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Talent Trade Tidbit - Grape In The Middle · The Talent Trade

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  Hi, this is Stephanie Maas.
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  Today I want to talk to you about a really great way to make a decision.
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  The biggest challenges that we are seeing in the hiring market today, there's actually quite a few challenges.
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  One of the biggest ones is what I'll call analysis paralysis.
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  Everybody is so afraid of making the wrong decision.
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  They make no decision, which is a hundred percent of the time, the wrong decision.
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  So let me walk you through a couple of ways to make sure that you can make a good decision, regardless of what the actual decision is.
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  Recently, I was in a quandary about making a decision and candidly, it was driving me nuts.
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  I really couldn't decide, do I go this way?
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  Do I go that way?
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  But as long as I was in that process.
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  Honestly, I was a little nutty.
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  And then I remembered some sage wisdom from Mr.
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  Miyagi in the Karate Kit, and it helped put things in perspective.
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  Here was his advice.
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  Grape, left side of the road, okay.
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  Grape, right side of the road, okay.
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  Grape in the middle, okay.
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  Squish.
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  As long as I stayed indecisive, it was making me that.
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  I needed to make a decision and move on.
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  The reality is, most of us are not making life and death decisions every day.
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  We're just not.
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  And as long as we stay in that middle of the road, we're miserable.
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  And usually we make those around us miserable.
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  So my first piece of counsel is go with your gut.
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  Most people in hindsight say, ah, if I had just gone with my gut, that would have been the right thing.
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  That's what you need to do.
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  Do a gut check right after an interview.
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  Is this feel right?
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  Now I'm not saying that means that's your decision, but then what you do is you follow up.
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  Every conversation, every interview after that, looking for evidence to either support your decision or your gut instinct or to make it contrary to that.
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  So go with your gut.
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  Second thing is you've got to take the pressure off.
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  I know we all have P& Ls and budgets that we are responsible for and it makes it very difficult.
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  But here's the bottom line, right or wrong, honestly, you'll never know.
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  But what you do is you make a decision and then you make it right.