When Lynn Penny, vice president of human resources with Koch Global Services, started working for Koch more than two decades ago, she never could have anticipated where her career would take her.
In her position with human resources, a big part of Lynn’s job is helping employees leverage their skills to self-actualize in roles that fulfill them, and that they’re passionate about. It’s a fitting job for someone whose career has transformed considerably through her own continuous journey of self-actualization.
林恩（Lynn）的职业生涯始于科赫（Koch），是信息技术领域的商业系统分析师。在财务背景下，她最初被雇用来实施科赫·碳的财务系统，然后再过渡到项目管理，然后是应用程序经理角色。
“I really love understanding technology and how it can be used to improve the business process,” Lynn says. “I found passion in that and enjoyed helping others develop and learn how to use technology. It was just a natural progression.”
到2004年，林恩（Lynn）担任科赫矿产服务公司（Koch Mineral Services）担任首席信息官的领导能力，但她的职业转变才刚刚开始。亲眼目睹了她如何与人合作，科赫全球服务部总裁理查德·斯旺（Richard Swan）与林恩（Lynn）联系，考虑了一个新的机会，将人力资源作为一种能力。
“I was kind of shocked,” Lynn recalls. “I said, ‘I lead IT groups; I don’t lead HR teams.’”
But Richard recognized in Lynn an ability to help develop the potential in others, telling her, “I think you’re a great Koch leader. I think the way you show up as a leader, your commitment to our principles and how we work as an organization is authentic. So, take a chance because I think you could be really successful.” Lynn took that chance and soon realized leading HR wasn’t just something she enjoyed doing – she was also really good at it.
她说：“这就是我今天在自己的角色上所做的一切，我真的有助于专注于员工的发展。”“我们如何帮助员工确定自己的优势以及他们擅长什么？然后，我帮助他们指导他们，指导他们，帮助他们看到发展的道路。”
One employee Lynn has helped along her self-actualization journey is Shayla Darnell, IT director with Koch Ag and Energy Solutions. Lynn hired Shayla as an application manager on the IT team, and she has since become director of IT applications with the company.
“She was focused more on finance accounting systems, and I said, let’s take your skills and capability to build IT talent, and let’s look at more of the manufacturing side, because that’s where we were really growing,” Lynn says. “And she got energized when she started doing that.”
作为一个职业转换的谢谢part to what Richard saw in her, Lynn is grateful to be able to do the same for others like Shayla. And she encourages employees to take a chance on themselves to explore opportunities that leverage their own strengths and passions.
“A lot of people feel like, ‘Oh, I can’t do that.’ They don’t have that self-confidence in some of their abilities and strengths,” she says, adding, “A lot of times, it’s just having that positive conversation with them to help them gain that confidence that, ‘Yes, I can do this.’”
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