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Team Building - Your Beliefs Can Create Success
or Failure!
By Andy Britnell
Before Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, people believed
it was an impossible feat which would kill the person who attempted
it. Bannister achieved it, though, because he was one of the few people
who believed it was possible. Once he had achieved that goal, other
people started to break the four-minute mile too!
So our own personal belief can help us achieve something or prevent
us achieving something – that is very clear to most of us. There
is unfortunately another truth that is more difficult to grasp. This
is that our beliefs about other people can prevent them from reaching
their full potential.
According to James Rhem, of the online National Teaching and Learning
Forum (www.ntlf.com), "When teachers expect students to do well
and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such
expectations, performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in
fact be discouraged in a variety of ways."
So take a minute to review your team members. Are they all equally
capable in your eyes or do you have a few favourites – are the
ones that do well, the ones you have a positive belief about? Do you
have the same positive feeling toward the other people, whom you may
not feel to be as gifted?
Give your team the best possible chance to succeed. Make a point of
believing in them. After all, a belief is merely a certainty about something.
You might like to check these positive assumptions for yourself to see
if you live up to them:
1. Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have – people
make the best choice available to them at any moment in time, based
upon their life experience and choices they are aware of. If someone
is not behaving in an appropriate way, they need to be given other choices
to consider.
2. There is no failure, only feedback – it is more valuable to
view yours and others’ experiences in terms of a learning frame
rather than a failure frame. If someone does not succeed, they have
not failed – they have just discovered one way not to do a particular
thing.
3. A person is not their behaviour – this is really important
in terms of respecting someone’s self esteem. If someone makes
a mess of something, it doesn’t mean that they are a mess! Behaviour
is what someone does, says or feels at a moment in time. It is not their
self or their true identity. Make sure you challenge someone’s
behaviour and not the self – a person’s self is greater
than their behaviours.
4. The meaning of a communication is the response you get! If you do
not get the response you require when communicating with your team,
you probably need to change the way you communicate.
Bear in mind that everyone has a different life experience and the
meaning of a word for one person may be completely different to another.
Remember that voice tone and facial expression also communicate information,
and people may respond to these just as much as they do to what you
have said.
So check out your beliefs about the various members of your team. Believe
in them, all of them, and they will more than likely surprise you!
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