I was listening to a program on NPR yesterday and the woman being interviewed explained a shift that we’ve experienced and she used a term, unofficial resume. The shift she explained is a shift in acceptable performance. In today’s economy, job performance for the sake of the bottom line without regard for relational impact is less acceptable. While this attitude can carry with it it’s own set of complications, to mention one - a sense of entitlement that can carry a person so far as to not get a job at all if it doesn’t check off all the relational boxes, including altogether fulfilling their passions - it’s a macro-move toward acknowledging our humanness in the midst of a technology-heavy economy. We need only to guard ourselves from shifting so far into our feelings that we become consumed by them, just as we have been known to be consumed by bottom line results.

Indeed, opening up to and acknowledging not only our own and our co-workers performance results, but also their relational results, and ours, brings balance to our work places. Do we recognize this? It’s time to turn from measuring one another and ourselves by our resumes and consider what work we may need to do to build what the NPR interviewee called our unofficial resume. The resume of our past relationships. The one that shows how we work with people. Do we leave them in the dust or do we lead them to more? Do we bring out the worst in others, or the best? Do we even care?

How is your unofficial resume? I’d love to partner with you to address this positive shift and help you build balance and relational strength.

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