Comments on: The Power of Vulnerability http://www.alignmentinc.com/blog/2010/04/the-power-of-vulnerability-2/ Advise, leadership and wisdom to the c-suite, managers and individuals looking for personal and professional alignment. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:44:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ruth Coker Burks http://www.alignmentinc.com/blog/2010/04/the-power-of-vulnerability-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1357 Ruth Coker Burks Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:26:48 +0000 http://www.alignmentinc.com/blog/?p=744#comment-1357 I loved the pod cast! Thank you for talking about the most taboo of taboo's VUNERABILITY! I have always found that whenever I admitted that I didn't know something people offered to help me…people love to be “in” on something that everyone else is not “in” on. If I asked people for their opinions they got their heads together and found a solution the poblem...I was once sitting with a Rabbi in Florida waiting on a funeral to show up at the cemetery…As we talked he told me that he was a having trouble with the older Rabbis not letting him perform funerals...I asked him “what if you had your own cemetery”? He was very puzzled as to how he could own a cemetery...I knew the importance of family being buried close to one another...so I told him that we had a section of the very cemetery that we were sitting in and that we could finance the purchase..I asked him to help me figure out how to make it happen even though I knew how to do it myself, for the most part…I gave him the opportunity to solve his own problem and he had the pride of helping me figure it out…I sold him 50 spaces in one day…it was at the end of a month where we would receive a bonus for every space sold..I admitted that to him and he was thrilled to help me! He felt important having solved his rabbi problem, helped his congregation and helped me get a bonus in turn I gave him a blessing celebration for his “congregational cemetery”...it was a win, win, win situation. None of this had really ever been done in the current management so we really had to figure it out ourselves...If I had known all of the answers then many people wouldn’t have gotten the opportunity to feel important, validated… including me. I loved the pod cast! Thank you for talking about the most taboo of taboo’s VUNERABILITY! I have always found that whenever I admitted that I didn’t know something people offered to help me…people love to be “in” on something that everyone else is not “in” on. If I asked people for their opinions they got their heads together and found a solution the poblem…I was once sitting with a Rabbi in Florida waiting on a funeral to show up at the cemetery…As we talked he told me that he was a having trouble with the older Rabbis not letting him perform funerals…I asked him “what if you had your own cemetery”? He was very puzzled as to how he could own a cemetery…I knew the importance of family being buried close to one another…so I told him that we had a section of the very cemetery that we were sitting in and that we could finance the purchase..I asked him to help me figure out how to make it happen even though I knew how to do it myself, for the most part…I gave him the opportunity to solve his own problem and he had the pride of helping me figure it out…I sold him 50 spaces in one day…it was at the end of a month where we would receive a bonus for every space sold..I admitted that to him and he was thrilled to help me! He felt important having solved his rabbi problem, helped his congregation and helped me get a bonus in turn I gave him a blessing celebration for his “congregational cemetery”…it was a win, win, win situation. None of this had really ever been done in the current management so we really had to figure it out ourselves…If I had known all of the answers then many people wouldn’t have gotten the opportunity to feel important, validated… including me.

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]]> By: Joyce Swinford http://www.alignmentinc.com/blog/2010/04/the-power-of-vulnerability-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 Joyce Swinford Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:29:43 +0000 http://www.alignmentinc.com/blog/?p=744#comment-1353 This is outstanding!! It doesn't hurt at all to admit our mistakes and show vulnerability, but so many people are so afraid to do so. It is amazing how people warm up to others when they admit their mistakes. This is outstanding!! It doesn’t hurt at all to admit our mistakes and show vulnerability, but so many people are so afraid to do so. It is amazing how people warm up to others when they admit their mistakes.

]]> By: Beverly Burk http://www.alignmentinc.com/blog/2010/04/the-power-of-vulnerability-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Beverly Burk Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:27:35 +0000 http://www.alignmentinc.com/blog/?p=744#comment-1352 Kristin: I've enjoyed reading your blogs and attempting to apply some of the principles you discuss in them, but this is my first listen to a podcast. Your message was relevant and timely and your delivery poised and professional. I look forward to going back to listen to some of your earlier recordings. Thank you for sharing your observations and insight. Kristin:

I’ve enjoyed reading your blogs and attempting to apply some of the principles you discuss in them, but this is my first listen to a podcast. Your message was relevant and timely and your delivery poised and professional. I look forward to going back to listen to some of your earlier recordings. Thank you for sharing your observations and insight.

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