confidence, time and formal wear and coffee making....

Hi i am Kelly from Luct, in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. I would like to share with you my experience during my internship period. As a student from a senior school then to a University i never worked in any field before, so getting to my internship period i never thought i will make it. That was my first time to be in an office even though we were told how to behave on our previous classes it was never as easy as it was spoken in the classroom. On my first days after my interview my Manager sat me down and told me that shyness won’t take me anywhere....that was the first statement i heard from him...he told me that in today`s working places communication is the key to success, he told me that i can reason very well but the problem was that i don’t know how to deliver my points due to my shyness. I took this person it took me a week after a week i was able to look at my Manager and my fellow workers’ faces and tell them my views.....they were all happy for me and complimented me, this was the first thing learned. Then time came in, Since from my younger age i have never been time conscious at school because i believed that the highest they can do is to cane me or get me to do any work in school as punishment. I knew that it won’t affect my marks but when it came to work it was another thing my time unconsciousness mattered a lot, i knew it will mark my performance down , delay my workmates too and customers... so i had to be always on time on both opening the gates and submitting my work on time. From Observation i learnt how to wear in a presentable wear in a working area especially in a Muslim country i had to avoid exposing my body and i had to talk slowly so that the locals can hear and understand me.. When our lecture told us that when we get there we are going to make coffee i thought it was a joke, i swear at my work i learnt how to make professional coffee every time we had our breakfast with costumers they always complimented my coffee of which i never knew how to make before. These were the first three main things that my Manager told me it will boost up my working performance and make me enjoy my work. All this is what i learnt on my first week and since this is just the beginning i believe i am still going to learn a lot here in PLUSXPERT.