Appreciation of others is necessary

I have been busy recently and have not had a chance to write a blog article for some time. The last few weeks have been an exciting time on the work front for me. It has been an intense period with a difficult one day at work, one day off work kind of schedule.

The day off work has not been spent idly, but meaningfully in a conference room somewhere with a team of other staff members carrying out an exercise that has been a long time coming thanks to the rapid growth of my employers business and the attendant growth in staff numbers that has seen the influx of new staff over the past few years many with special skills and perspectives necessary to drive business growth either directly or in a support role in the rapidly evolving and extremely competitive financial services industry.

Often in employment we take the contribution of our fellow employees towards the overall objective of the business for granted many a time not understanding what a particular role brings to the bottom line of the profit and loss account or even what someone in a certain role does on a daily basis. The exercise that I am engaged in has been an important eye opener to understanding the role that my colleagues play in making the business the successful enterprise that it has become over the years.

Over the years many roles and positions have come about at work on a need basis and many times I have wondered why some role was necessary given that the business has still been profitable and no appreciable bumps in the road had been evident. The difficult jobs that some of my colleagues do and the delicate decisions that arise in the course of their work impacting on business systems, outcomes and future planning have shown me that a business is an evolving, living thing that is constantly morphing and changing its identity due to emerging and changing factors that arise on a day to day basis. Each small cog in the wheel is connected to another cog in the wheel in a random and not so obvious way but which all ultimately results in continued success on the business front.

Now I appreciate the individual efforts of my many colleagues where I work and I have new found respect for the expertise that they bring to the table towards the bottom line of the business. On the family front too, everyone has a role to play in making the family a successful and harmonious unit much as each individual has their own character, nature and disposition.