It's so easy to be critical of your teams and it takes a lot of courage, self-awareness and self-management to take responsibility for your own emotions, behaviours and actions. The ability to perform, or outperform, your competition is an indication of where energy and focus are getting directed inside the business.
Until now businesses have thought of value in different ways across the organisation. The Positive Impact Model connects individual behaviours to cultural values to brand values to shareholder value in a comprehensive and congruent manner.
Your judgement of others can be a major indicator of how you feel about yourself. Projection is a psychological term used to describe the process that happens when someone evaluates others. Usually used in a negative context, subjective criticism, dismissiveness and arrogance are all signifiers or low self-worth and low self-esteem.
It starts affecting general wellbeing and employees start fearing underperformance, petty criticism and job loss. The issue is that everyone is spending more time on politics and less time focused on delivering their work.
The health of our economic and social development is dependent on us throwing out what has become a gramophone in a new world. You need to start valuing creativity over convention and take curiosity into your business strategies and leadership skills.
In order to evaluate a school fairly, in addition to grades, consider the values that you are most passionate about that you want your child to learn. Values are not taught in class, they are demonstrated in the behaviours of the adults, especially authority figures, and other pupils.
Continuous focus ensures constant alignment and increases the touchpoints where your business stays relevant to your customer. All too often many businesses get so caught up in doing what they always have done, they lose this customer engagement and this decreases loyalty.
This drama is an all or nothing game. You cannot use fear as a motivator from the top down and complain that you are fed up of office politics. So, the buck stops with you.
As a framework, the Positive Impact Model takes self-reflection and mindfulness as a given. Without them personal development cannot take place. Using a hierarchy of criteria, the model determines the value and impact of particular behaviours, skills and strategies.
Adopting a growth position means reframing your perspective on your market. It's an immediate pattern-break which you can apply today and stop your market decline. Entire markets do not disappear overnight, while major brands and businesses do.
In every market, there are the Davids and the Goliaths. Adopting successful strategies from the small businesses will help you bring fresh ideas to keep you competitive and vigilant to the new trends in your industry.
