Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Good morning. Welcome aboard the Jungle Cruise. I'll be your skipper and guide down the rivers of adventure. You know, we always turn and take a last good look at the dock and wave goodbye because we may never see it again. Oh, that's one of the weirdest music playings I've ever done. Everybody, happy, happy Monday. Happy professional development day here in the Cadre sphere. And if it's not a happy day for y'all, know that that's okay, too. If you're doing great, great. If you're not doing great, you are still absolutely in the right place.

Cadre is always that place that you can come to in order to go, huh? Where am I? How am I? What's going on? And what happens when I place myself around other people? As I mentioned, on Mondays, we often talk about work or kind of our professional space. So many people coming in the room today. Christine, nice to see you. Amy, Shannon, good morning. Tdots Dot, Good morning, my friend Jules. There's the sunshine. What a crew this morning. T Daz, nice to see you as well. So if you are here at the Tippy top, you heard me playing the soundtrack to the the Jungle Cruise at Disney World.

If you're not a Disney person, if you've never been to Disney World or Disneyland, the Jungle Cruise was one of the first rides they ever opened up long, long, long, long, long time ago. And it's one of those rides that you kind of come back to again and again. They don't change it, they don't update it. You're in this boat and you're going through the jungle, and the attraction really is your guide. The person who's on the microphone, they kind of use the same script for a long time, the same jokes, and it always slaps, it always hits.

It's one of those things that they just don't touch. They don't change. So what does that have to do with talking about your workspace or your professional development? Well, first of all, let me tell you about the work community in the Cadre sphere. So again, if you go up into the corner and pull down that menu, you'll see different subjects. And those subjects, if they're interesting to you, click on them and you can join that community. So all of a sudden, your feed is populated with the things that you currently say, this is what I'm here for.

This is what I want. This is what I need. If you tap on work and if you join work, here's what you're in for. Learn ways to navigate workplace challenges with Others enabling professional growth and healthy collaboration while building strong, effective communication and relationships. So Saturdays, we talk about kind of personal growth. Mondays, we talk about professional growth. Personal growth, I like to think about. We work on who we are, and on Mondays, professional growth, we work on what we do.

So what does the Jungle Cruise have to teach us today? Well, Jungle Cruise is successful. It's been around for a long time. How did it get that way? Was it because of the amazing leader on the microphone being funny and charismatic? That's one part of it. But also, you can only know if you're hitting the spot, if your followers are actively, boldly following. I can only imagine in the early days of Jungle Cruise, when it hadn't firmed up yet into what it is today, There were probably some jokes that didn't hit, and that person on the microphone had to go, huh?

Okay, scratch that one. And other moments when the followers, the people on the boat were like, wow, that was the magic. Then all of a sudden, that person on the microphone is able to go, ah, here's where the magic is. So often we shy away from being the follower or we shy away from seeing that we have impact when we're not the leader. What would happen to your organization? What would happen to you if you started going, hey, you know what? If I'm a follower here, I got a lot of opportunity to influence where we're going.

And if I'm the leader here, I have a lot of opportunity to listen to those people that I'm working with that I'm leading to give me information, feedback, and those little snap tests as to if we're hitting the spot or not. So as you go on your day, I hope it doesn't feel like a Jungle Cruise. But if it does happen to those people who are on the boat with you and see what you learn. See you later, y'all. As we leave the last outpost of civilization, we enter the mouth of the Irrawaddy river of.