Motion – countermotion. Offense – defense. This kind of thinking and behaviour seems to be deep-seated in european brains, whether it’s in daily live or in job communication. But countermotion and a blind rage of defense unnecessarily cost a lot of energy – in live and in communication. Therefore, in the upcoming week use the power of Kung Fu for effective communication.
Successful people don’t postpone, you often read. As easy this ambitious resolution is made as hard it is to follow it. And that’s the reason why we often write down something on our to-do list, leaving it there for days and weeks without doing anything. We say: Get rid of these to-do-zombies. In the following week, accomplish something that you deferred for a long time.
Sometimes we are really blinkered when we enter the office in the morning. We are totally focussed and concentrated on our own to-do-list, our tasks for the day, orders from the bosses, on our aims and on everything we want to achieve. In doing so we do not see the interests of our colleagues and employees. But those interests are crucial for being a successful leader. Therefore we ask you to give others’ interests your best attention in the upcoming week.
Short-tempered, a little bit choleric, says frankly what he thinks, is annoyed with odds and ends and seems not to give a lot about other people’s advice or opinion: Since many years Homer Simpson enthuses people of any age. But if you meet a Homer-liker communication partner in your working life, enthusiasm decreases immediately. We say: Also with a Homer Simpson effective communication is possible. Give it a try in the following week.
Don’t fall down the stairs. Don’t get hurt. Don’t hit your head. Don’t drop that!
Are you already feeling queasy? No wonder. Our brain isn’t able to handle No’s and Dont’s and is just visualizing all these unpleasant situations. We also happen to use dont’s pretty often in our working life – though there is a far more effective way. In the following week, avoid negations and say exactly what you want instead of what you do not want.
Everybody gets lost sometimes: While walking through a foreign city, for instance, or after taking the wrong side road with the car. In business it is similar: Sometimes you are on the wrong track. Our recommendation for this week: Ask for feedback.
Most certainly each of you has a certain image in mind of how to be and how to be perceived as an employee or a leader. Confident multi-tasker, popular colleague, appreciated expert, highly approved boss. Furthermore the one to stay calm in any stressful situation and the one who always knows a trick or tip to execute things a little bit better.
Each Monday, in our rubric “#MondayLead – Your weekly development” we present a little task or inspiration to you aiming at enriching your working life and making your following week as a leader easier. Any task is explained succinctly to be immediately applicable in practice.
If you internalise the key messages of the tasks and implement them in your working life you’ll be able to watch “Your weekly development”.
Have fun with your personal growth!
First week’s task is as easy as effective – Meet your employees with a smile!
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In a rapidly changing corporate environment it is absolutely essential to continually adapt the organization´s strategy. However, studies have shown that 90% of corporate initiatives do not fail as a consequence of strategic change but due to negligent or deficient execution. Execution implies implementing the “right” things for the organization´s success.
In the following photo story leadership expert Gunter Fürstberger explains the four key steps in making execution of the “right” things easier.
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