My Toastmasters Project Number 5

"ehm.. ehm..

This is my speech for my toastmasters project number 5 that succesfully delivered a week ago..

thanks to my boss, Mr Halim Gunawan who make me made it"
:)

i proudly present...

'jreng jreng jreng...'

 

Growing Up

Good evening fellow toastmasters and distinguished guest.

I am standing here this evening to share what I have had several days ago. One day after our daily toastmasters meeting, last week, my boss gathering me and the entire member of the office at the internal meeting. 

We usually have an internal meeting if there are some issue or just introduce a new employee formally.  So, at the last internal meeting, my boss just gave an update news about merger issue between my office with one of a consultant company from America. 

This merger issue is like one of opportunities for my office to growing up.  Talk about growing up, my boss said that the company will grow up if the people in that company are grow up too. And furthermore, he said that grow up is about innovative and walk out from our comfort zone.

He shared some stories to me and other. 

Any one of you knows Mr. Tirto Utomo? Raised your hands if you know him.

Yeah, he is the one who established aqua. And now he is the owner of 30% stock of Danone, a company from France. Early in his career, Mr Tirto Utomo works for pertamina.

The first idea to create aqua came from his personal experience when his friends from abroad complained that they had a stomachache because of the water in Indonesia. So at that moment, with his capability, he tried to serve a good water to his friends from abroad if they are in Indonesia. But as time goes by, his empathy was getting bigger and bigger. Not only worried about his friends, he also worried about Indonesian people if they are continuously consuming bad water. 

This is what my boss means about walk out from our comfort zone. Mr Tirto Utomo then left pertamina even his career was good at there, yeah we all know that pertamina is a big company with a good benefit for their employees. But Mr Tirto Utomo walks out from his comfort zone, follows his empathy and now he’s getting better better and better. I guess 100% better from the director of pertamina itself right now. 

And talk about innovation, here  is another story from my boss. 

I will ask all of you again, is there any one of you that knows a company named Pama Persada? 

Pama Persada is Indonesia’s leading mining operations company. One subsidiary of a big manufacturing company in Indonesia , that is Astra International. Same as  another company, Several years ago, pama persada has an issue to be resolved. 

They have a lot of heavy equipment as they are a mining operation company. And all of those heavy equipment have a capability to work as long as 24 hours. But, those heavy equipment just work well on the sunny day, they can slip if the rain is falling. 

So, you can imagine how much the company’s profit is wasted when the rain season is coming. The management then asks one of a division in the company , a creative division if iam not mistaken, to take a holiday and get back with an idea to solve the problem. 

One day, one of an employee came to the management, he told them that he just inspired by one of a big supermarket, carefour. You know, carefour is have a flat escalators that can lock the trolley, so the trolley not sliding down? that’s what is the employee thinking about. He think about what if the heavy equipment have a special rail that can lock them so that the heavy equipment can work even the rain is falling. 

Surprisely, the management gave a big concern about that idea. Then make a two thousand dollars research for the idea. of course that is a big expense for the company at that moment. But that’s what the company should do to find the way to solve the problem, right?. 

After consult to a machine company in japan, the idea from one of the employee can be realized. Then the company ordered that special heavy equipment to japan’s industry and make a right patent to their special heavy equipment. Now, pama persada have a special heavy equipment that can work as long as 24 hours and they sold that special heavy equipment to Freeport with an expensive price. 

That’s the story. What we can get is, we will never know how much the result or the profit that we can get from an innovation. 

Just try to

 always think an innovation, walk out from our comfort zone, and we will make a better life, not only for ourselves but also for the others.