As I taught John how to prepare questions, I noticed that he didn't want to follow my directions. Instead, he wanted to figure it out on his own and learn from his mistakes. As our guest speaker, Kevin O'Connor would say "Hire for character and train for skills." So, the question is: what if they are not who they say they are when we interview them and are not trainable when we hire them? No matter how much I tried to help him, he would sweep me away. This affected my work and the organization because we were not receiving grant applications on time. In my personal strategic plan, my goal is to become a manager. John's long-term goal is also to become a manager. During a conversation I had with John, he told me “I should be in your position because I'm older and I'm married.” This shocked me because I didn't know that the fact that I was in a higher level position than him would affect his work. About a month later, he asked me if I would be looking for a new job soon because I was studying finance but I'm not doing any finance work. At this moment I truly became p...