BUSINESS-RESOURCE OPPORTUNITIES, SELF IMPROVEMENT, PROSPECTING, CLOSING, TRAINING, LEADS

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Some people think leaders are born. To most others, leadership traits can be acquired. In many ways, people have assumed leadership roles as part of their daily activities, consciously and unconsciously.

However, if you exercise leadership on the course of your profession or occupation, you may find the following tips useful in terms of getting genuine cooperation that is non-offensive and with practically zero resistance. Not only will it get the work done, you will also get to build better and friendlier relationships with others. This allows you and your team members to stand on a common ground, working harmoniously for a common cause.

By nature, humans do not like to take orders. Nobody wants to follow a command. If ever an order is carried out, it is only out of duty, without the emotional willingness. An order carries with it an authoritative characteristic that makes some people react in mild resistance or defiance. There isn’t anything that can be done to change the concept of an order per se; although there are ways to carry it out without arousing resentment.

With the exception of institutions whose orders come in the form of direct commands since they are part of what they symbolize, orders can be carried out in the form of asking questions. By asking questions, you encourage others to participate in the decision-making process. This arouses interest on the part of the ones taking the order and can spell a whole lot of difference to make the order appealing.

If ever you find a fault in a subordinate, find something to praise him first. This will cushion the effects of the fault when you raise the issue. Somehow, it becomes easier to listen to bad news after having a dose of good news. Try your best to make the fault less faulty. Make the fault look like a normal occurrence – that it can happen to anybody else and even to yourself. Offer a possible solution to correct the fault, although try to make it seem like the solution originated from him.

Avoid negative comments on a person especially in front of others. Let the person save face. Even little issues could amplify into resentment. Normally, humans have the tendency to react negatively from bad experiences for a longer period compared to favorable ones. It will take determination to reverse this tendency. Subjecting a person to negative comments, no matter how you look at it and no matter how trivial it is, can result to defensive reaction, which is oftentimes unfavorable.

If an order did not conform to your instruction, listen first to the explanation of your subordinate before you say what you have to. He may have a valid reason. As much as possible, give credit to his explanation even though it doesn’t sound reasonable enough for you. Try your best to say what you have to, in a nice and non-invasive manner.

“I hate this job!” You hear this often from people who are not satisfied with the job they hold. But they can’t take this thing called “job” away from them because it brings food to the table, buys them clothes and shoes to keep them in fashion, buys medicine to keep them healthy, and pays for almost everything they need on a day-to-day basis. Technically, it’s ironic that something like a “job” would be hated by so many people when it can bring them many benefits.

Psychologically, if you hate your job, it only means it’s something you do against your will. Anything that resists a flow makes the flows difficult. Similarly, anything that assists a flow makes the flow move faster.

Equating this with the way you may think about your job, if you put “love” instead of “hate” to your job, work becomes easier for you. This will make you more productive. The company will profit more. As a result, they will pay you more. Then, everybody becomes happy.

If you are the employer, you can also do many positive changes that will benefit your employees. In the end, you will be the biggest beneficiary of this change.

You can start by putting up slogans around the walls of the workplace. These slogans may promote unity and harmony between management and staff where everyone will benefit out of it. These slogans may suggest positive attitudes that will form part of their work habits. There is power in words. These words, once written on slogans, will guide your staff to change in positive ways. It would be wise to turn these words into action. In time, the “I hate this job” chant becomes “I love this job”. This improvement in work attitude will be reflected in turnover of employees. As an employer, you will find less people leaving the company and more employees being satisfied.

Visitors visiting your company will be impressed with the slogans you place on the walls of your work place. So make them as meaningful as possible.

If you’re the employee, you must make a change in the way you think about your job. It cannot be denied that hating or loving a job has a lot to do with the way you treat it.

There are many instances wherein an employee does not see the good side of his job until he has left or lost it. You need not wake up one morning to this kind of scenario. To avoid this, let the good side of keeping your job pervade your thoughts.

Here’s another formula to make you love your job. Treat your job as though you are doing voluntary work. Think of your job as though you are helping the needy without expecting anything in return. You will be astonished with the result it will bring to your heart, health, and pocket. Treating your job as a volunteer work makes you work wholeheartedly, without any resistance.

It’s either you keep your job or you don’t. Hating it is not an option.