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Thursday Lesson: Get Motivated and Get Promoted with Kyle Hendrix
Quote of the Day: “Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion do we live as mice. We must look squarely into our own tired eyes and examine why we waste so much time sniffing at every distraction while we cower the thought of revealing our true selves to the world, while we scurry so quickly from conflict, and while we consent to play small.” –Brendon Burchard, Motivation Manifesto
Guest of the Day: Kyle Hendrix, business coach from Wyoming.
Passion: Kyle is passionate about helping people get promoted, specifically in the retail industry.
The Skill: Observation
Importance of Skill: Observation allows leaders to finds the strengths and opportunities in their team in order to inspire them to excel. If this does not occur, progress is not made, promotions do not occur, and the company does not advance.
The Lesson: Observation Leads to Promotion
Three Key Factors to Observation
- Be intentional: in the direction you give, the information you pass on, the strategy you come up with on your team.
- “You have to be present. So, your team needs to see you’re there mentally and physically, and that each decision you make is in the moment and it’s based on what’s going on right now. And that’s when it’s most effective and gets your team rallied behind that.”
- Be concise when you’re making observations, so that when you communicate what you’ve witnessed to the employee, when you’re giving and getting feedback, and when you’re making adjustments in strategy.
Three Key Factors to Promotion
- Be good at what the company is measuring
- Be good at the standards they set
- Be ahead of the curve as far as implementing change
Listener Resources:
- Intentional Living by John Maxwell
To become an observant leader who gets promoted…
Envision: Envision being intentional. What do you do when you first get to work? Before lunch? After lunch? Before you leave for the day? Have an intentional plan in place – daily and distance. Envision what you want and what you need to get there: reading material, mentors, networks. “Envision it until it becomes a physical reality.”
Explore: You must be motivated, and motivation comes from you making the decision. Make the decision and “put it to work.” Even when you have doubts – believe it. “Fear won’t catch up with ya either, when you work that hard.”
Execute: Let your goals be known by your superiors, talk to the right people, be humble about it, work hard, and be the kind of person they want to promote.
Advice to Listeners: “…fear is an indicator that you don’t know something. It’s not there to hold you back, it’s there for you to…take notice. And taking actions on your observations will help that fear go away because it means that you’re educating yourself. And the more you know, the less that fear has a grip on… what’s going on for ya. And it won’t have time to catch up with you because you’re constantly learning.”
Motivational Go-Do!
Take the first step and put your observation skills to work, and be intentional about your direction in your daily life. Have the difficult conversations with people that make you a good leader.
How Motivate Me! Ultimate Support System can rally around Kyle Hendrix:
Website: www.brickandmortarleadership.com
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