“Many believe that ideas move mountains but bulldozers Move Mountains, ideas show the bulldozers where to work” Drucker (2005), having the right character and attitude gives the bulldozer direction and speed. When crafting your ideas and planning your execution, you have to understand and manage yourself else how will you manage others working with you.
To build and manage an
excellent character, ask yourself these questions:
1.
What are my strengths?
What abilities do you need to enhance in other to get results, what
unproductive habits are preventing you from creating the outcomes you desire.
Don’t waste time cultivating skills in areas you have little competence instead
concentrate on and build on your strengths. “It takes a lot of energy to
improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first rate
performance to excellence.”Drucker(2005) improve on what you do best and stand
out.
2.
How do I function? What works for you, do you process
information effectively by reading, listening or discussing. Do you accomplish
the most working with people or alone, do you perform best making decisions or
advising others on key matters? Do you perform better under pressure or you
function optimally in highly predictable environment? (An office where every
process has already been laid out) or somewhere you can be spontaneous.
3.
What are your values?
What are your ethics , what do you see as the most important
responsibility for living a worthy
ethical life, does your organization, employees or partners resonate with your
ethical values? If not your career is most likely to be perceived as poor
performance and frustration, because you both don’t believe in the same thing.
Don’t always go for the money, values will make you comfortable and your work
place convenient for you.
4.
Where do I fit?
What is your preferred work style? Notice not everyone likes to make decisions
therefore not everyone is a C.E.O; some prefer to function as advisers and
subordinates. When pondering on this, consider your strength, work style and
values these will guide you in choosing the convenient work environment, it
will transform you from a common employee to a star performer and also an
efficient C.E.O
5.
What can I Contribute? The world
is dynamic, earlier on people were not given the chance to contribute to growth
of their organizations, rigid rules are laid down and the executives make all
the necessary changes but the tables have turned, you have to be efficient and
useful to your organization else you are laid off. To decide how to make
contributions, First ask what the situation requires and based on your strength,
work and style values how will you make effective contribution to your
organization, don’t go making promises you can’t fulfill. After making a plan as a C.E.O or employee don’t just stop after
drafting the plan, you must find people
to execute the plan and communicate what it entails to them.
6.
Do I Have a Feedback System? A feedback system is important in analyzing
your character and day to day interaction with people. Is your relationship with your workers and co
workers healthy? How do you communicate with them to achieve effective results?
Manners is the lubricating oil of an organization, simple gestures like “ Please,
Sorry, Thank you, Hello, How are you doing” can enable two people work together
whether they like each other or not. Analyse yourself each day to measure your communication
with people around you and cut down on the bad habits.
your idea needs the right food to grow, feed your intelligence and character and watch it blossom.
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