Monday, August 16, 2010

Consensus

Perhaps one of the most confident and reliable methods to achieve positive feedback is to design the end product for meeting the constraints of a problem.

For example, don't be surprised if not everyone in the room likes the color of the wallpaper when nobody could agree on the hue of the original paint.

Take a hypothetical situation, extrapolating limits to develop needs and identify requirements. This frames problem solving as primary and does not add complications to the situation being addressed. In other words we should work on finding a solution and not on changing the room's appearance through accessorizing a predicament with crisis avoidance.

For example, consider a lake full of harvestable fish. Desirability? Are these most accessible via water craft? Will a boat launch or marina be required? Bait? Permits? Enforcement? If you start by working out such details to known troubles, quite possibly you receive will receive feedback something along the lines of "best catch ever."

How should a Men's Caregiver Support Group function? One difficulty in becoming a caregiver is learning to cope with restrictions.

Here is a social restriction: nothing we do should be so discouraging that human dignity is lost. If society condones a practice which damages the value of individual human beings and destroys the sense of self-worth then as a people we are lost.

It becomes obvious that folks in the biz would be committing professional suicide if they were to grab this bull by the horns and offer support without intro0ducing hidden agendas, which might add euphemisms for "dodged another bullet." Liabilities for defusing bombs can result in catastrophe. But so does refusing to take responsibility.

When kids commit suicide on the day before the start of their senior year of high school or when young adults escape the fallacy of career paths by failing to enter the stream of productivity or when mature folks become exasperated and quit trying to stay plugged into the open community because they rejected a direction which globalization has taken...it doesn't take an expert to recognize something is wrong with this picture.

Want to add value? Become a caregiver.

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