The Pink Sheep

"Your success is directly proportional to the number of lives you have changed for the better" -Vishwas Chavan Today, we are encouraged to embrace digitization as we face the new normal and as an HR practitioner, I am wondering, will this affect how we put the human touch in the way we do HR and in face-to-face communication?   More than ever, our times have compelled us to innovate and change our perspectives, our mindset and our lives. The webinars I have been blessed to attend speak so much about transformation, impact, influence, resilience and so on. My past experiences—all the good and the bad--   that shape who I am today, make me strong in my conviction that before we attempt to change lives, we have to start with the focus of touching lives. Let me tell you a story. When I was working in the hotel industry as one of its Senior HR Officers, one of our Engineering Supervisors passed away. He was one of those silent hardworking team members who lets their work speak

    2012 was deemed as the end of the world back then. At that time, I felt like it was the end of mine. You see, I lost my husband to leukemia on the morning of September 24. What I didn’t tell you about grief was that after all the wake and the burial, even years after, the last 24 hours will replay in your head— where did I go wrong? What could I have done to prevent it? And somehow, this grips your memories and leads you into believing that there was a glitch somewhere and that I must have done something wrong to have deserved this.   I can always tell you about my last twenty (24) hours with him, but I usually reserve this particular story-telling during pajama nights with the closest of my circle, with a bottle of sweet wine and some FRIENDS episodes in the background or when I lie awake and just talk it out (or cry it out) with my God. He never fails to listen to me, no matter how repetitive my story is.   But for most of you, I didn’t tell you about this one person w