Leaders Keep It Simple

Have you ever been in transition? New territory that you have no idea how your success will look in the new role? I know a good bit about that the last 18 months. As many of you know I fulfilled the role of a global direct sales leader for over three decades for one company, I live and lived a tremendously wonderful experience because of the work I have done in that role. However, it was time to retire that role a year ago January, the BEST of times and as you know from your own changes of position, a new time as well. Isn’t it exciting to know you’re intentional about your next moves as the leader of your life choices?

Leaders who take the lead learn early on that communicating instruction simply is important. As I develop my new roles, my new systems, and my new rituals of daily habits, I am aware that the complexity is only in our minds when we fail to identify the outcomes we’re responsible for.  I am a  professional speaker, an educator, a well experienced direct sales team builder and facilitative trainer.  My experience and records with my previous company underline that and it’s akin to being an Olympic athlete who won multiple gold medals in one sport who decides to change his/her sports at this juncture in my life. Can you imagine?  Some of you feel that way right now as you change roles in your company, transfer to a different department, or start off on your own. Want to know my secrets?  It’s already within you to create the actions that will support success again.  Business and personal effectiveness is nothing more than knowing the outcomes desired, identifying the steps that are required, reaching out for assistance in learning, if you need to sharpen your skills, and EMPLOYING the elements of  foundational knowledge and tools that work to develop excellence in every area of business and personal lives. Are you ready? Do you want to know my four word secret for engaging your excellence?

Keep It Simple Sweetie.

Whether you are talking to yourself, or teaching someone else, you have to keep it simple.  One.Step.At.A.Time.  Identify your objective, whether its communication, timing your work, setting up your office, cold calling your new staff, or directing your first team trainings, be aware that you have a purpose and an outcome in mind before you begin. Take that one identified outcome and deconstruct it from “the big picture” down to its elemental steps in bite sized pieces. Before you know it, by intentional engagement of actions, the enormity of your in transition tasks will not only be well developed, you will have measurable progress as you check off each simple task that creates your effective outcome.

Aren’t we all encouraged by simple truths?  I want to share a few of my favorites:

The Greatest Joy……Giving to others.

The Greatest Shot-in-the-Arm for Success…….Encouragement.

The Most Crippling Disease for your Business?…..Excuse making.

The Most Satisfying Part of Success?….Knowing that your template, your life, became a pattern for others to find their own Success.

The Most Powerful Force in Life…..Loving yourself so that you can fully love others.

Transitions. Don’t we face them daily? Don’t let a new role, position, town, or topic stymie you. Leaders take the lead of our actions, we don’t have to  know how to do them all, for many of life’s best gifts come in the lesson as you learn through experience.  Start, begin, attend and dare to try again when you fail. Do what you know to do and in the moment of developing your systems, as you do what you know to do, the next step will become clear. Inactivity is the paper tiger of going forward with aplomb.  In the very taking of action, experience and evaluation of your works, you’ll learn how to teach yourself and others by your example and resources of what worked for you!