Whenever you are facing a tough situation in your life, then you will meet individuals who are either Blamers or Seekers. By seekers, I mean Solution Seekers. Your effectiveness in dealing with a situation will be greatly determined by having an overwhelming majority of Seekers on your team. The more you have these people, the better you will fare in any given situation. When you want to solve an issue and get a deeper understanding, you don’t want to spend time dealing with politics or calming a person’s emotions about trivial things. You want to dive into details, do a root cause analysis and fix the problem. Plus you want to prevent it from happening again. Blamers have always someone to blame for their problems. They get agitated easily. They take it on themselves. Solution seekers are trying to solve the problem. They are diving into the specifics of the issue at hand and what could be done to solve the problem and prevent it from happening again. They are already at wor
Some projects last for a long period of time and lots of meetings are conducted to get the project done. During those meetings lots of things are discussed. Lots of decisions are being made and responsibilities being assigned. At the same time not everything that was important gets accomplished. It is because other priorities took over and that one thing which was important never got done. And nobody bothered to revisit it. I think these things should be addressed before a meeting is even scheduled and agenda being formed. This is a checklist of things that need to be done for past, present and future meetings. This will make sure that we are in the control of the project. I see past, present and future meetings’ to-do lists as color coded items. It helps me in realizing the importance of each of them. Please make sure about the following things for every meeting we schedule. Previous meetings ( Green ) Run through a checklist from last meeting about things that need
Networking is about creating best friends forever who will advocate for you . Let’s revisit some aspects of your friendship and see why that works great for both. Let’s assume you have a fictitious best friend named Chris. Now you receive a gold medal in 400 meters running race and call Chris immediately “ to share your happiest moment ”. You just shared a part of your life and made Chris a part of your life. Chris now feels important. You are not feeling well and you need help and you call Chris. Chris shows up and helps you out. In return you always stand by him whenever he needs you. You are always connected with Chris through email, phone, and home address and hang out together. Whenever you are happy, sad, enlightened, or whatever you feel like sharing with Chris. Now hold that thought for a second and ask this question to yourself, have you ever felt this way with some of your professional friends? Have you shared anything with them that you felt was great? D