They say success is moving from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. I guess I get that, but wouldn’t success be far better if you were able to move from success to success with a growing level of enthusiasm?
We’ve talked in the past about letting your team take the time to process changeand how it’s an essential process for health and growth. But what about when it’s time for forward action? After all, the transition of change can’t last forever. Soon it’s time for what you’ve all been waiting for: beginning that new opportunity.
In business, some of these answers may be provided for you based on the circumstances. There’s rules, there’s procedures, blah, blah, blah. But for most people, the details in those procedures will be lacking. And, as they say, the devil is in the details. So take control and build in the enthusiasm! Design the beginning of the new ‘normal’ together. Get involvement, ask more than you tell, get clear on what is possible, and know as a leader how new fears will be addressed. Remember the old cliche’ WIIFM: What’s In It For Me. How will your team’s needs be accommodated in this new situation, and do they know and understand that? What this time is calling for is the opportunity to move not from failure to failure, but from success to success, seeing change and transition as a powerful, empowering, engaging and desirable process.
Now wouldn’t THAT be success?!
