Motivational and Inspirational Speaker

Sometimes it happens to me that I feel frustratred when my team hasn't done I would have done in their place. It's so obvious to me... And I get angry at them and at myself. But it is all wrong! If you want to coach them, make sure you teach them on how to take action when you are not there. Dob't tell them what to do but how and why. If they fail it will always my responsability: I was not good enough to show them the way.

I have discovered that often our teams prefer to stay in the confort zone and giving us excuses to justify their bad results, thinking we'll accept them as granted. I usually call it "hiding in the barricades" like in war times. Would you accept someone going to war and being so affraid to fight so he woul hide himself in the barricade while others fight for him? Unreal right? Well, when our teams do not hit their goals we have to pull them out from the barricades. We can not accept: "I feel sick", "It's raining and customers don't feel like buying", "we do what we can", "we don't hit the target because there is a crisis"....we can't change the crisis, not the weather, not your health.... If we focus on what we can control...if we put all our efforts in trying to improve and forget about excuses...we might win. If we prefer to hide ourselves in the barricades, and convince ourselves and everyone around with our ex...

Today I realized that a person of my team was finishing his mission after being for a month away from home, to train a team and prepare a business project. He did a great job, a fantastic job. I sent him an email not only congratulating him but also saying thank you for what he did, becoming an example for everyone. It took my only 5 minutes to write the email, an email that I really believed in. But for him, it meant a lot: i motivated him as much as I planned. Before I had a great professional, committed, and enthusiastic. Now I have an amazing team player, happier than ever, and willing to be sent to an other project when needed. Isn't that amazing?