Justin Piercy

If you don’t already know, I work at Connexus Community Church in Ontario, Canada. This week we started a new series called “Everything I Needed to Know About Work I Learned From Classic Rock”. The takeaway for this weeks message was to “Leverage Your Power at Work to Benefit Others”.

Carey, my boss and the pastor at Connexus decided to own up to this challenge himself and decided to give away his sweet corner upstairs office to one of the other employees. The contest was simple, and was pretty funny, since everyone on staff knew they may possibly be getting sweet new digs for a week, but also that Carey would end up working from the cubicle of whoever won. Check out the video blog of the contest here.

Well, I won! So I’ve been enjoying the solitude and HUGE increase in productivity that a private office has to offer. However, I’ve been a bit stumped. How can I personally leverage my power at work to benefit others as a result of my winning the contest?

I thought about giving the office back to Carey. Lame… and kind of a suck-up move.

I thought about passing along the glory to another staff member and passing the office off to someone else. Not too original, plus I want Carey to know that I appreciate the gesture.

So I came up with a great solution. One thing about me is I LOVE espresso coffee, and without tooting my own horn too much I’m pretty darn good at making it. I have a sweet machine, the right beans and all the tricks. One thing about the staff, almost everyone LOVES drinking espresso coffee.

It didn’t take too long to put two and two together. I could leverage the power given to me this week, serve the other members of staff and do something really fun at the same time!

So I packed up my gear, came in this morning and totally rearranged Carey’s office (my office) for the week, into a walk in espresso loft bar.  Needless to say it was a big hit, and I’ve spent most of the day so far serving my fellow team on staff. Love the people I get to work with and really have gotten a lot out of serving them today.