Monday, August 16, 2010

Pressure and Patience

Pressure can come in many ways at work - sometimes its deadlines, or deliverables; sometimes its dealing with a messy project; sometimes its about working with people where someone can be difficult or just unreasonable; sometimes its when the customer is difficult to please; sometimes its just a combination of factors that can throw you off gear!

Pressure can make me panic - Loud voices, unhappy people make me nervous. I like to be peace loving and try to do all I can to make people work in harmony and when that is not happening I panic!

Well God had the placed me in the perfect place to learn a few things about handling pressure. Over the last few weeks I have been working in a circumstance that challenges the most mature of leadership skills and yet I have on my team a young lady who constantly amazes me.

She is honest, confident, clear headed and most of all patient. She deals with pressure calmly, reassuringly and with a solution oriented approach. Ensuring she makes everyone feel they are understood while battling the immediate pressing problem and working towards a calm resolution.

Gosh! I am so grateful to have walked through this path though i must admit its given me a number of sleepless nights! I may have not mastered all but looking back I definitely feel more confident now to handle pressure.

Dear Mister God this is @ina... Thank you for walking with me through this path and helping me grow in ways only you can teach me! :)

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