Beginning to find my feet

I’ve now spent four months working in Global Coordination, which is a corporate function that utilises group capabilities to contribute to local competitive advantage for Telenor’s OpCos.  

Learning the lingo
OpCo was one of the first Telenor-specific buzzword I learnt. It means Operating Company and refers to the 12 mobile operators in the Telenor Group, for example DiGi and Telenor Sweden. There are loads of buzzwords, abbreviations and technical lingo in Telenor, and my main challenge the first weeks was to decipher these. But as you see I already find it hard to explain things without using some buzzwords myself, so it’s something you get into fairly quickly. You have to:)

International setting
For a global trainee to start off in global coordination seems like a perfect match; and to me it is. It’s a very international setting where an impressive amount of international experience and business knowledge is gathered. As global coordination lives and breathes for the benefit of the OpCos, there’s a lot of interaction with the various countries which gives me a really interesting overview of the diverse Telenor Group.

Trainee seminar
This week the 12 trainees are going to Kuala Lumpur for our second seminar. I’m really looking forward to it; it’ll be great to meet all the others. As we’re more than halfway through our first assignment now and beginning to find our feet, it seems like a good time to get away from the daily work and look at our experiences and learnings so far. And also to look forward to challenges ahead, as we’ll soon find out in which OpCo we’ll be working from April 1. 

And, as much as I enjoy living in Oslo; on a grey rainy day when you’re not sure if the sun was ever really up before it goes down, it’s comforting to know that it’s +26° in Malaysia. Another reason why I really appreciate working in such an international company as Telenor