EP3. innovation

Innovation council team! I am going to talk about 3 topics including what it is, how I could get in and what I have done.

What it is


Innovation council team is to support all of ideas from teams in our company. When some teams have ideas, innovation council team will help to design or analyze to find the best solution. Each member in this team has many connections. They could ask for help or give suggestions easily when someone needs help. They also make many projects to enlight and empower everyone's motivation. They also want to make innovation in our company. There are many events to let people who are interested in makeing ideas join together.

How I could get in


Do not tell my supervisor, haha. I like to join and do activities. I joined all of activities in the office when I was an internship student. Until I found one event, I am not sure what was called. It was the event that let the movie director talk about his passions. I joined alone at that time, I had no friends or any member of my team joined at that time. Then They gave me a piece of paper to write my name, my working floor, my interest and my passion. I wrote my interest as speaking Koren. I wrote my passion as business speaking. I though that They were gonna let the next speaker talk about my passion that I wrote. That was why I wrote as business speaking.

After that event finished a few days, I got a call from P'Pla, who was the head of innovation council team at that time. She asked me like Could you tell me what your interests, please? Oh I saw that you wrote kind of public speaking or something, what does it mean? I told her like I just wanna be like her the one who could walk through the company and design solutions for projects, who could hold the microphone and talk about innovation. That was so amazing. After we called for a while, she said "Let's have lunch together, I will send you an invitation on your email". What happened to me, I asked myself, It was not a bad thing. I was so excited and very happy. I was going to meet new people and I must definitely have chances to make events and do fun projects.

We went to have buffet at some hotel, I could not remember that hotel's name. We talked about what we were gonna do, what each member thought and what activities we could join then get rewards. WOW! amazing! They were talking about ideas during lunch time. They were gonna make another event which could be helpful for our company. I would love to join it. We had the meeting at least once a week.

What I have done


I should say that it was my luck again. The next project we were gonna do was to co-orperate with foreigner! I was going to practice and improve my English again. Moreover, P'Pla gave me to be responsible for dealing the lacation to make the event. It seemed to be easy right? We had limited budget! It still seemed easy, right? The owner of the restaurant we wanted to rent was a foreigner! Oh my gosh! No way! I was sooo excited, I really really wanted to talk and negotiate, haha. That was the first thought in my head. I ever called with him while he was being in US. I sent email(s) about 30 papers to talk and negotiate about the price. I almost got rejected, our event mostly failed because my dealing via email went not that well.

Finally, I made it! We could make that event happen. The whole of that day all fo members spoke English to discuss ideas and present what they were thinking. I was so happy to see that. Oh my team, innovation council joined that event as an extra team. I was so excited because I had to present our ideas in English and all of other members were good at English. They were fluent! However, I did my best. Everyone clapped and gave me a big big applause.

From that event, I practiced my English and I got new friends from every team in our company. That was so impressive. After that we continued working and makeing new projects to let other members in our company join and improve thier skills. Of course, I could join every event as staffs and also as leaners.

I would thank you to myself to join that passion event at that time. Thank you for P'Pla who called me and invited me to join the team. Thank you P'Ott to treat me for the first meal we had at the hotel. Oh members, I should mention them all. P'Pla, P'Ott, P'Ek, P'Man, P'Tik, P'Nu, P'Oat and P'Emm. Thank you so much for letting me be one of your team.