Bryan Sakamoto’s extensive experience in his field highlights the significant impact of strong connections and teamwork. Join us as Bryan shares his insights on the crucial role relationships have played in his professional journey and how exchanging ideas can lead to exceptional outcomes.
What role do enduring relationships play in your professional journey?
Creating long-lasting connections with your co-workers helps foster trust, support, respect, and friendships. When one spends eight hours a day, five days a week, interacting with the people one works with, it’s a significant part of one’s life. It keeps you humble and sincere.
Have you worked in a team where sharing different ideas and experiences helped make a project better?
When I first began working for an architectural firm in 1978, I consistently collaborated in a team environment that included clients, architects, engineers, and technologists. This teamwork is essential in our industry, which ties back to my initial point: it is important to respect your co-workers and the contributions they bring to the team, including their education, experience, common sense, and general construction knowledge.
How do you prioritize the well-being of your team, the environment, and the community in your professional endeavours? Share a specific example of how this approach has contributed to the success of a project or initiative in your career.
If you are receptive to new ideas and trust your team, it leads to innovative, practical, and sometimes cost-saving solutions. I don’t have a specific project to cite, because every project is different and contains its own nuances. The one similarity is that when a project does “not” have a collaborative environment and includes a combative tone, the project tends to go south very quickly.
