EOA Challenge - Six Months After

How has your work life changed in the 6 months after the EOA Challenge?
(EOA Challenge was held from 17 -19 March 2017 and this feedback obtained from personal face-to-face interviews between 17-31 October 2017)

Executives

  • Definitely built trust and improved our relationship.
  • Hugely improved awareness that manifested itself in and beyond the office.
  • Built valuable network with other participants.
  • I changed my approach – for the better.
  • I am not easy to deal with but through mutual understanding we ensure that we don’t drop our standards – that is great.
  • Increased productivity with delegation of report writing and research.
  • Improved confidence to ask to handle more personal arrangements.
  • If things don’t go well she takes time to fix it.
  • Improved listening.

Executive Office Partners

  • “I feel much better at work”.
  • I grew in confidence in being able to address my boss.
  • My boss “came down quick” in the past and now there is a gentler approach.
  • I became more organized and focused and as a consequence have become more effective especially in event management.
  • “We are keeping each other honest”.
  • Simple things like greetings and taking time over my personal responses.
  • Communication and relationship improved such that I got to know my boss’s needs more and can react better.
  • Increased responsibility and empowered in front of other staff.
  • I got to know my boss's weaknesses and now understand how to assist better without intruding on personal space.

Other comments

  •  Letting go is not easy unless there is trust.
  • “Every day is different requiring sensitivity and maturity”.
  • “No room for excitement in my in-box – no heat allowed”.
  • Should have asked her earlier how it was going with other team members.
  • I take time to send small messages to personalize and highlight the life outside of business.
  • In two days the Challenge effectively improved our trust and relationship building by 6 months.
  • The EOA Challenge is highly recommended.

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