Archive for January, 2009
Building Strong Partnerships
Posted by: | Comments
Projects and goals can survive the difficult times ahead if you build strong partnerships and cross pollinate with like-minded individuals. The right combination of people will contribute knowledge and resources necessary for success. Strong partnerships can minimize weaknesses and maximize strengths as well as combine assets to improve the partnerships chances of success.
Architecting a successful partnership takes skill. It is important to take the time to define roles only after every potential partner has the opportunity to express their vision, skill set and availability.
Combining a strong group of potential partners is not always easy. Having a group of intelligent people with strong opinions can often lead to control issues. Partnerships require compromise. It is important that every potential partner in the room set aside what they think they know and be open to a new experience. They must be as good a listener as they are a talker.
At the onset of partnership building don’t demand that you’re way is the only way. Successful partnerships require give and take which may require giving up control of things that may be really important to you. Many times this is the point of contention, letting go of certain roles and responsibilities to someone in the partnership is not always easy for those set in their ways.
It can be helpful to bring in a facilitator to the partnership building process. A business coach can help mediate and work through the process of building a strong partnership agreement bringing objective input and helping each person realized the benefits the others to the success of the group.
Finding good partners is not always easy but many highly networked business coaches and consultants often have the ability to put people together that fit and may have the partner you need in their network. We have successfully brought together many of our clients this past year creating strong partnerships that led to faster goal achieving.
Quit Taking The Easy Way Out.
Posted by: | CommentsIf you know what your doing is wrong and you keep doing it you are crazy. Stop taking the easy way out and getting away with the wrong choices it will eventually catch up to you and the insanity of those decisions will destroy you.
Going the wrong way down the street may be the fastest way from one place to another but it doesn’t make it right or easy. Start making better decisions and doing things right. Just because you have not been caught doesn’t mean you won’t and what others think and catch you doing is just icing the internal problems with making wrong choices is causing the most damage even if it is not tangible.
Making better choices takes effort for some and practice. It is harder sometimes to do the right thing but in the end it is more rewarding.
Redefine Your Failures to Lessons Learned
Posted by: | CommentsTaking each previous experience you labeled a failure and redefining it to a lesson learned will focus your attention on what is gained from mistakes rather than what was lost in the lesson. By learning from our mistakes they can no longer be defined as a failure and will be a part of our successes.
Those that process their errors and move forward fastest root themselves in overcoming rather than in regret. By taking appropropriate action and leading with a vision going forward you’re mistakes can become assets and lessons for yourself and those around you.
One of the most important things you can do is own up to your mistakes. By admitting them and moving towards the solution is a story worth communicating. A person who continues to share over and over the drama of his mistakes and failures without ever discussing the solution becomes a nuicance to listen to. Sharing a mistake and discussing how you overcame it will make you someone worth paying attention to. It takes courage to admit when you were wrong but great leaders move in a positive direction when they do.
“Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way… unless it is a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from,” observes satirist Al Franken.
Brainstorming with your team and using the resources and teachers around you to overcome the errors made will engage the team in the solution rather than keeping them in the problem and the blame game. Applying the different opinions and strategies of your network to solve your issues will improve the success of the challenges you are faced with.
The more mistakes you make the more successes you will have. Do not get rooted in the fear of making another mistake and stop trying. The people around you will no longer look negatively on mistakes made when the stigma and burden is shifted to the positive and each is working together in an open honest environment where mistakes are ok.
Bliss is Rooted in a Passion for Life.
Posted by: | Comments
When your true passion in life there is a sense of bliss. The root can be a passion for love of what you do or who you are with. There are many factors and circumstances that can be encompassed in your passion and each one is important, but individually a strong passion for just one thing can create bliss in your life.
Finding even the smallest thing to be passionate about is important when overwhelming situations are present. The laughter of your child, the meal your preparing, many individual actions you are taking part in can be an expression of your passion.
Discovering that life can be simple or complex is a matter of choice. You can choose to love what your doing or loathe it. When you are going through the motions and find yourself disengaged and angry your resentment creates disharmony and affects you and those around you. Changing your mindset and enjoying your life and it’s responsibilities will build that bridge towards peace and the passion you need to find the bliss.
Take a moment and think about what you are doing and all the good that will result from your efforts and focus on the outcome and the results and if need be turn on some music and start enjoying your life.
Bliss is rooted in a passion for life. So being passionate is the keystone of your foundation to a more blissful life.
