Unfortunately it did not work as we had initially planned as my wife and my 6 year old daughter finally had to go back to Spain and I stayed in Dublin with my 2 teenage daughters (13 & 15).
#May your dreams come true professional
Relationships matter, and as a consequence of the way relationships are managed you can just focus on giving the best of you to the company without needing to constantly cover your back.īut 2016 was a year of multiple transformations, after summer, while I was starting to endure the crucible in my professional life, my family was about to make the leap on their personal transformation, landing in Dublin to start our new life. If there is a conflict between 2 employees managers are trained to promote clean escalation, which means to help them get to an agreement by providing the necessary tools instead of simply raise the hierarchy of the conflict. Linkedin employees lead with compassion and in a direct, honest and transparent manner they try to understand the reasons behind behaviours they do not understand or agree with, instead of criticize and complaint on the back, so be ready to provide and receive feedback as a natural way of interaction. I realised that I was more convoluted than I thought, and in Linkedin that did not work. Transformation, Integrity, Collaboration, Humour and Results, they sound cool, although they are not always that easy to apply. Linkedin´s Culture and Values are not just a bunch of posters on the walls, you leave and your breath them, and you apply them in your daily decisions. Surprisingly I realised that I also had to unlearn a lot of things. I have learned I love to work with millennials, they have so much energy and they are so demanding.
#May your dreams come true how to
In my first months I had to learn the company dynamics, always thinking about how to do everything at scale, how to manage SMB pipeline (I come from an Enterprise background) and my favourite, how to manage millennials with constant coaching. Linkedin is a very intense company, so many things happen so fast. I started on a Monday, I will never forget that by Friday when I went by myself to the lunch room people from 3 different tables called me to join them for lunch, that is Linkedin´s spirit that has helped me so much rise to the challenge in my current transformation journey.
That day where you arrive to the office and you do not know anybody. When you imagine your dream job, you never think about the first day. The first week in Linkedin was amazing much better than I could expect. I had one of those situations, I had 2 dream offers, one in EY in Madrid and the other one in Linkedin in the HQs, in Dublin. My mother use to tell me “you need to be careful with what you dream because it may come true”. My dreamed job would be selling change management solutions in a top Internet company, or selling CX/Digital Transformation projects in one of the big consulting companies, so those were the objectives I defined. “Control your life, don’t let life control you”
It is not easy to define your next play when you are 45, because you have the feeling it might be your last chance to make an important change, at least I had that feeling. On summer 2014 I realised it was the moment to move on to my next challenge. I have always wanted to feel that I controlled my life and not that life controlled me so, every summer, I analyse if the last year went as I wanted or if needed to change something. It sounded as the best plan for the family.įive months before I realised it was my time to leave the friends I made in my last 10 years in Forrester. I landed alone, my wife and my three daughters would come to Dublin after summer. Sunday February 7th 2015, I landed in Dublin, right before the Six Nations game between Ireland and Wales to start, the following day, my next play as Linkedin´s Sales Solutions Manager for France, Portugal and Spain.
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