Meet Marcela, Our 2016’s Employee Of The Year!
At The KPI Institute, our mission is to pursue performance, in all its facets, and bring this knowledge to others who wish to improve both on an individual level and an organizational one. Outstanding employees that strive to lift their company to new heights, maximize its potential and strengthen its development, so that it becomes the best of the best, all the while harnessing this knowledge to better themselves as professionals – these are the people that inspire us.
Join us in our journey of interviewing some of the most extraordinary individuals that continue to make The KPI Institute a role-model for others to follow. In today’s edition, we will be featuring 2016’s Employee of the Year, Marcela Presecan.
1. How would you describe your role at The KPI Institute and what motivates you to pursue it?
My experience with The KPI Institute has shaped me into the professional I have always wanted to become. It made me aware of my potential to create, deliver and inspire. It is seldom that you are given the freedom to express the real professional in you, but it is here, at The KPI Institute, that I have discovered an environment different than most.
At The KPI Institute I have been thought of character, commitment and dedication. Even though it has had its own share of trial and error, the Research Team that I am proud to be a part of, has successfully built on collaboration and team effort, to grow into the outstanding division that it is today. I had lost faith, with my professional engagements before The KPI Institute, that a working environment can be this empowering and familiar. It has not been, until my current experience as a Senior Research Specialist with the KPI Institute that I am happy to express myself freely through the work that I have always envisioned of doing.
Both challenging and brilliant, the working environment at The KPI Institute allows you to express yourself as the unique, talented person that you are. My professional path has been shaped by The KPI Institute and, I believe, us people, rarely get to have that nowadays: the autonomy to grow into the professionals we have always wanted to become.
2. How does it feel to be nominated and selected as Employee of the Year with The KPI Institute?
It feels like all the hard work that we have done at The KPI Institute throughout the year has finally paid off. And by hard work, I mean the release of our Top 25 KPI Reports – 2016 Edition, our GCC Hospitals Benchmarking Report, the State of Employee Performance Management Series 2016, internationally renowned consultancy projects with MEFIC Capital, the King Saud University Medical City and the Ajman Executive Council, more than 70 training deliveries in Strategy and Performance Management, as well as countless articles on Performance Management and Performance Management related topics with our Printed Edition of the Performance Magazine.
3. What do you find to be the most challenging part of your role at The KPI Institute?
Everything about my role at The KPI Institute is challenging. It is definitely not easy, but then…if you come to think about it…What use would I find in a professional role that does not challenge me, always? Throughout my experience at The KPI Institute I have harnessed more of myself, than I could ever believe possible.
Writing, being my passion and economics, my educational background, it was not until The KPI Institute that I no longer had to choose between the two. And maybe the greatest challenge that I am faced with daily at The KPI Institute, is coming to terms with the fact that there is room for both passion and skill in one’s professional life. So, I am happy to say that I have drawn the winning ticket. I do not do it to climb the corporate ladder…I do it because I like it and I am good at what I do precisely because I like it.
4. What would you consider the three main career lessons in your professional life so far?
- Sacrificing your health for success is not worth it
- If you do not change your mind you do not change anything
- Teamwork makes the dream work
5. If you were to interview one person, either from the past or from the present, who would it be?
No one in particular. I would do an interview with myself in the future and I would ask myself one question: “Were you happy?”
