Cadre Today and The Outward Facing Clique

Foreign. Good day, sunshine. How are you doing today, Cadre? Oh, I hope you're well. We'll let the music play for a hot second. How about one more chorus? I think we need to hear the chorus again. It's too good. Newlin, nice to see you. Speak Wonder. Hey. Hey, my friend. Is this it right here? Yes, it is. Ah, Beeza Bits, how are you? You're right on the button of the song. Turning off. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, Speak Wonder, your. Your hearts are matching my my Adidas this morning.

It looks like Speak Wonder is getting the morning journal game on. Hey, I have a question for you. But the question is on the other side of me saying, hey, I hope you're doing good out there. But even if you're not, that is a okay as well. It may not feel like it, but you can be not okay right here. And I bet you a nickel or I bet you this little hug token that someone gave me yesterday at a last rehearsal before the holiday break that I was at, I bet you a nickel or a hug token that being here, you doing something innately good for yourself is going to have an innately good reaction.

C. if we've never shared time and space together before, I mean this. Thank you for the opportunity to spend time with you. It is a gift. So that question that I, that I was teasing before, here's the question. Think about groups or communities or organizations or teams or maybe boards that you're a part of. Do you spend more time attempting to get things back to the way that they were? Or you spend more time attempting to help the group become who they are becoming? I'll ask the question again for the groups, the teams, the entities, the clubs, the groups of people that you are a part of, do you see yourself spending more time trying to get the group back to the way that it was or helping the group become who the group is becoming?

On Tuesdays, I talk about the idea of the outward facing click. Yeah, we're facing click. You know, we often look at clicks as inward facing. We look at clicks or groups of people that have a shared thing that they want to be a part of. We often look at them as very hard things to become a part of. Anila Jules Good morning, my friends. So I always talk about this idea of the outward facing click. How do we take things that are really important to us, invite them to become really important to other people?

So when I ask a question, like in the groups and the entities and the teams that you are a Part of do you spend more time attempting to help the group return to the way that they were, or do you spend more time attempting to help the group become who it is becoming? Speak Wonder says, I'm more of an observer and a watcher of the groups. Speak Wonder, as a fellow observer in this world, I see you and I hear you. So conversations like this may, may help you be able to see what's, what's happening.

You know, I often hear people, and sometimes they're of certain generations, but also I hear people of all generations say this. So I say that before I make, make this comment. We hear people go, ah, I wish we could go back to the good old days. That's kind of a comment of, of wanting to help group, either small or large, go back to the way that they were. And there may be good reason for that. And other times I like to think of this. So like, I have some family members who always are going, ah, I wish the world could go back to the good old days.

And I always go, now these people are of an older generation than me. So I, so I always ask the question curiously. I'm like, well, your generation has been kind of the power holder for quite a while now. So if you're pointing fingers at maybe younger generations as the ones who are making the, the things change away from the way that they were, wouldn't you be the one who are responsible for moving away from where? Often we also hear on the other side of the polar going like this, oh, hey Luke, nice to see you my friend.

I didn't see your name. Papa on up. Nice to see you, Luke. S. a little plug. Luke and I had a great Cadre Today interview convers conversation yesterday morning. So if you haven't checked that out yet, go back 24 hours and you'll see us there. And 24 hours from now, me and Betsy Hodges will be having a Cadre Today interview. Back to the journey today. Often we see younger generations going within this context going, ah, like, like I wish, I wish things would change. And I go, well, the good thing is, is if you think about everything that you do and how it's impacting the change you want to see, then all of a sudden you start making the impact that you want to be having.

But it's one example of where we look at people in group, in team, in organization, in club, in whatever groups of people that you're with. As you look around, do you see people attempting to bring the group back to the way that it was because there was A great tradition or a great habit, or a great je ne sais quoi, or do you see people going, ah, I really want us to think about where we're going and who we are becoming. And then of course, for the observers of the group, like Speak Wonder, that may fill the cup for this morning.

But if you're one who gets into the belly of the clique, get into the board of the organization. If you are someone who sits on top of an organization and you're saying, here's where we're going, are you attempting to bring back or are you attempting to move forward into things that have not been yet, or into things that are naturally presenting? I will say both of those pathways require you to be an outward facing click. If you are attempting to move people backwards, you need to give them information, you need to not talk to them about what has been, but to use story and use fable and to use tales of saying, hey, I want to tell you a story about someone that I used to know.

Tell the story and then say, hey, and they were a part of this group and here's why they were. And then ask them, is there anything about this story that that moves you or makes you want to operate differently? And if they say no, you go, I'm glad that I shared a little bit of the history with you so you have a little more understanding of why I'm here. And then if you're in a group where everybody wants to go back, but you see maybe the necessity for them to, as I always talk about, widen their aperture, have a wider lens, you may want to go, huh?

You want to know what? Here is something that I see within us and where it could potentially be leading and who it may potentially allow us to include, or what it may present in terms of opportunities for who we are, why we are, and why we do what we do. Because quite often the people want to go back and the people want to go forward. Most of the time they actually want the same thing. They want clarity, they want involvement, they want success, they want autonomy, they want agency, they want passion, they want pride on the thing that they're a part of.

And in the moment when they're wanting to go back or go forward, they aren't feeling those things. So how can you help them receive what they need to understand that where they are is the place they need to be. If they want to move forward, move backward, move upwards, move downwards. If they want to grow, if they want to close the doors and hold in exactly who's there, y'all Tuesdays is one of my favorite days, because it's not business talk. It's not self talk. It's. It's all of it. How do we bring people together, y'all?

One of the ways we do that is by simply wishing people a great morning, a good day, and the Beatles do it in the best way. I hope you have a good day, sunshine. I'll see you tomorrow with Betsy Hodges, but in about two hours, you can see Betsy right here as she goes live today. And you know, I'll be back tomorrow, Thursday, Friday, and every single day of the year. Y'all have a good one.