WHY A PROJECT?

Too often the only portion of our career that we carefully plan is what we will do immediately out of school.  We train to be biologists, dentists, lawyers, teachers, engineers, accountants. But then there is the rest of our career.  Technical training is easy to come by and embedded in most professional contexts. Dentists continue to learn the latest science, teachers learn the latest teaching techniques, lawyers the latest case law.  But then we gain technical competence and we’re promoted. (Hooray!??)

With promotion comes politics. Have we planned carefully how to: give good feedback, navigate bureaucracy, run businesses, advocate for those who work for us, carry the emotional weight of the organization, engage in empowered listening, and effectively plan a re-org? Likely not.

At this stage the pull of competing interests increases.  Demands on our time and talents are suddenly different (often at home, too!). Our calendars are riddled with meetings.  We often aren’t even sure that the path we’ve chosen was the right one and now we’re representing it to those that work for us.  People need things from us everywhere, and our typical ways of working aren’t working. Work starts to wear. The daily grind takes on new meaning.

We hope you’ll join us in our project to plan, design and train to make our work beautiful. Beautiful for ourselves, for others.