PUNCTUALITY
Punctuality is to complete a required task, fulfill an obligation or arriving to a place before or at a previously designated time.
Importance of being punctual
If you are a student and want to get good grades, then you need to attend classes regularly without giving a miss to a single class and taking your seat well in advance. Not only that, you should also complete your home work and finish all the tasks in due time. If you are strong at your academics, you can get the job of your choice at campus itself, which eventually paves the way to reach your life time goals. If students acquire this important quality during college days, they will certainly maintain punctuality throughout their life. This habit of punctuality adds much importance to one’s personality.
Employees should also maintain punctuality throughout their career. If employees go to work late, the organization never produce good results, and employee’s professional success will definitely hit and creates impediments to their progress. It causes them losing many opportunities.
Generally, people make many promises and often fail because of varied reasons. If you tell someone that you will meet at certain time and you don’t make it in time, then you are not reliable, because you have not kept your promise. Your punctuality shows your respect for others and their time. Being late means you are insulting others and disrespecting their time, which is very valuable resource for them.
Politicians representing any government make myriad promises during campaign for garnering votes. For example, if our government starts irrigation projects in 2012 and set to finish by 2017. Most often, it won’t finish as scheduled, and may take 2 to 3 years more. A government which is supposed to spend Rs.
20,000 crores in 2012 to complete the project will have to spend additional Rs. 10,000 to 15,000 crores, because of delay. Hence, the Government is not punctual. It’s a tiny example. Just imagine how many works can be done for betterment of the society, if the additionally spent money is saved.
Be punctual on all occasions
Mr. Prakash is working in a software company as a project manager, which develops banking applications. The company is thriving with its expanded growth and jubilant quarterly results. To sell their banking product, the BDMs of the company, after several rounds of hard negotiations, convinced the higher echelons of one national bank to buy their product. In the process, the company arranged a meeting to explain about their product, and informed bank people to attend the meeting in order to get their doubts clarified, if any, to finalize the del, Accordingly, the meeting is scheduled for Monday at 10.00am, and it is the duty of Mr. Prakash to occupy the rostrum since he is the project manager. Everything is set for Monday to clinch the big deal.
And it is Monday and the time is 9.50am, the project leaders, team leaders and bank representatives are seated in meeting hall, waiting for Mr.Prakesh’s deliverance. And it is 10.15am, still Mr. Prakash not arrived. It is 10.30am, the bank people started asking whereabouts of Mr.Prakash, as they have to attend important duties in bank. To save their face, the CEO asked Mr.Raghu, the project leader, to elucidate about the product to bank people. With his diligence and ingenuity, Mr.Raghu explicitly explained about the product and clinched the deal, after convincing and clearing all the doubts of bank people.
All are happy except Mr.Prakash, who got fire letter lately, and Mr.Raghu an appreciation and appraisal. Hence, we need to understand the importance. of punctuality, and it’s the duty of all employees, irrespective of their positions, to be punctual on every occasion.
