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Suggest You - Increase Productivity and Business Success - Take Responsibility
To maintain the quality and control of a franchise system each franchise Outlet must receive the same training. A franchisor’s job is to make sure that the training is the same, keeps the franchisees efficient and maintains the consistency of the overall franchise system.It is for this reason that I added a clause in our companies franchise agreements, which addressed general training and ongoing training requirements. Below is a copy of one of the renditions about clause;4.3.2 General TrainingFranchisor may pr
Focus on developing your “skill muscles”.
One way to develop these “skill muscles” is to pattern your results oriented behaviors after the model for Effective Communication.
Effective communicators know their outcome and state it in the positive. In other words they focus on what they want versus what they don’t want.
Effective communicators have the awareness to know whether they are moving away from or towards that desired outcome.
Effective communicators have a fl
You have heard the saying that "actions speak louder than words". It is so true, especially when it comes to business relationships. We talked about places to keep in contact with the Power of Ten in the last chapter, as a basis for doing business. This chapter is more concentrated on doing the work through commitment and follow-up. You cannot expect to keep a customer unless you provide them with excellent customer service. You may argue that price is also an issue but I believe that a person will not mind paying a higher price (pro
What comes to mind when I say that?
When you hear that you're totally responsible for the results you produce in your business and in your life---you might jump to a conclusion. You may think that I'm suggesting that you should take the blame for your results.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
By taking responsibility for your results and your outcomes--- you grant yourself great power.
If you acknowledge that you're truly responsible for the way your projects end ---good or bad--- you give yourself great power. You can use this newly discovered power to make your projects end up another, possibly more desirable way.
Before I go on, let's agree on a few things.
The first agreement: The results you produce are determined by your choices and your actions.
Second agreement: A lot of people look upon failure as a bad thing.
What if there was an optional way, a more productive way to view a failure?
I believe that failure isn't really as much about failing as we might believe.
I'd like you to think of failure as a success. You don’t fail.
You are successful at reaching an outcome 100% of the time.
Here is a question that will help shift the traditional mindset. Is the result you produced the result you had intended to produce or was the result unplanned?
I want you to start looking at failure in a new light. I want you to start thinking of failure as a process that generates unplanned results.
Using that definition you can begin to view your results as a stepping stone to greater success.
This shift in thinking will provide you with the chance to change the choices and/or the actions that are producing your unplanned results without making yourself feel like you've been doing something wrong.
Here is a story I use to illustrate the point.
The genius inventor, Thomas Edison had performed more than thousand, unsuccessful experiments while on his mission to create the electric light bulb.
Edison was asked, “How were you able to continue with your experiments after encountering so many failures?”
Edison replied, “I did not look at the unsuccessful attempts as failures, but rather as a thousand ways not to make a light bulb.“
He took responsibility for each outcome, made adjustments and continued on to success.
For most people, the ability to take responsibility for unplanned outcomes and adjust accordingly calls for a new “skill set”. You have to develop and exercise the “skill muscle” called responsibility.
Focus on developing your “skill muscles”.
One way to develop these “skill muscles” is to pattern your results oriented behaviors after the model for Effective Communication.
Effective communicators know their outcome and state it in the positive. In other words they focus on what they want versus what they don’t want.
Effective communicators have the awareness to know whether they are moving away from or towards that desired outcome.
Effective communicators have a fle
Almost every organization is faced with the necessity of laying off employees for lack of work. Some layoffs are temporary and are expected by employees because of the nature of the job. These layoff can be planned for and may not be serious. In contrast, a change in operations or decline in business necessitates permanent layoffs. All of these involve employee separation from the organization. Separation may also arise from employee resignations and retirement.Layoff can be defined as an indefinite separation from the payroll
Before I go on, let's agree on a few things.
The first agreement: The results you produce are determined by your choices and your actions.
Second agreement: A lot of people look upon failure as a bad thing.
What if there was an optional way, a more productive way to view a failure?
I believe that failure isn't really as much about failing as we might believe.
I'd like you to think of failure as a success. You don’t fail.
You are successful at reaching an outcome 100% of the time.
Here is a question that will help shift the traditional mindset. Is the result you produced the result you had intended to produce or was the result unplanned?
I want you to start looking at failure in a new light. I want you to start thinking of failure as a process that generates unplanned results.
Using that definition you can begin to view your results as a stepping stone to greater success.
This shift in thinking will provide you with the chance to change the choices and/or the actions that are producing your unplanned results without making yourself feel like you've been doing something wrong.
Here is a story I use to illustrate the point.
The genius inventor, Thomas Edison had performed more than thousand, unsuccessful experiments while on his mission to create the electric light bulb.
Edison was asked, “How were you able to continue with your experiments after encountering so many failures?”
Edison replied, “I did not look at the unsuccessful attempts as failures, but rather as a thousand ways not to make a light bulb.“
He took responsibility for each outcome, made adjustments and continued on to success.
For most people, the ability to take responsibility for unplanned outcomes and adjust accordingly calls for a new “skill set”. You have to develop and exercise the “skill muscle” called responsibility.
Focus on developing your “skill muscles”.
One way to develop these “skill muscles” is to pattern your results oriented behaviors after the model for Effective Communication.
Effective communicators know their outcome and state it in the positive. In other words they focus on what they want versus what they don’t want.
Effective communicators have the awareness to know whether they are moving away from or towards that desired outcome.
Effective communicators have a fl
When you catch the common cold you are considered to be contagious. This means that those individuals that you come into close contact may catch your cold. What are the probabilities that you will give your cold to someone else? Since I don’t have specific percentages for you, I would conclude that the closer the proximity that you have with someone then the stronger the probability that you will give your cold to this person. This makes sense, huh? So what does cold calling have to do with the common cold? And how is cold calling co
I want you to start looking at failure in a new light. I want you to start thinking of failure as a process that generates unplanned results.
Using that definition you can begin to view your results as a stepping stone to greater success.
This shift in thinking will provide you with the chance to change the choices and/or the actions that are producing your unplanned results without making yourself feel like you've been doing something wrong.
Here is a story I use to illustrate the point.
The genius inventor, Thomas Edison had performed more than thousand, unsuccessful experiments while on his mission to create the electric light bulb.
Edison was asked, “How were you able to continue with your experiments after encountering so many failures?”
Edison replied, “I did not look at the unsuccessful attempts as failures, but rather as a thousand ways not to make a light bulb.“
He took responsibility for each outcome, made adjustments and continued on to success.
For most people, the ability to take responsibility for unplanned outcomes and adjust accordingly calls for a new “skill set”. You have to develop and exercise the “skill muscle” called responsibility.
Focus on developing your “skill muscles”.
One way to develop these “skill muscles” is to pattern your results oriented behaviors after the model for Effective Communication.
Effective communicators know their outcome and state it in the positive. In other words they focus on what they want versus what they don’t want.
Effective communicators have the awareness to know whether they are moving away from or towards that desired outcome.
Effective communicators have a fl
Some of the very basic ethics and tactics which I think everyone knows but often observed as ignored situations. I would like to tip these personally. The people who are working in more or less small to medium scale companies, crew of a research center or in universities where they get in contact with the people of different nationalities should,1: remember “a cultural greeting” at the place where you work. Generally, it leads to have moralistic depiction of your personality and a humanistic respect of you surrounding people.<
The genius inventor, Thomas Edison had performed more than thousand, unsuccessful experiments while on his mission to create the electric light bulb.
Edison was asked, “How were you able to continue with your experiments after encountering so many failures?”
Edison replied, “I did not look at the unsuccessful attempts as failures, but rather as a thousand ways not to make a light bulb.“
He took responsibility for each outcome, made adjustments and continued on to success.
For most people, the ability to take responsibility for unplanned outcomes and adjust accordingly calls for a new “skill set”. You have to develop and exercise the “skill muscle” called responsibility.
Focus on developing your “skill muscles”.
One way to develop these “skill muscles” is to pattern your results oriented behaviors after the model for Effective Communication.
Effective communicators know their outcome and state it in the positive. In other words they focus on what they want versus what they don’t want.
Effective communicators have the awareness to know whether they are moving away from or towards that desired outcome.
Effective communicators have a fl
One of the most important things in a business is a clean image. I started a small business when I was twelve years old and built it up in a very large small business and then franchised the business. I retired at age 40 after setting up franchises in 23 states and four countries. It is an automotive and cleaning franchise. We always believed in image and cleanliness. How can you sell cleaning services when your equipment is ratty looking, it shows a complete disrespect for the customer.Image and cleanliness were issues brough
Focus on developing your “skill muscles”.
One way to develop these “skill muscles” is to pattern your results oriented behaviors after the model for Effective Communication.
Effective communicators know their outcome and state it in the positive. In other words they focus on what they want versus what they don’t want.
Effective communicators have the awareness to know whether they are moving away from or towards that desired outcome.
Effective communicators have a flexibility of choice and action that allows them to make a course correction, especially if what they were doing was producing unplanned results.
As your “skill muscles” grow stronger your ability to achieve your desired outcomes more easily and more often will emerge. Your ability to communicate effectively with yourself and with others will grow proportionately.
Be ready and willing to ask yourself, “For what parts of the project am I willing to take responsibility?”
In addition, I suggest that you stop taking things as seriously as you have been.
That is not meant to imply that what you’re up to is not serious. It’s just that life is serious enough without making it more so.
Remember that life is an adventure over which we have little control.
We make choices, we take action and we play the game the best we can.
Being enlightened is the best mindset to have when you play the game.
So--- keep in mind that the greatest pathway to enlightenment is to--- Lighten up.
Remember to--- Play the game, take responsibility and lighten up.
"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly." -G.K.Chesterson
© 2005 Ian Krieger
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