Phoenix Week

In Greek Mythology, Phoenix is a mythical bird, which is periodically reborn or regenerated. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. According to the historical record, the phoenix symbolizes long life or renewal, in general. Thus, a human being also constantly requires to be reborn with new traits while overcoming the bad attributes in one’s personality.

The best and productive way to keep a constant check on where a person lacks and where an organization or a person requires an innovative refinement is periodically organizing phoenix week in an organization, which is worthy not only for an organisation’s growth but for personal boost as well. Giving a reality check to yourself by confessing all the problems and weakness is the best way to bring out the better side of your personality and feel the pleasure of improvements. Organizing Phoenix week in an organization encourages team work, helps to grab dynamics of working together and improves better understanding between the organizational staff and betters the relations between the staff and top level management of the organization. Phoenix week usually can be described as a sacred occasion to celebrate and transform culture of the organization. To thrive in the professional world or even in personal life, one must analyse the weakness of the person which keeps him/her away from the glory of improvements and which becomes the major obstacle in one’s success.

Phoenix week majorly focuses on innovation. Innovation is about what’s new and what’s next. It’s about that exciting leap forward into uncharted territory. Innovation is also about what works… better. It’s about that incremental step forward that makes old ideas new again and re purposes the familiar into the unexpected. Phoenix week is all about introducing yourself with your weakness and giving yourself a deadline to overcome those weaknesses and entering into a new path of improvements, or reborn with the positive traits leaving behind those weakness and negative attributes.

Phoenix is like building blocks for a better and improving organization as it affects every person associated with the organization in such a positive manner which helps to remove all the negative energy. Organizing phoenix also affects the relationships within the organization professionally. It surely improves the courage within personnel and helps to give the best results which improve operational efficiency too. It makes one belief that changes are made for betterment or experiments which either gives a positive result or teaches for the next better smart work.

Phoenix week can also be a fun activity to be organized in organization constantly where the employees share their personal weakness and what weakness they observe in their other colleagues and the areas which they need to improve by the end of the phoenix week. Or it can be another active exercise where the professionals will not only improve their weakness by the end of the week but, everyone has to come up with a new idea as well, which somewhere will contribute to the growth of the organization or which will give a new innovative shape to the organizational structure. Therefore, phoenix is all about bringing something new. The world is full of possibilities; we have lot to explore in the world. It gives opportunity of self-exploration, so as to understand well one’s own traits and control them accordingly. Living in the same phenomena takes out the real breath of life. Whereas, living with the same weaknesses and same negative traits is another bump to the new innovation and explorations in life. Therefore, Phoenix week is not only be used within the organization for organizational growth, but it is something which everyone should adopt in their life to constantly move towards an improvised soul.