Why?
HERE you will find no answer. – That’s too personal for me. Just ask me during a beer in the pub, in the beer garden, at the Christmas market, while hiking…
Things are getting serious.
On 22.9. I will take part in a preparation seminar of the SES. The preparation is aimed at experts who are planning their first foreign assignment. – I’m looking forward to it.
My to-do list is slowly getting longer, there are still a lot of things to organise.
Next week I’m going to see my family doctor to hear what she thinks – from a medical point of view.
A friend (many greetings to Doc. Arthure) said that Ghana is quite ok.
It’s just a tropical country, the usual diseases that can occur in such areas. So I went to the tropical institute and had them check where I still need a booster. They’ll probably mix me up a cocktail, give me a syringe, and in I go.
With that, I’ll be sufficiently prepared for Africa, but only as far as vaccinations are concerned.
Then there is malaria; my doctor advised me to take a good malaria prophylaxis. Good in the sense that the medicine works very well and the side effects are acceptable.
In the meantime, I took a closer look at the homepage and tried to find out more about the company. It all looks very reasonable what they are doing.
And above all, they produce quite a lot of wood products such as veneer, sawn timber, table tops, etc.
Besides the pure production data, the company makes a very sustainable impression.
The company has an FSC certificate for sustainable forestry.
Furthermore, they are certified for occupational health and safety and occupational health management.
Corporate social responsibility is also very important to the company.
But I still have a lot of questions, and the internet and the homepage don’t help either ☹. The only thing that helps is talking to each other. I have written to them and will make a video call with the client this week.
Somehow it’s all still too chaotic and unclear – I don’t have a plan yet.
There has to be some structure in the topic. I can’t work and think like this, it makes me kiri with all the open points, and when it’s so unstructured. Think for a moment ….
… OK, it’s a only a kind of project in a way.
So now I’m going to work on it the way you work on projects. That’s what I’ve learned.
First I need a project plan. True, there are still 4 months to go. Now there are always some things that take longer, I have to start them right away. There are also some things that I absolutely have to do and must not forget. Apart from vaccinations, there is the timely application for a visa and a report to the German Embassy.
Then a stakeholder list, who are my contacts? Who do I need for this? Here in Germany. In Ghana. What is the organisation of the company? Who is the managing director?
What I also need is a project assignment. What is the goal? What is the initial situation? What are the constraints? Who do I need to achieve the goal? What are the risks? What are the resources? What is the rough schedule?
The next step would be requirements management: What are the requirements? Who is the requester? Is it all feasible/feasible?
Then comes the analysis of the current status. This should actually be largely feasible even from Germany.
It is also important to draw up a concept with measures in the various phases.
Implementation phase I is then the assignment in Ghana.
Then it would make sense to check the success of the measures after 6 months.
Depending on this, a second, shorter assignment might make sense.
But I’m pretty sure that the process in Ghana is completely different from what I can imagine.
#Staytuned
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