Leading by Faith Will Strongly Impacting My Profession Career

Leadership, understanding and patience provide extremely helpful guidance and strong moral support within a professional team. I've always been told from my peers that I have an understanding way when holding a conversation with individuals. A good friend of mine, Marilyn, once told me, "You were one of the only people at Global Options that engendered trust, openness and camaraderie. Just being able to talk is a powerful thing." For some reason or another, people came to me and asked for help. Rather it be work related or personal, I would never turn them away and helped them as much as I could. Recently a co-worker told me, he was very secluded in our job, and never talked to any, but he opened up when I joined the team and said he feels he can talk to me about anything. Throughout my life, I never imagined myself being the one my friends and family would to come for advice and guidance, especially in the workplace where everyone is cautious about their personal lives. When it comes to understanding a certain situation, I picture myself as being the person that needs help guidance or advice. Before answering I take a few seconds or a few minutes to assess the situation, and inform the individual I am "letting it sink in" so I can give him/her a response.

Understanding a situation can be extremely difficult or easy, depending on how it's viewed. It is important to take a few minutes, or maybe a few hours to think about the important factors, because jumping to conclusion can lead to failure and an upset friend. Not knowing the full picture or hearing the other side of the story can also lead to miscommunication. At the workplace, the ability to understand a certain project or situation is slightly different from a personal issue. If a co-worker has a problem with another co-worker, it's best to hear both sides of the story. I would take each individual into an office or go for a walk and talk about the problem. Then I would let each other talk about what's bothering them about a certain individual. After listening to both individuals, I would take a few minutes to think about the problem and write down ideas on how to assess the problem and help solve it.

If I was the one hearing each co-workers problem, I would do my best not to take sides and to think about how solving the problem could benefit them both and make them happy. If I need another person's opinion I would have no problem asking for help on the situation. During my time alone, I would find a quite room and pray about the situation and ask God to help me and guide me to a peaceful solution. After praying, I would need some more time alone and to listen to God for an answer, think about the situation and write notes if any ideas come into my head. After the thought process has happened and the solution has been generated in my head, I would bring both individuals into a room or office and discuss about the situation and offer them my solution. Then I would hope they accept it. If the solution has not been accepted, then we all must discuss the situation further and possibly take it up to upper management, or if they like are willing, we could pray about it and give it some time to see how they feel after praying. Understanding a personal issue between co-workers is difficult to work out.

When it comes to projects or setting up equipment to help the workflow go a lot smoother, it is a bit easier if you can comprehend the needs of the project. When it comes to setting up a new project or fix a work situation, for example, the network being slow, there are many ways to go about on how to figuring this out. Most new projects come from the upper management team. They have thought the process through and want it implemented in a month or so. Most management team members are not aware of the technical terms and don't how to write on the project on paper. Management team will normally come up to me and ask me if I can make this project. Depending on what it is, I have to completely understand what they are needing and before giving them my final answer and time length for the project.

Let's say the network through the office is extremely slow and slowing down the work process for users. If a manager comes up to me and says