Employment Experiences “I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences…I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.” – Queen Latifa. No individual manages to make it through life without making mistakes, falling short of expectations or failing. These negative moments are critical to understanding new concepts as well as important behaviors that are critical for leadership and development in life as well as in the business world. Many prominent leaders have had moments in their career where they hit rock bottom and then through hard work, dedication and a willingness to learn and adapt claw their way back to the pinnacle of their fields.
No one is immune from these moments of failure, or critical mistakes, or lapses in judgement. For example, Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple, was very publicly forced out of the company in the spring of 1985 (Siegel, 2011). While Jobs struggled with his feelings of failure after being ousted from Apple, he did not wallow in them and by Labor Day of 1985 he had reached out to a colleague and …show more content…
It was the first time that I was unable to meet a goal that was given to me by my superiors. But, while it was difficult to get past, I learned several significant lessons from this project. The first was the importance of being able to create an environment that is similar to what exists during integrative bargaining (Fossum, 2008). The goal of the project team was to increase the rate of payment to 90% in order to ensure that continued productivity of the program. While the goal of the employees working in the program was to provide high quality services to their clients. These goals were not mutually exclusive, in fact increasing the rate of payment would ensure that the clinicians and employees had more resources at hand to deliver more services and had all of the tools needed to do so (Fossum,
No one is immune from these moments of failure, or critical mistakes, or lapses in judgement. For example, Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple, was very publicly forced out of the company in the spring of 1985 (Siegel, 2011). While Jobs struggled with his feelings of failure after being ousted from Apple, he did not wallow in them and by Labor Day of 1985 he had reached out to a colleague and …show more content…
It was the first time that I was unable to meet a goal that was given to me by my superiors. But, while it was difficult to get past, I learned several significant lessons from this project. The first was the importance of being able to create an environment that is similar to what exists during integrative bargaining (Fossum, 2008). The goal of the project team was to increase the rate of payment to 90% in order to ensure that continued productivity of the program. While the goal of the employees working in the program was to provide high quality services to their clients. These goals were not mutually exclusive, in fact increasing the rate of payment would ensure that the clinicians and employees had more resources at hand to deliver more services and had all of the tools needed to do so (Fossum,