If you want people in your team to truly work as a team, help each other, keep each other accountable, and achieve common goals, then stop leveraging your position of power to get things done.
When you do that, people will think that the only way for them to get ahead is to take from their peers.
Dominance does not set a good example.
Not every cause leads to an effect. Not every effect can be immediately linked to a cause.
The fact is, we are not rational beings and we merely use reason to find an explanation to things that have already happened, to decisions that have already been made.
That’s why brands and stories have so much power. They don’t engage with reason and they leverage the most tribal and innate of our insticts.
Belonging.
If your company wants to measure brands and stories, if they want to find the thread that links brands and stories to material results, they are probably missing the whole point. And the opportunity to establish relationships with employees, customers, stakeholders that can determine long-term competitive advantage.
You got to have faith not to miss this opportunity.
Asking questions is more important than answering them.
You should ask questions when you know everything and when you know nothing. When you are alone and when you are in good company. When things go just as you planned and when nothing seems to fit in the right place.
We tend to think that confidence equals having few doubts and that experience means you are finally in a position to dispense answers.
In reality, confidence if feeling ok with not knowing and experience means you are faster at figuring out the questions to ask.
The world is upside down.
Recruitment is customer service.
For many employees, their first contact with your organisation is via your recruitment function. For most people, the only interaction with your organisation is with your recruitment function.
Both recruitment and customer service deal with a high volume of traffic that makes it difficult to identify what matters. And in both cases, this challenge often translates in poor service and missed opportunities.
The fact is, recruitment and customer service are windows through which people look inside the organisation. They might become employees or not, they might become customers or not. But for sure they will leave with a clear impression of what you stand for – an impression that will spread to the people with whom they will share the experience.
Recruitment and customer service are powerful tools for word-of-mouth.
It is worth investing in them with intention and strategy.
Sometimes you need a critic, as they might take you back to earth and set you on a path of improvement. Sometimes you need a cheerleader, as they might give you that boost of confidence you are lacking to truly appreciate what you have just achieved.
And you always need a coach. They will see your trajectory and help you find what you need to get there.
You've got this 