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How Can I Help Your Organization With Performance Managment?
1. As a value add resource
2. Outsource your performance management
Do You Instill Confidence Cues?
“Achieve your clear performance goal using confidence cues. ” – Raj Gavurla
Performance Breakthrough(s):
One skill to instill to create performance breakthrough(s) is confidence cues. An example is driving to Greenville, SC from Washington, D.C.. Do you have a clear performance goal? Yes, drive to Greenville, SC. Your confidence cues are put a full tank of gas in the car and refuel when needed, drive to Richmond, Durham, Greensboro, and Charlotte. Each confidence cue gets you closer to your clear performance goal of driving to Greenville, SC.
Some people have a performance goal but it is not a clear performance goal. They say in my coaching they want or need a client. This is not a clear performance goal. Why do you want a targeted client and how will you approach them? Answering this question creates a clear performance goal.
Now that you have a clear performance goal, what are your confidence cues. You know to prepare and do so, you connect in a genuine way, and you have wisdom to approach them the right way. All of these are confidence cues. Another confidence cue to instill is to ask better question(s) to create the right dialogue to help them get what they want, need, or are interested in.
Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership:
Are you creating performance breakthroughs? Are your employees involved with innovation and entrepreneurial leadership? The new trend in business is towards an innovation and entrepreneurial leadership culture instead of a hierarchical or authoritative culture. Do you have a process to help your business become more innovative and exhibit entrepreneurial leadership? Doing so is a win for all.
“The Zone” Effect:
By many “the zone” effect is described as everything is in slow motion, time stands still (isn’t a deterring factor), and your performance feels effortless.
A sports example is when playing basketball before I shoot I’m already thinking ahead (therefore, I know I will shoot although I’m dribbling), then I see the rim one foot higher (for arch and backspin), and feel. The last two are co-activation. Some players see shooting the ball over the loop of the goal and some watch the path of the ball and some don’t. What works for you?
Do you need to instill confidence cues to make you a better shooter. There is always a spot on the floor for a shooter.
Your Most Recent “The Zone” Effect:
Here’s an exercise for you? Describe a time when you were in “The Zone”. Also, have your teammates describe a time when they were in “The Zone”. What did you learn from this exercise?
As you progress, you learn skill(s) to achieve your clear performance goals. The skill progresses in stages:
Learn the skill ->Develop the skill ->Build the skill ->Grow the skill ->”The Zone” Effect (use skill at the right time)
That’s “The Zone” Effect. Are you experiencing your “The Zone” Effect?
“An amateur practices until they can play it correctly, a professional practices
until they can’t play it incorrectly.” – Unknown
I’ve been using my innovation and entrepreneurial leadership tools in my speaking programs, private performance and life consulting, and coaching. This tool among other concepts and tools appear in my Entrepreneurial Thinking Tools manual, Your Raise The Bar: Mental Performance Tools workbooks for business/education, sports, and Winning At Entrepreneurship. There are more resources to help you at http://www.MotivateResults.com.
For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.
Forward Economic Mobility In Your Organization and Team(s)
“Innovation and entrepreneurial leadership takes pressure off of management and
creates new leaders, services, or products.” – Raj Gavurla
Performance Breakthrough(s):
What performance breakthrough are you working towards? Ask yourself why you need it and how to get it. Are you making it harder than it should be?
Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership:
In an entrepreneurial job a seasoned entrepreneurial employee knows it takes a combination of skills, time, and a performance mindset to create breakthroughs in less time and that makes it worth doing.
In a non-entrepreneurial job you know what to do and it is a production mindset.
A job needs both to be sustainable. That’s the innovation and entrepreneurial leadership needed to evolve democracy and capitalism so we forward economic mobility to take pressure off of management and create new leaders, services, and products.
My book, Winning At Entrepreneurship, has nine common-sense strategies for business owners within an organization (intrapreneurship) or for those who are nascent, emerging, or extremely successful entrepreneurs.
Here are the nine common-sense strategies:
1. Find Your Entrepreneurial Spirit
2. Use Your Common Sense
3. Know That Positive Change Is Good
4. Use Teamwork As Your Foundation
5. Implement the Client Modular Approach
6. Build Trustworthy Relationships
7. Withdraw from Your Stimulation Bank
8. Compete for Results
9. Keep Growing To Another New Best Level
“The Zone” Effect:
By many “the zone” effect is described as everything is in slow motion, time stands still (isn’t a deterring factor), and your performance feels effortless.
My tennis coach verbally recognized me by saying, “Raj you can hit every shot.” I thought wow! I’ve played tennis since high school and now decades later I’ve been rewarded. What were the key factors?
1. I learned technique and mental performance skills at the same time to accelerate my progress.
2. I made it fun to play better tennis without rushing it.
3. Consistently (mental performance skills daily, actual matches/practice once or twice a week)
4. I have an exercise physiology functional trainer that strengthens me and keeps me from being injured
My most recent “The Zone” Effect:
For the first time, I felt like I was hitting new balls when we started a new game. However, they weren’t new balls. That’s “The Zone” Effect. Are you experiencing your “The Zone” Effect?
“How many success stories do you need to hear before you make your own?” – Unknown
For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.
Did You Win Or Lose?
“Make it team win fun.” – Raj Gavurla
Did you win or lose? How about thinking about it this way?:
A team or individual either has “team win fun”, “amazing fun”, “loss” (if it wasn’t fun for you), or it’s a “tie”. No one is a loser. Forward economic mobility not poverty, hate, and violence.
This is “business as a calling (bring life) to earn a better package (includes better money).”
“Grow through what you go through.” – Anonymous
For programs and services, contact Raj at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.
Phrases That Pay To Create Performance Breakthroughs
“Use your skills at the right time.” – Raj Gavurla
When I talk with people and coordinate with people, there are times when performance breakthroughs aren’t occurring. Some phrases that might work for you are:
1. Situation: They won’t do that.
Ask: “Who is they?”
2. Situation: If we isn’t clear.
Ask: “Who is we?”
3. Situation: If us isn’t clear.
Ask: “Who is us?”
4. Situation: If someone randomly says a word.
Ask: “What does that mean?”
5. Situation: If you isn’t clear.
Ask: “Who is you?”
6. Situation: If them isn’t clear.
Ask: “Who is them?”
7. Situation: If I need that or send me the file isn’t clear it’s now.
Ask: When do you want it?
Remember the organization, team, and you are one. If each isn’t exhibiting the right transparency for the betterment of people (clients, owners, shareholders, executives, leadership, management, professionals, and the market), then you have ostensible power and control. With the right transparency, you create better performance breakthroughs.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.
Learn How To Learn From Others: Interaction and Communication Skills
“Learn how to learn from others.” – Raj Gavurla
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.”
– Golda Meir
For programs and services, contact Raj at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com, LiiiVEN.
Do You Feed Your Motivation and Inspiration?
“Qualitative drives the quantitative.” – Raj Gavurla
“You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.” Chris Guillebeau
For programs and services, contact Raj at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com, LiiiVEN.
My Tennis Coach Manuel Was At The Tennis Court
“Take care of your mind. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Raj Gavurla
My teammates said, “there’s Manuel. He’s coming.” My tennis coach, Manuel, walked by the fence and I asked him “Coach, did you bring your workbook?” He left it at home. Then we played and coach was encouraging.
He asked what have you been doing to play so well? I said, completing my Your Raise The Bar Primer: Mental Performance Tools workbook. He said yes, but how the rapid increase in skill. I said, in addition to the workbook I’ve been using my private advanced mental performance breakthroughs skills coaching sessions. People pay for that.
Then, he evaluated me instead of giving me feedback. He said, I like this (the proportionally increasing line) using his finger, then he leveled it, and then it went downward. He said the increasing and level is better. You lost focus on the downward part. Then, he said, “be careful”.
While using my workbook to evaluate my performance and to write what I am working on for more “win fun tennis”, I reflected on how I could “be careful”. On the downward part, I wasn’t using my new focus technique before serving the ball and my mind’s eye. I’m looking forward to my deliberate practice session to practically apply what I learned and to my next match.
If sports doesn’t produce income for you, how about using my workbook, private mental performance breakthroughs learning sessions (workshops), and highly customized individualized coaching for business and education in your workplace. Yes, coaching use to be paid only for executives, however, you’ll create mental performance breakthroughs to listen to learn good to win fun, better earning, and experience greater when you use it throughout your workplace.
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin
For programs and services, contact Raj at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com, LiiiVEN.