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Let's exchange? I help you with Portuguese and/or English and you provide me with the amazing opportunity of having some nice talk? ❤ I was born in South Brazil (near Uruguay and Chuy) and I have been living here for my entire life. So, my accent might be a little different from what you've heard before. I don't use "você", I use "tu", which is just an example, and I'd really like to share what it is to live in such a diverse country in so many aspects (accent, dialects, vocabulary, culture, customs, traditions, pronunciation, intonation, phonetics, grammar, idioms etc). I believe my background education and experience with English can help a lot with contributing to your Portuguese learning process and overcoming language barriers. I can have a conversation about a really broad variety of topics, since I'm extremely curious about everything there is related to life, both individually and collectively - and I just love to have a nice discussion and share great things/moments with people - that is what I'm here for: to share everything I can with iTalki community. We can learn in so many different levels! Being able to practice a language is only a huge plus in the experience. I look forward to talking to people from all over the world! Love, Gi.
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    One of our goals <strike>on</strike> for the 2017 IT strategic planning was to create a PMO (a Project Management Office) to align all processes and help the managers with their daily activities.
    So we began with one meeting every Monday at 9:00 AM.
    The participants are the CTO, me (as the IT Manager) and the PMs (Project Managers).

    These are the topics we talk about int that meeting:
    - Reporting the current projects status;
    - Aligning with the PMs that they always need to invite the commercial manager to kickoff, status-report, and closing meetings;
    - Presenting our PMO mailing group;
    - Freezing the allocation and financial data (in portfolio reports) after the end of month to avoid that HR updates change old information;

    After the PMO meeting, everybody <strike>did</strike> received orientations and weekly tasks to do. These are mine<strike>s</strike>:
    - Client 1 (an agribusiness):
    I should return a call to the analyst responsible for the project.
    It was done. He just wants to know when we are going to deliver the last patches of his app, which is in <strike>tests</strike> testing stage.
    No big deal.
    - Client 2 (a university):
    I should schedule a meeting with the IT Manager and our commercial director.
    This IT Manager was some guy hard to find and it was even harder to find some space on his agenda.
    But after a few tries, it was done.
    - Client 3 (an IT company):
    I should set up a team with a senior Java developer and a junior one;
    I planned to talk with Carl and Louis, members of another team, which works with PHP, and ask if they wanted to join the Java team. Carl accepted the invite to join it as the junior dev. Meanwhile, we <strike>contract</strike> hired a new guy, Gabriel D., to be the senior dev so I didn't invite Louis anymore.
    So I scheduled the kickoff meeting;
    - Internal Services (HR):
    I was asked to notify Andre, <strike>form</strike> from HR, that he doesn't need to wait for the portfolio's OK to update the HR information anymore;
    I should schedule Toby and Alexander's vacation<strike>s</strike>. For Toby, I should have waited after our commercial [sales department?] had talked to the client. I'm still waiting (and Toby is not in our company anymore). I scheduled Alexander's vacation<strike>s</strike> for 10 working days, though.
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    February 22, 2018
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    I began to study English because in my job, if you speak english, you can <strike>to</strike> get the best opportunities, after some time I'm really in love <strike>to</strike> with <strike>the</strike> English. I stopped my class a bit, but I have been studying alone since January 2017 until now, and this year I can say that I've learned a lot alone, then <strike>I'm</strike> I'll keep<strike>ing</strike> going <strike>ahead</strike> <strike>to</strike> and trying to <strike>get</strike> achieve my goals.
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    February 22, 2018
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    Defining the best leadership is not a simple question to answer. To have an open-minded personality or to have a strict behavior sometimes depends on the environment and the culture that we are living in.

    Nowadays, we are in an era that we have a mixture of cultures and globalization, mainly in the workplace. The leader needs to be aware that these differences can exist, and flexibility is the key to conquer his subordinates. Being a good listener is very important because the employee will feel happy if they can express their ideas and opinion frequently. Another skill is not criticizing a person in public, a better option is giving a feedback honestly by showing the points for improvement or to fix.

    In my opinion, the best leadership is when the person protects their team. The employee needs to believe in their boss to work better and in a productive way. It is a win-win situation when we have the flexibility to expose our ideas and to have an honest feedback about our performance.
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    February 22, 2018
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