navigating institutional processes

 

 

Navigating institutional processes is about processes that involve people. People that have to approve stuff in order for you to accomplish some goal. Now they have the power to approve you for whatever it is without having any real information. In other words you could walk in and they could simply approve you. Let's say there's several people involved in the process. They could all just look at you and say everything looks fine you're approved. Then approve whatever it is you came there for.

Instead what usually happens as they quickly assess the information you provide and make quick decisions as to your approvability. If anything sets off Red alarm bells you're generally going to get shut down. You'll need to get this, you'll need to do that, and then you'll need to refill this out, and then go visit the website.

 So the goal in these situations is to find out exactly what information they're looking for and then present that information in the easiest possible format for them to quickly decide that you're approved. Among the thousands of rejections that they'll encounter that day you are that gold nugget, that diamond, angels will sing, trumpets will Blair, and you will flow through the process with incredible ease and Grace and walk out with whatever it was you came for.

There are probably situations where you can act upset and change their mind, but they've seen that routine millions of times. They are battle-hardened and combat ready. You need to be the person that doesn't set off any alarms. That smiles gracefully no matter what the response is. If the end result is that you walk outside and drop dead because you didn't get whatever it was, you simply smile say thank you and walk outside to your death. Of course this is never really the result of getting rejected by an institutional approval process. But you get the idea.