I've alluded previously to lots of change going on at work.
I've found myself telling a pretty good story about it. And it goes down well, too, and is making a difference, I reckon.
I wish I'd told it before. A friend was quite down because she'd had a job interview - she'd decided, very bravely, that the new team didn't fit her, and that step out and see what else the future could hold for her. Her first interview was with a team that were pretty relentless, pretty intense, pretty full of themselves from what I could make out. And they asked her what she thought of the fact that our team had been disbanded. That it wasn't about being good to each other anymore, but about showing the company how to improve its processes for the customer. (Still not a bad cause, but too far a stretch for some of us, from where we were before).
She was stunned. She stammered. By her own admission, she blew the interview.
I told her a different story. I tell it again and again:
It's true the team isn't about what it used to be. But we got through. After five years of persuasion, demonstration, illustration, our point got through TO THE TOP, and it's now company policy, globally. We weren't a failure. We were an enormous success story. We've got a lot to be proud of. We need to shout about it.
I'm still winding down my days there, but leaving on good terms, happy to have had the time with them. My big adventure's still unfolding. I'm getting a lot done in the meantime.
And helping all the others see what a contribution we made, along the way, to where we are now.
PS My friend got a better job
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