Are Your Skills & Talents Put to Their Best Use?
On my way to work last night I was listening to the Sean Hannity radio show (Check out Hannity’s website). Ann Coulter, author of the best seller How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) told of an article she’d read about two Indiana firefighter who traveled to Louisiana to help after Hurricane Katrina.
Basically, instead of using their special training in tactical medicine, they had to sit through an 8-hour course on sexual harrassment and equal opportunity employment. Then they were told to hand out flyers with FEMA’s phone number on it.
What a waste of valuable resources! I felt my blood pressure boiling as I drove to work and thought that surely it was a joke. But this morning when I got home, I did a Google search and sure enough, found the article on it. Firefighters: We Were Misused In Katrina Rescue Efforts
So my thoughts or questions for you today are these…
Are your talents and skills being misused? Are you accepting this misuse or are you making your displeasure known? Are you finding and fighting for opportunities to showcase your talents?
Or if you are responsible for assigning tasks to people and managing human resources (yes, I mean people)… are you making the best use of each person’s talents? Are you allowing them opportunities to show you what they can do or are you keeping them in comfortable slots that will break their spirit?
And don’t even get me started on the topic of whether firefighters need sexual harassment training when people are clinging to rooftops with flood waters rising around them.
Use your talents where you can. And if someone tells you you can’t, find someplace where you can use them. Take pride in what you offer the world.
