There are different ways of making career, there are different ways of growing in life, professionally & personally.
One can be happy with routine, one can be even happy without any growth.
Some people get happiness in growth & some people get happiness in learnings-challenges.
Yes, learnings-challenges definitely brings growth, sometimes indirectly & if not creates lot of memories & brings satisfaction.
During life one comes across such opportunities-challenges..... for a moment only... these are not routine challenges, these are not things part of your routine KRA. It’s upto us what we decide to do about same, no one is forcing us to take this challenge.
I have learned that maximum leanings come out of such challenges, & if you achieve same, you will realise that your KRA’s & personal goals are automatically achieved.
Personally, i always believed in taking challenges, but in one of the three year stint, as a team we all decided that we will “Say yes & than think......”. Let me tell you none of the team member was highly paid, none of the team member was highly qualified.
No one discussed that this is not my job why this work came to me, no one discussed that this is not doable, no one discussed that whether I will get increment or promotion for taking this extra tension. No one was questioned in the team, why he said yes to the task which is not his scope of work.
The change......nothing moving, everyone tried, plz give this task to this team.
And finally, the ultimate satisfaction, you think you have taken right steps or found a solution but have you checked with “that team”. When you are “that team”, it’s proud moment beyond words.
Let’s understand, “defeated person” is sensed in how much time he picks up phone, & how he reacts in initial 10 seconds of listening to a situation. As a team, we never gave that chance to anyone, because, we picked up phone, & we said “Yes” to most difficult situation. Situations kept on coming to us & we could make progress in almost all situations, except one, in three years approx.
The team kept on achieving all challenges, kept on managing all situations, each member earned respect, each member created lot of memories & satisfaction.