Oct 14

Written by: mcarpenter
10/14/2009 2:55 PM

OPEN SESAME … ACCESS … Part 2

This is the second of five related posts on the topic of OPEN SESAME: Why It’s All About  ACCESS for the New Worker of the 21^st Century.

 

 

 “At least I still have a job.” You were happy at first that you survived the job cuts and the layoffs, but it has been several months and you aren’t so sure that you are the lucky one. 

 

 The work continues to pile up because now you are doing the work of two.  No one in management seems to care and certainly no one can say when things will get better.  You wonder if things can get worse.  So, you slog in everyday.  Everyone else seems to slog in these days.  You try to cruise under the radar.  You do the work – but it’s all become urgent – reactions to seemingly meaningless tasks - instead of the important– move-the-ball-forward stuff.  So maybe you get it all done, maybe you don’t, but staying out of sight as much as possible is better than having the boss’s scrutiny.  If ever the “Dilbert” scenario was alive – it is now, in your workplace, only it’s not funny.  You leave work numb and spent and take that bad energy home with you.  And you wake up and do it again tomorrow.  Little by little – you lose pieces of what you were once about – and you are sure that the company has no idea what they are about – besides survival.  You want to find a better place to work, but you just know that you’ll never get hired somewhere else because no one is hiring.  You stay put.  You stay hidden.  You stay disengaged. 

 

Is this you? 

It doesn’t have to be.

ACCESS a new path for yourself.  

 

ACCESS … “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls,

 others build windmills.”    Chinese Proverb

 

A grateful salute to David Sandler for coining the phrase at-leasters and teaching the essence of what this mindset means for individual performance.

 

Marilyn Carpenter is a Business Coach, Speaker and Author.  Look for her book –

OPEN SESAME:  Why It’s All About ACCESS For The New Worker of the 21^st Century

Available at www.opensesameaccess.com or through Amazon.com.

 

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