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About Me
- CrossRoads Business Development
- Boise, Idaho
- We empower people to own the future – business, family, community - impacting the world one business at a time. We build intimacy through conflict in an atmosphere of mutual respect. “The compassion of the strong is in waking people up to their blindness! For that you need to be a warrior”. Fernando Flores We are a learning company; disciples of our processes and a healthy developing organism.
Today's management class was awesome! I loved every second of it, and wish that it could have gone longer. -To review my lessons learned will take all day, so I will just go over what my biggest Ah-Ha was.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding and seeing where I am on the DISC and why I don't challenge processes was HUGE! I never thought about why I don't speak up until now. As a rule follower, I feel that challenging a process isn't necessary, unless I am in a situation where people ask for my ideas. In team meeetings, when questions that are in the context of "What do you think we should do?" or "How do you think we should do this?" I feel that the questions are directed specifically towards me, giving me the freedom to voice my ideas or opinions. This creates a non-threatening environment for me, because someone is asking for MY ideas.
However in settings where, I am told what to do, in my mind, the process or idea has already been set. In this case, the environment is threatening to a high C. Meaning that we tread carefully so as not to be criticized, as it is our biggest fear. So as Brandon said, "I need to get comfortable, being uncomfortable." I need to do that by challenging processes.
I really enjoyed the class yesterday, it was great to see how other people are thinking and what they are doing, and it is good to see how I interact with them and how they see interactions with me. One of my biggest problems is challenging the process, and I need to really work on getting out of my comfort zone and challenging people, asking why it needs to be done that way, or giving my input on how it could be done better. All of these processes take time, and we need to learn to celebrate the small wins so that we can keep a positive attitude and keep making those small steps to change the way we do things and work on bettering ourselves.
ReplyDeleteJustin Stephens
CrossRoads Business Development
I've always been one to challenge the rules, system and methods. It is pretty easy to look over something and see things that you think would be better, but I've learned that most things are that way for a reason. Challenging the system for me first requires some testing of the existing system and learning why it is the way it is. Once you know that, then you can make intelligent suggestions for improvement. The point I take away from our training this week is that it is okay and smart to always look for this improvement and never settle for things the way they are. "If is aint broke, don't fix it"? I guess not. How about if it works okay, it could probably work better, or if your client is happy, how can we make them a raving fan that will continually supply you with referrals.
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Thanks everyone! Mark/Gaspar’s production manager