Growing
in value
Don Schmitz/Human Resource Staffing
If you are not attempting to improve your skills each day,
you will have less value tomorrow; to your employer and yourself.
But who isn’t trying to improve? Francisco Liriano and
Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins are trying to improve their
baseball skills. If you pay any attention to baseball, you
might ask why? At the time of this writing, Liriano, a rookie
pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, has an amazing record of
nine-wins and one-loss and Mauer is hitting an unbelievable
.389. He most recently batted five for five in one game.
We can always improve, no matter what we do. Are you improving
your skills each day? Most of the ways we find to improve
are small but the effect can be significant. An easy way to
make quantum leaps in growing our worth to ourselves and others,
in any aspect of our lives, is to seek the advice of others.
The catch is when we do, we have to be open to feedback and
the need to change.
Recently, I sought the advice of an expert in staffing. This
expert provided me a number of solutions to my problem. Some
of the ideas, I rejected immediately. They just wouldn’t
work; they couldn’t possibly work…or could they?
It didn’t matter that he had first hand experience and
had grown a very successful business doing this very same
thing for more than twenty-seven years!
After returning to my office I thought a little more about
the idea and sought the advice of another expert (my wife).
She helped me look at the same idea in a different way. I’m
now in the process of incorporating that idea I first thought
was ridiculous into my business.
How many times have you done the same thing? I know for myself,
many times. Why is it we have to hear the same thing a few
times before we are willing to listen?
Being a coach for the Minnesota Twins must be a great feeling
right now.
