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Answer Upon - Disciplined Leadership
Getting up this morning ...I was struck by the importance of motivation and true drive to accomplish ones goals in life.All the successful people in the world can't just decide to kill their alarm clocks every morning.If they did, well then, we would all be in the alarm clock business my friends.But honestly, how do they do it then?There must indeed be a commonality in achieving great things; A similar path we all must walk if we intend to get to the places we intend to go.I thought about people in business, athletes, doctors, musicians, any and everyone who attains the level of rock star success I'd like to have for my business one day.How do they do it day after day, ever
As you attain each milestone in your strategy, focus on the outcome and benefits of your progress. When you have achieved your goal, focus your reflection on the results of your accomplishments.
Reward Yourself
Enjoy some small rewards for accomplishing strategic tasks in accordance with your milestones. If you miss your measurement or milestone, withhold your reward in anticipation of the next milestone or attainment of your goal.
When you do achieve your goal, keep your promise to yourself and savor the reward. Give yourself a small gift of recognition that you can keep as a constant reminder of your accomplishment. Sometimes you will need this as motivation when you define your next personal goals, or as inspiration to maintain daily diligence.
Lead by Example
Practice this discipline in your own activities. As you develop a structure and routine for attaining personal goals with daily diligence, you will be able to share these benefits with your team.
I was thinking this morning about rockets, the “space race” and Customer Service Management. (I dated myself with the “space race”, didn’t I. But it really happened.) I know that the two subjects seem completely unrelated. Not even in the same Encyclopedia volume.And I submit for your consideration that driving a rocket in the space race and good Customer Service Management are exactly the same. Let me explain why.Your business is your rocket ship. In this ship is everything you need to survive when venturing into the hostile environment that is space. (And business) In it you will find life support systems, food and water, power, data bases, computer systems and communications.Pretty cool, huh. You were dri
It starts with you.
Define the Goals
Define your personal measurable objectives. Your goals must be tangible, measurable and substantive. It is not enough to define a goal as completing a task. You need to define a target date and a method of measuring the completion.
For example, a poor goal would be a personal challenge to lose weight. However, a good goal would be to define the amount of weight to lose and a reasonable target date to achieve the desired weight.
The same concept may apply for personal business goals. You may have financial targets like a budget. You may have a schedule to complete a project, research or analysis. You may need to achieve a specific quota or ranking. Whether your goals relate to your work or your personal life, you need to define them.
Write down your goals and place the list somewhere that you will see it every day.
Develop a Strategy
Your strategy consists of specific steps and milestones. The milestones are periodic measurements to determine that you are on the path to achieve your goal.
For example, if your goal is to achieve a revenue quota, map out specific opportunities that may contribute to the attainment of that goal and then make a plan for each one. If the goal is to complete a project, define the steps necessary to complete the project with associated measurements and milestones.
Check in on your strategy and compare your progress at predefined intervals. Allow some flexibility in between those scheduled intervals, but challenge yourself to remain on schedule as each milestone date arrives.
List the Benefits
Identify the benefits of achieving your goals.
For example, if the personal goal is to lose weight, the benefits may include a new wardrobe, more energy or even better health benefits. If your goal is to achieve a desired budget, identify the residual positive impact.
The benefits of achieving your goal should not by limited to attaining the goal alone. On the contrary, there are typically many benefits realized during the course of completing each step of your strategy. The benefits may include physical, financial, psychological or many other types of motivational rewards.
Organize
Organize your plan, your materials, your thoughts and your environment. This not only applies to the items that contribute to achieving your goals, but it also applies to the numerous items that may distract you from your goals.
For example, clear the clutter from your desk and clear the distractions from your sight. If there are documents that have been sitting for several weeks or months, chances are that the documents are not high enough priority to get done, but not low enough priority that you can stop thinking about them. Create a place to store the low priority items until you are ready to resolve them. In the meantime, remove the low priority distractions so you can focus on the high priority goals.
Exercise Daily Discipline
Challenge yourself to exercise daily discipline. You have purpose. The goals that you have defined are important. The way to achieve your goals is by structured and consistent effort and attention to detail.
Challenge your excuses. You may not feel interested in doing the necessary task or strategic objective that it takes every single day. When this happens, reflect on your passion for your established goal and do what it takes to keep the momentum.
Focus on Results
Keep your focus on the final goal as you work through your strategy and maintain your daily diligence. As you head toward your goal, it should be like a beacon or lighthouse that leads your effort. Align your activity with the desired ultimate results.
As you attain each milestone in your strategy, focus on the outcome and benefits of your progress. When you have achieved your goal, focus your reflection on the results of your accomplishments.
Reward Yourself
Enjoy some small rewards for accomplishing strategic tasks in accordance with your milestones. If you miss your measurement or milestone, withhold your reward in anticipation of the next milestone or attainment of your goal.
When you do achieve your goal, keep your promise to yourself and savor the reward. Give yourself a small gift of recognition that you can keep as a constant reminder of your accomplishment. Sometimes you will need this as motivation when you define your next personal goals, or as inspiration to maintain daily diligence.
Lead by Example
Practice this discipline in your own activities. As you develop a structure and routine for attaining personal goals with daily diligence, you will be able to share these benefits with your team. Y
In today’s competitive climate, proper business management and organization plans are crucial for companies that strive to maintain leading positions on the market. Apart from a substantial capital, company owners have to invest lots of time and effort in order to maximize the efficiency, profitability and exposure of their business. However, companies can nowadays achieve these goals with less effort and in a cheaper way by using properly designed spreadsheets. The right spreadsheet solutions allow companies of all shapes and sizes to achieve and maintain a prominent position on the market, optimizing and accelerating a wide range of specific business processes and tasks.Serving for a multitude of purposes and being renown
Write down your goals and place the list somewhere that you will see it every day.
Develop a Strategy
Your strategy consists of specific steps and milestones. The milestones are periodic measurements to determine that you are on the path to achieve your goal.
For example, if your goal is to achieve a revenue quota, map out specific opportunities that may contribute to the attainment of that goal and then make a plan for each one. If the goal is to complete a project, define the steps necessary to complete the project with associated measurements and milestones.
Check in on your strategy and compare your progress at predefined intervals. Allow some flexibility in between those scheduled intervals, but challenge yourself to remain on schedule as each milestone date arrives.
List the Benefits
Identify the benefits of achieving your goals.
For example, if the personal goal is to lose weight, the benefits may include a new wardrobe, more energy or even better health benefits. If your goal is to achieve a desired budget, identify the residual positive impact.
The benefits of achieving your goal should not by limited to attaining the goal alone. On the contrary, there are typically many benefits realized during the course of completing each step of your strategy. The benefits may include physical, financial, psychological or many other types of motivational rewards.
Organize
Organize your plan, your materials, your thoughts and your environment. This not only applies to the items that contribute to achieving your goals, but it also applies to the numerous items that may distract you from your goals.
For example, clear the clutter from your desk and clear the distractions from your sight. If there are documents that have been sitting for several weeks or months, chances are that the documents are not high enough priority to get done, but not low enough priority that you can stop thinking about them. Create a place to store the low priority items until you are ready to resolve them. In the meantime, remove the low priority distractions so you can focus on the high priority goals.
Exercise Daily Discipline
Challenge yourself to exercise daily discipline. You have purpose. The goals that you have defined are important. The way to achieve your goals is by structured and consistent effort and attention to detail.
Challenge your excuses. You may not feel interested in doing the necessary task or strategic objective that it takes every single day. When this happens, reflect on your passion for your established goal and do what it takes to keep the momentum.
Focus on Results
Keep your focus on the final goal as you work through your strategy and maintain your daily diligence. As you head toward your goal, it should be like a beacon or lighthouse that leads your effort. Align your activity with the desired ultimate results.
As you attain each milestone in your strategy, focus on the outcome and benefits of your progress. When you have achieved your goal, focus your reflection on the results of your accomplishments.
Reward Yourself
Enjoy some small rewards for accomplishing strategic tasks in accordance with your milestones. If you miss your measurement or milestone, withhold your reward in anticipation of the next milestone or attainment of your goal.
When you do achieve your goal, keep your promise to yourself and savor the reward. Give yourself a small gift of recognition that you can keep as a constant reminder of your accomplishment. Sometimes you will need this as motivation when you define your next personal goals, or as inspiration to maintain daily diligence.
Lead by Example
Practice this discipline in your own activities. As you develop a structure and routine for attaining personal goals with daily diligence, you will be able to share these benefits with your team.
Whether you are just starting out in a business or a seasoned "professional" you should have a contract when doing business - if not for your own safety, but for the safety of your clients. Not a day goes by that I don't hear horror stories about misunderstandings on projects that could have easily been prevented with a simple contract. Simply, they state the work you are providing and the cost involved. They should also indicate what is not included, such as incidental material costs and excessive copy changes, etc. Always put into writing your intent and email it to the client. His or her email response, along with the "deposit" is a
The benefits of achieving your goal should not by limited to attaining the goal alone. On the contrary, there are typically many benefits realized during the course of completing each step of your strategy. The benefits may include physical, financial, psychological or many other types of motivational rewards.
Organize
Organize your plan, your materials, your thoughts and your environment. This not only applies to the items that contribute to achieving your goals, but it also applies to the numerous items that may distract you from your goals.
For example, clear the clutter from your desk and clear the distractions from your sight. If there are documents that have been sitting for several weeks or months, chances are that the documents are not high enough priority to get done, but not low enough priority that you can stop thinking about them. Create a place to store the low priority items until you are ready to resolve them. In the meantime, remove the low priority distractions so you can focus on the high priority goals.
Exercise Daily Discipline
Challenge yourself to exercise daily discipline. You have purpose. The goals that you have defined are important. The way to achieve your goals is by structured and consistent effort and attention to detail.
Challenge your excuses. You may not feel interested in doing the necessary task or strategic objective that it takes every single day. When this happens, reflect on your passion for your established goal and do what it takes to keep the momentum.
Focus on Results
Keep your focus on the final goal as you work through your strategy and maintain your daily diligence. As you head toward your goal, it should be like a beacon or lighthouse that leads your effort. Align your activity with the desired ultimate results.
As you attain each milestone in your strategy, focus on the outcome and benefits of your progress. When you have achieved your goal, focus your reflection on the results of your accomplishments.
Reward Yourself
Enjoy some small rewards for accomplishing strategic tasks in accordance with your milestones. If you miss your measurement or milestone, withhold your reward in anticipation of the next milestone or attainment of your goal.
When you do achieve your goal, keep your promise to yourself and savor the reward. Give yourself a small gift of recognition that you can keep as a constant reminder of your accomplishment. Sometimes you will need this as motivation when you define your next personal goals, or as inspiration to maintain daily diligence.
Lead by Example
Practice this discipline in your own activities. As you develop a structure and routine for attaining personal goals with daily diligence, you will be able to share these benefits with your team.
John Wooden (a.k.a. The Wizard of Westwood) is arguably the most successful coach in the history of college basketball. I recently gained new insight into his brilliance from a friend who was privileged to witness The Wizard at work at a routine practice session during his glory years at UCLA.Beginning with The End in MindWooden's final practice assignment for his players was a simple exercise in free throw shooting. Players were permitted to end their practice session after making ten successive free throws. On that particular day, UCLA's All-America point guard, Henry Bibby was the first player to stroll off the court to the comfort of the locker room and a warm shower. He completed the assignment with perfe
Exercise Daily Discipline
Challenge yourself to exercise daily discipline. You have purpose. The goals that you have defined are important. The way to achieve your goals is by structured and consistent effort and attention to detail.
Challenge your excuses. You may not feel interested in doing the necessary task or strategic objective that it takes every single day. When this happens, reflect on your passion for your established goal and do what it takes to keep the momentum.
Focus on Results
Keep your focus on the final goal as you work through your strategy and maintain your daily diligence. As you head toward your goal, it should be like a beacon or lighthouse that leads your effort. Align your activity with the desired ultimate results.
As you attain each milestone in your strategy, focus on the outcome and benefits of your progress. When you have achieved your goal, focus your reflection on the results of your accomplishments.
Reward Yourself
Enjoy some small rewards for accomplishing strategic tasks in accordance with your milestones. If you miss your measurement or milestone, withhold your reward in anticipation of the next milestone or attainment of your goal.
When you do achieve your goal, keep your promise to yourself and savor the reward. Give yourself a small gift of recognition that you can keep as a constant reminder of your accomplishment. Sometimes you will need this as motivation when you define your next personal goals, or as inspiration to maintain daily diligence.
Lead by Example
Practice this discipline in your own activities. As you develop a structure and routine for attaining personal goals with daily diligence, you will be able to share these benefits with your team.
Organizations are beginning to recognize the truth – that they either they innovate or die. Innovation is about moving into new territory. It is about improving or enhancing the existing products, process or services, that eventually results in new products, process or services. Successful business firms know the art of transforming the collective knowledge and talents of its employees, into new products, process or services that lead to better economic gain. Unlike invention, innovation always leads to economic benefit. Innovations appears to be the only option if you wish to grow your business. Innovation enable you to ahead of your competitors.Innovation requires new ideas. It is the creative approach that bring
As you attain each milestone in your strategy, focus on the outcome and benefits of your progress. When you have achieved your goal, focus your reflection on the results of your accomplishments.
Reward Yourself
Enjoy some small rewards for accomplishing strategic tasks in accordance with your milestones. If you miss your measurement or milestone, withhold your reward in anticipation of the next milestone or attainment of your goal.
When you do achieve your goal, keep your promise to yourself and savor the reward. Give yourself a small gift of recognition that you can keep as a constant reminder of your accomplishment. Sometimes you will need this as motivation when you define your next personal goals, or as inspiration to maintain daily diligence.
Lead by Example
Practice this discipline in your own activities. As you develop a structure and routine for attaining personal goals with daily diligence, you will be able to share these benefits with your team. You will be able to teach and encourage them to achieve results as you have done. You will be able to help them align personal strategies with focused goals. Eventually you will be able to share the mutual rewards of achieving personal and professional goals.
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Words of Wisdom
"The first and best victory is to conquer self." - Plato
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." - Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau
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