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"Results Derived from Within"
Written by:
Vickie Bevenour, a Professional
Certified Coach, PCC
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September
2009
Being the Best in the World
Marisa is a change agent. She is one of those
people with the unique skill of being able to, in
a sense, see the future. In �strengths-language�
Marisa is an Activator. She is able to see the
path of change necessary for her organization to
excel. Furthermore she can quickly and efficiently
apply that vision to ensure her organization�s
continued excellence.
Recently though, Marisa was tired and losing her
motivation. She felt alone; as if she was
single-handedly changing the course of her
organization while everyone else watched. Or worse
yet, they fought her direction. During this trying
time I shared with her a quote that inspired me:
�The price of progress is the pain of change, I
am willing to endure the pain�.
Marisa knew, after hearing the quote, that it was
her choice to endure the pain of change. That led
us into a discussion of why she was hired. She was
hired to do what she does best, to change the
organization.
For those of you who are currently stuck,
unmotivated, searching or simply wanting to be �the
best�, I urge you to ask yourself �why was I
hired?�
I recently read the book The Dip by Seth
Godin. I shared the premise with Marisa, to
illustrate the choice that she has: to endure the
pain of change or chose to walk away. According to
Godin most business situations can be described by
one of three types of curves:
- The Cul-de-Sac or the dead end. This
is described as no matter how much effort is
expended the result will be no measurable
progress forward. An example of this could be
working in an organization that is in a
decline and the end of the organization is
inevitable.
- The Cliff, which is a situation that
goes along very well for a long while and then
falls off a steep cliff. An example of this
could be a highly successful professional who
has been groomed to be the next VP of Sales,
but in the back of his mind he always knew
that the Founder would put his son in that
position at any minute.
- The Dip, which is a situation that
has great long-term potential but at the
current moment is extremely stressful and/or
painful. An example of this could be our story
of Marisa.
Next Godin asks the question: Do you want to be
the best in the world? He proposes that if you are
diagnosed with cancer you go straight to the �best�
doctor. When you visit a new town you ask the
concierge for the �best� restaurant, when you
hire a new employee you ask the recruiter for the
�best� candidate. Average is never requested.
This being said�.do YOU want to be the BEST in
YOUR world? When you catch yourself being �average�
you have two choices: quit or become exceptional.
Godin says that to be the best in the world you
need to simply be able to do the following two
things:
- Determine which of the three curves applies
to your situation.
- Find the guts to do something about your
situation.
If you ask yourself these questions and you
find that your situation is either a Cul-de-Sac or
a Cliff then Godin highly recommends quitting. In
both of these situations, there is no long-term
positive potential. On the other hand, if you find
yourself in the Dip and you want to be your best,
the recommendation is to push through the Dip,
push through the short term stress and pain to get
to the long-term potential and gain. Never quit
something that has great long-term potential just
because you can not deal with the stress of the
moment.
This is what Marisa and her team needed to do!
They had put the correct strategic vision in place
and needed to push through the momentary negative
pushback from the rest of the organization.
Next month we will talk more about quitting the
dead ends and the Cliffs. For now, getting through
your current Dip may mean increasing your efforts
to get to your strategic goal to be the best that
you can be. Congratulations, you have taken the
next step to deriving results from within.
*To review any of these past newsletters,
please visit the Newsletter
section of www.CoachVickie.com
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