Category: teamwork

Find Your Fit

The core of any company, the people counted on to rise to the occasion, have similar soft skills and often different hard skills. The company does not need everyone to have the exact same skill set. If everyone only had one set of skills, only one aspect of the job would be accomplished.

The soft skills for the entire core team are the same. The skills are loyalty and the ability to work as a team, care for the company’s output and reputation, and find alternate ways to get the job done correctly.

The hard skills of the core team are varied. Those skills include purchasing needed parts, shipping completed products, manufacturing, packaging, customer relations, and an ability to find needed resources.

It is very hard for you the be the best at everything. Work well with others, share your talents, and be positive. It’s better for your ability to fit into a situation and sought out than not to be looked on as reliable.

What are your core skills?

Back to Work

Today is the first day since November I am back at my co-working office downtown. Covid and health have kept me at bay. I am thrilled to be back here. 

I have a wonderful office at home in my basement. Yet, nothing is the same as having a change of scenery and great friends and coworkers that I can talk with and bounce ideas off of. It is good to be part of society again.

Where do you go to work with friends and Colleagues?

Accountability

 

Everybody likes to duck the idea of accountability. We harken back to our younger days when we were kids, and the thought of accountability meant we were always in trouble. And yet, being accountable is so much more and so much better than what we remember from those days of yore.

We have to think of accountability as the ability to get things done. People count on us to do so, and our body does reward us for completing tasks. Our brains produce endorphins when we get something done and are happy with it. And, of course, endorphins make us feel better.

Being accountable to myself is very hard to do. I seem to always give myself a break, overlook things, and tell myself that it will be okay. I can get it done tomorrow. In other words, when it comes to me, it seems I’m a pushover.

To counter this, I have others who I work with, and I am accountable to them, and they are accountable to me. We write to each other, and encourage each other, and hold regular phone calls.  Each of us works on similar yet different projects, and each has their own accomplishments and setbacks. Yet there is something positive about the human interaction that gives each of us a positive experience that helps us to do better in our daily work.

If you’re having a hard time getting things done, I would like to recommend that you find a friend or colleague who you could be an accountability partner with. It doesn’t take a lot of time, and, like me, you might find it helps you to accomplish the things you’ve always wanted to get done.

Remember, you are not alone. Many of us have this type of problem. And you would be surprised how many people would like to have an accountability partner for encouragement and to share successes.

Thanks for reading, see you again tomorrow.