Good morning fellow bloggers and wonders of Gods creation! How are you? Wow it’s been a few months since I’ve been on the blogging scene! What have you been up to?
Well, on my side it’s been a crazy few months! But the good kind of crazy, let me give you a quick summary of how good God is in the midst of all this!
The workplace
Some of you already know that I work in a call centre dealing with insurances. I have worked in call centres for 8 years now and let me tell you, it’s not easy! But I do have some amazing colleagues that make life much easier.
Anyway, a few months ago I applied for a business training position for my project. I and a few others were selected from our project for the position. We had to do some assessments such as; conduct a training simulation for customer service roles, perform a coaching role play – 1 on 1, present a training while the “pretend” trainees purposely aim to disrupt and distract you and finally, an interview. There were 6 of us from our project that were selected to take the assessments.
We all waited about two weeks for the results, I felt confident in passing but not sure about the position because I had some very tough competition. I was up against a fellow colleague who has been there since the beginning of the project and another amazing lady. Anyway, I passed the assessments! Praise be to God! However, as I expected, my colleague got the job as he had the best score. After him was the other girl and then me, the other 3 did not pass. So I and the other lady wait in what they call “the pipeline” this means that the next positions will be offered to us without any further assessments, so now we wait!
Just after these results another job opportunity was available for our workplace university. Basically, this training position will be to train leaders, quality analysts, other trainers – none customer service roles to put in simple terms. However, these assessments were set to be much harder than the business training position and there was about 50 people who applied for the job opening.
This time the assessments were different. We were given a 3 hour preparation session and then two days later would be the presentation of what we prepared (the business training assessments were a whole day by the way!). The preparation included coming up with a training theme and then creating a PowerPoint presentation to present the training in front of qualified trainers. We also had to write a plan on excel about why we chose the training theme and what we did to create the PowerPoint – we had three hours to prepare this.
I chose the theme “crisis management” a theme aimed to equip leaders for handling any crisis when it arrives and how to put a team together for this. Just to let you know – I barely have good skills for PowerPoint and excel, but by Gods grace and some help from experienced friends who trained me, I got much better.
Anyway, assessment day arrived – I had to present this now to two amazing trainers! First was the 30 minute interview – which went absolutely amazing and felt like more of a conversation than an interview. The second was a 15 minute presentation of the excel about why I chose the theme; this was more challenging but praise God for his amazing help! The second was a 15 minute presentation of the PowerPoint that by Gods miracle I managed to finish within 2 minutes of the 3 hours provided during the preparation session. Everyone else finished much more before me and to be honest I felt very inadequate during the preparation session. Anyway, the presentation was amazing! It flowed, we had jokes, engaged in conversation and I really loved it! However, I ran out of time! But the trainers wanted me to finish but could not allow it. So I didn’t get to finish sharing my presentation. With this in mind, I thought surely I have failed.
We waited weeks for the results and my anxiety grew more with time. Then, finally I had the feedback session.
They called me to my team leaders computer so I could speak on camera with them – we don’t have access to cameras because we are in a protected environment. I couldn’t believe it – I passed with a freaking amazing score!! They said that im everything they are looking for and that my theme for training was the most relevant theme – so relevant that they have already sent the top manager to do this training! Wow, God is amazing!! What I found out during the time after this – I and I think one other person were the only ones to pass!! Even trainers applied for this position but they didn’t pass! I couldn’t believe it! Praise God for his help🙏🙏🙏🙏 I wanted my fellow colleagues to pass too because they work so well!
There’s just one sad thing, there is actually no current job yet 😞 so I still need to wait. The job that was available was taken back by the one who they thought left the company.
Other things…
In addition to these amazing events I also put a football team together for a work football tournament. We got together through TEAMS chat, got to know each other and then played in the tournament. We are actually very good! But due to lack of experience we didn’t make it through the rounds. However, we did make some new friends and have now decided to play together as a team.
I also have my permanent work contract! From May I will be a permanent worker as they have taken me on full time! Praise be to mighty God!
Also, my wife has made a full recovery after having her surgery in January!
I have also finally been back in touch with my best friend who stopped speaking to me for a couple years. He reached out to me one day and asked if I could do a video chat. We then spoke on WhatsApp for about 2 hours and he told me everything he had been through while apologising for not being there for me. I forgave and we are back to speaking again. God is good!
Did I mention that my little sister is going to get married this year?? I’m so excited and she has a great man!
The abundance of blessings has been overwhelming. I have been very busy so blogging regularly is extremely difficult for me. I want to be back for good but if the promotion comes that will consume a lot of time and energy. However, we should always make time for what we love doing right?
I have missed the blogging world and especially missed those of you who I have built special connections with beyond blogging! Sorry that I have not been around or even been in touch with you! I want to be back… God willing I’m back now for at least another season of blogging!
How are things with you? Have I missed anything big in your life? If you want to share I would love to listen!
Sending much love to you blogging family!
Just one thing I ask… please pray for my faith to grow stronger! In all this business I have found it hard to gaze upon Christ and to pray and seek his face. God has been so good but I have been so busy, perhaps too busy! We should never be too busy for the Lord right? He is the one we should always have time for.
Appreciate the prayers!!
Psalm 103:2 “Praise the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not his benefits
Love and God bless
Deano
Gospel road 66 