Excel in Excel BY TM SADHIK BASHA

It took almost thirteen years to get recognition for my hard work. I landed in Dubai on 6th May 2007. I was fresh out of College after completing my Masters in Business Admin, specializing in Finance. I was informed by

Man-agement to Internal Auditor for monthly reporting activity. But I failed to perform as per the expectations of the Auditor due to lack of knowledge in Microsoft Excel. Later, they gave me a different task.

That day, I felt very bad about myself and realized how much time we wasted in our college life without learning and practicing anything. Slowly, I started working on myself. Even though the company put me on different task, I was so much more eager to learn excel. I felt uncomfortable using the mouse, so I learned keyboard shortcuts in excel which made me even faster in my performance. Whenever Management asked me to submit a report, I simply used to perform quicker, faster and accurate.

Two years passed by, but my chance of being part of the Reporting team never came. One fine day, the Auditor in the reporting team, who had ignored me, applied for his resignation. Management was looking for the right person to replace him.

Finally, they couldn’t find any suitable candidate who can do better, than me. While handing over the reports to me, the same Auditor asked to me perform some job in excel. I surprised him performing the job faster with the keyboard shortcuts. He was amazed and appreciated me. From then, I was the person to handle Reporting. This job made me an expert in excel. Slowly, people started asking me doubts in excel and I used to resolve the problems in no time.

In the year 2019, the current company, after seeing my expertise in excel, asked me to provide an intercompany training in excel for all the employees. Although a technically expert in excel, I lacked in confidence appearing in front of the stage. There was a lot of nervousness in delivering the training, however I was able to managed it. Seeing the feedback from the colleagues, they asked me to provide the same kind of training to our custom-ers too. Meantime I wanted to appear confident on the stage. I heard about Business Excellence Toastmaster club.

I attended the 1st meeting as a Guest, I was so happy this was right place which will boost my confidence level. I joined immediately and now its been 6 months with this club and my confidence level and Leadership skills have increased manifold. The fear of facing the stage has considerably reduced.

As a reward, I was awarded as the “Best Trainer of the year 2019”. All Credit goes to Business Excellence Toastmasters club. It took me 13 years to get this award. As a final note I can say “Learning has no limit-keep on learning and never give up”.

TM Sadhik Basha Auditor - Trainer, Fischer

TM Sadhik Basha is a fire cracker of a toastmaster and has never let himself down when he comes on stage at a club meeting. Joined BETM club in 2019, and since then has been extremely passionate about toastmasters and thrives on every role that he choses to perform. He also has a good sense of humor and often has the audience in splits with his histrionics. Small, unassuming yet powerful -solid traits of a future leader !