT THEY ARE PRETENTIOUS.

if they dun ask, i will not even tell him/her 1 percent..

my answer is 0 percent.

dun ever try to play politics... cos theyong ones aways pwnt they old bird

ORIGAMIST SG

hmm ... wrong attitude... I would teach my understudy all of my skill and if possible transfer my responsibilities to my understudy.. When there is someone ready to take over you, only then you are ready to move foreward.. like a promotion or something like that. Say if there is an opening for a promotion for you but there is no one to take over your current job, then how to move you upwards ? Company is not going to promote you to do same job right... If you have to hold on to old job while performing new responsibilties .. can you handle ? so think of the future .. of course it depend on the organisation also... I had benefitted from this, that why I pen it here ... Laughing

ispyyy SG

ya... tat depends on the organisation... But yr kind of organisation very rare leh ... ><

Gordonator SG

if he/she is willing to learn, i'll teach. my style is if he/she asks, i'll answer provided it is within my knowledge. whether or not he/she picks up the skill depends on him/her. Laughing

the Bear SG

always everything i can think of..

but that's me.. Smile

browniebaobao SG

the more u learn, the higher expectation ur superiors have of u... the more work u will have to do.

so i think, they will be v glad to teach, so that they can push most of their work to their ka kia.

Paradise Lost SG

That concept is quite yester-year isn't it, fearing of retrenchment after imparting your skills.

Anyway, if the company expects to bump me off after I fully impart my skills and knowledge to the newcomer, then that company isn't worth my time and effort to work in anymore.

And the newcomer isn't blind: If he sees his senior gets fired after imparting of knowledge, surely he will feel that he would be victimized sooner or later by that management policy? And what kind of message would the management team be sending to the rest of the employees should they even do such a thing?

duotiga83 SG

just did that a few mths ago when i left...whatever i knw i tell him

ORIGAMIST SG

Precisely. Anyway, if the company decided to "dump you off ", with or without anyone understudying you, they will do it. Afterall, " money will make the world go round ", they can always pay higher to get someone to do the job .. I got this experiences.. my supervisor is one who keep everything to himself, he rather work very late than asking us for help. Seriously no one know his work. He was very safe but remain in that position for many years. Then one day, he was asked to leave with 24 hours. None of us can take over his work. No one really know.. The company paid a very experience manager to take over and within 3 months, a new job procedure was created. Then one of us was promoted to take over his place. See, no one is indepensable.

For me, if I teach and produce a good disciple, I will be praised if he done well. If he screw it up, they will ask, " how you teach one ". so what you want to hear depend on how you much you want to teach your understudy .. my two cents worth ..

ORIGAMIST SG

not rare la ... I work in two companies and both proved me right. Embarassed I am sure there are many other lor . . .

crazy monkey SG

teach all you can. when there's someone who can take over your job the co will be more willing to promote you.