In what then seems to be the cause, would mostly have been an overpowering voice that is dissented but yet silenced to work and deliver what was said.
This is painful and helplessness...would agree that the ruthlessness is deserving for such teams.
What I teach my team every time in such incidents is this:
- Stand Up: To lose the fear of finding another job sitting at your desk. You will eventually get one.
- Stand Up: To speak the right thing, the right time, the right way. No point in getting angry, hurling abuses, cursing to self, feeling sorry to have missed the bus. If you are not comfortable, say so and carry along what you need to do. If forced, document that " I abide by your suggestion and request you to be responsible for the results. In future, if things may change, would request that my points be given a consideration." or something like that...
- Stand Up:Walk over and say you need to talk things over. Many escalations are solved in this way, without need for emails and CC lists. And it goes off in minutes.
- Stand Up: Cross over and Talk the bitterness you have. Never write bitterness, escalate bad blood in emails sitting at your desk. They will haunt you forever.
- Stand Up: Be led yourselves. Don't be led. If you are not presented the choice, better to say so and work than just work and feel so.
- Stand Up: Speak out when given an opportunity in private or public. Never miss a chance. Popularly known as "Chance pe Dance".
- Stand Up: It shows your personality. Your Identity, Your recognition. Don't miss it.
- Stand Up: To say sorry when you dismiss suggestions and demand a certain compliance without appealing to common sense. You do exactly what you hate others doing it to you. Isn't it ?
- Stand Up: To listen to any one standing and speaking to you. 1. In India, it is respectful, 2. You would be more keen, 3. You would feel free to relax and hence absorb new ideas. My dad used to tell me to walk and read to beat sleep and energize the brain early morning. If only, I listened...
This blog has inspired me to write the following:
ReplyDeleteIdentity and Recognition are two sides of the same coin. Establishmet of identity is a feat to be achieved depending on the discipline chosen and this is within an individual depending on how and in what manner he/she would be acquitting in the given field of activity. Hence what is expected of an individual is his individualistic dispositions in all respects. Once the individual disposes off well in all his dispositions and much less to say in an innovative manner he or she will truly establish an IDENTITY. Following this, recognition will also follow - first from peers and later on from others.It must be well understood here that recognition cannot be bought but only be acquired in due course of time.Hence concepts of IDENTITY and RECOGNITION remain to be time-related and be rewarded in future.