To frame a catalyst...

A picture is worth a thousand words. A great picture is priceless.

The general manager remarked two nights ago when welcoming Human Resource and Administration Department senior manager S.Visvakumar to the What’sApp Bernama ED-Team that a positive outcome of the recent Editorial Putrajaya retreat was the What’sApp communications.

“Money well spent,” he said.

This prompted a request to be made on the What’sApp this morning for the photo unit to distribute the group photo taken at the retreat.

One participant said he wanted to frame the photograph as an inspiration of their resolve to join hands in moving Bernama forward to a higher plain.

To this, the general manager responded: “Dalam apa-apa ramuan, gerakan atau usaha, peranan catalyst atau pemangkin itu amat penting”.

“Visibility itu amat penting. We should plod on with great articles, features, shows, documentaries etc that will really make our nama harum dan disanjung tinggi. We should not be satisfied with what we have achieved so far…let’s be even better than before!,” said Datuk Yong Soo Heong.

Photo Unit Head Haji Mustaza Nohd Yusoff graciously relayed a few photographs of the retreat, held at the Palm Garden Hotel in Putrajaya on July 4 and 5, via What'sApp. Many responded swiftly with “Thank you” for the memorable photographs.  

The group portrait, taken after the opening ceremony, is itself inspiring. The men had been told to wear suit for  the purpose.The editorial department has not had a group photo for a long time, probably never if the mind could recalled!

So the photograph will remind us of our commitment to work as a team and emerge stronger as a group.

Writing on the topic of “The Secrets of Great Groups” in the Leader to Leader Journal, Warren Bennis stated: “As they say, "None of us is as smart as all of us." That's good, because the problems we face are too complex to be solved by any one person or any one discipline. Our only chance is to bring people together from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines who can refract a problem through the prism of complementary minds allied in common purpose. I call such collections of talent Great Groups. The genius of Great Groups is that they get remarkable people -- strong individual achievers -- to work together to get results. But these groups serve a second and equally important function: they provide psychic support and personal fellowship. They help generate courage. Without a sounding board for outrageous ideas, without personal encouragement and perspective when we hit a roadblock, we'd all lose our way.”