What is one big idea to propel team and company performance? You hire the best and invest in training. Your employees have resources at their fingertips to perform. Yet, it seems the pareto principle still applies.
What if the percentages were reversed? Eighty percent of the people do most of the work versus twenty percent? Your company’s performance would make a giant leap. How? The one big idea is learn how to learn.
I’ve been attending regular meetings of one of the largest employers in the state. The team of thirty receive instruction, watch a video, and dress rehearsal. Then they perform. As they do it’s obvious some didn’t hear or didn’t remember specific instructions. In most organizations this would cause problems, however, the team and especially its fearless leader respond instantly without pointing blame. For example, you don’t hear phrases like “she told us to do this”, “weren’t you listening”, “either you can do the job or you can’t”, “do it yourself”. It really is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen.
This team also coaches each other. They have one hundred percent doing most of the work. Not eighty or twenty percent.
Does your team perform so well? If not, implement to see just how much better your company’s performance will be. What can be done to raise performance? When the time is right, they actually teach one another thinking tools used to execute what is done so well. You’ll find the end result is achieved in multiple ways.
By learning how they learned to execute the teammates can understand if there is a better and faster way to learn and execute. Usually there is. Now your team has gone from one level of performance to a higher level. Do you have a team that performs so efficiently?
They obviously know how to recruit the best people. Because none of the team members were trained to act this way. Amazing!
Taking a closer look at the team five ingredients stand out:
1. The supervisor, leader, and team members are diverse and have subtle people skills.
2. There is education/training (instruction, video, peer coaching), dress rehearsal, and event. In other words, education/training (your components), rehearsal, and project.
3. The environment is world class.
4. During and after projects anyone can give feedback to help increase performance. Ninety percent of the time the leader decides whether or not to implement in front of the team. The other ten percent the leader needs to think it through.
5. They realize their team members are living great dreams (their work/job at the company) and they have great dreams outside of work/job they do for the company they actively support.
Implement this one big idea to propel team and company performance.
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“Use compelling motivational thoughts to propel you throughout the day.” – Raj Gavurla
Each of us have successes, hopes, and dreams and each of us has adversity whether small or big. Being on the platform in front of very successful people, successful people, and those who have adversity, I’m amazed at the human spirit. People have dreams, resiliency, and are filled with hope and success.
Yet, a person can also cave in. Our own thoughts and the motivational words of others invigorate us to make progress whether small or big. Thoughts and words really have a huge impact! You may be on the verge of success or failure.
Instead of looking to ward off your triggers to avoid decline (not excelling at work, gaining weight, exercise is a drag) think of “trigger success”. Yes, triggers can be very motivational. Of course, we want to excel at work, be at our optimal BMI, and have a fit mind and body.
So instead of focusing on negative triggers to avoid think of a sub dream to your dream. Your dream isn’t yet to be achieved and thinking about it too much will take you away from taking action (doing the little things). By having a sub dream it will be easier to take action because you aren’t overwhelmed. Make a greater effort towards your compelling vision of your sub dream than your dream. Why? Because by achieving your sub dream your dream will come racing towards you and becomes greater.
After having:
1. A compelling vision of a sub dream to your dream
2. Mentally prepare and have the thought “trigger success”
3. Take action by doing the little things. If/when you have a negative thought, have the thought “trigger success”. You’ll instantly engage in the thoughts needed to execute the little things. For example, call a prospect or other infinite motivational words you’ve read or heard from others relevant to doing the little things. That’s why you attend events, read, and talk with people. You have a mind full of them. Are you using them?
Here’ a message from a peer:
“Never lose sight…just may happen…thanks, for your visions, and your wishes!!”
4. Review your progress
5. Find ways to perform better. Usually this involves learning how to learn. It will keep you from burning out. If it’s too hard, then the thoughts aren’t in place. If you are coasting, then raise the bar to make progress.
It’s number three that makes all the difference. Use the word “trigger” in a positive way not the way it is usually portrayed (example, what’s the trigger that causes that problem).
Trigger success.
Are you planning a meeting for this year or a kickoff meeting for early next year? Book Raj to speak to energize and inspire your team, organizaton or corporation to consistently perform at the top of our game! Call him at 864.569.2315 or contact him at raj@rajgavurla.com with your date, time and location to book your date today!