Achieved Strategies

Each day you are given a new opportunity to place an indelible mark on your interactions with others.  That indelible mark is one that leaves people experiencing an interaction that leaves them feeling heard.

Feeling needed.  Feeling that who they are matters. Believing that what they do counts.

Each day you get to deepen the relationships you have with those who report to you. With your colleagues. With your volunteers. Your family. Your friends.

No matter what happened yesterday, today you get another opportunity to deepen the bond with those who work with you to achieve small to great things.

No matter if yesterday you messed up and weakened a relationship.  You get an opportunity today to make it right.

Each day. Each moment we create an experience with others through our silent actions and gestures and audible words.  Treat that gift as an invaluable way to express your gratitude for your relationships. To encourage greater significance in your relationships.

The experiences you create through your interactions will amplify success, mediocrity, or dismal results.

Here are a few signs I use to gauge the positive and negative experiences my leadership creates:

Negatives

• Making others wrong: surfaces in my questions, comments, thoughts
• Commenting on flaws that irritate me in the moment, and add no value to the interaction
• Letting my preference for things override what is needed

Positives

• Listening and tuning out distractions
• Sensation of shared excitement
• Good work is getting done

Mother Theresa once said “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” What a noble act of leadership. The humanity in that leadership act is inspiring and motivating.

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