When it doesn’t work the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth time. Get up and try again. It’s the only way you’ll make it work, but if you don’t get up the first four times, you’ll never get to the fifth to try it again.
Yourself. Your actions. Your purpose. You can make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a great one. Everything is in your hands in how you approach and how you deal with the situation at hand. That is you can control, that is where you can help people, that is where you can lead.
And carry a pen? Type on a keyboard? Be the first one there? Be the last one out? Wait till the end to ask questions. Whatever it is, just go softly, just be there, and let your actions dictate what sometimes becomes your words. Everything else will fall into place from there.
Systems get a bad rap when all we follow is the system – do it this way or else. A collection of systems (and the freedom to add more) creates a toolbox where it’s left up to the user to decide which system they should use and when. This ensures creativity and growth are still being applied in implementing and developing new systems BUT also that what has been proven to work is still being…
Is it 4 days a week? Does everyone have to follow it? Can you opt-out (or in)? What happens when things go sideways? Do you have the technology to support it? How do you make it work? Have you asked yourself any of these questions or more? It’s probably the first place you want to start before dictating.