That's me, second from the left, with a group of great employees from Gentle Giant, running the stadium at 6:30 am one day recently. Why do we do this, you might wonder? What is "running the stadium?" It's a very beloved, though often hated, important tradition at Gentle Giant Moving Company that helps us build the character and teamwork we need to be a great moving company.
As a college rower in Boston, I was introduced to running the stadium, which involves climbing up the stands in each of the 37 sections of the coliseum style Harvard Stadium. Although the goal is to do it as quickly as you can (and hopefully improve each time), the purpose when movers from Gentle Giant movers do it is not to see who is the fastest.
Running the stadium for us is a way our movers demonstrate that they are willing to focus on a challenge and complete a job no matter how difficult, because there is always someone counting on you. We celebrate when someone is fast and strong, but if someone is slow and struggles through it, we don't give them a hard time. We cheer them on and encourage them to do their best. We're happy they push through the sweat and exhaustion to reach the top of the last section and congratulate them heartily.
At Gentle Giant, we have a set of values that are represented by something called the Giant HEART (Honesty, Enthusiasm, Above-and-beyond effort, Respect, and Teamwork). The stadium teaches a lot about ourselves and each other. The stadium has a great deal of symbolic and practical meaning to us, so it's a tradition we uphold, and it's an activity I plan to keep doing for as long as humanly possible.
As a college rower in Boston, I was introduced to running the stadium, which involves climbing up the stands in each of the 37 sections of the coliseum style Harvard Stadium. Although the goal is to do it as quickly as you can (and hopefully improve each time), the purpose when movers from Gentle Giant movers do it is not to see who is the fastest.
Running the stadium for us is a way our movers demonstrate that they are willing to focus on a challenge and complete a job no matter how difficult, because there is always someone counting on you. We celebrate when someone is fast and strong, but if someone is slow and struggles through it, we don't give them a hard time. We cheer them on and encourage them to do their best. We're happy they push through the sweat and exhaustion to reach the top of the last section and congratulate them heartily.
At Gentle Giant, we have a set of values that are represented by something called the Giant HEART (Honesty, Enthusiasm, Above-and-beyond effort, Respect, and Teamwork). The stadium teaches a lot about ourselves and each other. The stadium has a great deal of symbolic and practical meaning to us, so it's a tradition we uphold, and it's an activity I plan to keep doing for as long as humanly possible.
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