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Welcome to 7 Minute Sunday on the switchpivaderquit podcast. I'm your host Ayanna Angel and we are going to spend the next seven minutes together getting you filled up with inspiration and goodness to get your mind primed to achieve greatness as you enter the week ahead. Today, I want to talk about it's a mix of the idea of collaboration as well as working with friends. So how did I come up with this topic today?
Well, I received a message that basically asked me a question regarding collaborating with others. My question basically said, what do you do when you want to collaborate with others, but you know that you have vastly different work styles than the person that you're looking to collaborate with? My simple response was don't do it. And especially if it's a friend, if it is someone that you value the relationship with outside of a work capacity, but you know that your style and how you operate and how you get things done or how you approach projects and how this other person does, you know that they don't mesh well or they're not exactly similar.
In some instances, they say opposites attract, but with business, I wouldn't chance it. And the reason that I say this is from personal experience, having worked in a professional capacity with people that our styles, our work styles don't exactly align as well as on side projects and things outside of the corporate space. I know firsthand that this can be a breeding ground for trouble. It can lead to misunderstanding.
It can lead to miscommunication. It can lead to hard feelings and resentment. Let's take this for example. Let's say you are working on a project and they're deliverables.
Each of you have deliverables. It's only two people. Yet, one person is very prompt on time with their deliverables and also very thorough. The other person is very laxadaesical, very go with the flow, things will come together, it will all work out.
Now you take those two different styles and you bring them together when it's time to produce results. You're going to have a problem and someone is going to end up feeling like they did more work, like they put in more effort. And this is the age old thing when it comes back to the idea of working in groups when we were kids and working on projects and things. And you know, at the time, you don't really understand why your teachers have you working groups and work on projects.
And there's quite possibly a multitude of reasons why this is something that's incorporated in school. But one of the things that comes to mind now being an adult on the other side of things is that this teaches you how to work with other people and they are potentially different work styles, but it also teaches you to understand when you're encountering that situation, to see what different people's work styles might be, get an advanced preview as possible, and then decide what's best for you. Because you don't have to work with everyone. There's a very polite way to say no thank you or I'll pass or this doesn't really work for me right now.
But thank you for thinking of me. There's all these ways. And I think one of the things that happens to many of us when we are trying to find our footing in the business space and to embark on new projects and adventures that we haven't quite touched on before, a lot of us feel the need to bring somebody along with us or to go on the journey with someone else. And that's why I really wanted to touch on this because if you're someone who is working in a corporate capacity and you're thinking about trying your hand at some side projects and side hustles and doing it on your own, one of the things that might come to your mind and you might feel most comfortable with is working with someone else.
But I really want to challenge you to identify the why behind that. Is it because you actually need what this other person brings to the table? Is it because you value a skill set that they have? Is it because the two of you would be stronger together?
Or is it because you're intimidated at the thought of doing it on your own? Or you don't believe in your skill set enough to think that you can execute on your own? Or it makes you just plain, straight out feel more comfortable and less at risk if you have a partner. You really need to get to the core and understand some of your motivations sometimes because it will help uncover things and potentially allow you to get out of the way of some potentially stressful situations, tumultuous situations, if you just sort of take the time to understand your why.
Because if you take the time to understand your why and your why is because you simply don't have enough confidence to feel like you can do it on your own, then you can face that limiting belief in thought, head on, and you can build yourself up to a point where you can actually do it on your own, and then you don't have to depend on someone else to help you with execution, especially in a situation where it can end up being like the older people say more trouble than it's worth. So I really encourage you to find that confidence within yourself and really understand why you're partnering with someone else, especially if you know going in that this may not be the easiest situation to navigate. In my opinion, when you see things in advance, you better pay attention. It goes back to that saying that people say when someone shows you who they are, believe them.
It's the same thought process here. If someone shows you that they're not really concerned about deadlines, that they have a lots of days of cool attitude, or that they're super punctual, and they're super on top of every detail of a project, and they're extremely thorough, and they are a go-getter, and they will be the person that talks up the entire room to get the results that they want to get. But you're the person that barely says a word and a room full of people pay attention to those work styles and understand the type of people that you work with best. The last thing that you want to do in a situation where you're trying to grow, where you're trying to build, where you're trying to create something larger is put yourself in a position to lose.
You always want to try to put yourself in a position to win. It's not to say that you can never partner with people and you should never work with other people. I'm just saying be smart about it, and if there's telltale signs in the beginning, pay attention to those signs, listen to your gut, honor your intuition, and do what is right for you. That will always serve you best in the end when you listen to yourself and do what you actually think is right, instead of going along and going with the flow and doing things that you know might not result in the type of in situation that would be favorable for you.
So I hope this gives you something to think about for all of you out there who are entertaining, jumping in partnerships with people, working on projects with people. It's just something that I want you to think through before you make a commitment, because you also don't want to be that person that says yes, and then backs out of a project halfway through because you're not feeling it anymore. You don't want to do that either. So just make sure that you're paying attention to how you and this other person could potentially work together, what their work style is like, what your work style is like.
And if you really think in the end that working together will make a big difference and it will be beneficial for both of you. Thank you so much for hanging out with me on this seven minute Sunday. I hope you have an amazing week ahead next week, and I just really appreciate this time that we get to spend together. So as always, keep killing it.