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Season 4 - Episode 174 - A pleasing personality · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions. Possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good afternoon.
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  We're not in the chicken coop right now.
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  We are out watering and it is late afternoon and I'm doing the
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  podcast now because it is just too damn hot and the girls are
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  out. You'll hear the Roosters in the
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  background, everyone's free ranging and there you go.
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  There's Rufus and I am currently hand watering plants to make
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  sure everybody's doing OK and all of this heat.
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  So I figured, well, while I'm out here, it would be a great
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  time to do the podcast, even though it's way late for today,
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  which I apologize for. But when the heat is on, we have
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  to change things up. So we're talking about a
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  pleasing personality. Sounds so wonderful, doesn't it?
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  Well, this whole thing came up because we were talking about, I
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  was talking with a client and we were talking about how she was
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  looking to hire someone who had a pleasing personality and how
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  she was discouraged because she was not finding people with
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  pleasing personalities. So when I asked her to define
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  that for me, she kind of was like, well, what do you mean,
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  you know, like a pleasing personality?
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  And I said, well, I actually, I, I have my idea of what that
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  means, but I need you to be very specific about it.
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  So she started to put down on paper what her idea of a
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  pleasing personality was. And as we we're going through it
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  all, it was quite evident that what she was looking for was
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  probably not going to be available to her in the price
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  that she was paying. So she was, you know, looking
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  for someone to manage a coffee shop.
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  And this was something that's, and in my opinion, it's an
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  important job when you're the manager because you're setting
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  the tone, you're doing a lot of things.
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  And while she was offering a decent salary, the list of what
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  she was looking for was like off the chart.
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  Now, I had just run into this with jobs that, you know, we
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  were talking about for one of my other clients child.
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  And she's like, I look this up and like he wants to be a, like
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  a, a nature police officer, which here where we are, it
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  would be a Department of Resources officer.
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  And they require a degree, they require all these other
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  certifications to do it. And they're offering a salary
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  that's in the mid 50s. And you just look at a person
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  who's put that much into their education is going to look at
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  this and be like, this is not ideal for me.
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  And so it's something that you keep running into like they
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  can't get qualified people. And a lot of times they're, you
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  know, you hear this, I can't get qualified people.
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  I can't get qualified people. But can you not get qualified
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  people because your expectation of the job is and who you want
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  them to be is not in line with what you're willing to pay.
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  And, and her pleasing personality was more than just a
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  pleasing personality of being sweet and kind.
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  It was the demands of the job were high for the personality
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  piece. So it got me thinking about,
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  well, how, how, where else does this show up for us?
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  And where do we have to define what this looks like so that we
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  understand what we're asking for So that we can really make sure
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  we're not doing something to hinder our own progress by
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  putting something out there that is just essentially not going to
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  happen the way we wish it would happen.
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  So have you ever considered it? Have you ever thought about it?
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  How would you define a pleasing personality?
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  How would you define aspects of who you're looking for in your
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  job? Like something that's incredibly
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  important to me, besides someone just being kind is that when I
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  bring somebody to work with me, work on my team, work with me in
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  some way, I'm always looking for how do they respond?
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  Like are they slow in responding?
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  Do they show up late? If there is one thing that makes
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  me crazy, it's that someone shows up late in that part of my
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  world. Now, if my clients are late,
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  that's on them because quite frankly, they're paying for my
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  time and they're paying me whether they're late or not.
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  And I just don't get upset about it because things happen.
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  But when I show up, I'm going to show up on time.
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  And I think anybody that works with me knows that like I don't
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  miss sessions and I like I'm always there, super consistent.
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  If I have an appointment, I am on time.
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  And I think for me, it's one of the biggest things that I really
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  focus on is I want to know if I'm working with someone, do you
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  show up on time? And if you don't, that's going
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  to create a huge issue for me. I can already promise you that I
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  do not like waiting and time is valuable.
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  It's a precious resource and for us to be able to have it is a
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  gift and I don't like to waste it.
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  So I will make sure that I am consistent with my timing.
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  A lot of people don't think of it that way and it's a sore
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  spot. So you have to think about what
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  does, what are your rules around this?
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  Like what is a pleasing personality?
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  And I'm using this as an example, but we could use this
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  for any question. When you're looking for someone,
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  when you're defining things, please make sure you understand
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  how you define it because it's going to make all the
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  difference. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.