Break the Pattern – You Never Know Until You Try
Whether it’s in sport or in your career, stretching out of your comfort zone every day builds confidence and sense of purpose. Most importantly, it shows you who you really are. This is what a team of pattern makers at adidas learned recently through taking on a much bigger role in the process of apparel creation.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”Eleanor Roosevelt
Joanna Buettner and I first met for coffee. A special gleam in her eye drew me in from the minute we sat down. It was a gleam characterized by accomplishment, inspiration and excitement and for the next hour I was sucked into the story of how she took a unique challenge to stretch her boundaries and truly grow.
Life presents us with all sorts of hurdles and it’s our choice if we decide to hit the ground running and soar above them or side-step them altogether. The thing is we’re pretty much hard-wired to avoid discomfort, yet that’s where we grow the most and realize just how much we can do.
That’s what Joanna and her colleagues learned. As one of the seven pattern makers working on Apparel, Joanna and her colleagues were asked to throw away the ordinary process and think big.
Mission: Possible
Usually pattern makers get a brief from the design and marketing teams with information on how the future season’s patterns for apparel should be constructed. They add some input and then execute. Getting involved much later in the season, their ability to add to the creative concepts was limited. The new challenge to the team was to create a pattern concept already for the season kick-off.
Never before did they have the opportunity to describe their vision in this way during season kick-off and it was a bit unnerving, but the intention was clear: highlight the team’s creativity, passion, dedication, experience and confidence.
Back to the Roots
Show Time
After six weeks, it was time for each pattern maker to present their fresh concept and sample at the season kick-off, Trend Day. As I sat watching the models take their turns on the catwalk wearing these beautiful and innovative garments, I surveyed the room and saw a captive and inspired audience. Joanna and her colleagues jumped right into the unknown, believed in themselves and presented their ideas with pride and confidence amongst a highly experienced group of their peers.
Haven’t we all been there? We’re offered an opportunity but at first we hesitate as we look at the enormity of it. Soon however – as we start to stretch ourselves, as we break our patterns and build new capabilities, as we blow right past our doubts – we realize that without such trials we could never become the better version of ourselves.
I smiled as Joanna summed it up perfectly at the end of our coffee talk that day, “I’m lucky I got to be a part of it because it’s true – the biggest challenge is actually your biggest opportunity!”
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