If you’re reading this, you owe someone back there a debt of gratitude for the advice, counsel, and concern for your future. If someone cared enough about you to celebrate your successes but to be brutally honest when you screwed up, to refocus you when you lost your bearings or to kick you in the arse when you needed it, you were lucky.
It’s also a way to see who’s able to think and who’s got their brains scrambled. Even simple things like getting someone picked up at the airport can become confused and I have to give someone a direct order to get their butt in the car and go.
Real people at work don’t want theory. They want to know in specific terms how to be successful. They want to perform well and they want to be appreciated when they make extra effort. And, of course, There are always some hardheads who’ve got their egos and heads up their a—s
The “secret” to team work and team building lies in the possessive pronoun “our.” When work becomes ours, obstacles become ours, and our successes are celebrated, people “naturally” become team members. But people — at work or in civic activities — usually need a catalyst, someone who says “our. ”– By Dr. Woody Sears
Life’s Six Ps of marketing yourself in a down job environment.
Managers think and plan, workers work. In between is delegation, by which authority to perform tasks and consume corporate resources is granted. That’s how managers used to be taught in America, so there are probably still some contaminating effectiveness in many work places.
By Dr. Woody Sears If you’re reading this, you owe someone back there a debt of gratitude for the advice, counsel, and concern-for-your-future invested in you. If someone cared enough about you to celebrate your successes but to be brutally honest when you screwed up, to refocus you when you lost your bearings or to [...]
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