| If you're in a leadership role you must think in terms | | | | seconds! Everyone applauds. |
| of some type of career management training if you | | | | Several years ago I went to a career management |
| have any chance of being successful! | | | | course and learned some amazing new techniques |
| I've talked with some in the past that continued to | | | | and ideas to manage and lead my staff. Ideas that if |
| complain that they just didn't have enough time to | | | | applied correctly could help to increase morale, |
| spend in training. They said that they're work day | | | | productivity, and most of all reduce the stress in my |
| was just to busy with all the duties being piled on | | | | life. |
| them to step away to learn something new. | | | | It covered a number of things from motivation to |
| Foolishness I thought to myself. | | | | time management. I was amazed when I finished |
| | | | | how much better I was able to approach employee |
| Before I tell you a personal story, let me give you an | | | | issues, as well as, manage my daily schedule so that I |
| analysis of that statement. | | | | could fit in the most important things and push the |
| You have a man digging post holes by hand. He is | | | | unimportant to the side or off the table. Just the |
| down on the ground scooping out handfuls of dirt | | | | way I was communicating to my staff in the past |
| one at a time as the job of digging the post hole | | | | was improved upon. |
| seems endless. His fingers and knuckles are growing | | | | I was so excited I went back and began telling the |
| more and more abused and painful. Another man | | | | fellow management team about the course. I can still |
| comes along and mentions to the man digging that | | | | remember one of them specifically telling me that she |
| there is a new course out on digging post holes and | | | | wished that she had the time to attend training. She |
| he should consider going. | | | | was much too busy to take time away from the |
| The man stops digging for a moment and looks at | | | | work area to waste time going to training. I must not |
| the man telling him to attend yet another training | | | | have enough to do she said. |
| class on digging post holes. He glares at the man | | | | It wasn't a year later that she was let go and I not |
| interrupting him. He then tells the man that there is | | | | only led my department but I was also placed in |
| only one way to dig a post hole and that is to | | | | charge of hers as well. Funny thing was that I was |
| remove the dirt one handful at a time deep enough | | | | able to do both very easily using not only the things I |
| so that a post can be placed into it. If I keep talking | | | | learned at that training session, but all the others I |
| with you I will never get this post hole dug. After alii | | | | continued to attend. This included correspondence |
| must dig hundreds of these. Now leave me alone. | | | | course on my own and books that I read. |
| At the course the instructor introduces a new way | | | | You see if you are serious about leadership and |
| of digging post holes. He holds up a shovel! In | | | | management, you must seek sound career |
| addition, he tells them that there is even talk of a | | | | management training. If you don't it is like driving a |
| more advanced way of digging post holes that could | | | | car and never changing the oil or putting gas into it. |
| revolutionize the art of post hole digging. He mentions | | | | Good luck and seek out some good career |
| that although it is still in the testing stages, they have | | | | management training. |
| begun using augers that can dig a post hole in | | | | |