Cadre Today - Let The Turkey Cook

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If you want turkey at 5am on Thanksgiving, turning the oven up isn't going to make it cook any faster, right? A turkey takes time to cook and I think it's one of those lessons that kind of busts down all of the if you just work harder and care more and do these three steps to never miss a Monday and yada, yada, yada is trying to make you believe that you can simply cook the turkey fast and you can cook it. Here's a great example. So one of the organizations that I that I lead, I've had two volunteer, let's call them people managers.

So it's a nonprofit social service organization. So we rely a lot on on people who are passionate about doing the work and have the time and the resources to be able to do it on their own accord for free volunteer. These two managers for the last six months have sat in a certain capacity. I invited them to consider the opportunity. Six months going like, yeah, that sounds great, we'd love to do that. There's other things that I could have asked them to do. I could have been like, ah, okay, what about this?

What about this? What about this? What about this? And very likely because they felt maybe positively encouraged or excited by or maybe even pressured, they would have probably said yes to taking on more tasks. But in the spirit of not being able to cook a turkey fast, you can cook a turkey. I didn't do that. I let them sit in the space that they initially felt called to and do the work. All of a sudden yesterday they approached me with a GC what if we also did X and what if we also did Y? Like, would that be possible?

And they're asking almost with fear, as if they're them offering their time and energy was going to be seen as in some way negative or some way selfish. Because all of a sudden they're like, we also want to. Or we see that we're capable of helping in a new said way. It's a great example of allowing the turkey to cook. Because all of a sudden, rather than this opportunity happening to them now, happening through them, they've become involved, responsible, informed in going, here's how we best do the things that we feel called to do.

If you are leading a team, if you're leading an organization, if you have other people under the house in which you live, sometimes you need to let the turkey cook. You need to place it in the oven, you need to set the temperature accordingly, and then you need to allow, you need to let. And you need to watch and see what happens. Because often the way you started cooking, it may require some change or some alteration or some reconsideration of how you are inviting that thing to come to its maturity and its fullness.

Because these two individuals feel incredibly empowered. And what did I have to do in order to get them to that place of empowerment? I had to get out of the way. I provided them the space to cook, quote, quote. And all of a sudden they're going, here is this bounty that's come out of this time. This is what we've learned. So my invitation for you today, allow people the space to sit in the responsibilities that you've given them. And then c ask, how are you doing? How is this feeling? How is this fitting?

What are you seeing? What else would you do? And they will let you know how you can continue to support their growth. And of course, you, as being the leader or the figurehead, you get to be a part of that growth and the benefit of that growth as well. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on today. I hope you're doing well. I'll see you tomorrow back to a little nickel Creek.