Absolute Blogchain No.12

I take part in a blogging activity known as the Absolute Write Blogchain. It's a process were each participant takes a previously posted blog entry from another person playing in the effort and carries the thread forward with their own thoughts. The results can be entertaining and thought provoking. Shauna at Playing With Words relates her experience with a recent job interview where she successfully competed. Congratulations on the new position.

What stood out was Shauna's descriptions of her efforts to approach the process in a very positive manner and put her best foot forward. It's apparent the effort was well founded and later produced some pleasant, unexpected benefits. By maintaining a fresh and professional attitude after accepting the new appointment, Shauna lived up to the expectations developed by her employers in the interview process. Work is such a big part of our lives, it seems important to me that people really should have a passion for what they do and enjoy showing up for work each day.

I would take this a little further. A friend of mine was discussing the ramifications of management authority and project responsibility within the organization where he works. He had a long term employee working for him that refuses to take ownership in any project to which assigned, yet freely snipes and criticizes the results once the task is complete. In most organizations it is hard to transfer the ultimate responsibility for a task or project, yet there is a wide range of opportunities out there for employees to take ownership in a project and run with it.

In most organizations, the only limit on involvement in a project or task to what a person will assume personally. I have seen few managers get in the way of an employee that has great enthusiasm, an sense of ownership and displays commitment to completing a project. If you think about it, a positive outlook is refreshing to experience and can be contagious. These are the people, projects and outcomes we like to associate. Congrats to Shauna and her great outlook.

On to Kat at A Thoughtful Life!

AW Blogchain No.12

Virginia Lee: I Ain't Dead Yet!
Playing With Words
A View from the Waterfront"
A Thoughtful Life
Gillian Polack: Food history
So, You Majored in Creative Writing; Now what?
Life in the Middle
Finding Boddie – A Simple Way to Snort Your Breakfast
Kappa No He

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