To Serve the Server

To Serve the Server This is a basic principal that I believe can resolve many conflicts in the work place and if applied correctly life in general. When you think of the word or phrase serve or better yet “to server” you realize that we all are servers to some extent. We all regardless of our place in life or business have someone we must report to someone that holds us accountable. In turn we all have someone that we rely upon to provide us with information, product or simply service to complete our service. We all are connected in this way and keeping this principal in mind, we then see that it serves us best to make sure that our support team, our servers, are served well, prepared, informed and taken care of. This way we insure that we get the best service possible and that we provide the service we can provide. To Serve the Server is to, not put one’s self above anyone. Especially the one’s we are asking for service from but to server them with the best possible knowledge and service so they too can provide the best possible service. The cycle completes itself then. Think of a restaurant you walk in and are seated and given a menu. Now if you give the server bad information, like forgetting you like your steaks medium rare. Then you are the one to blame for not making your needs know to the server. In fact you gave bad service to that server. This may sound simple and basic but watch people sometimes and see how the treat each other. This world needs a change and we are in the process of one now. We are on the brink of it and if we start to think of each other not as a means to an end but as individuals that require input clear, accurate and precise information so they can excel in this new world then we all win.