Creating a culture of helpfulness- forgetting the pecking order
I recently listened to a pretty amazon TedTalk video on YouTube https://youtu.be/Vyn_xLrtZaY. In this video Margaret Heffernan discusses making connections in our workplace to help increase productivity, business capital, and social connectedness. She talks about how we are used to and have pretty much been programmed to constantly be in competition with each other. Thinking that the only way we can get ahead in life or in our workplace is to compete to be the best. Stepping over others just to try to get ahead in life. Her notion of the “Super Chicken Model” is pretty fascinating. I couldn’t help but laugh at first when she was comparing humans to chickens. In the end I think it is a pretty interesting way for a company to examine their productivity. We have been constantly pitting each other against one another instead of fostering and encouraging our workers to form bonds to build connections with each other. We need to build people up and work together to truly become successful. Collaboration in schools, and work environments is crucial for success. Having collaboration builds success because you can bounce ideas off of one and another, these are things that one person would not have thought of on their own. Imagine having a group of people bouncing one idea off another and that idea begins to grow and take shape as you continue to collaborate. One small idea forming and taking shape into a big dream of several people. How that idea can continue to grow and become reality all because of collaboration instead of working by yourself and against others. How much more successful we could become, how much change we could make in education if we just all truly worked together and forgot that “pecking order”. No more limited ideas, you open up conversations and expand ideas that become limitless. Which means limitless success for yourself, society, and our students. That is a world I would rather live in, what about you?
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