When you own something you treat it very differently than if you were simply running it. Owning it means you are responsible for it, you have a vested interest in it, you want to see it succeed and become something greater. Running it is making it gets from point A to B as quickly as possible. We make Owning it sound like a bad thing because then we are responsible and accountable for the outcome…
This is the general response when something isn’t going well, we blurt it out in a moment of frustration as we throw our hands up in the air. There is another response though, one that doesn’t get used often enough. Here, let me show you. We don’t say offer that enough, because it takes more time and energy.
I fall down… a lot. No matter how much experience you have, how many GURU, EXPERT, ROCKSTAR titles you have, you will fall over. You won’t stick the landing every time. And who wants to do that. I eschew the day where I stick the landing perfectly without even trying. Because than I’m no longer falling over, I’m just standing there, afraid to fall over.
The truth is you might need to learn something now, and perhaps you needed to learn it yesterday or last week but you didn’t. Maybe it’s a course in your Udemy catalog or a webinar you wanted to attend, signed up for, but never attended. That’s okay because you have Now and Now is better than Never.
We’re starting a new series on Remotely Prepared called “Remote Connections” – the idea is to find ways to connect with your team in a remote way. It’s been a few years since we have all gone remote and now more than ever, we need to make sure we are establishing these touchpoints for career and personal growth. Our first episode, no surprise, focused on One On Ones, and yielded some great content.