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February 23, 2008
Do It Like You Do It With Me
One of the hardest parts of training organizers is teaching them to be natural, be themselves, while they're interacting with workers. There's this tendency to put on the "organizing voice," to seem a bit like they're performing, and of course that gets in the way of making a connection.
I hire people who impress me on first meeting with their ability to connect... with me! If they can connect instantly with me, plus they can prove that they have a deep ideological commitment to the cause and a work ethic, I can teach the rest. But sometimes when you get them in front of a group of nurses, they go all weird. So I try to bring them back to how they interacted with me upon first meeting.
"Do it like you do it with me," I said the other day.
Then I realized that I have so internalized the Nelly Furtado song "Do It" that I damn near quote it when I'm teaching.
Yikes.
I even meditate to the song. Nine out of ten Buddhist monks affirm that you reach enlightenment 60% faster if you meditate to Nelly Furtado.
Posted by april at February 23, 2008 10:31 AM
Comments
Hmm I hadn't heard about Nelly Furtado but will have to look into it. On a similar vein - Buddhism - I came across a wonderful blog with a piece on Integral Feminism. Here tis:
http://emptyelephant.wordpress.com/category/feminism/
Posted by: Peg at February 23, 2008 1:18 PM
I should have mentioned that in my last comment on Integral Feminism the second part by Diane Musho Hamilton is helped by an understanding of Ken Wilber's 4 quadrants.
Peg D
Posted by: peg at February 23, 2008 7:40 PM
It think it's the "Timbaland Effect". :)
Posted by: Nenette at February 26, 2008 2:08 PM