Koala-T Assistant (MyKTA)

Everybody has their strengths and weaknesses. Everyone is unique and adds value. You find value and appreciation in a job when your boss recognizes what you are good at and gives you plenty of opportunity to shine in, not only what you are great at, but what you love to do. It is equally crushing to have a boss who takes away projects that you are great at and seems to seek every opportunity to either make your job unpleasant or look for ways to see you fail or sabotage you. However, when given a task that you aren’t very knowledgeable in or lack the expertise, see it as a challenge, an opportunity to develop another skillset.

In everything you do, do with excellence. Your work and your talents are a reflection of you. The quality of your work isn’t about whom you give it to, appreciative or unappreciative, it’s about you. Anything worth doing is worth doing great. So that means, it’s not about anybody else, it’s all about you. Take pride in your work and what you have to offer. You seem to have a knack to make spreadsheets sing or words just flow on a page. You make it look so easy that other’s don’t realize the actual knowledge and talent it takes to create something so fabulous.

When my boss said that he wanted to assign a spreadsheet to someone else to help me in reducing my workload, at first I was a bit peeved. The work on my side was complete, I was waiting for another department to put together their portion for me to integrate into multiple workbooks. To me, that project was easy. Also, if he assigned the project to someone else, most people would get lost in the code. It’s all over the place, running across multiple sheets, and ultimately it would be linked and consolidated into another workbook.

It quickly dawned on me that the workbook was, in fact, not mine. It was my boss’s to do with what he wishes. So, in my head, I let it go. I responded to my boss that if he felt it was in the best interest of the assignment to have someone else do it, then it should be reassigned. Needless to say, I am still managing the workbooks and working on the consolidation process. The lesson for me was to learn to let go. To realize that in a power struggle, there is no ownership. So even if you win, it will have been with conflict and, more to the point, you will have created more grief for yourself in the long run. It’s a lose-lose situation.  You will have won the battle, but lost the war.

Pick and choose your battles. Lots of other opportunities will come your way. Just be open to them. That includes trying new things. Shine in all your endeavors. After all, you are a consummate professional, you are able to perform with grace under pressure, and you are really good at what you do.

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