Zoe Girl
4-9-15, 11:12am
i was at a short training at work, a colleague went to a national convention and brought back some great stuff. one part was about finding ourselves on a work style system in order to work well together, i kinda love those things. it was on a north-south-east-west system. out of 15 people i was the only one on the east, the big idea, creative, pull a team together but easily drops the ball on details side. as soon as we sorted some of the people who know me well said 'of course'. i asked the facilitator who did the exercise if anyone at the national convention was an east and he said it was pretty equal overall, however he thought that was because there were a lot of higher managers and leaders in the group.
Part of what we shared was what other groups we needed to get our job done well and no one put east, kinda made me sad. i think the big idea creatives are just not understood or valued at a lower level of organization. i know i always struggle with the details, i hire staff that have those strengths to support me but honestly that is looked at more than my big ideas. in the last 2 months of school we are sponsoring a school wide earth day after school, we are supporting spelling bees and hopefully an away soccer game (without transportation money, not looking likely) and arranging an iron chef event with a partner middle school. However what i get the most emails on are the details. i have improved so much in some areas, i think people assume this is the easy part of the job instead of hard for some of us. i understand i need to do this,
it confirms that i want to be a higher manager in order to create big visions (i usually can inspire a lot of other people as well), and also that i tend to be graded more low because creativity is taken for granted IMHO. not so much sour grapes or intended to be whining, just the struggle i have more clearly spelled out.
Part of what we shared was what other groups we needed to get our job done well and no one put east, kinda made me sad. i think the big idea creatives are just not understood or valued at a lower level of organization. i know i always struggle with the details, i hire staff that have those strengths to support me but honestly that is looked at more than my big ideas. in the last 2 months of school we are sponsoring a school wide earth day after school, we are supporting spelling bees and hopefully an away soccer game (without transportation money, not looking likely) and arranging an iron chef event with a partner middle school. However what i get the most emails on are the details. i have improved so much in some areas, i think people assume this is the easy part of the job instead of hard for some of us. i understand i need to do this,
it confirms that i want to be a higher manager in order to create big visions (i usually can inspire a lot of other people as well), and also that i tend to be graded more low because creativity is taken for granted IMHO. not so much sour grapes or intended to be whining, just the struggle i have more clearly spelled out.