How To Get A Variety Of People To Speak Up In Meetings
February 25, 2020
Preparing Your Business For Coronavirus – What Can You Do Now?
March 17, 2020
The Challenge
I’m going to talk about how you manage your weaknesses. And I guess one of the challenges about weaknesses is that if we are unaware of them they can control us because the people that we work with, the staff, our stakeholders our suppliers, our customers, they see it but we don’t. And in that, what can happen is we can impact a relationship, we can lose a potential deal, or you know what we can just not be very well liked. And that doesn’t encourage followership when you’re trying to run a business or lead a business to achieve a big goal that you’re interested in.
So, what I want to talk today is a couple of three principles around how you manage that area where you’re not strong and it’s personal for me, so many of the guys I work with I’m very open about the fact that my strengths and creativity, coming out with new ways, new models and all the stuff I teach you guys, building relationships and not details. I’m good at some detail but the lockstep things of how particular things fit together in using and getting the fine things done, it’s not me.
Two Examples
I’m going to talk about a client of mine, he rang me the other day. So what we’re talking about is my example and this client who rang me the other day and used those two examples so that you can learn about how you might manage your own challenges or weaknesses.
She rang me the other day and she just got some feedback from her boss. So they sat it down and said:
“You know what I just want to let you know that when you’re in meetings I noticed that you’re going to those meetings and you own everything and take accountability for everything which is amazing but everyone else in the room sits back and doesn’t do anything”.
You take accountability and ownership and the team skiving off. She talk to me “how should I process this?” And this is where the three principles came from.
Three Principles
First one is every strength has a shadow, in her case what is her strength which is her amazing ability to when she sees a problem she takes ownership and accountability and do something about it and get onto it and make it happen. Also means in some context it causes people in meetings to sit back and do nothing.
- Realise that every strength is a shadow and to be aware of your shadow is based on your strength.
- Deal with the key thing with your area of weakness, be aware of it and not to focus on it but have self awareness of it. So that you know when in a certain context and certain situations that this might be a situation where this weakness could playout. And for me, it has anything to do with creating things in detail and I know I’ve got to outsource that to other people where it is their strength.
- Try to manage your weakness through the prism of your strength. I mean try to set your business up so that it plays to your strengths and build a team around you that are playing to those strengths, that can cover up your weaknesses. That’s the whole reason why we need to create a team so that they can do things that we can’t do.
Summary
So, here’s the thing, we’ve all got them, we’ve got things we’re not good and the key thing is:
- to be aware of them
- to work at them through the prism of your strength
- and then to build a team around you that help you account for them in a way that still gets the work done and what you need to get done.
Leave me a comment or Get in Touch
I hope this has been useful. Get in touch, send me a message, love to talk about you and how I can help your business. Talk to you next time on The Reason & The Road.
