Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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Saturday, March 7, 2015
Lesson from the Hedgehogs – Teamwork
It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold.
The hedgehogs, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions.
After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth.
Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their companions in order to receive the heat that came from the others. This way they were able to survive.
Author Unknown
Submitted by Laura
Submitted by Laura
The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other person’s good qualities.
Teamwork and Collaboration – A Powerful Metaphor and Story to Share
Teamwork in the workplace can be difficult. Teams at work often consist of a variety of conflicting personalities and styles. Getting to a point in which a team can collaborate and work in harmony can be a difficult task for a leader and takes time.
I love the following metaphor on teamwork from Steve Jobs I recently found.
He tells the story of a widowed man he had gotten to know in his eighties who lived up the street from him when he was a young boy.
One day the older man said to him, “come on into my garage, I want to show you something.” He pulled out a dusty and old rock tumbler that consisted of a motor and a coffee can with a little band between them, Jobs recollected.
He then invited him to the backyard where they collected some very regular and old ugly rocks. They put them in a can with a little bit of liquid and some grit powder. The old man then closed the can, turned the motor on and said, “come back tomorrow.”
Jobs remembered the can making a big racket as the stones went around in the can.
He came back the next day and when they opened the can and took out the rocks they were amazingly beautiful and polished. He states, “The same common stones that had gone in, through rubbing against each other like this (clapping his hands), creating a little bit of friction, creating a little bit of noise, had come out these beautiful polished rocks.” Teams, he states, are like these stones.
Individually we can be fairly normal, ordinary and even a bit rough. But through the process of teamwork we can end up in a very different state.
Jobs states that teams consisting of incredibly talented people who are passionate and are working hard towards something often times bump up against each other, argue, sometimes fight and make some noise. By working together they polish one another and their ideas and in the process create beautiful stones.
I love this metaphor. Have you built up enough trust on your teams to allow bumping up against one another and passionately arguing on occasion?
Passive, “follow the leader” types of teams are destined to fail. Each member of a team brings something unique. They are unique in their gifts, ideas and arguments. Team members must feel like they can express themselves without embarrassment or retribution.
Leaders who embrace the process of “tumbling stones” on their teams create more efficiency, better ideas, better problem solving and ultimately better teamwork.
See more at: http://www.teamworkandleadership.com/2014/10/teamwork-and-collaboration-a-powerful-metaphor-and-story-to-share.html#sthash.09s7P0aA.dpuf
Friday, March 6, 2015
The World Needs Men/Values Formation
The World Needs Men…
• who cannot be bought;
• whose word is their bond;
• who put character above wealth;
• who possess opinions and a will;
• who are larger than their vocations;
• who do not hesitate to take chances;
• who will not lose their individuality in a crowd;
• who will be as honest in small things as in great things;
• who will make no compromise with wrong;
• whose ambitions are not confined to their own selfish desires;
• who will not say they do it” because everybody else does it”;
• who are true to their friends through good report and evil report, in adversity as well as in prosperity;
• who do not believe that shrewdness, cunning, and hardheadedness are the best qualities for winning success;
• who are not ashamed or afraid to stand for the truth when it is unpopular;
• who can say “no” with emphasis, although all the rest of the world says “yes.”
-Louis D. Williams, Jr.
https://dokity.com/most-beautiful-places-in-the-world-hd.html/magnificent-most-beautiful-places-in-the-world-hd-on-home-garden-with-most-beautiful-places-in-the-world-hd-tower-wallpaper-the
https://zacharybuckler.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/men/
Values Formation
As a Christian organization, World Vision values the relationship of children with God. Integral in all World Vision programmes and projects is the spiritual nurture of children. Spiritual nurture helps children become better and responsible persons. Children activities such as reflection, prayer and fun team games contribute to their spiritual nurture.
World Vision’s focus on children reflects God’s desire for children to be loved, protected and cared for holistically. As a Christian organization, we support the integration of spiritual nurture in our community programs, placing equal importance to values formation and respect for other people’s faith. World Vision also promotes Local Capacities for Peace (LCP) that helps village leaders and members weigh the effects of conflict and how children can be agents for lasting peace.
World Vision also sought to enhance its partnerships and effective involvement with churches and other faithbased organizations (FBOs) in holistic witness in relief, economic development, and working with children. One unique advantage of World Vision from other groups is its collaboration with Christian denominations and the involvement of Muslims and others in its programmes. CWI saw the breaking down of walls of differences and prejudices among people of divergent religious backgrounds, and these walls were being replaced by openness to learning from one another. Not only walls of differences were broken down, people were also liberated from fears brought about by differences of faith. A Muslim named Julhaber Jubail said that he also had some apprehensions, especially upon learning that Christians would lead the training on the spiritual nurture of children. He thought they might go the wrong way. However, he discovered that the curriculum teaches the same values as theirs.
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