One of my employees sat me down in my office yesterday and explained to me why he thinks some of our students are getting bored and what we can do about it.
It’s the… “and what we can do about it” part that impressed me.
People come to me with problems essentially my entire work shift each day.
Parents having problems with their kids, kids having problems with other kids, instructors having problems students, students having problems with the curriculum, something in the school is broken and has become a problem, associates realizing that something in our system is broken and has become a problem, and so on.
Granted, it’s a career I love and this isn’t a complaint about the problems I’ve professionally chosen to take on.
It’s more so a highlight of how valuable and refreshing it is to have somebody come to me with… solutions.
And it makes them stand out because the default seems to be, “It’s not my job to fix this…” or “I’ll deal with this later” or “I can’t wait to get home tonight to watch my show…” and it gets swept under the rug and/or forgotten about and/or pawned off on somebody else.
A rule that was told to me years ago that I try my best to carry with me for everything I do is, “Don’t come to me with a problem unless you also have a solution to go with it.”