There are two aspects to finishing well—finishing well in life and finishing well in your current role/position. In this article I want to discuss finishing your current position well.

A sad fact is that many people do not finish well. Why does this matter? There are two major issues, the first is integrity, the second is that people will generally remember how you left a role more vividly than they remember any contributions you have made along the way.

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Cats hate you and everyone else, a comic by Natalie Dee

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

– Charles Caleb Colton

There is so much wisdom in this quote. Not just about hate, but about any relationship where we are distant from someone else.

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An encounter at a church recently highlighted how people can be blindsided by their emotions and the need for others to respond sensitively to where people are at. Why? Because his dog was dying.

There are two general patterns of response to conflict—active or passive aggression. It is always best to resolve conflict constructively, rather than destructively. However, we cannot manage ourselves effectively nor understand others well if we do not understand the basics of these two types of aggression.

Some conversations recently have reinforced the need to be wise about which voices we heed. A wise person will learn the skills of hearing feedback. Not all feedback is useful, we need to learn what to take on board and what to reject.

The statement that one certainty in life is change may seem obvious when we say or read it, yet often we do not prepare for it when it happens to us or learn how to implement it well when it is required.

Some things about us are fairly fixed from the moment of conception, others we have opportunity to change. Thankfully, emotional intelligence (EQ) is one of those things in which we can grow throughout our lives.