Making “Unprecedented” the Precedent
In the past year, we’ve become all too familiar with the “unprecedented.” As COVID-19 permeated our daily lives, we heard this term again and again to describe everything from the virus, our working styles, education, health services… a nauseatingly long list of items.
Amidst a sea of uncertainty, the “unprecedented” yielded a wave of possibility. In fact, its pervasiveness, in many ways, demonstrated our potential. Without our favorite restaurants, bars, bakeries, and gyms, we became chefs, mixologists, bakers, and home fitness gurus. We baked sourdough bread, took up cycling, tried calligraphy, hosted virtual trivia nights, and forged our path into the unknown with new skills and savvy tactics to adapt.
Our newly found potential was not limited to the personal. As organizations persevered to deliver their goods and services, it was employees that drove innovation. The many “pivots” and “transformations” sprung from the “unprecedented”, while oft credited to strong leaders and adapted business models, were truly championed by individuals. Employees had to shift roles, tackle new tasks, and deliver results in areas they had never before encountered. Their intellectual capital, institutional knowledge, and capability for growth potential paved the way for business success.
What this pandemic put into relief is that we must we must trust in individual aptitude to drive our success. What can we achieve if we consistently unlock and leverage employee potential? I’m proud to be joining a company intent on helping organizations do just that.
Gloat is facilitating an “Anything Workforce,” where an employee isn’t just classified by what they are today, or the “precedent” for what they may be able to do next. Instead, Gloat enables career growth and agility, fostering an organizational belief in the value of the employee themselves rather than their current skill set or achievements. It’s what I, a long-time enterprise employee, often craved: a portal to opportunity, change, and challenge, not limited by traditional hiring mechanisms, internal politics, or team silos.
Organizations are just now understanding the unrealized value of their employees. Their passion, familiarity with the business, ability to execute, and motivation to grow are a company’s greatest assets. A great product or process is nothing without the people and the team that build, market, sell, and support it. And when those people are valued for their potential, rather than their past or present experience, they are all the more apt to succeed. I’m excited to help deliver that value to market and make these “unprecedented” opportunities the precedent for employees and businesses everywhere.