{"id":9259,"date":"2022-07-02T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-756621-3933750.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2023-10-23T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:37:40","slug":"pursue-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/customer-experience-2\/pursue-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursue Excellence!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”]\n\t\t\t[et_pb_row admin_label=”row”]\n\t\t\t\t[et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]My son, Tony, had the privilege of being part of the theater program at our high school.\u00a0 The kids were under the direction of Pam Hurt, and she had a way of getting the most out of the cast each year, always demanding their best.\u00a0 I am by no means a talented singer or dancer like many who stared in the productions, but I can spot a great performance.\n\nOne of my favorite movies over the past few years has been \u201cThe Greatest Showman\u201d starring Hugh Jackman.\u00a0 It is a musical that highlights the life of the circus master, \u201cP.T. Barnum.\u201d\u00a0 There were two scenes that caught my attention.\u00a0 The circus performers were giving a show to a packed house.\u00a0 P.T. and his wife had two daughters.\u00a0 The wife and daughters were in the audience watching the show starring their Dad.\u00a0 For about 3-4 seconds, they pan to the two daughters who were dancing from the stands.\n\nWhat caught my eye was the attention to detail in the dance moves by the older of the two daughters.\u00a0 She showed her skill as a dancer, whether it was through her pointed hands and toes or the smoothness of her turns.\n\nLater in the movie, there is a scene with the entire cast in a saloon when P.T. figures out that his family is the most important thing in his life and decides to go after them.\u00a0 They break out into a lively dance number.\u00a0 The moves of the dancers are in perfect sync.\u00a0 (I wondered how many takes it took to get it exactly right.)\u00a0 In this case, the team made up of 20+ individuals worked on this number until they achieved excellence.\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n\nOne more example\u2026\u00a0 My church puts on a large program called the \u201cGift of Christmas\u201d each year.\u00a0 As my wife is on staff in the music department, I often attend many of the numerous performances and enjoy watching the different numbers from a variety of locations and views.\u00a0 One thing I always watch is when the dancers, including children, are heading off to the side stage after singing or dancing on center stage.\u00a0 Do they stay in character and continue their motions when they think no one is watching?\u00a0 Some do.\u00a0 Some don\u2019t.\u00a0 If I was taking notes to cast the show for the next year, I would give a prominent role to those who show dedication to detail.\n\nAs we start a new year, these scenes made me wonder if I was pursuing excellence in all areas of my life.\u00a0 Just as the little girl or the large group in \u201cThe Greatest Showman\u201d took their jobs seriously, we need to always do what we do in such as way that if the world was watching, we would be proud of our performance.\u00a0 It does not matter if you are the CEO of a large company or an employee who just started on the front line.\u00a0 Do your daily job with excellence.\u00a0 Don\u2019t cut corners to save you a few minutes.\n\nPicture yourself in your office and it has been a long day.\u00a0 It is past 5:00 pm and you’re ready to head home to relax.\u00a0 You turn your computer off and are heading out the door when you remember that you promised to send a file to one of your coworkers.\u00a0 Unfortunately, most people would continue heading out the door and say: \u201cI\u2019ll take care of it in the morning.\u201d\n\nGreat companies are full of individuals who instead of leaving for the night, turn the lights back on, start up their computer and honor their commitment to send the file to their teammate.\n\nWhat type of employee are you?\u00a0 Do you show up to work every day with the goal of completing each task with excellence?\u00a0 Do your part to make your organization great by pursuing excellence in all you do![\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column]\n\t\t\t[\/et_pb_row]\n\t\t[\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great companies are full of individuals who instead of leaving for the night, turn the lights back on, start up their computer and honor their commitment to send the file to their teammate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987521916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"My son, Tony, had the privilege of being part of the theater program at our high school.\u00a0 The kids were under the direction of Pam Hurt, and she had a way of getting the most out of the cast each year, always demanding their best.\u00a0 I am by no means a talented singer or dancer like many who stared in the productions, but I can spot a great performance.\n\nOne of my favorite movies over the past few years has been \u201cThe Greatest Showman\u201d starring Hugh Jackman.\u00a0 It is a musical that highlights the life of the circus master, \u201cP.T. Barnum.\u201d\u00a0 There were two scenes that caught my attention.\u00a0 The circus performers were giving a show to a packed house.\u00a0 P.T. and his wife had two daughters.\u00a0 The wife and daughters were in the audience watching the show starring their Dad.\u00a0 For about 3-4 seconds, they pan to the two daughters who were dancing from the stands.\n\nWhat caught my eye was the attention to detail in the dance moves by the older of the two daughters.\u00a0 She showed her skill as a dancer, whether it was through her pointed hands and toes or the smoothness of her turns.\n\nLater in the movie, there is a scene with the entire cast in a saloon when P.T. figures out that his family is the most important thing in his life and decides to go after them.\u00a0 They break out into a lively dance number.\u00a0 The moves of the dancers are in perfect sync.\u00a0 (I wondered how many takes it took to get it exactly right.)\u00a0 In this case, the team made up of 20+ individuals worked on this number until they achieved excellence.\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n\nOne more example\u2026\u00a0 My church puts on a large program called the \u201cGift of Christmas\u201d each year.\u00a0 As my wife is on staff in the music department, I often attend many of the numerous performances and enjoy watching the different numbers from a variety of locations and views.\u00a0 One thing I always watch is when the dancers, including children, are heading off to the side stage after singing or dancing on center stage.\u00a0 Do they stay in character and continue their motions when they think no one is watching?\u00a0 Some do.\u00a0 Some don\u2019t.\u00a0 If I was taking notes to cast the show for the next year, I would give a prominent role to those who show dedication to detail.\n\nAs we start a new year, these scenes made me wonder if I was pursuing excellence in all areas of my life.\u00a0 Just as the little girl or the large group in \u201cThe Greatest Showman\u201d took their jobs seriously, we need to always do what we do in such as way that if the world was watching, we would be proud of our performance.\u00a0 It does not matter if you are the CEO of a large company or an employee who just started on the front line.\u00a0 Do your daily job with excellence.\u00a0 Don\u2019t cut corners to save you a few minutes.\n\nPicture yourself in your office and it has been a long day.\u00a0 It is past 5:00 pm and you're ready to head home to relax.\u00a0 You turn your computer off and are heading out the door when you remember that you promised to send a file to one of your coworkers.\u00a0 Unfortunately, most people would continue heading out the door and say: \u201cI\u2019ll take care of it in the morning.\u201d\n\nGreat companies are full of individuals who instead of leaving for the night, turn the lights back on, start up their computer and honor their commitment to send the file to their teammate.\n\nWhat type of employee are you?\u00a0 Do you show up to work every day with the goal of completing each task with excellence?\u00a0 Do your part to make your organization great by pursuing excellence in all you do!","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987521917,"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions\/987521917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987521916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccginc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}