I Am Not A Robot

Raise your hand if you have been so deeply embedded in your research that you have forgotten about the people. I will be the first to admit it. Working hard to sway the minds of the people online towards my agenda is great and everything, but at the end of the day, that is not the core of what truly matters. What matters most are the ones around that enjoy your company and you, theirs. The ones that are willing to speak to you, the ones that are willing to let you pull their ear, are the ones that truly matter. Surrounding highly trained minds around one another is most fruitful when the workplace addresses human nature in combination with skillset. You can be successful and be genuinely happy too. There is nothing wrong with putting down your phone for a few hours to truly enjoy the person in front of you.

We all want to win; it is just in our nature. Some are better at it than others but that does not mean that a person should use it to dictate whether someone is worthy enough to contribute. Rather than reject that person, it is our job to look at their strengths and figure out where they can be placed so they can thrive. The question should not be whether they are worthy to contribute, but where exactly their audience for contribution should be received.

You will spend more time micromanaging someone that is not passionate about what they are doing because of poor evaluation from the person who is charge of managing them. Repeatedly I have witnessed the fall of this strategy. It goes well for a short period of time and you may even receive some great insight during the journey, but once that person has reached their wits end, they take their ideas about what they are truly passionate about to cultivate it elsewhere.

This is a great indicator that illustrates the importance of understanding who we are as people. We are meant to interact in such a way that produces an even greater outcome that will not only benefit those working on the project, but millions of others that have expressed the same need for the solution that is undergoing the construction process.

Robots are entities that can do everything a human cannot possibly do on their own. Whether it be sifting through 1000 applications using keywords as opposed to 10 or having bots ready for the millisecond a new shoe comes out for purchase rather than being a second late because of human rendering. These examples demonstrate the technology implemented for these tasks have went above and beyond what we could have imagined efficiency to be, but something that was meant to be used as a tool could easily be counterproductive.

Leaving a bot to sift through 1000 applicants means that there is someone learning the blueprint of how the bot operates. So, instead of learning the job, a person will learn the tricks that will get the bot to pick them. This eventually becomes redundant for those looking for applicants because you are then faced with people who are excellent hackers applying for a position in sales. Again, this is where understanding who we are as people is pertinent. The hiring manager will have two choices with this employee, either hire them for the job they are applying for because they have hacked their way in, or realize the true gift they have demonstrated and place them in a position to utilize those skills to thrive within the same company. Often, those choices are overlooked, the person is chosen for what they applied for, they work to learn a role they hacked into and finally realize it is not what they are passionate about. Inevitably, they take their skills to go elsewhere leaving a position that needs to be filled again.

Now more than ever, we need more people that are capable of properly placing people in roles that will not only get the company agenda completed, but to ensure quality longevity for the stability of the employee and company agenda.

Therefore, we are not robots. A robot is a combination of complex creature conjoined ideas of what a perfect person is imagined achieving. Robots are not capable of understanding human complexities needed to create the perfect team that will produce the next great need fulfiller. These complexities include affirmation, laughter and even a bit of friendly competition within these teams. Understanding how one another is supposed to be connected is the key to a successful venture and the lowest of turnover rates. Someone that understands the concept of playing the orchestra and sitting certain musicians within the orchestra next to one another that feed from the energy around them will be able to cultivate an agenda like never before.