SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYEES
Work Stories
Reading the mind of your boss: Frank looks across the
desk at the young man who has applied for the assistant
manager position. He thinks to himself, "I hope he works
out. If I could just get someone who ..." Click here to read his mind.
James didn't get fired on the first day, but it didn't take
him long. He just can't believe it. It was going to be
different this time. He knew he could work hard. He did all
right in school, not great, but everyone knows school is
boring. He was really looking forward to his first day of
work and then ... well, keep reading.
Most people fail on the job not
because they can't do the work but because they don't
understand the work place culture or they don't understand
themselves. How are you in time management,
self-responsibility and personal skills? As you read these
pages and answer the questions about yourself, you may be
confused like James or upset like Mavis. Either way, you
will learn to see yourself as others see you.
Technical Skills
Native people are blessed with the opportunity to "walk in
two worlds". There is a whole world off the reservation and
it is connected digitally. We have always known we were
part of creation, as Chief Seattle said,
"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a
strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to
himself. All things are connected, like the blood which
unites one family. "
To be part of the whole world, of the global marketplace,
we need the tools.