HELP ME PLEASE! I’M BEGGING YOU! This would be easier if I was asking for money and you all know how hard that is. I’d rather take a final exam, but this is what the instructor chose instead. I’m taking a course on organizational behavior at the University of Utah. I would greatly appreciate your help. I need people to think about your interactions with me. Please provide a story of a time you remember when I was at my best in your opinion. Anything at all will do. What was my positive contribution in each story? What happened, Identify specific details for best understanding of the context? I need at least 30 stories, and the results won’t be accurate if I have to make them up myself. Please e-mail your responses to me at hedwigsmom@q or send a message by November 25, 2013. If you happen to have more than one story, even better. Thank you very much for your support and cooperation. I’ll keep all responses anonymous. If you’re interested, I’ll gladly share what I learn after completion of the project. I’ve included details and examples below. The Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at University of Michigan created the Reflected Best Self Exercise™ (RBSE™) to help individuals expand their understanding of who they are and what they do when they are at their best. The RBSE™ is a unique story-, strength- and contribution-based approach to feedback seeking and analysis. A former RBSE participant said of the process, “Besides feeling closer to my friends and peers for their positive views of me, it was very interesting to note the different impact that I seem to have made on each of them. The specifics mentioned by them allowed me to see some of the mechanisms by which I influence and have had an impact on people.” Best-self stories often capture things that people say or do in critical times or everyday routines that make a difference. These stories are often unacknowledged publicly. Best-self stories may describe someone’s approach to people, challenges, tasks or even a work environment. Below I have included some examples of what these stories could look like. STORY EXAMPLES 1. From work colleague: You have the ability to get people to work together and give all they have to a task. For example, I think of the time that we were working on the Alpha project. We were getting behind and the stress was building. We started to close down and get very focused on just meeting our deadline. You noticed that we were not doing our best work and stopped the group to rethink our approach. You asked whether we wanted to just satisfy the requirements or whether we wanted to really do good and important work. You reminded us of what we were capable of doing and how each of us could contribute to a better outcome. No one else in that room would have thought to do that. As a result, we did meet the deadline and created a result we all feel proud of. 2. From a friend: You have capacity to persist in the face of adversity. For example, I think of the time that we were helping Lila empty her flooded basement. Her family lives far away and she was impossibly short-handed. Instead of getting overwhelmed with her, you became more focused than I have ever seen anyone get. I think you went 24 hours without sleep to help her remove the water. I was amazed that you could maintain a positive attitude and consistently helpful orientation to Lila under those conditions. 3. From a boss: You are great at building relationships critical to project success. For example, I think of the time that: We were working for a clothing company committed to using organically grown cotton, and to having fair labor practices. You were the liaison with the various agencies and individuals critical to sourcing the organic cotton, and to creating the worker-owned sewing coopera¬tives here and in Central America. Despite resistance, you crafted and co-created a vision for how the business could work to meet these radically different goals. You easily navigated cultural differences and built strong relationships that thrive to this day.
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