Crossing the Rubicon

There is a point in our development that requires the transition from one plane of thinking to another – from practical to conceptual. Post Graduate students are selected for their ability to either make or have made this transition. It is more important than any previous exam marks they have.

This transition is the toughest point at which a trainer can meet a group. For some people it is an easy transition, for others a long and painful struggle.

Enthusiastic new team leaders grab onto the knowledge you pass as lifelines to the way forward. They operate in the easier of the worlds

More advanced leaders share concepts and enjoy the challenges of a more conceptual world as food for the mind.

However those crossing the Rubicon hang on to the present like reluctant teenagers being ask to consider a life outside the parental home. In need of a break for the benefit of all but not quite able to take that leap, they see any purveyor of a challenge – even those desperate to serve their interest – as a foe.

It is not their fault. It is like me asking my 3 year old son to be rational. They have no concept of what is meant by it.

This is a tough time for them and their helpers. Some will never cross the Rubicon and it is perhaps wrong that they be asked to.

Others will thank their battle weary parents later.

Still it doesn’t make it any easier for those trying to help to know this!