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 | Sujet: What We Can Learn From Buffy  Sam 02 Juil 2011, 18:38 | |
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Management Lessons From TV: What We Can Learn From ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s’ Buffy
Oh Buffy. You must have been doing something right since you managed to get your low-performing movie turned into a cult-followed TV show (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy) that survived a network change and produced a spin-off. In fact, there are even talks of a reboot.
However, besides inspiring a whole generation of girls to kick ass as well as be cute and feminine (I like to think Buffy is to fighting as Elle Woods is to being studious) Buffy also taught us some great lessons we can bring to the workplace, even though she was a student for the majority of the show.
And when you really think about it, the hellmouth and work environments have a lot in common.
1) Get a good mentor: It is very important for women to have mentors at work. They can be male or female. What is important is that you have someone who knows the ropes guiding and supporting you. In this case, for Buffy Summers, it was Giles. A quirky and quiet British man that helped mold her into an ADD-riddled, perky teenage girl into a powerful, vampire-killing machine.
2) Have a good support system: Because Buffy couldn’t tell her mom about her special situation she had to have a group of people to confide in and also support her. She found those people in the forms of Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Cordelia, Anya (for a period), sometimes Angel (before he went back to being a bad vampire and then in between being good again and getting his spin-off), Dawn Summers in the later years, Tara Maclay and Riley Finn.
Once she found she could trust these people she realized she didn’t have to do everything alone. In the premiere of Season 2, Buffy was going through a bit of inner turmoil since she had actually died and then come back to life (being a teenager is so hard!) and thought she didn’t need her Scooby team. But she quickly realized after she almost got killed again (and had some reflection time when she was smashing the skeleton of the master with a sledgehammer) that she was better off working together with people. As Cordelia said to her she just had to “Whatever’s causing the Joan Collins ‘tude, deal with it. Embrace the pain. Spank your inner moppet. Whatever.” So eloquent.
3) Delegate: This goes with the support system. Besides having people to just confide in and be there for you, it is also important to learn what their strengths are and then help them use them. For example, Willow was very good at school. So whenever some thousand-year-old demon came on the scene, Willow (with the help of Giles) could always somehow find an ancient book (in the Sunnydale High School library mind you. That place appeared to have more book than Amazon.com) instructing them how to kill it. Angel was good at fighting and brooding in a corner so he did that. Xander was less good at fighting but created great comic relief so it was very important to have him around.
4) Always prepare for any challenge and train hard: No one worked harder than Buffy. She would practice her fighting skills everyday in order to fight all those vampires and demons and witches and mean cheerleaders. She and her team also prepared for really big fights by studying and coming up with strategies. It was like they had a really important client meeting every week and didn’t want to go in without a kick-ass presentation. Source | |
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