GOOD MORNING AND
HAPPY FRIDAY!
GHS One Act Play-
Congrats
to the cast and crew of The Actor’s Nightmare on advancing to the Bi-District
Contest! Hank Graham was selected as Best Actor. Faris Sanders was selected as
Honorable Mention All-Star Cast. Our Tech Crew was selected for the Best Tech
Crew Award. “Break A Leg” wishes for
Bi-District Contest being held in Abilene this coming Tuesday!
Lady Blues
Softball- Congrats on the 10-1 victory over Iowa Park on Tuesday. Good luck this evening at home vs
Burkburnett!
Graham Steer
Baseball- Good luck at 7:00 this evening vs Burkburnett in the district opener!
Tonight is also Teacher Appreciation night at the ballfield. Teachers are
encouraged to sign in with “Mama Brewster” at the front gate to be eligible to
win some baseball clothing during each half inning.
Lady Blues Soccer
Playoff Game- Lady Blues vs Mineral Wells in Mineral Wells- Friday, March 29th at
6:00 pm.
Graham Steer
Soccer Playoff Game- Steers vs Brownwood at Graham, Friday, March
29th at 7:30 pm.
Graham Steer
Basketballers Earn Spot on the RED RIVER 22 Boys Basketball Team- Congratulations
to Coach Morris on earning his first RR22 Coach of the Year Award. Also,
congratulations to Steers Marc Tate and Case Birch for earning spots on the
RR22 Team!
Lady Blues
Basketball- Congrats to Cammi Teplicek on being named to All-State Team by the
Texas Girls Coaches Association!
Learning… Even
From Failure
Everyone makes mistakes… EVERYONE!
So, the difference is… are we learning from them? If we react accordingly,
we definitely improve our chances. Below is a copy of an article on this topic
by Gwen Moran that I read earlier this week at https://www.fastcompany.com/90314749/the-right-way-to-fail.
Failure has no shortage of platitudes singing its praises. It’s the
best teacher, of course. We’re supposed to “fail forward” and “fail fast.” Fall
down seven times, and get up eight. Paraphrasing U.S. President Theodore
Roosevelt, it’s better to do mighty things, even checkered by failure, than to
have never tried at all.
But the next time you make a big work-related blunder or your project
crashes, take note of exactly how many people rush forth to congratulate you on
the amazing learning experience you just had. It’s more likely that you’re
going to be managing negative feelings and fallout from the failure.
“The idea that we should embrace failure, and that failure is a great
teacher is in many ways in direct conflict with the way we actually respond to
failure,” says Susan Baroncini-Moe, CEO of Indianapolis-based Baroncini-Moe
Executive Coaching, LLC. The competing expectations or ideas about behavior
related to failure can make us feel worse–like we’re failing at failing, she
adds.
Benefiting from failure’s lessons is a process, says Elizabeth Perea,
Ph.D., owner of New York City-based T3 Training, a sales and performance training
consultancy. To go through it and come out the other side stronger, it’s best
to follow some established steps.
MANAGE THE
EMOTIONS
One of the most damaging beliefs about failure is that you must
immediately embrace it, says Baroncini-Moe. “No, no, no. You start by feeling
your feelings. That’s the first step in the process to bouncing back,” she
says. The first step she advises for her clients is to “revel in the pain.”
When you try to brush off the very real emotions and insecurities that can
arise, they will eventually resurface, she says.
But don’t do anything rash when you’re in this emotional state. She
points to research from staffing firm Robert Half, which found that 67% of
managers report an increase in absenteeism or resignations after a negative
performance review. Allowing yourself time to feel the humiliation,
embarrassment, anger, or other emotions that come with failing–making a big
mistake, receiving a negative performance evaluation or getting fired, for
example–helps you get beyond the failure faster, she says.
MAP OUT WHAT WENT
WRONG
Even as you deal with the emotional component, start thinking about
what went wrong, Perea says. Did you ease up on your attention to detail? Did
you take on too much or a project that stretched you beyond your ability? Were
there issues that you couldn’t control that contributed to the failure?
Perea once worked with a real estate agent who had a big deal fall
through. “It was awful,” she recalls. So she helped the agent map out the
relationship from the beginning. The agent traced the strong and weak points
and honestly evaluated her role in what happened, asking herself tough
questions. It wasn’t an easy exercise, but it helped her spot similar
situations in the future and avoid them, she says.
Sometimes, writing in a journal about the failure can help you see
exactly how it played out, and how to prevent it from happening again, says
leadership development expert Bill Wooditch, author of Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure as a Way to Success.
You may also find that simply listing the factors that contributed to the
failure can be helpful in recognizing and addressing them. As you identify the
issues and gain some perspective, you may even see them in a different light.
CREATE A
FAILURE-PREVENTION PROTOCOL
Once you’ve mapped out what went wrong, you can create a system to
prevent it from happening again. Did the project go wrong because certain
factors were ignored? Did someone avoid a tough conversation that would have
clarified the situation? As you unearth the weak points in your process, you
can create a checklist, system, or other formalized process to prevent it from
happening again.
Failure’s impact can sometimes be mitigated if you build in safety
nets to your plans, projects, and goals. You need stretch assignments to grow,
but integrating checkpoints helps you manage the outcome, Wooditch says.
Determine your measurement criteria, including project milestones or other ways
to measure your success. Then, if you see you’re veering off course, recruit
the help you need to make things right, such as enlisting team members or
supervisors or asking for additional help or resources to keep things on track.
SHARE WHAT YOU
LEARNED
As you make your way through failure and learn how to avoid the same
issue in the future, share what you learned, Wooditch encourages. Doing so does
a few things. First, it shows your managers that you’re actively seeking to
prevent the situation from happening again, which helps restore trust. In
addition, sharing your experience can help build a culture of learning in the
organization and may help shape others’ attitudes about failure. And if those
around you see that you have learned from mistakes or mishaps in the past and
are trying to help them avoid the same, you may earn more respect than you
realize.
“Everyone makes mistakes–everyone. So, the difference is, are you
learning from them? It’s the only way you can improve performance. You have to
take a clear, focused approach to what you want, and build from the foundations
of failure,” he says.
CORNY
JOKE OF THE DAY:
What
do you call it when a Cinderella busts your bracket? (Scroll down for the
answer.)
March
Sadness!
