Maverick Indonesia

The Boot Camp Story

How can you tell if an organization is serious about developing its employees? For consultancies like Maverick, people is a tremendously important asset for the company. Consultancy is a people business, and the growth of a company is significantly determined by the quality of its people.

At Maverick, we consider developing our employees a priority. Earlier this year we launched a ‘training passport’, which essentially consists of compulsory training materials for all of our consultants. These training materials are divided into periods, i.e. for entry-level consultants, they are required to undertake twelve training sessions in the first three months of joining Maverick.

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Maverick of The Year 2007

Indri, leading her team in the tug of war game during our Away Day

Maverick started this tradition last year during our Away Day. Each year we’d ask associates to nominate their peers for the Maverick of the Year award, which carries with it a modest plaque and Rp10 million prize money.

This year, at our Away Day in Ancol over the weekend, we announced the Maverick of the Year 2007, and it was Indri Puspitasari Rosid. The Maverick of the Year is chosen for demonstrating to the partners and their peers that they have pushed themselves to a new level of performance.

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Bridging Dialogue Through Media Handling Skill

What is the Indonesian media? How do you handle this ‘creature’ properly? How should you react when an uninvited journalist comes to your press conference demanding interviews? What should you do when ‘a journalist’ asked for money?

Those are some of the burning questions raised by our NGO partners during our last Corporate Social Leadership (CSL) training on Media Handling Skills (06-Feb-2008).

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The Cherished Day

On Wednesday, 23 January 2008, Maverick staffs were given a half-day off to get ready for a special celebration in the evening. Was it Maverick anniversary? A celebration over nailing big account? Or was it a late New Year’s Eve party? Nope, we cherished the day dearest Ong finally got hitched!

Looking dashing in evening gowns and suits, we arrived at 7 p.m. just in time when the party started at Cilantro restaurant in Wisma BNI 46, Central Jakarta. Ong and Felicia looked dazzling and glowing with joy as they greeted some 200 guests that comprised friends, business associates and relatives.

The romantic vibe filled the air with breathtaking city view from the 46^th floor, pink decorations, candlelight and smooth jazz. It was a warm and intimate party where bride and groom mingled with the guests amid scrumptious hors d’oeuvers and drinks in the lounge. Closest relatives and friends also took turn to tell funny and heartwarming ‘behind the scene’ stories, while children sang a love song and danced to it. Very cute.

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Maximizing Potentials

Yesterday our friends from Prestasi Junior Indonesia (PJI), a non-profit organization that focuses on entrepreneurial trainings for students, arrived early in our office to take part in the next round of Capacity Building Training. This session is part of Maverick’s Corporate Social Leadership (CSL) program.

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Our Newest Mavericks

Aditya, Sharon, and Ney

Maverick is starting 2008 with three new associates that will strengthen the eclectic mix of talents in our office.

First to usher in the new year with us is Sharon Issabella Atmadja, a honors graduate in Communication Studies from The London School of Public Relations. “It has been my long-time dream to work in a PR firm, so hopefully this will be the beginning a meaningful journey,” says Sharon. Sharon was a PR officer in ASCOMAXX, an automotive magazine, before joining Maverick.

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Master The Art of Selling Ideas

For 3 consecutive years, various non-profit organizations in Indonesia has come to Maverick and learn more about the art of selling ideas.

Yes, as a part of our Corporate Social Leadership (CSL) program, we share our experience and knowledge in communications and public relations to non-profit organizations; to support their efforts in affecting positive changes in society.

This year, starting this November, we have adopted Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) and Yayasan Prestasi Junior Indonesia to receive 10-month capacity building program–equipped with comprehensive training and mentoring on communications and public relations, including:

• how to design suitable PR program for their organizations,
• how to sell your ideas,
• understanding the media and maintaining media relations,
• developing media documents,
• sustaining government and stakeholder relations,
• public speaking,
• and last but not least: about PR on the Net.

As a watchdog for Indonesia’s democracy and governance, ICW feels the need to learn more on how they can get their ideas and messages across effectively to their audience. While as a nascent organization focusing on youth education and entrepreneurship, Yayasan Prestasi Junior is eager to sharpen their ideas and PR planning, to grab an even larger audience.

We are so excited to assist and help these organizations to strengthen their communications and PR skills. Hopefully it will also help them achieving their objectives; and of course, we are proud to be a part of that noble objective.

Yayasan Mitra Netra, Yayasan Kelola, and Center for The Betterment of Education (CBE) are several non-profit organizations that had gone through our 10-month capacity building program.

Apart from this, we also provide one-day media handling training program for non-profit organizations’ spokesperson. So, if you know any NPOs that needs these kind of trainings, you can always call me (Lia) at Maverick (021) 727 898 33 to get more info on how to join this program for free. Or you can also join our group in Facebook, to meet and network with your fellow NPOs and others who are interested in Corporate Social Leadership (CSL).

by: Lia

AAS 2007 Journalistic Photography Judging Day

Last Friday, the porch of Maverick’s office house was transformed into a gallery of photos chronicling the best, worst, peculiar and heart warming images of Indonesia over the past year.We were displaying more than 600 astonishing entries from this year’s Anugerah Adiwarta Sampoerna(AAS) 2007. AAS, now on its second year, is an annual competition held by our client, HM Sampoerna, to recognize the best Indonesian journalistic works, including photojournalism.

The purpose of the display was to allow AAS judges, veteran photojournalists Oscar Matuloh (GFJ Antara) and Firman Ichsan (professional photographer) to evaluate the photographs. Oscar focused on the journalistic value while Firman focused on the aesthetic value of the photos.

The entries were in six categories: Law, Politic, Social, Economy, Music and Art, and Sports.

The judges took the entire afternoon to come to a decision on the photos and I can say that these are superb photos indeed that tell the human story of Indonesia eloquently with power, with empathy and sometimes also with humor. Which are the photos and who are the winners?

You’d have to wait for the AAS Grand Final and Awarding Night on Friday, December 7th. Watch this space for news of the awarding night and the results of the AAS awards.

by: Finnie