hierarchy from the owning company’s
Sr. Directors to our own company’s
Sr. officials, Jr. Staff including all
contract workers on site. As the team
slowly grew in numbers we got to
know and understand each other’s
talents, aspirations and expectations the first time, living in a remote area
like such was difficult due to various
shortcomings of a normal life and it
involved a compromise especially due
to food options and meal preferences
and lack of proper office & living
spaces. It took us a while to ensure I recall days when the team stationed
on site had to make shift arrangements
to work from mobile data packages
with limited Wi-Fi facilities all while
working from the airport café’ and
mobile workstations on site. Those days
seamless coordination and meeting even
more deeply. However, keeping our
team’s morale high was very important,
especially in a remotely located island
with ongoing construction. During
initial days, for some of our new
colleagues who were in the Maldives for arrangement for adequate pre-opening
offices furnished with basic equipment
required for such a period such as office
furniture, telephones, internet address,
and adequate IT infrastructure etc.
While I was deputed at our Male’ office the smallest of requests for my team
members was my priority.
The General Manager and each
divisional head was responsible for a
pre-opening check-list and had to
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