KLAMATH FALLS, OR— Walk in their shoes for a while and see what it is like
Steve Morris Founder and CEO of Inspiring Healthcare Resources has it right when getting people to work on your team. As you are a team, working together with the same goals in mind. Not my goals or your goals, but our goals. Steve Morris mentioned at a meeting that some of the employees that came to work at his company would bring with them the way they did things at the their other company. The baggage of "how it was always done". (Which, I have been guilty of the very same thing, a time or two myself.) That is experience, but leadership is yet another thing. And are completely two different things.
As a leader, I am able to spot problems before they become a problem later on down the road. For me, I don't need someone to come in and try and tell me how to exercise a program, I started, and how I want to do it.
Not, how they want to do it or organize it in their image, of what they think, it should be or become in their vision. In other words, it will not be as successful without them, as it could be with them. Baloney. If that being the case, then they need to go and start their own program where they can do it their way, and see what happens?
Like Steve Morris mentioned in a meeting. These people who bring their past experience of how they have done it before, now want to do it that way in your company, or organization. That is just not going to work, as I have a different vision than they do, for what I am planning, and I don't have to write it down, or organize it, or pre-plan anything in a fashion that is acceptable to their way of thinking or doing things. No thank you, as that is not how I do things.
And with people like that, they will never be happy, until you do it the way they want or envision it to be done. Not going to happen with me. And like Steve Morris mentioned also, it is best to cut the ties early, as it won't get any better down the road, and it will end up being just a thorn in your side, or until they are gone and no longer a part of your organization, or company that they should have never been there in the first place. Their experience might be in the right place, but not the passion to do it your way. Instead they want to do it their way or they will never be satisfied or happy in the program or organization you are building your way, not their way.
Steve Morris also mentioned, you don't have to have a business plan in order for it to work or be a success. Just know where you are going and get there and the rest will be history.
Like Steve Morris and look what he built, Inspiring Healthcare Resources. And what David the founder, manager, and co-owner of Rodeos Pizza & Saladeria and with his wife Nell have accomplished.
Treating others with respect is the key and that went the same for the rest of the porters under me. Not to tell them or order them to do something. It is not the way to do it, but to ask them to do something for you out of respect, caring and love.
The same with the homeless on the streets, I fit in with them, because I understand some of the homeless, as to where they are coming from and what they are going through. Because I have been there, and until you have, you have, you have no idea what it is really like to be homeless. You think you do, but you don't.
It is not easy sometimes to get them to share with you, but it is the only way others can see them too. And through the videos people can see them on the street and stop and say hello to them and treat them as people and not homeless on the street.
That is one of the main reasons for the Klamath County Record Weekly Street Paper. So that in the future if people see them on the street selling the paper they will not fear them and come up and talk to them and find out who they are and what their plans are for their futures, and to get to know some of the homeless among us by helping them to help themselves. Instead of looking down on them all the time.
My heart and soul is in the project to get it off the ground, not to help me but to help them get back on track and on their feet. And knowing they did it themselves by working at the goal of working for themselves and not getting hand outs that people seem to think that is all they want from others. They just want a little helping hand to open the doors to their futures of being just like you and I again.
If a person sees a homeless person at the library. Take a moment of your time and say hello to them. You might meet a new friend and you may find you have a lot more in common than you thought, other than they are homeless and you are not.
Don't look down on them, treat them as you would a friend or a relative. Someone you care about. Walk in their shoes for a while and see what it is like and you may have a different outlook if you did.
Grant you there are some homeless you have to walk away from because no matter how hard you try and help them, they are not going to be happy and will want to blame you for the situation they are in, being homeless. Don't take it to heart because you cannot help everybody, but you can, one at a time.
Which leads me to another area. I met Julie Matters the project Manager for Choose Klamath and she mentioned there might be a way we could work together. When I meet a new person on the street looking for a job or employment, I could gear them in the direction of Choose Klamath. As the people there might have a better idea as to what may or may not be available and even what programs the homeless could sign up for and get the education they need to get that job to help them get off the street and back on their feet again, with their own housing, once again.
It is another door they can go through and worth their time to check it out and I will be sure and mention it as many times as I can in my travels to meet homeless people on the street in KLAMATH FALLS, OR.
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