Some people are fueled by anger. While others are fueled by creativity, completion and love. Others, by infatuation, generosity or by personal will and the list goes on. The key is to identify what fuels you, and then to find ways to ignite that fuel consistently to get what you want. Here is how you do it:
- Create a page with 2 columns: Energized Experiences and Motivations.
- The first thing that you should do is to produce a page with 2 columns, then right the words Energized experiences and motivations.
- Explore the times in your life when you were full of energy, and taking action without hesitation. Write them in the first column those experiences when you were happy and contented with what you have. Remember and take note of your childhood and adolescence. Also with your education, family life, friendships and career as well. Give also emphasis to financial situations and physical health too. Through these experiences, you should be fully motivated and energized.
2. Try to see the list. What motivated you to take these kinds of actions? Was it because you wanted to win? Maybe because you want to be more powerful than anyone else? Or, you just want to be popular? It could be any number of things. To those experiences that really motivated you, please write it down in the second column.
Find similarities from the motivations that you have listed. Through this motivations, you will be able to recognize your fuel.
This is the right time to enhance your fuel. This is something you are completely in control of. When you feel like outcast, the only remedy is to ignite your spirit with your fuel. You have to find ways on how to uplift the fuel that you have. Put yourself into that situation. If you are fueled by competition, sign up for a marathon or competitive sport. If you feel like giving someone a gift or volunteering yourself to help someone, then do so. Do what your heart tells you. Do something that will help you become what you want others to see it.
A word of caution about energy. It can be neither created nor destroyed, it can only change form. What is important is that you do things what you think is right without hurting other people. Focus on positive energies that will definitely uplift yourself worth and being. This exercise will stimulate your mind, body and soul.
According to a 2008 research conducted by McKinsey and Company, findings show that 1 in 3 change programs in organizations will actually meet the benefits that are given to them. Also, it has been the statistics over years now. However, this explanation is full of fluff. How can you explain something which is really in the statistics, right? Here is my take from having lived the discussions with leadership teams first hand. As badly as you would like to believe otherwise, almost 70% of projects fail because
- Leadership teams are not prioritizing effectively, and They lack some enhancement with regards to management projects.
I have not come across one team in the last 5 years that hasn't been heavily entrenched in discussions about effective prioritization, project management and change management. The issues are not given attention to. Everyone has a different perspective, and more times than not, teams are speaking a different language. Most who talk about it are coming from a place of misinformation (which, I admit, makes me even crazier).
The real problem here is that people are now making their own process with this they only resulted into bad expectations and even frustrated because of the outcome. People don't really know how to do things right.
I am extending my help to you so that things might turn out the way you want it to. The problem is only simple, it's not that complicated as what you think.
You can change the ways that you use to do. All we have to do is to first define each resources that might help you in the development of each one.
Ok, Step 1… Define:
Prioritization is the act of weighting the objectives and ranks ordering the activities of an organization in terms of importance, and must be done at a regular frequency. There is no universal right answer on what is important and what the right frequency is, the answer can be found through a rigid Leadership team who shall guide you along the right path.
Project Management includes project objectives, timelines, milestones, budget and benefits. It is the process of getting the project done the way it was developed and organized. Project Management is tactical, and is often focused on bureaucratically managing to a plan and budget so that everyone stays on track. Project Management keeps people become more disciplined and well organized on the things that he does, thus making things right and explicitly awesome. Project management is not change management… it is only a piece of change management so focus on this plan for a better you.
Change Management is the art of managing human and organizational dynamics in BOTH prioritization and project management. This type should not be interchanged with other project; this is more specific and detailed. (Personally I would prefer if Project Managers would call that "Scope Management" or "Change Control" so we could stop confusing organizational managers about the type of "change" we are talking about). This specifically involves communication and well defined decision-making in the right time and place.
- Multiple types of resistance to change That such change shall be fully explained to this stakeholders - Understanding the impacts to results and people when priorities change It is very important to have an in depth understanding of this change management so that human behavior and effective facilitation shall be considered accordingly. Most organizations, including yours, suffer from a lack of skill in effective change management among managers below the leadership team, and often among people on the leadership team that this is the real world that is actually happening right now.
Now Step 2… Clarify:
The three are not independent processes. To be more precise, it should have the right project so that it will be well implemented and managed. Effective project management ensures discipline of getting the project done. And effective change management ensures organizational and human dynamics are managed so that priorities are aligned in such a way that reduces conflict and inefficiency and so that projects can be executed more effectively.
There are three issues most organizations face in implementing these processes effectively.
This is the reality: Leadership teams lack effective strategies in prioritizing organizational initiatives and projects.
The Leadership team is having a hard time accepting the fact that this processes can help the organization effectively execute the plans that they will be implementing for the company.
3. Leaders and PMOs are not currently qualified to fulfill the change management needs of most organizations, and Project Management courses are not long enough to teach change management properly. Change management takes years of apprenticeship and experience that Project Management courses are not positioned to satisfy.
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Mary Legakis is The Management Coach - the only coach focused exclusively on helping ambitious managers and aspiring executives raise their game and get to the corner office faster. For more information, please visit her website- http://www.managementcoach.ca
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