Don’t Waste Your Time: Choose People You Can Rely On
Life is too short to waste time with people you cannot trust, rely on, or don’t appreciate you
Did you ever do a project and figured out at some point that some of your helping hands are not helping at all, but are wasting your time?
I’m currently organizing a career fair with my student organization, and I did organize it last year too. One of my conclusions is that you have to pick your people well and find the people who are self-organized, you can rely on and who will do whatever you need them to do.
You don’t need people who say yes and say they understand everything, and then they don’t do it, or they do it and they do it completely wrong.
Of course, you have to tell them first how they should do it. I prepared templates, but then not doing it this way means usually that you cannot rely on that person to get things done.
There will always be people who want to do everything individually and uniquely, but in a project which gets done every year: the goal is to have the same good quality every year.
“A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.”
— Simon Sinek
