Take a Step Toward Success

Source: ConvergenceCoaching, LLC Inspired Ideas

The following includes excerpts, reproduced with permission, from a blog entry by Jack Lee.

It's hard to believe I am completing my second year with ConvergenceCoaching. I have learned a lot over the past two years working with our clients to help them achieve success. I'd like to share a selection of my newly attained wisdom.

• There is no success without succession. Succession planning must be part of the day-to-day operation of your firm.
• Trust is a critical success factor in high-performing and successful organizations. It's fundamental to achieving sustained success in business and life.
• Success is a “team sport.” Rather than banding together for collective success, the focus is often on “doing it my way,” internal competition, and maximizing personal success.
• Most people, given the option, do not engage in any sort of personal or professional goal-setting process. Those who do set goals often do so in an ineffective and uninspiring way, by aiming at “minimum performance,” setting too many goals, or setting “squishy” goals that lack specificity and measurability. Step 1 - Start setting goals. Step 2 - Stop behaviors that “sabotage” your success.
• Goal-setting is only an interesting mental exercise if you don't transition to Step 3 - Goal achieving. Those who are really serious about achieving their goals willingly submit to a process of accountability, which includes putting your goals in writing, sharing your goals with others, establishing a “return and report” process with interim action steps and milestones, and getting better at skills needed to achieve your goals.
• The real value of a firm is in its people rather than in its clients. The most successful firms succeed by developing and nurturing their people to become future leaders.

For the complete article, read “Do Something New: Be Bold.”

From Convergence Coaching, LLC Inspired Ideas, http://blog.convergencecoaching.com, December 14, 2011.