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Already Unlearned?

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People are habit-animals!
There more often we do it, the better we get.  Opposite:  the longer we don´t do it, the less we remember how it works.  We lose our confidence, as a result.

Soon it´s Christmas and you know what?  We will make a couple of decisions for Christmas!  Starting with a certain budget for buying gifts for the family and friends to turn them happy, followed of deciding of where and what to eat, and with whom we´re going to share those moments.

We will have to decide about 3 things:  a budget for gifts (1), the place or location where we´ll spend X-mas (2) and with whom we want to meet (3).

A typical decider is characterized by the one who starts with a suggestion!
It´s the person who gives the first impulse to plan something together.  It´s like opening a discussion for other people who can attend in case of their interest.  Is that you  –  this year? Did you think about whom to ask this year?  Who collects the lists with the Christmas wishes from the kids?  Are you organized for making those decisions?

Christmas is about the more relaxing moments and the decisions which are about happy moments!  Some of you will have to travel while others have to prepare the meal and offer space for visitors.  The criteria for such decisions are up to what you prefer to do during the holidays – be on the road or be at home and cook like hell?  What makes you more happy?  Who has the space for a group of people?

Here´s one important thing – Christmas decisions are about happiness!  Let me suggest something right here for you:  make this a rule and everyone will pretty much enjoy the holidays!
(Hey, there´s no guarantee due to the conversations which will pop-up!)  Maybe you have a list of topics you plan to activate during the holidays?  At least, as a decider you´ll hold the aces with this plan!!!

 

BE A DECISION MAKER. BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect


Don´t Wait For Robin Hood! Be Robin Hood!

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Robin Hood took a decision…..

Who of you doesn´t remember the movie Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (1991) with the actors Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman?  The story, starting far away from England in the East?  The great pictures which displayed the typical landscape, all dressed in ancient but chic clothes, and Robin Hood having his first experience with a spy-glass? So funny!

The figure of Robin Hood was born via a decision!
Someone came to the conclusion that things aren´t fair in life and that there is no balance in the financial world, centuries ago ……. and that person, with a group of friends made the decision to change this poor situation.  That was the day when Robin Hood started to steal money and luxury things from the wealthy and gave it to the poor so they had a better chance to survive.

What´s the big deal about Deciders?
There´s ONE thing only:  deciders add some more activities to their lives than non-deciders do.  As a consequence they rule with more self-leadership than others use as a method to change poor situations.  Traditional FATE receives less meaning in their lives!
This helps making dreams come true instead of waiting for an unrealistic service figure to show up and deliver the dream on a silver-plate.

Deciders like Robin Hood, take over a leadership role which helps changing a situation long-termly.  People who don´t decide very much on the opposite tend to blame others when things go wrong or when nothing changes.  It´s that easy!

And you?
Are you still blaming others or are you rather like Robin Hood, at some point?

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

 

2017 – One Decision Fits All

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Every day we make decisions, and many of them aren´t relevant for a big change!  Right?
Old habits once were a single new decision:  either to do something new or to not do something, anymore.  But most relevant of all are the consequences of our decisions made!

How about 2017 ?
Are you facing new consequences in your new year and upcoming life?  Any new plans?

I am sure we mostly deal with buying decisions in life! 
The relevance of buying decisions isn´t mostly major for the life we face.  Whatever we buy is either necessary for our survival (food) and future or it helps getting faster or to keep the motivation going.  I assume, what we buy is helpful and needful!  Otherwise we´d put the product or service down and we´d leave the shop, either offline or online.

In the past years we often thought about going left or right but in the meantime, I am positive we have to choose what to do first ´cuz we´ll do it all!  Mostly next, there´s something else we have to do.  If we choose to go right, one day we arrive at the goal and that´s sometimes the start of the “old” left side.  If we choose left and keep going to arrive at the end, one day we stand in front of the old right path.  And standing there we can´t turn around and just go back to where we come from!  That wouldn´t make any sense.

How comes?  Here´s an explanation:  if we plan to get something, that little something isn´t isolated and single, no – it belongs to something bigger and that´s why we have to do more than only choosing one way in our life.  The moment we choose something new, we need to accept the whole landscape of this “new” and then we have to travel and experience the whole thing.

 

THIS FORCES US TO LEARN THE WHOLE CULTURE OF THE NEW –

We have to take care of distribution- and disposition decisions nowadays!  Buying decisions come with a fix point:  the budget.  When we know how much we can spend we can start thinking about the distribution of the available money.  Where will we put or place how much (which amount)?

Ever thought about it?  I think we can call this the “freedom of choice”.

For 2017, I decided to do a few things I always wanted to experience and in 2017, I will experience ….. another day-trip to London, go sky-diving, make sure to have 4 lunches in a certain restaurant at a nice lake (I´ll simply date the 4 lunches in my calendar and then go that day).  Just for the fun of it!

Those are the main buying decisions for 2017 which depend on distributing a fix budget.  The fix amount of this budget is another decision, of course!  The day trip to London will cause some more decisions to make and it´s going to be combined with my Decision Biz.  This will give the trip a special purpose and I can use the time wisely to widen my circle of customers!

This one is a typical “one decision fits all in 2017”

How about YOU?
Any BIG decision plans made for 2017 ?  Let us know, please leave a comment…..

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

It´s 2017: Now, Do It!

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Happy New Year!!
I am wishing you all the best for this new year – may you keep yourself in best condition!

As your Decision Trainer, I think we start slow into 2017.
Everyone relaxes at the end of the old year and many of you probably enjoy a short vacation during the 1st week of the new year.

Not every New Years Resolution includes wide spread decision activities but many of you require a well running self-management, so that each new activity stays on.

In case of your decisions which affect your life and activities in 2017, you know that you have TO DO IT!  Nothing of your own decisions is possible to delegate to someone else.
If you make decisions for a team, then – yes, you will have to offer various roles to the team.  For Decision Making, delegating isn´t the best method because to reach a goal which solves a (massive) problem, everyone must be commited to solve it.  Tasks must be clear all the time, and then  “do it” is the activity for everyone.

The DOING I talk about includes:

  • information gathering (use the brain storming method)
  • place each information into the decision structure
  • take time to evaluate the information (either yourself or in groups)
  • set-up the whole process
  • do the planning
  • ….. once the decision is done, when the choice is made, go for the activities
  • set the dates and relevant tasks
  • all what´s left is:  do it!

Once you feel that it´s kind of fun for you, you know that you´re in the right place, living and working with the right people and topics.  The good thing is, when living and working in the right place, decision making is fun!   High achievers, who make quick and good decisions once it´s relevant or asked by someone, such decisions which deliver great results for both sides, they all live and work in the right place!  RIGHT means, that everyone is interested and motivated to be there.

I am no life coach or mentor right now, but one secret of great decision making is to
–> BE  IN  YOUR  IDEAL MOVIE.

A Decision Maker is acting like a director and like a role player.  It includes both.  And decisions always include responsibility.  From all role-players.

That´s the trick – you have to learn and train yourself to play 2 roles and be responsible for both roles and their results.  You are an actor with 2 roles.  It´s no game.  It´s life.  There is at least 1 (main) activity you have to take over, after the choice is made.  That´s why decision makers will have to DO it.

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

8 Steps for Decision Makers

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This past week I received many Newsletters and one is exactly the special one I will share with you!

Have fun reading about the 8 Steps To Make BETTER Decisions (by Denise Angelle Kinsley):  8 Steps

 

One of my new topics in 2017 will be about your SATISFACTION within your Decision Making.
It´s a new aspect and it´s most relevant in terms of your (expected or intended) results.  If you don´t reach your result or in case you ended up somewhere else than you aimed at, then something needs to be improved.  This step includes the typical Quality-aspect from the Quality-Management and it helps finding out where you implemented something “wrong” or unfulfilled.

Ever thought about improving your decision making?

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

 

Speed Your Actions For The Next Decision

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INITIAL POSITION:
after you´re through with your decision process – choosing THE ideal alternative – it comes to putting things to action! 
Deciding, always is about the direction or the ranking of necessary steps.

Once the decision result you aim at is set, everyone who´s involved will take over the responsibility and will start the action.  Next thing:  people will face the TIME factor!

Now here´s what I mean:   you are always going to have 24 hours in a day available – FACT.
–>>  With which method can you add more hours per day to this maximum availability? How can you speed-up your actions?

EXACTLY:  if you are able to involve or even hire 1 additional person, you will have 48 hours in a day available, for all the relevant things to do.  This obviously multiplies with every person you add.  Each person will offer 5 – 7 productive hours (!) to your decision path, running towards the desired goal.

Which leads to the next decision:  WHO is available to add from your pool or whom will you hire to speed things up?  …… and all these extra steps consume TIME.

Here´s my tip: 
if you know you need a speed-factor for making things happen quicker after you decided, already include this RISK-step as a consequence to your decision process.  You sure remember from one of my videos  (RISK)  that we only put 4 issues (MINT) at risk if we forget or even neglect thinking about them – it´s the Money we need to invest, our Ideas, potential or real Network-partners and Time (!)  .. .. ..

Once you prepare your decision process, make sure you think through MINT in detail:
how much of EACH issue do you want to invest?  Each can turn into a loss – which makes them a risk factor.

Now this is your take-away from this blog-post:  anytime you plan a new decision process, include the MINT factor and view each MINT-investment as a potential LOSS to not RISK too much!
If TIME becomes a speed-factor, and you´re aware of it right from the beginning, make sure to add the time factor to the CONSEQUENCES for potentially adding new people or for adding more hours per day or week to (a few) available people from your current team.

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

 

Forced OR Choosen?

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There are 2 kinds of Decisions:  those we  HAVE TO  or  WILL TAKE  in life!
Fact.

It´s those decisions which are forced on us, by the environment and other peoples plans, and on the other side the decisions we choose to take as a strategic move.  We will start with a different mindset.

The difference is the position of its  IMPULSE:
decisions which are forced on us are ad hoc or slowly growing impulses which reach our life from the outside.  They force us to “re-act” with a confident mindset.  The decisions we take as a forward move, for a go-on, are a release of our own impulses, motivated by dreams/wishes and therefore, chosen with a thought-through plan.

Mostly, we´re not informed and prepared to meet the imposed decisions of the environment, which often but not always cause trouble. Those ad hoc situations often cut our time and money, which are 2 of 4 risk factors.  To avoid such nasty situations, we or the team has to keep all eyes and ears open and listen & read about topics we deal with.  That´s a good plan to meet ad hoc situations, released by other peoples decisions.

In terms of our plans to go into a new direction and speed up the sleepy “fate”, we will make sure to be prepared and well informed, with a plan in our hands.  Heading into a new direction needs to look into  a “map”, which shows what we will be confronted with.  Best case!  Making plans takes time because we can´t follow nor copy a process and such a map avoids huge damage or frustration. All it takes is to be well informed and prepared for the waiting challenges.

Why do I write about it today?
It´s because to point with the finger onto the POSITION!  Here´s the difference:

DECISIONS, FORCED ON US:

POSITION:  we are moving in our own zone, standing on our country, with our team and folks, we know each other and best case:  we trust each other.  Trust makes us share relevant information. We´re informed and prepared.  Being prepared means WE GROUP to help us.  We stay in our zone, now trying to deal with or integrate the new situation into our existing life.  We are affected and things will change.

DECISIONS,  WE CHOOSE TO TAKE:

POSITION:  we are standing and moving in our own zone, with our trusted team and folks, now planning to step outside to meet new people, new situations, new customers, new biz-partners, deal with a new infrastructure, meet or make new rules and meet a different nationality. We are about to change our position and move from A to B!  This will force us to learn everything about the place of the new position at which we aim at.  We will affect others!  Others, which are prepared and those, which aren´t prepared but surprised.

Here´s my take away:  Keep those 2 different decision situations apart!  They are not comparable.  Act with fairness.  Be kind and open to yourself.
Making thought-through strategic decisions with a plan in your hands or reacting to other peoples decisions with consciousness and a new step to deal with change (you choose what to do next) is acting from a different (mindset) POSITION.  Know your position!

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

Flexible Thoughts & Feelings

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As a decider, you know you have to deal with flexible thoughts and feelings once it comes to make a great choice.

What´s blocking you are hidden negative emotions – I call them hidden, because we´re mostly not aware of WHAT blocks us, in a certain moment.

Negative emotions, caused by negative life experiences, internally affect us like a door which WE slam right in front of ourselves.  This internal functioning action caused by negative emotions, blocks us – we tend to stop what we were about to do.  We pause – and step back.

Does this info speak to you?
Then go ahead and take time to read this new article by Kira M. Newman:  right HERE

Stay in track and discover your values!

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

 


Game Training

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Do you remember playing board games during your childhood with the family and friends?  Do you remember that you had to make your own first decisions?

If you grew up in Germany, you might remember the “Mensch ärgere dich nicht” GAME?!
You played it with 1 dice and 4 figures of one colour which you had to move forward on the board in single steps, luckily going in a kind of circle in hope soon to enter the “door” were you parked all 4 figures, one after the other at the destination.
The player who made it first “inside” with all 4 figures, won.  It was hard, because any time a certain spot on the board was already occupied by a figure, the active player was allowed to throw this figure out, which had to go back to start.  Only when the dice showed a 6, the player was allowed to start with 1 figure to make it around the board.  It could take hours and this was fun!

WHAT KIND OF DECISIONS  did we take back then during playing this game?

When more than 1 figure of yours was out in the game on the board, you had to decide which figure to move forward, any time it was your turn.

  • Should you speed ahead with 1 figure only?  This would create a safe distance to others who followed you already.
  • Should you move both figures equally to keep them close?
  • Should you neglect the 3d figure for a while to speed ahead with the others?

Lots of strategic decisions to take!
And there was no guarantee that “this step” was the right move to do, to survive and make it in first  🙂

FAST FORWARD  in life:

The GAMES we play – change.  We do enter the adult stage one day, to have fun and challenge our decision making in an environment which is exactly as insecure, chaotic and not predictable as we remember it from our childhood, when we played the “silly” board games to teach ourselves some discipline.
Today it´s not about chess which I learned 12 years ago, no, I´d like to point to an interesting blog-post about POKER, a game played with cards and sometimes, it may involve money (to win & lose), if you agree to.

….this is the interesting new post by Jonathan (Growth Hackers) about his experience with his Decision Making when playing POKER:  Poker & deciding

Have fun reading it and don´t forget to leave a message, if you like to –

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

Memories´ Second Chance

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Decision Making in chaos, with absolutely no information and no order to follow, is tough and we often have to deal with it in life.  But also making decisions with only little information is hard to take sometimes.  Often, we don´t have the time to gather our relevant information! A team or friends and family offer information – always.

For brainstorming we need our memories (!) and the following article gives great advice and info about this topic: read me  by Sharon Begley.

Have fun understanding your memory and why it´s important when we take decisions!

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

EINZ & MINT

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Life is no theatre play and it´s no dress rehearsal either!  Life plays with us and sometimes we play with life.  It depends on our aims and goals and on the position or role we own in a certain challenging situation.

Playing can be fun, but playing asks us to accept 2 different things:
an investment OR a risk to lose something.

You might ask yourself how to deal with such situations and how to handle the  DECISION  you´re ask to take?! Therefore, let me offer you 3 different TIPS!

Choose 1 of the following tips which suits your way of thinking most:

  • WIN or LOSS
  • BENEFIT or DISADVANTAGE
  • IMPORTANT or UNIMPORTANT

From my RISK video-clip you know the English “MINT”- or the German “EINZ”-method.  This method is the 2nd step you take after you chose one of the above mentioned titles, i. e. WIN or LOSS:

What are you willing to WIN?  What are you willing to LOSE?
Let´s take the MINT-method (english version) for testing yourself:

M = MONEY
I  =  IDEA, intelligence
N = Network-Partners
T  = Time

Now ask yourself:

How much Money $$ are you willing to invest or to lose?
Which Idea are you willing to put on the table, to either invest into a win or to lose for good?
Whom or how many Network-partners are you willing to apply for a potential win or loss?
How much Time are you willing to invest or lose?

You can do the same with a BENEFIT or DISADVANTAGE thought process:

How much Money $$ will you invest in hope to receive a certain benefit or disadvantage?
Which Idea will you invest to get the benefit you hope for or to get the ugly disadvantage?
Which Network-partner to you choose for the benefit or to experience the disadvantage with?
How much Time are you willing to invest for the benefit or the disadvantage?

Your honest answers, which are value based, will tell you – write it down!  Be prepared!  This is how you deal with it.  Be prepared and then offer this competence!

….and please up-date your answers….

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

5 Tips How To Bounce Back

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There it is:  a typical angry outburst!! 

People suddenly freak out, get loud, scream and lose themselves – just because someone pushed their button to turn angry!  Recognize this?

Often it´s a reaction to a decision, but not always.  If so, then it´s either caused by the decision maker who activated such an angry outburst – probably not on purpose – or it´s you who undergoes such an angry outburst in a certain situation!

Margaret Cullen, a “Mindful” authoress from the MINDFUL Magazine June 2016, writes about  5 TIPS  How To Bounce Back from an angry outburst HERE

Have fun reading and learning……

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

Decisions? Straight Talk, please!

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Being fully present is part of a really good conversation and your communication style.  When you listen to what someone tells you, the conversation is far away from any conflicts.  If you are eager to understand what the other person is about to do or to change and you´re asked to support,
first: LISTEN.

When you listen, you are present and you show interest.  The words and sentences you take in become meaningful.  Listening means you accept new information.  Ask questions when things aren´t clear to you.  New information is a huge part of our Decision Making Process.  All that triggers a supportive mindset.

A result of this listening and a conversation is that half of YOUR work is already done!
Half of the goal is reached as well – but of course everyone has to be realistic about reaching the goal, about the energy, time and investment you put into it.  To understand how realistically everyone involved shall be, use straight talk.  Be clear with the facts.  With all facts.

The following article (hidden behind the Link) offers info about 9 important TIPS   9 Tips   

from the “Mindful” to keep it real!  Have fun reading –

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

Decision Making: The Key Out Of Your Cage

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Are you aware of the way you make your decisions?  Do you reach your dreams and goals in life?
Do you MAKE decisions, with full responsibility?

IF the answer is YES – skip my post!  Congratulations, you´re a decision maker!  That´s the good news.
IF the answer is NO – read this post, please.  I have the answers for you!  That´s YOUR good news.

Decision Making is a regular TOOL for your Self-Leadership.

It helps you becoming disciplined and discipline is the key to doing what you are after!  YOU self-deliver your dreams.  It´s a strong key to say good-bye to your childhood and its behaviour:  no more parents and no others who bring your dreams along for the waiting you!  Good-bye, that´s over….

If you ask yourself now: “So what´s my benefit for all this effort?”
Here´s the answer: it´s the SUCCESS feeling, which will be delivered by your new experience!  Did you ever felt successful?  Maybe not very often?

It´s no success to create hurdles for others in hope to keep them away or on a safe distance from your dreams,  NO – success is:  reaching your goals, being and staying focused on YOUR issues only, and then going your path.

As a decision maker you don´t care who´s behind of you or who´s in front of you primarily, no – you are focused to reach YOUR goal(s), which is YOURS and not nobody elses goal you´re after.  It´s that easy!  This path doesn´t even consume too much time because you´re mainly busy with your own stuff.  You only look for others to be different than they are and to offer something different than they do, but you don´t sabotage others.  That´s no path of success, opposite:  it´s a bad decision.

Does this information speak to you?  Let me know, leave a comment!  Ask questions!

Again, here is the commitment you have to do:  take care of your own stuff, focus on your goal, get prepared, do some research, test yourself, and cut out others who are on a similar path, next to you.  I call this way of mindset:  running a healthy ego!

As for me – I reached all my goals in life and business due to strong decision making.
Strong means turning into a new direction  and not going back to where I came from.  Not after 1 week, not after 1 month, not after 1 year.  Not after many losses.  I focused on new gains!  It takes turning away from the past and from negative past experiences.

Of course, there are reasons you will do this:  for example if you can´t go back because the world has badly changed.  In life, a broken marriage can be such a trigger.  In work life, it might happen when the company you worked for is (suddenly) bankrupt.  Maybe the world has change so abruptly that your current (old) profession is dead and useless, and you have to start all over?!

Nobody is able to walk the same old path for 80 years in life!  Forget it.
Are you successful?  Are you a decision maker?  If NO – feel free to use this method to get ahead in life!  It´s the easiest and straightest path to walk towards success and fulfillment.  Walking on in life, gets you out of your cage –

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

 

Course Of Challenge

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As a decider, you are on the course of challenge and pretty much away from a comfort-zone.  This doesn´t mean you will not enjoy any comfort-zone in life, no – every decider has an individual comfort zone as well!

The only difference is that a decider doesn´t mind to walk on ice and risks to fall!  Falling is part of getting up and thinking about HOW TO not fall again at this place.  A typical decider could be a typical person who likes to try new things, like an innovator or a personality which is driven by some extra adrenalin, like some sportsmen are.  Let´s be provoke:  a typical decider could also be someone who doesn´t care so much about experiencing PAIN (again)!

People in a comfort zone are rather afraid of experiencing pain – is that you?  Well, there are good news:  the better you prepare in case you might fall, the less pain you´re going to experience.

What does it mean?  Okay, again think of winter and ice:  The better you´re dressed with stuffed clothes the less you feel any pain when you fall.

Now put this on the mental platform:  the better educated or talented you are, the less you´ll be the last one who reaches the goal!  Opposite: the better you´re prepared for your CHOSEN challenge the better the chance to become N°1!  As a potential N°1 you needn´t be afraid to fall and getting hurt.

Besides, as adults we laugh some pain away!
Plus:  don´t take yourself too serious  –>  BTW, this mindset is a great mental pain killer.

But not everyone is a comfort zone avoider and a strong decider!  If you love the comfort zone, if you try to shy away from responsibility and decision making pretty often, you MIGHT run your mind and life on “automatic”.  If you want to get out of that cage, once in a while, read about 3 simple ways as helpful tips how to do it – HERE (3 ways)

This helpful article from the “MINDFUL” Newsletter is written by Elisha Goldstein!  Have fun reading and maybe leave a comment for Elisha…..

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect


Overleaping 3 Decider Hurdles

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AS  A  DECIDER, you set the course of action and movement!
In this moment you start leading yourself and/or a team.  When leading people you have to overcome habits and old, set pathways.

This new situation offers  3 HURDLES  you, as a decider and leader, have to overcome!  This is how you overleap them long-termly while practising:

  1. Communicate clearly the course of route and have a text (lines) filled with some information, when answering questions  !! Don´t offer any speculation nor your personal opinion !!
  2. Focus on 80 % of your daily work to start the new course:  gather information of the relevant tasks and have a step-by-step plan to follow (goal oriented work)
  3. Note and display your core values and those of the involved people (your team) to stay motivated and to run for success

Do you recognize something?
YES!  The 3 listed hurdles are about change in life to leave an old path of actions and habits.

WHY do I name those 3 issues “HURDLES”? Here´s the answers:
we know hurdles from sports, where runners have to stretch their legs to overleap each hurdle without falling.  Best case.  That´s part of the game!

SPORTS!  Sport means: daily practise to improve.
4 hours daily minimum as a professional, 2 hours every other day for amateurs.  Implementing some hours for sports challenges your daily schedule, you have to time manage your life and still care about family and friends.  No easy hobby!

Everyone who won a championship practised a lot in life.  At least 2 – 3 years in a row, or even longer!
That means for deciders, if you start changing the course of your route you have to change actions and plans.  Daily.  Do get away from the past, use 80 % of your work time to change this course – 6 hours minimum.  After 2 – 3 years you might be a winner on your new route!

Let´s figure out in detail HOW you overleap the 3 listed hurdles:

COMMUNICATION:  don´t brain wash the people around you, no!  Communicate with a few facts and little information during the day.  Use words which describe the steps of your plan.  Use words or a poster which show(s) facts or which visually describes the new goal.  Communication is a daily reminder and leadership tool to tell what to do, because yet it is no helpful habit!

80 % OF  DAILY  WORK:   imagine you´re a joiner and your team built wooden floors for years.
Now the market asks for wooden tables and chairs.  You plan to change the course and build tables and chairs now.  Your team now has to calculate differently, you need to deal with new dimensions, design, stability….  Your team needs to think and act differently than all the years before.  You daily have to practise how to handle wood differently and someone has to be the designer.
Your communication automatically will change.  The information you gather and share now is new and will fill your daily schedule.

Imagine you´re a joiner and you plan to offer a new service rather than a new product!  Something like polishing wooden shelves and work surfaces to make them look nice again!  You then concentrate on building a list with all customers who have wooden work surfaces, a wooden kitchen and/or table.  Then you create a plan how to approach them and offer this new service.  Your daily work routine will change until the new service runs like an established product!

CORE  VALUES:  Whatever is important to you orbits around your core values like the earth orbits around the sun, just – to survive!  It´s an action-related dependence.  Your core values are the magnets which lead your actions and motivation, hand in hand.  A core value automatically leads you into the new direction – it functions like a fix star or like a strong magnet.
Some examples are:
performance, fairness, service, career, friends, customers, famousness, openness .. .. .. ..

Talk about them!  Ask what matters to your teammembers most!  Display such core values or talk about them more often with your team to make them understand WHY you act THIS way.  Explain why the core values help you all to get ahead and how they keep you motivated throughout the days & weeks.

Communication, daily focus and core values – all 3 offer transparency to others.  Transparency is what enables you to gain trust from strangers.  Transparency opens a door!  But, be careful with your valuable information – always offer as little as necessary and as much as relevant.

That´s how you overleap the 3 hurdles of a decider –

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

HOW TO involve Employees Into The Decision Process

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Beteiligung an Entscheidungen/CONTI

The Participation at Decision Challenges, at Conti AG         (Link above)

In this LinkedIn article by Harald Schirmer, the reader gets to know HOW the company CONTI  AG (Headquarter in Hannover/Germany) approached with new decision topics to reach all employees, in all countries – worldwide – and WHICH result they received with this first experiment.

Plan was, to ask “all” employees for their opinion about 3 new decision topics!  Fact:  the company offered some relevant openness to receive a result of how the employees think & decide.

To do it, they choose the software conNEXT and launched the questionnaire with the headline “whom do you ask generally when you look for solutions within the company?”
There are 2 answers:  leaders or employees.

Aim was also to boost the digital transformation within the company to improve and secure their long-term success.  This aim was linked to a method and a task, on one side to speed up the digital transformation and on the other hand, to assure a high interest.

A true challenge!

I hope you can read the article technically and watch one or all video clips (in English) which are included.  Alternatively you may choose this direct LINK and pick the first post on top: read here

Thou´ the article is written in German, the video clips from the CONTINENTAL  AG  are performed in English.  The article gives detailed inside (thanks to the author) of how each company may approach change when it comes to including their employees, connected and performed via Social Media, when it´s time for new decisions, which mostly concern them.

It´s fair play!  And it works –

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

So Many Methods!

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The factual  IMAGE  DESCRIPTION  is a method to describe a problem or challenge on a factual basis.  This method minimizes conflicts by exiling any emotional communication.  You don´t work neither with opinions nor with actively blaming others.  You only work with available data and facts, which is the most efficient handling of (your) problems.

LEARNING  is a method to add new skills, become self-confident, turn competent & slowly grow into an adult (new role).  This method is just great!  It has many positive side-effects and helps us most turning and keeping us away from trouble and problems.  It´s most helpful for the Information-Management for decisions you need to take care of.  It´s the ultimate method to become responsible for your life!  But it lacks one relevant thing – deciding.  Good news:  you can also LEARN how to make decisions, of course.

DECISION  MAKING  is a method to find the ideal option to solve the challenges  (find a way to the goal or solution).  You can use decision making when improving your skills (via learning), with the aim to better respond to your challenges in life.  Those are 2 puzzle pieces which BEST fit to one another, and for us:  it´s the 2 largest puzzle pieces!  Both increase the range of your most relevant skill sets of available  METHODS.

A  METHOD  is a planned procedure and technique to reach a goal.  DECISION  MAKING  is the best method to FIND & SET the ideal goal for problem-solving.  It´s the motor of our self-leadership.

Do you recognize what THIS is all about?
Do you see the interaction?
Do you see the procedure they offer?  They are very helpful!

THIS combination of 3 complementary methods offers you a reality check!!  TAKE  IT.
I will stick to this combination for a couple of weeks and will offer you some video clips –

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

HOW 2 Get Better ……

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LEARNING covers everything in our LIFE!

With what did we start off into life?  Listening to Mama´s or Dad´s voice.  Then we stood up and tried to walk.  Then we slowly started with speaking first, short words.  Next we made friends!
And we kept on repeating and practicing ALL of it every day in our life, until we managed everything quite perfectly, RIGHT?  Do you agree?  Do you remember?

LEARNING is a method to get better.
People are different so there are 4 different types of how we learn best or the fastes way:  by hearing, by watching, by speaking/discussions and by movement/doing.  As we already did right from where we started off as a toddler… …

When it comes to making decisions we have to go through it all:  hearing to what people say (get the relevant information) or when they announce a decision result to the team, by watching others fail or succeed, by speaking or interviewing others how they felt with a vague option they chose and then by doing – when it comes to carry the chosen consequences of our own decision process.

Maybe there´s the HURDLE for many of us when it comes to MAKING the DECISION:
you´re good at some point in learning but when it comes to going through  ALL  4 learning-types, you feel blocked at some point and then you fail by not going any further.  Does this speak to you?
If your skills are great by covering 1 – 2 learning types perfectly (those you manage very well like:  reading and watching videos!) then you can´t be good with the 2 remaining learning types like speaking/discussing and doing.  There´s a weak point!  And that´s where you can get better –

Here´s my tip today for HOW 2 Get Better, by Stephany Tlalka from the Mindful Newsletter: READ ME
The good news are – Yes, you can learn to make decisions and to make “better” decisions!  Thanks for being my avid reader … …

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BE OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

 

Gain Momentum With The Right Methods

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Methods are linked to cognitive science because methods are a step-by-step path or a planned technique which helps you gain understanding to simply, solve problems to reach goals.

To say it with my words:  a method is an accelerator for reaching goals on a quite save way. They help speed up each process!  They explain why we do what we do and support what we do.

But methods play another role in life!  Once we choose the right method, our project gains momentum!!

Back to why you are reading my blogs:  I help you make successful decisions!

Decision Making is a method which helps you choose the ideal next steps to reach your goal.
Learning is part of deciding because you will deal with a certain lack of information.
Factual Image Description is describing short and sharp the trouble or problem or challenge (!) you´re facing.  It replaces potential blaming and any excuses.

Learning is a method to gain information, which you can´t collect easily or which you lack completely.  It´s THE method to foster your information management.

I added the factual image description for you as a great method to understand the cause or start of the occuring and re-appearing problem and also to keep emotions (which waste everybodies energy!) apart from your decision process.  It´s a method to work efficiently and on a healthy basis.

If you use all 3 methods wisely during your decision process, you are on the way to make successful decisions!  Fact.
These 3 methods, set in a wise combination, will function similar to the smooth concrete of a freeway or a European Autobahn – THE freeway/Autobahn you want and need to make quick and ideal decisions.  And this is the point where you gain momentum – with the right methods!

My take away for you today is:  keep those 3 methods in mind and remember to combine them when it comes to make another big decision in life!  I want you to be successful but, the result is up to you –

 

BE A DECISION MAKER.  BECOME OUTSTANDING.

rita jaskolla – Leadership Architect

 

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