Whether you are restarting with an old team or starting with a new team – the last week of “things opening up” was probably stressful for you and your team. Not only that, how many times have we been through this before? (I don’t want to count, but I know the number is lurking in the back of my head). You have a ton of things to catch up on, you have to motivate your…
This is the general response when something isn’t going well, we blurt it out in a moment of frustration as we throw our hands up in the air. There is another response though, one that doesn’t get used often enough. Here, let me show you. We don’t say offer that enough, because it takes more time and energy.
I fall down… a lot. No matter how much experience you have, how many GURU, EXPERT, ROCKSTAR titles you have, you will fall over. You won’t stick the landing every time. And who wants to do that. I eschew the day where I stick the landing perfectly without even trying. Because than I’m no longer falling over, I’m just standing there, afraid to fall over.
The truth is you might need to learn something now, and perhaps you needed to learn it yesterday or last week but you didn’t. Maybe it’s a course in your Udemy catalog or a webinar you wanted to attend, signed up for, but never attended. That’s okay because you have Now and Now is better than Never.
We want to come up with concepts that stick. Ideas that make people stop talking in a meeting and go – “whoa, that’s a great idea, and then we could do this, or this or this”. But the true testament to whether an idea is sticky is whether we see that person again, they are still thinking about it. Make your ideas sticky, make them so sticky, people can’t put them down and they keep…