The other day in the office...minding my own business, one of my subordinates came up to me and asked if i could help him handle a 'case' of his...since everyone was out to lunch, yours truly was only happy to obliged, yup...time to put those leadership skills in gear lah (i didn't know what i was getting myself into...had i've known...i would have turned road-runner*beep* *beep* and fled the scene....??!). Anyway...it was one of those situations that was to supposed to be "win-win"...not the case though....turned out to be ugly & depressing for both sides...
Its not easy to deal with unreasonable people whom with their uncanny 'wit' choose not to negotiate openly....they just seem to twist your words with every opportunity they get...like answer your questions with their own questions to which hve no answers??! Nasty isn't it.... well moving along, as a senior, I had to sacrifice my pride for a few minutes and not turn the negotiation into a boxing match. being 'humble' is the key word here...haha..yes, aren' we all?? ok..ok.. enough sidetracking...to show my young associate that i could keep my cool and be professional in such a heated situation...I became humble in the eyes of the fiend...hmmm...it worked?? The tiger is now a kitten...purr...purrr....? hahaha!! this kinda gained me bit of respect from the other newbies in the office, at the same time boosting my or so humble ego ;) . Brownie points anyone??
This just goes to show that we should lead our subordinates-new recruits-collegues etc...we should not actually influence them to be like us ( does this happen often in the B govt? I'm afraid so...) inturn we should actually groom them to become tomorrows leaders...bla...bla..bla...hey what if the person you helped train one day became the CEO of a multi-level corporation.... you could look back from your rocking chair and say...." yeah...he was one of mine.....I trained 'em..." *sigh*
my ramblings for today....mindboggling..aint it??!
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