Giver, Taker, Uplifter, Suppresser — Which Are You?
How you interact with others daily will have a profound effect on your personal and business success. But often our default setting undermines rather underpins our potential and success.
Active Knowledge Question:
What is the default setting that you seek in the leaders in your business when it comes to how they interact with everyone they work with?
In building the leadership team of your business, you must look first to character and then only competency and experience of your leaders. In today’s competitive marketplace where success is dependent upon the ‘combined talent and effort’ of everyone who works within and with your business, the right character in your leaders is more critical than ever before.
The full potential of that combined talent and effort will only be drawn to the forefront by leaders who are givers and uplifters.
Understanding this distinction will allow you to strengthen the competitive fitness of your business.
I think many people simply ‘are who they are’. Their life experiences have moulded them into their current ‘form’, and it stops there. There is little reflection on the dynamics of their interaction with others and how that influences outcomes. We simply don’t think about it, but we should.
Reflecting on ‘who you are’ as a person and how you interact with others is not about creating a false persona to trick people. Authenticity always comes to the surface very quickly. It is about reflecting on our personal nature and understanding how ‘who we are’ leads to, and underpins, the level of success we enjoy in our lives — personally and professionally.
Your business will grow if its culture is founded in people who give freely and uplift others. It will flounder if its culture is one of taking and keeping others suppressed so they don’t pass you.
As an individual, the same rules apply. Be a giver and uplifter and success will flow your way.
An entirely new level of performance.
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All the best in the success of your business,
Richard Shrapnel
