Everyone gets overwhelmed; everyone gets sad; everyone gets stressed or feels that they are ‘up to the eyeballs’.
I'm no different to anyone else.
The picture above represents a set of rubber building blocks as part of a psychological profiling exercise that you can do to test people's character as they enter business management.
Callum and Courtney both started their modern degree apprenticeships in chartered Business Management at Nottingham Trent University recently, and these blocks came from an exercise they did when they first attended.
There's a lot of questions to be asked, a lot of questions to be answered, and then an algorithm and a programme that spits out answers as to who you are, what you may be good at, and what you may be deficient in.
Red is for emotional/ forward going.
Green is earthy; it's caring, it's fundamental, it's foundational.
Blue is insightful, cool, and considered.
Yellow is sunshine and radiating light.
There are many different meanings for these as they move forward, and it all comes with a pack that shows you how to use it, but I said to the team at the team meeting today that I'm gonna put them on my desk, and I'm gonna come in each morning and I'm gonna line them up so you can see how I'm feeling before you come and ask me a question.
That is of course, a joke and ridiculous, but over the last week or two, I've found myself becoming less patient and even more snappy, and more p**sed off as I sit here dictating a blog when my computer is downloading a presentation that I thought I already had.
None of this is anyone else's problem but mine, most of the time (and it is most of the time), I have all the time I need, but sometimes, because of my own scheduling, my own diary management, my own saying “yes” too many times, I have less.
That's a me problem, not a you problem, and so I should remember that when someone asks me a question that I don't want to answer when normally I would be quite happy to answer it at any point.
Blog Post Number - 4685
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