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I am a big fan of the TV show NCIS, and I love it when they are processing a crime scene and New Orleans’ NCIS Supervisory Special Agent, Scott Bakula, who plays Dwayne Pride, says “go learn stuff” to his team at the start of an investigation.

Maybe you are in a situation where you are avoiding another person’s resistance to something that you really want or think is necessary.

Maybe you’ve been afraid of rocking the boat with people because there might be some backlash.  Maybe you are rocking the boat and actually driving people away.

Then maybe it’s time to go learn stuff you didn’t know you even wanted to know, like what personality style are you and why are you not getting what you really want with the people in your life.

Reaching out …

Go Learn Stuff!
Excerpt from Connecting with Colors: Synergize Your Life Self-Paced Online Course 

Research indicates that in 80% of the cases where people are pink-slipped, downsized, or just plain fired —is not due to a lack of technological know-how or competence.  It is because they are not able to deal with personal differences and emotional situations within the work environment.

I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you!
—Woody Allen, Deconstructing Harry

Now, more than ever before, we need to figure out how to “get along.”  The demands on our attention, energy and time are greater than ever before because of this techno age that we live in.

Productivity expectations increase as the technology speeds up our ability to get things out and make things happen.  Instead of a project taking ten weeks to design, now they may be expected it to be accomplished in ten days!

There is nothing wrong with any of this, but it does demand that people communicate with each other in ways that achieve a mutual understanding, and that they find a way to commit and go forward, whether or not they agree in this given moment in time.

One common theme I see, as I work with teams in the corporate environment, is this belief that we all have to agree before there can be forward movement.  Maybe, maybe not …

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