Journal SPAM: Honest feedback 6
Exit interview:
I don't have to fix you. I think you know that. You are a natural leader, and you quickly established yourself as the leader of this team, without question. You're very smart, very capable. You're extremely flexible, creative, hard-working and very goal-oriented. There is a nobility in how idealistic you are, how focussed you are in serving the public and in your overriding concern with the mission of the organization.
You are also arrogant and rather intolerant. You could be judgmental, unfeeling and overly harsh. You're extremely competitive, and you went into every situation looking for a solid win. You set extraordinarily high standards for yourself and for the rest of the team. When they didn't meet those standards, that was a problem for you, and you communicated that.
It could have been a problem for the whole team's functioning, but fortunately, you are also very likable. Despite your problems in the interpersonal interactions, by the end of it all, they were following your lead, and each of them were glad to have you on the team. Moreover, several of them said that they were very glad you weren't on some other team.
It's clear that you have the talent and ability to be a leader. It's also clear that you have the brains and the guts and the stomach to be a leader. The question is, do you have the heart for it? That's what you have to ask yourself.
That was so much food for thought, I almost choked on it.
I guess it's good to have some clear indications of what areas are "Needs Improvement".
If I truly didn't care what people thought, then I wouldn't care that I didn't care.
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When were you on Car Talk?
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"Exit Interview" implies a departure... (Score:2)
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I spent the last week in an advanced leadership assessment course. Lots of instruction, lots of testing, lots of assignments, all of it under the watchful eye of video cameras and a team of professionals trained in executive leadership matters.
I had to write a bunch of papers, analyze a bunch of case studies, take personality tests & aptitude tests & learning style tests & conflict resolution style tests, etc. I worked with 5 people I'd never met before t
ready to revise (Score:2)
One more thing - Last week was spent in training, but the entire week before that, I was in Korea. On that trip, I had some time to think about my NaNoWriMo novel, and I think I know how to fix it.
There's a couple of crucial changes that I have to make in characters, but they will make almost all of the mechanistic plot problems in the novel go away. I just have to think up one transition-type sequence that will make the new character interactions believable.
Rather than write