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A last minute, final and irreverent entry to the Trailblazer Community
A last minute, final and irreverent entry to the Trailblazer Community and Shirtforce 20th anniversary tee shirt design competition. 😁
Sometimes our family let’s us down.
Those who are meant to be our safe harbour do not protect us.
Some leaves us hurt and abandoned. ❤️🩹
But we can choose our friends.
And our community.
We can choose to be surrounded by people who lift us and are excited to help us move forward. ❤️
We can choose to be surrounded those who help us be versions of ourselves that we are proud to be. 💕
Impossible things become less impossible when you have a strong community behind you.
They might even do some butt whooping for you if necessary. 😆
J/K!!
But seriously, the world is always better when you’re with your people.
Find your people.
And may they be as bad, as weird and geeky as mine! 🥰
The stakeholders won’t be able to grok this
“The stakeholders won’t be able to grok this; the document is too technical.” 👀
Ah, you mean they can’t get their head around it.
Not that salacious AI from the platform formally known as Tweeter.
Gotcha. 👍
It’s been really interesting working with the folks over the pond as I pick up quite a few words/phrases and am still attempting to grok the colloquilism.
Things like:
🇺🇸 Onesies twosies = 🇬🇧 piecemeal
🇺🇸 Tick tock = 🇬🇧 Timeline
🇺🇸 Grok = 🇬🇧 Get your head round it
🇺🇸 Read-in / read-out = 🇬🇧 Briefing / debrief
🇺🇸 Talk track = 🇬🇧 Talking points
🇺🇸 Sidebar = 🇬🇧 A quick word / aside
🇺🇸 Align = 🇬🇧 Agree / get on the same page
🇺🇸 Double click = 🇬🇧 Dig into / drill down
🇺🇸 Poles in the tent = 🇬🇧 The big sticking points
🇺🇸 Brass ring = 🇬🇧 The big prize
🇺🇸 Stack rank = 🇬🇧 Prioritise
🇺🇸 Jive with = 🇬🇧 Square with
🇺🇸 Fast-follow = 🇬🇧 Quick follow release
Table it ⚠️ Opposite meanings 🇺🇸 : postpone/park it. 🇬🇧 : bring it up for discussion now
I could guess what a lot of them meant, but read-in/out threw me – which one meant brief and which one meant debrief? Also brass ring, tent poles and the ‘table it’ wibbled my brain 😵💫
For those of you who work with cross-border/cross-cultural, what are the new words / phrases you had to grok as well??
“What’s the project status?”
“What’s the project status?” … can be an incredibly terrifying question. 😱
Especially if you work in a political organisation where teams work harder to cover their butt than to do the actual work. 😕
When there is a culture of fear…
When you’re worried about losing your job…
When everyone’s agenda seem nebulous and sinister…
That’s when you see a lot more energy expanded into the arena of ‘optics’ – how things look.
Project status can be such a contentious issue. 🚦
When the team isn’t allowed to share their challenges honestly because leadership focus more on blame than on helping them succeed, things can get real tough.
Anxiety.
Stress.
Panic attacks.
Mental health can really take a toll on people.
I remember one time a project manager had to turn off her camera as she vomited into a bucket next to her due to stress. 😢
No job is worth your mental health.
Which often leads to physical health issues as well.
So it may be worth taking a pause if you’re dreading going to work because you don’t know what’s expected of you, or what you might do that could lead to your termination.
Assess what’s really important right now (the answer should be your mental health) and evaluate your options.
There are really only 3:
1️⃣ Accept the situation.
– Lower your expectations and absorb everything that’s thrown at you. 🙇🏻♀️ Or find a way to adjust your values and just play the political game to survive 😕
2️⃣ Change the situation.
– Find a way to change the culture, perhaps plan a coup and get into a leadership position. Do not murder the CEO. 🙅🏻♀️
3️⃣ Exit the situation.
– Find another job/career/path. One that gives you meaning and fills your soul, though you may have to get used to living on fewer peanuts. 🥜
What you do will depend on context, and I am sending you a big hug and a pile of good luck 🍀
Don’t forget – the stress you feel can spill over to those around you.
🚨Your friends.
🚨Your family.
🚨All your key relationships with those around you and yourself.
As a listening volunteer for a crisis phoneline, all I can say is that your mental, emotional and physical wellbeing trumps all other requirements (or you’ll be paying the price for a long long time).
Be safe and look after yourself.
You need your own status to be Green. 🟢
Did England win over Norway yesterday? Yes!
Did England win over Norway yesterday? Yes!
Did I think about skipping this morning’s workout? Also yes! 😁
But did I do what my lazy butt wanted to do? No!
While the country was still in hungover stupor😴 …
I got up at the unGodly hour of 8.30am 🌞
and I marched my glutes to my #crossfit session and took my painful-suffering-self-imposed-character-building WOD so that I could make content about it in line with my thought-leadery brand 👌🏻😁
Mission Accomplished.
Going back to bed now 🛏️ 🥱 😴
Actions have consequences
“Actions have consequences.” I say wishing I didn’t have to explain this to an adult (resisting the internal eyeroll). 🫥
“What do you mean – it’s just a field. If we make it mandatory, then people will put rubbish data in.”
“But if you don’t make this key date field mandatory, the required reports will not yield the information you need to make decisions!” 🙈
“Yes – but at least the marketing teams won’t complain about how long it takes them to create the campaigns.”
“Good systems require both well architected and designed systems as well as processes outlined in strong governance models AND #ChangeManagement to embed proper data hygiene and good behaviour.” – boy that’s a mouthful to say! 😬
Sigh.
I get it – we are forever fighting against human nature, which tends towards ‘least resistance’ 🙄
The thing is – very few people are approaching problem in a thoughtful way, with design thinking in mind which helps us build things that are feasible, viable and desirable.
“OMG THERE’S A PROBLEM HERE!! QUICK GET ON IT WITH A FIREHOSE!”
🚒🧯
When we should be asking: “Is that really a fire? Oh. It’s just a beacon that’s been left on. What outcome do we want? How should we fix it so that we get what we want?”
😬 Lizard brain is in charge when it should be our more rational, calm and quiet problem solving pre-frontal cortex. 🧠
What seems like a small and inconsequential decision will compound over time, and I wish I had a time machine that can quickly show the impact of those bad decisions and the sufferingness that comes with trying to tackle it. 😒
Double sigh.
Oh well.
At least this just means that there will always be work for me. 🤷🏻♀️
But I’d rather not be fighting fires on technical/operational poo debt mountains though. 😣
