Self Storage Takes a Team

I’ve been harassing my husband to help me put up our Christmas decorations since November 1st. Every year I am chomping at the bit to unbox my little village, Christmas tree, wreaths, and garland. Joel is less enthusiastic about the whole ordeal. (He’s the one to has to fish the boxes out of the corner of the garage and carry them upstairs.) I have a lot of boxes of decorations; maybe after this season is over and they go back into the boxes I’ll rent a storage unit for them.

He had been successful at keeping my Christmas spirit at bay, but I finally won, and he gladly pulled each box into the house and helped me set up the perfect village of Christmas people. We found a compromise. One night we set up everything except the tree, his least favorite task. And the next day, the tree was our project. The key was making it fun for both of us and avoiding the daunting task of doing everything in one night. (I don’t mind staying up all night to wrap lights around a tree.) Instead of insisting that we do it all, I gave in and met him halfway, and he was glad to meet me in the middle.

Sometimes we become comfortable in our job positions or we think we know the best way to do things. However, there isn’t necessarily one way to do things. In fact, the best way may be, prepare yourself, some one else’s idea! The best idea you can have is to realize you work with a team of people. Your coworkers can be a valuable resource for learning new sales techniques. Respecting the group or individual opinions and methods will make the business better and the environment happier. And when some one else comes up with a genius idea, TELL THEM, don’t be too proud to let them know they did a great job.

Written by Sarah Little, TQA Executive.

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