Charismatic God

I was at a negotiation course yesterday and the instructor was talking about factors to consider in a negotiation and one of which is power. Power also includes charismatic power - meaning that there are some people who has the ability to draw people and he followed by asking " like city harvest, you know city harvest?" Then one of the participants answered:"ya, the one in suntec, u know u know" I was so tempted to correct her but did not. But at this time the instructor said" yaya" I was like "wat?!" and after that i think he meant NCC actually. He was trying to give an example that it is pastor's charisma that constantly draws the crowd to him over the years. My colleague then made a very good point saying "but how long can the charisma power last?" I agreed with him and i was thinking to myself that hey! ya, how long can a person's charisma last? Our church is able to grow to this size over the years is definitely not of pastor charisma alone. I don't deny some may find him interesting and funny, but over time when rubber meets the road, his jokes can't deliver you, it's all about Christ. He is the one who has the charisma and the ability to deliver you out of your situations. My God is a practical God and He knows what is best for me, He is not only charismatic, but He equipped me with the strength and the power to do what i do today and to be who I am today. I'm righteous definitely not by my own works but by the finished work on the cross.

He followed by telling us there are 4 types of people and everyone will definitely fall into one of the categories. Dominant is self explanatory, Influencial are friendly people who tries to make friends and not enemies, compliant people are inflexible and steady people are indecisive people (yes!, being indecisive is steady?!). I think i'm a mix of steady and influential..maybe more steady...literally..hee..but i know i'm Christ-like. As He is so am I in this world. That was what was going through my mind..very spiritual rite?..keke..

My righteousness, my holiness
Emmanuel living in me - yes He is my righteousness and lives in me! :)

1st Entry in April

Just realised that I have not updated my blog for almost 2 weeks and the last one was in March. Was bz at work as usual. It's 7.40pm now and I'm still in office. Just want to share a quick testimony of God's goodness! My boss sent me an email on my quarterly performance this year and it has been pretty good. I have even covered the whole year's target within first 3 months on one of the categories and exceeded my quarterly target for another. This year indeed is a year of acceleration for me. Although i have been complaining to myself about the work and stuff and feeling that this job is mundane yet stressful. My yearning towards the next public hols has increased tremendously for the past few months. Nowadays, even taking one day leave from work is not really much of a rest cos I have to attend to so many things even when I'm on leave, emails, calls and blah blah...Even my boss realised he can't do without me...haha..so he decided to make sure i have a good backup while i'm away..my account has expanded and it's overflowing now. Recently have been asked to form a team for my account so as to ease my load. So now besides doing the same things (recruitment) that I have been doing, i have added responsibility to oversee the team and evetual performance..hey! that's more work ok!..argh..ok! time to go home!

Found Something!

I was just too bored and tired after lunch, so decided to surf the net for a while. And when i did a search on "John Chew" with google like what i like to do with people's names and found this excerpt of an article from ST Recruit online published on 11 Jan 2003..heh..:

"The new face of HR

Graduate: John Chew
Age: 24
Company: Oracle Corporation Singapore Pte Ltd
Designation: HR consultant

Previously attached to Oracle in his second year of the three-year degree programme in HRC, Mr John Chew is now a full-fledged employee of the company.
Though Nanyang Business School students had a choice of six specialisations, including Banking & Finance and Information Technology, Mr Chew chose HRC because HR outsourcing at the time, was “really hot”.
The new HRC course, he said, adopts an integrated view of HR. Its core subjects allow for better exposure to HR as opposed to the rules-and-regulations type of approach in the previous HRM course.
That said, the transition from classroom to office was “not a bed of roses”.
No matter how much the role is evolving, he pointed out, an HR practitioner still cannot get out of administrative duties, for example, chasing for approvals and evaluations.
Currently at Oracle, Mr Chew is tasked with maintaining the People Developer standards of the company.
Though the American multinational is a People Developer-certified company here, there is no resting on one’s laurels.
As Oracle is a People Developer which monitors staff development, Mr Chew has to keep tabs on who goes, and who is due for, training because returns on training are measured.
“I have to make sure that the training that takes place in Oracle is up to scratch.”
Though barely a year on the job, Mr Chew believes that HR is important and challenging at the same time.
“You need to attract the right kind of people, enhance their welfare and motivate them, all at the same time. And good HR systems cannot be copied blindly.”

This article first appeared in ST Recruit on 11 Jan 2003. "

keke...guess who is John Chew. :P