Headed home for a bit - GO Vaidisova!!!

So after 3 weeks of workshops, culminating in the HR workshop which ended today, we are going to take a week break before we begin the implementation portion of our work in Saudi. These workshops are a forum for talking through the ways to improve and then the implentation is where the action to improve actually happens. The HR Workshop was very enlightening for me for this reason: The particpants seems to get caught up in trying to explain how different they are from the rest of the company and this really held them up from discussing a solution. Fact is, every single problem we were presented with on the first day of the workshop has been encountered elsewhere within the organization at one time or another and to an equal or greater degree. So if you can get over the fact that you are different, you can get to the solutions. The funny thing is that many of the solutions that we concluded will be templates or sucessful practices tried elsewhere, so talking about how different you are seems to be a stall tactic or or evidence of the resistance to change. It can be draining.

My challenge to you is to look for the similarities in life, not the difference; relate, not contrast.

Anyway, I leave tomorrow, Wednesday night at like 1:30 in the morning to start back home. Turns out ot be 25+ hours of travel but I arrive in Denver at 3pmish Thusday due to traveling with the sun. I will be home till Monday at 5pm MST and then back to Dubai for some R&R Middle East style. Looking foward to a little break from work. Hope to talk to and see many of you while back for bit.