If you receive different answers and varied responses to the question “What’s Happening?” – then the answer is – “No one knows.” And that’s where you need to start to make things better.
The implicit goal behind any training is growth. It can mask itself in a job, in a game, or in the final outcome of a hobby. But it’s everything before that, which is growing and which matters to those big moments. And yes, training is hard, that’s because you can’t always see the end while you’re doing it. That’s why it’s called training.
How many wrong ways are there to do remote? So many. I don’t know if it has gotten worst or better. I miss the days of Remotely Prepared and all the conversations we had because I learned so much about what I should and should not be doing. I feel like we learned so much being in that bubble. And yet, I feel like we still have so much to learn. Like for instance -…
Except it doesn’t. Yes, you have worked so hard to get to where you are and what you are doing. Yes, you have put in all the extra effort, even that which wasn’t required of you. Yes, you have never given up in the face of adversity. And yes, you did it all because it all comes down to this moment. Except this moment didn’t go as planned, it didn’t work out the way you…
Seriously, you are. The work you know has to be done, the work that is getting closer and closer to being needed, you’re avoiding it. Fortunately, the options for what you should do with it next are pretty simple; Don’t do it, but instead of avoiding it, tell people you aren’t going to do it so they can plan for that work. Keep doing what you are doing and deal with the fallout when it…