Pushing your limits

Pushing your limits

Last week I spent the day being treated like a grunt. I was yelled at,

verbally abused, called a sissy, and told to leave but I pushed on with one

of the hardest mental/physical challenges of my life. I was a Navy Seal

trainee for a day. 

The Navy Seals are one of the most effective military units in the world

because they push their people well beyond their limits. The challenges,

although seemingly only physical, were mainly mental in nature. If

someone told me that I would do 500 pushups in one day I would have

laughed at them, but in the end that's what I was able to do.

At Signature Community I see my job as head drill sergeant. My job is

to push the limits of our team members to do things they never thought

possible. Sometimes it works amazingly well like in Kansas City where

Matt Gietzen is now managing more than 400 units at occupancy rates

well above the competition and in Indianapolis where Samantha Skrobot started

working in our office a year ago to help pay her rent and is now overseeing our

national leasing efforts. Thank you Samantha for not giving up when you

were getting calls every night at 3am to handle heat emergencies. (The

Navy Seal training program, as well as the Signature training programs,

understand the importance of using sleep deprivation as a training tool.)

Unfortunately, in a training program like this we can't please everyone.

In many cases people cannot handle the pressure or the uncomfortable

environment created by this push for excellence, and they are forced

to drop out. It happens. We as a team must move on without them,

knowing that we will always be finding team members willing to attempt the

challenge but only the few will succeed.

Thanks to all of you at Signature Community for making us the preeminent

team in the real estate business. The practice and training (and even

sleep deprivation) will payoff.

--
Nickolas Jekogian
CEO
Signature Community
917-763-3500
www.ASignatureCommunity.com
Blog -http://www.nwjceommm.blogspot.com/

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