A team

We have work to do and people who can do it. We plan and assign tasks to people. But there are some people who'd rather do something else. They want to do something else because they are bored. They want to do something new. They want to grow and be better. Who can argue with that?

Letting people do whatever they want to do would cause chaos. More importantly some work would be left undone because there is always something that nobody wants to do. We want them to do the work because we need to get the work done. There are deadlines to meet, sales to fulfill and bills to be paid.

So we try to convince people why they should do the work they do not want to do. We reach for the right words and the right message until we succeed.

But we want people to be happy doing the work they are assigned to do. If people are unhappy, they will move on. We'd like to prevent that. A trained resource is better than an untrained resource that we have to pour more time and money into. So we prepare a plan to help people transition and work on something they really want to do.

Welcome to the challenges of running a team.