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AtricleZine - The Power of a Pregnant Pause
I was introduced to the concept of “Thank you notes” when I was about five years old. My teenage cousin just presented me with a coveted new birthday present – a soft, cuddly, gray and white teddy bear.
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Pregnant women appreciate the slow pace of elevator doors at the hospital, but visitors and guests complain, ‘The elevators close too slowly!’
The slow doors are intentionally programmed to give pregnant women and wheelchair-bound patients more time to enter and exit. If the hospital were to speed up the program, you can imagine the complaints: ‘The elevator doors close too fast!’
What would you do in this situation? Go faster? Stay slow? Endure the ongoing complaints? This hospital tried a more creative and cooperative approach.
Attractive signs were posted in the lobby and inside each elevator car saying: ‘Thank you for assisting patients who may require extra time to reach the elevator. Your kindness is appreciated.’
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The slow doors are intentionally programmed to give pregnant women and wheelchair-bound patients more time to enter and exit. If the hospital were to speed up the program, you can imagine the complaints: ‘The elevator doors close too fast!’
What would you do in this situation? Go faster? Stay slow? Endure the ongoing complaints? This hospital tried a more creative and cooperative approach.
Attractive signs were posted in the lobby and inside each elevator car saying: ‘Thank you for assisting patients who may require extra time to reach the elevator. Your kindness is appreciated.’
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What would you do in this situation? Go faster? Stay slow? Endure the ongoing complaints? This hospital tried a more creative and cooperative approach.
Attractive signs were posted in the lobby and inside each elevator car saying: ‘Thank you for assisting patients who may require extra time to reach the elevator. Your kindness is appreciated.’
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What would you do in this situation? Go faster? Stay slow? Endure the ongoing complaints? This hospital tried a more creative and cooperative approach.
Attractive signs were posted in the lobby and inside each elevator car saying: ‘Thank you for assisting patients who may require extra time to reach the elevator. Your kindness is appreciated.’
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Being criticised is something we all do as humans, though there is nothing wrong with this per se, it is how you do it that’s important. In Bob Burg’s amazing book ”Wining Without Intimidation” he says: “
Suddenly, slow elevator doors become a gesture of care and concern for others, while visitors ‘in a hurry’ are just as quickly included in a gracious social effort.
Key Learning Point
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Sometimes the facts of the matter don't need changing at all - only the way we look at them needs to shift.
Action Steps
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If something is bothering you or your staff, your visitors, guests or customers, see if you can shift the language and change the point of view. It's one powerful, effective way to change a situation.
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