Cool Orientation Program

I went for a New Executive Orientation Program these 2 days. The main objective of this program is to have us get together and know the organization better. In order to achieve that, we had over 20 presenters , from various divisions, groups, Toyota subsidiaries and others to share with us in nut shell what the division and company do. There were 70 of us in total for this program, it all began with a gathering in a big hall, we all stood up, clap our hands and welcome 20 over top management bosses into the hall, then the emcee started announcing each and everyone of our name, and guess what???? Wahahhahha, we walked to the bosses and shake their hands one by one. Is more like a meet and greet your top management session, the best part is the bosses are called to stand and greet us too. Try imagine walking out and shake their hands one by one over 20 times and having them shake all our hands in a total of 20x70=1400 times! Cool right! i honestly salute the Toyota culture, i find this type of practices and cultures healthy.

Personally, i felt very warm and welcome, each of them including all the presenters (they are managers, senior managers and etc) said 'Welcome to the Toyota big family'. Maybe I am 'kampung' but i seriously felt so good about such orientation program. I got to know so much about the company, what do each division and subsidiary do and how much they contribute to the entire UMW group. One common about them is, they all know the Toyota Way very well and practices the Kaizen (continuous improvement) value very strongly coz at Toyota, we believe there is no best but only better through continuous improvement.

At the end of the program, each of us were given a little Toyota training passport, have one page stamped and stated completion of the program and we are to complete a total of atleast 48 hours yearly depending of your grade.

What a great 2 days i had...is indeed very fruitful and informative, and i will need to go for another 4 days training next week! =)