Leadership is a powerful skill set that can influence others to new heights and excitement, but what about when they are disappointed or want to give up? I had an experience where a group of multi level marketers, in the same downline, were disappointed with an online assignment they were working on. I was surprised to learn that she backed up their disappointment.
Here are my thoughts to leaders of teams who want inspired leadership:
There is huge learning for you, and leadership opportunity. I cannot tell you how many times I have had a team, disappointed, and my job, as their leader is to help them see value and move through the work. To motivate them to complete it. To help them understand why and how they react to things like this.
If they give up over something honestly as silly as a broken url, than what will they do with larger disappointments growing a business? How will they react when they are disappointed in results they are getting?
There is a bigger message here for you.
As a leader, your job is to inspire them to continue, even when they are not happy, it’s not perfect, or as expected. Your job is to help them find value when they don’t see it. You job is to help them keep going even when they are making the mistakes you feel are so obvious. You know the value of the assignment you give them, even through they might not see it yet. So as a leader inspire them to see it as well. Coach them on what they are feeling and how it will relate to growing their business. Bigger yet, who was the person on the team that said: “so what, it isn’t as we would do it, but there are still things we can learn, let’s finish it.”
Honestly, until you as a leader coach disappointment with your team you will be disappointed in their results. Because you will see this with them again. There is power here for you as their leader, and how you learn to inspire leadership in them and YOU though disappointment.
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
I am moving through a new phase in completing my book, The Influence Factor: the editing phase. Yes, I have an editor, but I STILL have to review notes and changes and approve them or rewrite. It is a tedious process, that is for sure!
As I was going through a chapter today, I reread a section where I share that becoming a copycat won’t create your influential voice. This is counter intuitive to what many teach us. “Don’t reinvent the wheel.” “Find someone in your field that does it well, and do what they do.”
I am sure many of you have seen it:
1-a new manager that starts to look and sound like another leader in the organization
2-a speaker that shares the same points as one they admire
3-a teenage girl trying to be like the “popular” girl
4-a customer service rep that is so scripted they cannot hear what your need is
I could go on and on.
Reality is this. Copying works short term. Originality works long term. Copying is easy, originality takes more work. When you step into the real YOU, you step into your ability to share your influential voice. Your originality. Your view of the world. I get it. People copy because they don’t know HOW to be their best selves. Some would say the world teaches us how to copy. Interesting.
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
Focus everyday is one thing but I am thinking about a bigger, much more important type of focus. Do you know these people? Could you be one? I have a friend or two that I adore, but they are just like the Jamaicans in “In Living Color”. Remember in the 1990’s a TV show called In Living Color and they did these skits called “Hey Mon” (The Jamaicans, do you remember? The video of one is linked). That is the kind of focus I am talking about!
This is a great book about focus, can’t go wrong with Mark Victor Hansen right? I have decided to add it to my list again for getting my dang book done!
What are you going to do to re-focus effort into working yourself out of the job?
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
Today’s’ Warrior-Preneur question is inspired by my sistah Donna L. Johnson. Thanks Donna for the inspiration! Can you do a good job and be a consistently poor communicator as a entrepreneur?
Lee Lonitz Good question. I think ‘poor communicator’ is relative because many businesses and clients all communicate at different levels and rates. For me, as a fast-moving business my clients definitely want a rapid and direct line to communicate with me. For others, it may not take as much communication (e.g. an occasional update) to create an effective result and do a ‘good job.’ I’d be curious to see what the other Warrior-Preneurs think.
Haley Higginbotham Montgomery Sometimes your effectiveness as a communicator factors into whether or not people BELIEVE you can do a good job. If you don’t present yourself well with communication tools using the basics like correct spelling, good grammar, well-formed thoughts, etc, then it can hinder confidence in your other abilities.
Irene Turner Depends on your job…if you are a paper pusher or computer software geek and communication is not key for your work, yes…but most positions as an entrepreneur you must either promote your business, deal with a client or some act that at some point requires communication…so overall, I’d say no!
Rocky Maddex As an entrepreneur you can be a bad communicator. If you want to be successful though, communication skills are a Key to Success! It’s a skill like any other though and can be learned and improved upon. This does not mean you have to master all forms of communication though, and if you’ve read or listened to Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuck you’ll know what I”m talking about.
Chris Wagner I struggle with this all the time. I get very tongue tied and flustered. I definitely think that good communication skills will propel you to higher levels. It’s all about confidence.
Andrea Nelson Mueller I think you can succeed as a bad communicator if you KNOW that is a weakness for you. You can work your strengths and do a little more to make up for your lack of skills in verbal communication or writing. You can delegate and hire out to a certain degree, too, but you have to know which … See More areas should be delegated. And, overall, if your heart is good that will come through even if you’re not a smooth talker though as Haley said, building belief in you/your business depends largely on how you communicate.
Now you KNOW I have an opinion! Check out the video:
So what do you think? Can you do a good job and be a poor communicator?
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
Covering the traits or characteristics of the NEXT level of success a Warrior-Preneur possesses the power of fearlessness! (you can see the previous post on Integrity and find the other traits).
Are there places where you need to feel the fear and do it anyway? Where have you been fearless recently that paid off for you?
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
