Missing "L's" and
other
serious stuff
Lying awake
last night after repeatedly singing Barney's "I love you, you love
me" song in the middle of the night, (apologies to everyone that knows
this song, and will now also be singing it the entire day...), I realised how I
cannot take myself too seriously.
I had one of
those moments where you watch the scene as if you are in your own movie. We are
doing our own version of 'sleep training' and the only way we could calm our
baby girl down, was to sing THAT song, over and over.
Earlier the
day I had another "You must be kidding me"-moment.
I am running
a public workshop with a friend and colleague, Jeremy Barty, later this month.
A staff member had to post the flyer for this workshop on our website's social
media backlink. This feeds into our Motto Facebook page, my LinkedIn network,
my twitter account and my personal Facebook friends. Basically sending it to
everyone I know.
The flyer
post should have read "Join our public workshop.", but instead the
critical "L" in "public" was not there...
The first phone
call was from my husband, also receiving the social media feed. I was driving
on my way to a client and had to pull over, laughing. Seriously?
In my line
of work, consulting, we (the consultants, HR people, management) can take
ourselves so seriously. When something like this happens, you have to re-assess
your own positioning and how you see yourself. Will I be okay, regardless of
what others will say or how embarrassing the moment might be?
This is the
kind of self awareness creating questions that the Motto Individual Assessment
tool looks at and one if the themes we will be tackling in our workshop. I hope
you will be able to join us. I promise that the “L” will be solidly in place!
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