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A few minutes ago I finished the facilitation session and now will have about 20 minutes to write, leaving me about 20 minutes to get ready for an awards night, which means showering and ironing a shirt etcetera for the evening. Due to the time constraints, this might be the shortest post I have written in a while. 


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The session itself went really well and the Sales leader I was working with did a great job delivering his part, as well as keeping the people active. The group I had was a reminder of how good the majority of the people I work with are, as while we spent a lot of time laughing, it was done concurrently with getting a lot of actionable planning work done to take forward into 2023. While tiring, it was also pretty awesome to be involved at this level and hopefully, I will get to do more of it in the future.

It is funny how much impact good colleagues have on professional experience and how even if the work is difficult or often not enjoyable (mine is okay), the people make up for it. On the reverse side, no matter how great a job might be, if the people suck, most will not be able to stick around for long. We have a lot of people who have been with the company for a long time and are still engaged, still looking to improve themselves and conditions.

There will be no awards for me on offer tonight, as I am not quota carrying (thankfully), but I like seeing people get the recognition they deserve for what can be difficult and often stressful work. It is also nice that for some of these people, I am part of their journey toward success in the past and likely in some way in the future too. That has personal value for me. 

We all get different things out of our professional experience and while the income is obviously important, it is rarely enough to alone, it has to come with other values. Being part of other's success is important for me, but also being able to establish myself as a reliable professional that delivers what I say I will is important. Trust is something that is often missing in the professional landscape these days and I think it gets eroded further through remote working and the "me, me" approach to work, where the only commitment is to oneself  -*screw anyone else.*

While obviously we also have to look out for "number one", it doesn't mean we have to maximize every opportunity no matter the cost to others, we can still help each other out. And most likely, when we do support each other within an organization, there is likely to be higher velocity and a greater success rate than if we work alone and undercut each other. 

>I think this is the case in personal life too.

I think the family has been eroded over the last decades also, where rather than *winning together,* there is more individualism and competition within a group of people who used to have the best interests of the group at heart. Now, it is all isolated activity and I think that this is one of the reasons that there is also a breakdown of emotional stability, with more loneliness and depression developing in society. 

In ten years from now, if the company I work for stays on the same trajectory, I am likely to keep on working here - not because of the monetary reward, but because throughout the four years I have been employed, the culture has improved even further, and it was already considered one of the best places to work. Why leave?

*Money isn't enough.*

Time to iron!


Taraz
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