Running a Successful JCI
Enterprise
Hi mates, trust you are all having a great time in the new
year, it’s quite a hazy weather here in the FCT. I hope you wake up to this and
many more motivation for speed, action, creativity, drive, disruptive mindset
and a reawakened passion in your many endeavors.
When running a JCI organization, what readily defines our
course of action is the term “Voluntary” and “non-profit”, this tend to
demystify performance, quest for perfection, excellence and that extra effort
at taking #YouBbestShot in most JCI tasks. Now, let’s transform our mind to
that man on the spot in a multinational corporation doing the same
responsibility you are given in your JCI enterprise.
CASE STUDY; let’s trade
places with an employee responsible for organizing the annual general meeting
for SPDC, Shell Petroleum Development Company. Now, take a deep dive into what
you, in your present state and level would put into this endeavor to achieve
the expected outcome, from conception, planning, executing, reporting and
closing the project.
Now, let’s come back here, how would you handle a similar
job in JCI, remember this is a multinational enterprise in as many countries,
perhaps bigger than SPDC in terms of global spread and local reach.
I’m sure one factor that would come in the way of our
thoughts in trading places with the SPDC guy would be “do you know how much resources he has to execute the same task and how
much bucks he gets paid at SPDC?”
Okay, that notwithstanding, let’s remain here still. Do you
know if you take #YourBestShot within limited resources and perform excellently
well, you would have outperformed the man who did averagely in the midst of
excesses? Do we get paid for what we do? Yes!
Shocked? Yes we get paid… perhaps we’re paid in a different coin. Yes because,
the SPDC man might be motivated by the money he gets paid, but what actually
makes him is the amount of human capital investment on him. Now, a typical
organization such as this never gives you a chance to come in and prove your
worth, you must prove it before you get in there, you know what that means in
today’s highly competitive world? Then, while in there, weary of empowering you
lest you start looking for greater challenges elsewhere and go away with all
their investment in you, they give you just enough to make you deliver what
they expect from you. What truly stands you out, promote you and keep you
moving on is that which you invest in yourself.
Now, JCI method is such that it pays the next organization
that you find yourself in rather than JCI itself. Without prior experience or
expectations, JCI gives you the opportunity to do just what that SPDC man did
at no cost or remuneration, with higher risk of failure, if you passionately
take your best shots here at whatever level you are in the organization, make
all the mistakes you can make, use all the tools you can get as well as take
opportunity to partner and access resources by yourself, take #YourBestShot,
adopt best practices (popularly referred to as “ASO Standard” in my local
organization), raise your stakes, keep your head up, shoulders high and look at
your duties here from the broader perspectives, it is amazing what you would
achieve now and in the sometime of tomorrow as well as out there.
One more thing, JCI does not allow you repeat same office
twice, so you are not expected to come and do it better for the organization
all over again, but take the knowledge and experience out there to be different
from the average man, to “be better”.
Another thing, haven’t completed a task, you take on a new
one and keep developing your competences across various departments in diverse
fields from all walks of life. This is another unique opportunity you find only
in the Junior Chamber movement while responsibilities at workplaces are limited
to your field, and you hardly find opportunity to work in different departments
as often as you would in JCI. This is a unique opportunity at being globally
integrated, disruptive in nature, innovative beyond imagination, genuine,
generous and versatile beyond your actual level of experience or qualification.
JCI is a global franchise handed to everyone upon attaining
membership, change your perspectives from the JCI you see locally around you,
take a look at the big picture of a giant organization of the young and the
great, giving you an opportunity to be a world citizen with a global mindset,
create your own JCI inside of you devoid from expectations from other members
or formations, undertake giant strides that far exceed your actual performance
level, “think local, act global” tanking #YourBestShot every time.
If you make best use of your time in the organization and
run every task and responsibility effectively in the JCI enterprise with #YourBestShot;
it’s amazing what you would accomplish out there. So think again… ain’t you
actually getting paid?
Now, I believe you have a better definition of what JCI is,
let’s live the values and creed over again… It’s a turning point for every
single one of us!
Permit me to introduce you to this special bug which will is trending in the wake of the new year…
He says, "so I’m uniquely
qualified. I’ve had a bunch of them." More than once he’s watched his
best-laid plans backfire, leaving him bleeding, bruised, or beaten up — but
wiser for the experience.
Key Lessons
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Which battlefield lessons can save your
career;
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How to set your sights on "the crucial
shot;"
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When to "pull the trigger" to
maximize a situation;
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Why complaining about bad times might
misfire;
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How to focus on your feedback thermostat;
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How to ricochet a minor opportunity into a
major success.
This training is conveyed by Aina Segun Aina and designed by a consortium
of special trainers from different walks of life; based on the book, Take Your Best Shot: Turning Situations Into
Opportunities by Ken Futch
In the New Year, everyone is in need of a tool such as this as a guide to
optimum performance in their organizations, institutions, enterprise, and other
endeavors. This tool teaches us to Be prepared, Be alert, Be In-depth, Be
Practical, Be Smart, Be Creative, Be Innovative, Be Strategic, and Be
Systematic; gives us a good taste for Research, enable us Share Ideas, Go the
Extra Mile, Apply Finesse, Be Professional and Minimize Conflicts by Choosing
your Battles Wisely.
Now, let’s encourage one another to #YourBestShot
©Aina Segun Aina
@ainasegunaina
