About me

If I were to mention the main character trait that largely defines me, it would be reliability. Although I perceive it as a basic parameter of any collaboration, reliability is not an inherent trait for everyone. Try going to an interview, for example, and say:

“I know all the languages required for this position, I will work for the minimum wage and I have only one flaw. I am not reliable. So even if you agree upon something with me, you may never be certain that I will do it and when I will do it.”

That’s why I value reliability and it manifests in me in situations like these:

• Once we agree upon something, it is always binding to me. If circumstances have changed, I always inform in advance what is happening and immediately come up with a solution. It can never happen that you expect a result from me at 3 PM and I call at 4 PM saying that I probably won’t make it. I prevent misunderstandings and save everyone’s nerves and patience.

• Another example could be reliability, manifesting itself in organizing. Imagine that you are in a company that delivers one-day training courses to companies and you need to order an instructor. Ideally, you tell the instructor the address and time and then rely on everything going smoothly. But does it always go smoothly? An unreliable instructor forgets the date, or calls a few minutes before the event for the address, etc. This incredibly increases overhead costs, it is unprofessional, damages the name, and such an instructor is really “priceless”.

  Reliability manifests in me in such a way that when I promise a date, it is written down in my diary right away. If I don’t get the address 3 days before the training, I automatically remind myself. Upon arrival to the place, I automatically inform that I am in the training room in advance prepared and that everything is fine. And after the training, I automatically send a summary that everything has already taken place and what the feedback is. The client is thus constantly comfortable, has a good name, and can leave these organizational details out of his head.

I could write about communication for a long time, as I actively train others in communication. From this perspective, I dare say that my communication skills are at a very high level.

Examples of use:
Preventing unpleasant situations (prevention) – thanks to analytical skills and many communication situations, I can recognize in time when a conflict may arise. And before the conflict occurs, I describe to the other party what is happening and that disappointment is threatening. By jointly finding a solution, we prevent conflict and a kind of distaste from cooperation and potential loss of business.

Selling an idea or perfect understanding of the situation – in communication, I often use examples that analogously compares the situation to something that the other party knows well. A well-chosen example helps understanding.

The only certainty we can rely on is that change will occur. The world and IT are constantly changing, and the winner is always the one who can adapt quickly. I have acquired this ability also thanks to entrepreneurship. In many aspects, I understand general principles, which makes it easier for me to acquire new skills (hard skills).

Examples:
I needed to work with advertising systems for a project, so I learned to work with Google Ads.

I needed a way to explain a technical problem to an audience in laymen terms in a short time, so I learned the basics in Blender and made an understandable animation.

What good is a salesperson, for example, who has five deals in progress but doesn’t bring any to a closure – i.e. to the payment? Such a salesperson will never pay off. In regular work activities, it works the same way – it just may not be visible at first glance. Imagine an IT professional developing online banking and occasionally not completing security? How will that probably end? It will lead to fatal damage..

Because I realize all these things, I perceive consistency and completion as my great contribution. In regular communication, this manifests in me, for example, in that when a client writes three questions to me in an email, they get an answer to exactly three questions, and I also supplement the answer to the fourth unspoken question that arose from the context.

A person that cannot take responsibility expects someone else to solve problems for them. And that slows down projects and often keeps them in a stalemate. Imagine a situation that everyone must have experienced. You go to a restaurant with a group and the restaurant is closed. And now everyone is suggesting an alternative and you spend half an hour discussing where else you could go. No one wants to take responsibility for the decision and the project of a joint dinner drags on and is in a stalemate. Does that sound familiar?

The situation is hopeless until one person takes responsibility for further actions and sets the direction. Even if it doesn’t work out, they are able to take responsibility for their decision and become a problem solver. And that is also one of the examples of my role. When I accept a task, I also accept responsibility. Whether I encounter unexpected problems in the process, it is my personal responsibility to solve the task and I behave accordingly. Because I know that no one else will solve it for me.

I know what team collaboration is. I have experienced situations where I was part of a team and situations from the other side, where I led the team. Therefore, I know what information and data a person who takes over and oversees your work needs to have.

In practice, this was manifested, for example, by writing to the project manager how I divided the work of the team of programmers and why. I explained the division of many-hour tasks into smaller ones so that development could proceed in parallel. I am thus monitoring the even distribution of capacities. Furthermore, that there is a risk in a week that we will not have a task prepared for part of the team and I have prepared specific options for solutions.

Thanks to this information, the project manager automatically had sufficient data for his decisions, his capacities were freed up, and he could also devote himself to other projects instead of focusing only on one project as originally planned.

In the information world, one cannot function in the long term without healthy critical thinking. I am used to verifying sources and I have healthy doubts about the unknown.

In projects, this is manifested, for example, by seeking out critical points and opening these questions: What if the user changes the sequence of events? Have have we solved this? Do we know what is supposed to happen and do we know what will actually happen?

I am not infallible but I won’t be fooled easily.