Internship memories. Part 1.

I started to write this series of notes to share with you all the things, which I’ve felt during this internship with Suzlon in Pune, India. It will be about everything, all that will come to my mind, all memories and thoughts.




Let’s start from The Company.



Suzlon Energy Limited together with Re-Power is 3rd world largest wind energy company. Details you can get to know on their web-site www.suzlon.com. In India it has biggest market share and is providing it’s customers with new turnkey solutions. Headquarters of Suzlon in India are in Pune, that was the place, where I was lucky to stay for last 9 months.



I had no clue about wind energy before coming to Pune at all. Ok, a little bit to be able to talk for first 5 minutes. Because of this exp, I’ve enriched my knowledge in this area to a great extent.



My department has been GLD which stands for Global Learning and Development. The main aim of it was – make Suzlon a learning organization and ensure the best quality of learning experiences for each employee to make company achieve its goals and in long-term – vision.



I have been a part of Global Leadership Excellence team, which was later transformed to Global Talent Management team. The responsibilities of the team were more about the behavioral part of the trainings, provided for the employees. Actually I want to say thank you to my team, I got very interesting team experience, high criteria, which was challenging to achieve and prove that you can do it. One of my dreams start to become true, I’m passionate about facilitating and training and I got a practical xp in this area. It’s a magic of the training, when you read, prepare content, exercises, put yourself on the place of the learners and in the end you see their eyes, and understand that it was worth all this preparation and efforts! It’s a crazy feeling, which drives you ahead! And I want to say thank you to people, who supported me in it.



What I have learnt from all 9 months?



I had an XP in multinational company. And it’s worth a lot.

I got to know indian business culture

Met very knowledgeable and challenging people, and people who’re depressive and indifferent to their job

Understood, that you’re the only one person, who needs your projects to be done the most. So if you need smth to be done, you need to put 120% of your efforts and not forget to push your teammates a bit.

Get to know different view on time and deadlines. Where ‘In 30 minutes’ can mean ‘After lunch’ or even ‘Tomorrow’



Actually, I’m very grateful to this experience, because it gave me an opportunity to look at myself from the other side and:



- ask – how often do I do extra mile?

- find – my passion in work

- develop – patience , English and communication skills

- meet – people, who became my real friends

- make – stupid mistakes and analyze them later

- observe – great variety of personalities

- practice – all the mind techniques I read in the books

- search – and find motivation within self.

- grow – as a facilitator



Suzlon will always stay in my experience as a big milestone. And I thank you for this first stage in my professional life.