Argh… Now I gain an understanding of how politicians feel. It is impossible to have the opportunity to talk to everyone. No matter how open I am to the idea. This is the thing that I have to learn. I know that I cannot communicate with everyone, so I need to rely on other people to be my communication targets. That will have its own varying degrees of success because now I am reliant on others. I wonder if it is possible to ever have clean communication. Probably not. I suppose in some sense that is what makes life interesting.
At work, a coworker explained how the engineering department does not understand certain tools that I have created, and that the help instructions they have would take too long to sit through to get what they need to understand the tool. Through the discussion, it is clear that the hope from their perspective is to have a click button guide. However, that is not the goal from my perspective. We need people to understand the processes, but the paradox is that they don’t feel like they have the time to understand the process. However, if they took the time to understand the process, it would save them time!
I admit that a lot of the issue is that I have learned better communication skills from when I started. Many of the stuff that is confusing is because I didn’t do a great job communicating and now the department has suffered in some way because of it. I think that I am on the right track to get people to help disperse the information for me, but those people are not great users at understanding the needs and goals of the tools and at this point, the things that I failed on were in the past. We need a separate project to get everyone back up to speed.
Everyone will have their own opinions. I suppose that makes communication even more difficult. Who knows, maybe it is not possible to communicate effectively. Maybe I am too optimistic, but my gut tells me that there is a way. It tells me there is a way to make things better for everyone. Maybe I just need to keep going with my gut even amidst setbacks to my ego. I guess I am more frustrated that communication is lacking because it is something I strive so hard to achieve.
I have seen the fruits of my labor for the Teamcenter training, so I guess I need to take that as a win. Maybe I am frustrated because those are not the people I wish to impress or make lives better. I don’t even know those people. I guess it hits harder when it’s the people that I am working late for. I guess it makes me feel like I have failed and that all of that time was wasted.
I guess I should be more pragmatic. I would advise other people that there are things that I did well and things that I didn’t. I am not without error, so I should just learn from it and move forward.
