The People, Process, & Progress Podcast - Someone Else's Poor Planning IS Our Problem | Foundations Friday #100

Episode Date: July 7, 2023

We did it. We put together 100 'Foundations Friday' episodes. On this week's #100 I elaborate on why the proverb, "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine" is well, nonsense.

It's time to lace up, chalk up, get logged in, and get locked on to the KevTalks Podcast. By way of enlightening guest interviews and solo episodes with me, your host, Kevin Pinnell, I will share people's intriguing stories, industry-leading best practice processes, so that team leaders like you can make progress. Thanks for being here. Please subscribe and share the show, and go to the KevTalksPod.com website for more information. Now, let's get into this episode in 3, 2, 1. Hey everybody, welcome to Foundations Friday number 100.

I find myself in South Florida with my family, but thought for number 100, that's right, we made it, you're here, thank you so much for being here. This is a follow-up to a post I did on July 5th. The bad planning proverb is wrong. That proverb is bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. That's not true. If you are a police officer, a firefighter, an EMS, a paramedic or EMT, a 911 dispatcher, someone in the military, someone that has to respond to people's emergencies, we know that's not true because bad planning has led to a lot of that, right?

Whether it was, as Gavin DeBecker says, in the gift of fear, we didn't listen to signals before someone attacked or we made dumb choices and went out in bad weather and got hurt or whatever it is, but also it applies to project and program management. Just because someone on our team or someone else in our organization didn't plan well or whatever happened there, that doesn't mean it's not our problem because if our job is to pull people together and facilitate process and lead people and build relationships, then absolutely it's our problem. So I get the proverb and it's cool and it's catchy and it's easy to say because it helps our ego and it helps our time but it's bullcrap it 100 is our ownership our responsibility to realize hey there's been poor planning something happened how did we miss this do that

extreme ownership bit right there's a lot to to you know into that extreme ownership bit, right? There's a lot to, you know, into that extreme ownership and just to be a good leader, to be a good person, to take ownership and not leave people behind. So if you hear that, correct it. Say, you know what? It is our problem now. This is an area we need to focus on. This is something we need to work on. And we do need to help that other team. It doesn't matter that we weren't involved in the beginning. We're here now. We are helpful. We're professionally obligated. And honestly, professional and moral things cross over, right? As a good person, as a good leader, as a good project manager, as a good law enforcement officer, firefighter, emergency manager, whatever, you're 100% should feel like I should help you solve this problem or help you get to a place where you can solve it yourself.

So thanks for being here on the KevTalks podcast episode 100. And for more to see the previous write up I did on this and to listen to this and learn a lot more about project management, public safety. I think a lot of good discussions I've had with some really cool people in this world that are making a difference on their own. Go to KevTalksPod.com. Follow me on KevTalksPod on Twitter and Instagram. Please, everybody, stay safe out there. Have a plan. Stay informed with facts, not fear and rumors. Get involved so you can make a difference. And Godspeed, y'all.