June 17, 2024 • 7 mins
The Super Organizer James Lott Jr talks about communication's importance in working together!
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(00:02):
So it is June seventeenth, twentytwenty four. It's the s RS Show
kind of a short that's not reallya full show, which is short.
I felt very important to talk aboutthis subject because it's very very very very
very important. I'm James A Jenisonorganizer. Of course a lot of help.
Dot commis the website, all right. Communication is key. You solid
(00:25):
a thing. I mean like itliterally is, and I'm finding out in
certain communities, especially when it comesto the artist community, in many ways,
that everyone has their own ways ofcommunication. Sometimes it works. Sometimes,
organized chaos can work. Sometimes Idon't recommend it, but you can.
(00:46):
Opposites can attract and work really welltogether. You bring this, I
bring that. It's perfect sometimes.But I'm talking about the unnecessary non communication
and that's probably that's why I kindof wanted to just tell people out there,
if we're working together on a project, I don't care what it is,
any kind of project, we haveto communicate. Now. There are
(01:10):
times I know this is this isthere. There are times where life will
get in the way and something majormay happen. So substudocracks, I'm talk
about that that happens to everybody oncein a while. I going to talk
about that. I'm talking just regularlife. We're communicating, I ask I
need these five things from you thatI don't hear from you for two or
(01:33):
three months. That's what I'm talkingabout, and then we finally communicate.
There's just like, well I didn'tknow. I'm like, just I feel
like if you're working with me,I don't think I put any blockers up
alan most will do either. It'slike, just tell you what's going on.
(01:57):
There are folks who are afraid tosay things or a lot of times
they have nothing to do with likewe can do with me. I mean
it's like it's not I'm very professional. I can totally separate personal professional.
I have no problem with that.But a lot of stuff hasn't do with
me, and so so I don'teven take it on. But some folks
will take it on as what's wrongwith me? Why don't they communicate with
you? Why are they ignoring mytext? Why aren't they sending me what
(02:19):
they will send me? People getupset. I've had friends and colleagues whore
just like do they hate me?Like what's going on? Or why they
don't care about my work? Orlike but just my thing is a phone
call back, a text session,a message session, and so would have
cleared all that up. A lotof times it's nothing super major. In
most cases it maybe I've changed anidea. Well, tell that person who's
(02:46):
waiting for you to give you toget something from you if you decide to
like for me, I've rewritten scripts, I've redone album. I I just
stop, I'm changing the whole albumconcept. Let's try this. It's just
communication. Or I'm listening to youand you're telling me what you because I
listen. I'm an active listen.I choose classes on and everything. I
(03:09):
asked you what you want, Iwrite down your words. We started,
so then I go forward to workon this from what you say you want.
Then it happens all the time.What's not what I really want?
Well, not anyone's good, andthat's fine too. But again, to
(03:31):
communicate with me, and I hadI had a session with one of my
one of my people I work with, like a name, names or out
anybody where I'm going down a pathfor months thinking it this way, and
they made it sound that way.So somewhere online their mind changed. They
liked something they actually liked us adirection that I was going for myself,
(03:53):
and they will go through a similarelections direction because I didn't know that I'm
going and I'm going to do andthey're like, I don't know, like
and then I'm like, that's why. And then I had the foresight to
go, stop, drop and roll. Okay, let's figure this out.
What's going on with you, Let'shave the phone call. And then because
I brought it up and then theystarted talking, it all became clear and
(04:17):
I was like, okay, andso now we are going the way now
what they want, and it's actuallya happier situation. We're all laughing and
talking. We're having a good time. But it's like, if you don't
reach out to me or tell mewhat kind of you change your mind or
whatever, then I have no I'mjust I'm going off for what you told
me, you know. So Ithink I just think there's there's a lot
(04:39):
of unnecessary non communication happening out there, and whether it's an organizing project or
a productivity project or time anytime sensitiveissue or whatever, any kind of agreement,
it's like and then the one I'mlike, don't make me the bad
guy, because I'm like I'm I'mgoing I've been here the whole time,
(05:01):
just waiting for you, and Idon't see what I've learned after a while.
I don't chase after people. Isend you an email, I tell
you what I need. It's upto you to get back to me.
And I think everybody has to setthose boundaries because you chasing people all over
the place. No, it's it'sis. This is I. You came
to me, you wanted to collaborate. I make things happen. I'm alost
(05:27):
people to make things happen. AndI was just like, let's do this.
Here's what you need. You tellyou what you need from me.
I tell you exactly what you need. I did something recently also, I
had a show. I was helpingout one of my my producers, and
I don't do this. They havetheir own show and they're pretty streamlined most
of the time, but they wantto try it's an audio show. I
want to try video. I'm alwayslike, shure, let's try video.
(05:51):
I thought they knew they were whatthey were doing, some level they had
set up. They didn't, SoI had the last minute out of my
busy schedule because it is my companyand everything and ultimately take the time and
really direct to produce the project,which I wasn't planning on. But I
can only produce it halfway because Idon't know all this. I still know
(06:12):
everything, and I know everything,so I'm trying to communicate with them.
So I asked the questions, Okay, where are we, but let me
start. We hear the acoustics.I go step by step by step by
step, it hopes. Then Itold them afterwards to you as read the
video, these are things we neednext time for the other video. But
I try to show people and thisis organizing given me. There's a process
(06:36):
to everything for success. It's aprocess. But again, at all this,
the process cannot be successful if Idon't communicate to them clearly, because
it came through the whole thing.They're all novices, they have no idea,
they've never filmed before anything anyway,So then I now, but before
if this had been told to metoo to day's before I could prepare,
(07:00):
we could add a meeting beforehand.You know, all kind of things that
couldn't could have been avoided. Mytime, time is money. My time
could have been lessened by if weif I had noticed ahead of time.
But I do all this stuff.But I did it because it is one
of my partners I love dearly andalways very successful. So I did it.
But now I do that again.I mean I'm communicating. When I
do that again, we're gonna makesure you got these things that we need
(07:23):
and to set up to set upfor success later. Communication community. Even
if you're just not sure about something. There are no dumb questions to dumb
people. That's what I always say. Sorry, I do have these dumb
people. I ask questions, I'llask. I don't care I ask question
three or four times. Well,God, if I don't got it and
I don't have it, I'd ratherdo that than just feel out in the
(07:46):
world not knowing what's going on thatListen to you communication a lot of heelp
dot com. I'm James Lodd Jr. Talk to you next time.
So it is June seventeenth, twentytwenty four. It's the s RS Show
kind of a short that's not reallya full show, which is short.
I felt very important to talk aboutthis subject because it's very very very very
very important. I'm James A Jenisonorganizer. Of course a lot of help.
Dot commis the website, all right. Communication is key. You solid
(00:25):
a thing. I mean like itliterally is, and I'm finding out in
certain communities, especially when it comesto the artist community, in many ways,
that everyone has their own ways ofcommunication. Sometimes it works. Sometimes,
organized chaos can work. Sometimes Idon't recommend it, but you can.
(00:46):
Opposites can attract and work really welltogether. You bring this, I
bring that. It's perfect sometimes.But I'm talking about the unnecessary non communication
and that's probably that's why I kindof wanted to just tell people out there,
if we're working together on a project, I don't care what it is,
any kind of project, we haveto communicate. Now. There are
(01:10):
times I know this is this isthere. There are times where life will
get in the way and something majormay happen. So substudocracks, I'm talk
about that that happens to everybody oncein a while. I going to talk
about that. I'm talking just regularlife. We're communicating, I ask I
need these five things from you thatI don't hear from you for two or
(01:33):
three months. That's what I'm talkingabout, and then we finally communicate.
There's just like, well I didn'tknow. I'm like, just I feel
like if you're working with me,I don't think I put any blockers up
alan most will do either. It'slike, just tell you what's going on.
(01:57):
There are folks who are afraid tosay things or a lot of times
they have nothing to do with likewe can do with me. I mean
it's like it's not I'm very professional. I can totally separate personal professional.
I have no problem with that.But a lot of stuff hasn't do with
me, and so so I don'teven take it on. But some folks
will take it on as what's wrongwith me? Why don't they communicate with
you? Why are they ignoring mytext? Why aren't they sending me what
(02:19):
they will send me? People getupset. I've had friends and colleagues whore
just like do they hate me?Like what's going on? Or why they
don't care about my work? Orlike but just my thing is a phone
call back, a text session,a message session, and so would have
cleared all that up. A lotof times it's nothing super major. In
most cases it maybe I've changed anidea. Well, tell that person who's
(02:46):
waiting for you to give you toget something from you if you decide to
like for me, I've rewritten scripts, I've redone album. I I just
stop, I'm changing the whole albumconcept. Let's try this. It's just
communication. Or I'm listening to youand you're telling me what you because I
listen. I'm an active listen.I choose classes on and everything. I
(03:09):
asked you what you want, Iwrite down your words. We started,
so then I go forward to workon this from what you say you want.
Then it happens all the time.What's not what I really want?
Well, not anyone's good, andthat's fine too. But again, to
(03:31):
communicate with me, and I hadI had a session with one of my
one of my people I work with, like a name, names or out
anybody where I'm going down a pathfor months thinking it this way, and
they made it sound that way.So somewhere online their mind changed. They
liked something they actually liked us adirection that I was going for myself,
(03:53):
and they will go through a similarelections direction because I didn't know that I'm
going and I'm going to do andthey're like, I don't know, like
and then I'm like, that's why. And then I had the foresight to
go, stop, drop and roll. Okay, let's figure this out.
What's going on with you, Let'shave the phone call. And then because
I brought it up and then theystarted talking, it all became clear and
(04:17):
I was like, okay, andso now we are going the way now
what they want, and it's actuallya happier situation. We're all laughing and
talking. We're having a good time. But it's like, if you don't
reach out to me or tell mewhat kind of you change your mind or
whatever, then I have no I'mjust I'm going off for what you told
me, you know. So Ithink I just think there's there's a lot
(04:39):
of unnecessary non communication happening out there, and whether it's an organizing project or
a productivity project or time anytime sensitiveissue or whatever, any kind of agreement,
it's like and then the one I'mlike, don't make me the bad
guy, because I'm like I'm I'mgoing I've been here the whole time,
(05:01):
just waiting for you, and Idon't see what I've learned after a while.
I don't chase after people. Isend you an email, I tell
you what I need. It's upto you to get back to me.
And I think everybody has to setthose boundaries because you chasing people all over
the place. No, it's it'sis. This is I. You came
to me, you wanted to collaborate. I make things happen. I'm alost
(05:27):
people to make things happen. AndI was just like, let's do this.
Here's what you need. You tellyou what you need from me.
I tell you exactly what you need. I did something recently also, I
had a show. I was helpingout one of my my producers, and
I don't do this. They havetheir own show and they're pretty streamlined most
of the time, but they wantto try it's an audio show. I
want to try video. I'm alwayslike, shure, let's try video.
(05:51):
I thought they knew they were whatthey were doing, some level they had
set up. They didn't, SoI had the last minute out of my
busy schedule because it is my companyand everything and ultimately take the time and
really direct to produce the project,which I wasn't planning on. But I
can only produce it halfway because Idon't know all this. I still know
(06:12):
everything, and I know everything,so I'm trying to communicate with them.
So I asked the questions, Okay, where are we, but let me
start. We hear the acoustics.I go step by step by step by
step, it hopes. Then Itold them afterwards to you as read the
video, these are things we neednext time for the other video. But
I try to show people and thisis organizing given me. There's a process
(06:36):
to everything for success. It's aprocess. But again, at all this,
the process cannot be successful if Idon't communicate to them clearly, because
it came through the whole thing.They're all novices, they have no idea,
they've never filmed before anything anyway,So then I now, but before
if this had been told to metoo to day's before I could prepare,
(07:00):
we could add a meeting beforehand.You know, all kind of things that
couldn't could have been avoided. Mytime, time is money. My time
could have been lessened by if weif I had noticed ahead of time.
But I do all this stuff.But I did it because it is one
of my partners I love dearly andalways very successful. So I did it.
But now I do that again.I mean I'm communicating. When I
do that again, we're gonna makesure you got these things that we need
(07:23):
and to set up to set upfor success later. Communication community. Even
if you're just not sure about something. There are no dumb questions to dumb
people. That's what I always say. Sorry, I do have these dumb
people. I ask questions, I'llask. I don't care I ask question
three or four times. Well,God, if I don't got it and
I don't have it, I'd ratherdo that than just feel out in the
(07:46):
world not knowing what's going on thatListen to you communication a lot of heelp
dot com. I'm James Lodd Jr. Talk to you next time.
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