1. Part A
What I Have Learnt From The 8 Workshops:
Corporate Politics In Perspective

I used to think and believe that the world I was in was an “ideal world”. However, after being exposed to corporate politics, I realized that the real world was not ideal at all. When I was first exposed to corporate politics, I felt very awkward and there was tremendous pressure.

(There were times where i felt very lost when i was involved with the corporate politics)

There were many times where the situations were very tense. This was especially so when the full-timers confront each other directly. At that time, I felt very lost as most of the time, I did not know how I should handle the office politics. However, after this workshop, I have managed to gain knowledge on the basic survival skills in the corporate world. For instance, things we have to know in order to be recognized by others.

The survival skills taught in the lecture are exceptionally essential to me as I know that once I started working, I will have more chances to be involved with corporate politics and I need to know how I should tackle them. Though playing with corporate politics may not be something good, however, in order to survive in the cruel real world, I may still have to learn the ways to play with corporate politics so that I can prevent others from using politics against me.

Also, through the workshop’s test for measuring one’s political tendencies, I realized that I am not a person that is suitable for playing too much corporate politics. Through the test, I also realized that I am not able to agree with much hypocritical actions, or at least, actions against my will, that need to be done in order to win the hearts of the people and support. Thus, with the test, I feel that I should probably avoid the corporate politics.

I have also been able to gain knowledge regarding sexual harassment as well. I was surprised to know that the victim does not have to be the person harassed, but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct. I think this would be an example of mental harassment.

In my opinion, I feel that it was great that Ms Mariah was able to provide real situations, where I could imagine myself in those situations. She was also able to provide possible solutions that we can undertake to handle those political situations.
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