Are you the one your workplace has been waiting for?

There are dreamers in every workplace.

Dreamers of not just great places to work, but exceptional places. Dreamers who hear, read about, and imagine workplaces of inspiration, vision, progress and innovation.

Maybe it’s you?

Maybe it is also the person along the corridor, in the office downstairs, sitting in the car or the metting next to you. There is a growing sub-culture of dreamers. Maybe you just don’t know about each other yet?

What might happen if you connected and decided to intentionally, positively, generously exchange your dreams of your workplace into reality? If you decided not to wait for ‘others’, but decided to connect with the ‘others’ like you who want to do the little things that can become the big things that create workplaces people dream about being a part of.

What might happen if you started a conversation or two with the words: “Are you, like me, one the ones we have been waiting for?” Then, with the others who say “yes”, work slowly, persistently, grittily, cooperatively and generously creating small change after small change after small change. There is lots that can be done and most of it is small and subtle, and most works best coming from you and others like you.

Everyone is waiting for you.

And, here is the thing, great résumé’s, great stories for job applications, and great careers are not built in the things that fall neatly under your job description, they are in the edges. They are in the extra caring you bring to your work; in your enthusiasm and support for ideas; in the tenacity you bring to find solutions and connect ideas and connect people; in you not sitting back and waiting for others. These are the stories that really impress when you tell them in job interviews, and these are the actions that build a career you love in workplaces you are proud of.

Maybe you are not a dreamer — you don’t have to be. I wonder, though, what small things you can do so the dreamers in your workplace get a foothold knowing you want them to step up?

As always wishing you a flourishing career

Katherine