Headway interns having presentation at MOVE 2008 - AIESEC National Presidents` Meeting

As 3 of Headway interns have had AIESEC Membership Committee experience, AIESEC Philippines asked them to attend their national conference and share this experience with AIESEC current and future leaders.

MOVE 2008 took place in amazing Kuhala Bay, 2 hours from Manila. Focus of the conference was to evaluate AIESEC Philippines results for last period and set up plan for upcoming months. All local committees were presented from 3 different cities.

Headway interns - Dorota, Bryan and Eva had a chance to meet around 30 members of AIESEC Philippines and share their AIESEC experience they gained during past years thanks to AIESEC in Canada, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland and Czech Republic.
Members could see international perspective on different strategies, what means to be responsible for leading AIESEC country for one year; international opportunities which they can gain in one of 100 countries where AIESEC is presented.

Headway Business Services - Shared Services - KNOWLEDGE DAY

Headway Business Services
Shared Services

October 25, 2008 (Saturday) was an important day or HBS SS. Together with Noli (Managing Partner) we run one day meeting for all 10 employees. At the beginning Eva provide us team building games so we could know each other better, she how communication between us is important. We have a lot of fun during this part also come challenges because I was only one international person rest were Filipino so a lot of language barriers appear but everyone tried hard to support each other. After this part we were building common understanding of Headway, the values, philosophy, business structure and process so that all of us will now how we should work and what kind of services we should provide. Last part was connected with HR. I presented core competencies that we define we discussed in details what we mean by each of them and what kind of behaviors we need to see in each of us. At the end we were talking about education needs based on which an education plan was created. Now every week some education for the team will be provided so all our services will improve. Of course at the end we had some fellowship with karaoke :)


This day was very special for me. It was a fist time we gathered as team, I could get to know each of person. This day really helped me to understand Filipino culture as well as motive me even more to put effort to educate and develop this team. It is good feeling when you know that the job you are doing is useful for someone! :) I will update you about all the activities that will happen.

Birthday Celebration

One of the Headway traditions is Birthday Celebration of employee. Last 2 days we have great opportunity to celebrate Birthday of 3 people (Brent, Karra and Jewel), everyone form one company – Headway Process Lgics Inc. :) As usual we gathered in mess hall at 3 pm., tell wishes and sing “Happy Birthday”. Afterwards we had some snacks and of course delicious chocolate cake :) (hmmmm mniam) :) I can’t wait for my birthday….

Asia CEO Forum

This past wednesday, Sonia and I went to the tower club on the 33rd floor of the PhilamLife Building for the Asia CEO Forum.  It was a really nice experience to hear more from an expert consultant in the Outsourcing Industry about how the outsourcing industry has been growing in 2008 especially with the global financial crisis.  Although the event was more targeted to outsourcers in the Philippines, as consultants we were able to learn a lot about how to approach companies in North America and Europe.  The networking after the presentation was also great to connect to investors and CEOs of BPO and ITO companies in the Philippines.  It was one of the only times since I've been here in the Philippines that I've been around so many white people.   Really weird.  The event also included a continental breakfast which I would rate a 3.5 out of 5.

cheers,

Bryan

New trainee in Headway!

Yes! We will have new trainee in our Headway Family! At the beginning of November we will welcome Karla from Peru! She will be working as a Consultant in Headway Process Logics, together with Petr (Manager) from Czech Republic and Justin (Consultant) from Philippines. All of the people are excited to welcome Karla on board and to have South America here. We are still looking for one more person so if you want to experience amazing internship in the paradise just apply!

Headway Management Education

Headway Management Education



For me as HR Officer of Headway it was a big day (4th of October). It was day when after long preparation I could see effects of my work. Me and Mike Cardenas organized education day for managers of Headway Companies. The event took place during last Saturday and we had 10 participants from HBS, HDI and HPL. Objective of the meeting was providing participants with knowledge about managing people. Based on previews needs analyze us define such topics as: personal planning, delegation, performance planning and evaluation, coaching/mentoring, management and leadership and resource management. People who were speakers were Ricardo Lacson (Director – ZMG Signium Ward Howell), Urbano L.Velasco (Professor of International Business Policy and Strategic Management at De La Salle University), Flo and Mike - HQ of Headway. This day it was a great opportunity for all managers to talk about their companies, problems and ideas. One of the part of agenda was group activity connected with delegation. Beside good fun participants could make useful conclusions from the exercise and related it to daily work. Thanks to external guests we could get some other perspective and gather new ideas. Now as I can see most of the participants are motivated to use new knowledge and improve their management skills. After whole day we had some fellowship drinks :) I’m looking forward next event.