If you want to be inspired to take action, stop wondering what others think about you, and start figuring out what you think about others.
That will get you unstuck.
Tag: communication
Useless
If one of your core principles is Respect, I doubt there is anybody in your team who feels they are not being respectful. Most likely, there are a few who feel they are being disrespected.
If one of your core principles is Customer Centricity, I doubt there is anybody in your team who thinks they are not putting the customer first. Most likely, there are a few customers who think they are not important.
If one of your core principles is Agility, I doubt there is anybody in your team who believes they are slow and unproductive. Most likely, there are a few who believe the team could achieve more.
There’s a moment when concepts, and values, and principles stop being useful in getting people on the same boat.
That’s why you should use (positive) examples instead.
In every office
There is doing well and there is doing poorly.
And then there is doing nothing, which is the worst of the three.
It goes like this.
Doing well is marginally better than doing poorly. Doing poorly is infinitely better than doing nothing.
There is also knowing about success and knowing about failures.
And then there is knowing nothing, which is the worst of the three.
It goes like this.
Knowing about success is marginally better than knowing about failures. Knowing about failures is infinitely better than knowing nothing.
This is something to remember in every office around the world.
What to control
The anger, the sadness, the excitement, the joy. Feelings are not your responsibility, nor are they your fault.
What you do with them, on the other hand, is within your control.
Letting the negative self talk become the only narrative.
Sending an harsh comment in response to the message of a colleague.
Asking others to stop what they are doing and follow the latest idea.
Focus on this.
Mindless
A father buys a package of snacks and sees a funny promotion printed on the cardboard.
“Give your child a superhero adventure!”
What they want:
- Spend a few carefree minutes bonding with their child.
What they don’t want:
- Fill in a form asking for their gender, email address, telephone number, home address, and a few other personal information.
- Give consent for sharing data with third-parties and receive further marketing material.
- Be pressured into a meaningless deadline (two months from the current time) by which they need to submit their child picture. Or else … ?
- Realize that “giving their child a superhero adventure” actually means having their child’s picture mindlessly inserted into a soulless cartoon frame.
- Be informed that the final deliverable (the soulless cartoon frame) will be available within 15 working days.
- Get to know that they can check the status of the deliverable by logging into their personal area (what personal area?).
- Be given a 8-digit code that identifies the deliverable.
- Get all the information from a very sketchy sender (fornimascheremarvel23.kinder.com).
- Receive a link to download the deliverable from their personal area (?) 24 hours later, when they (and their children) have already moved on to other things.
Guess what they get?
You've got this 