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Just recently, a fairly senior manager of a local company approached me and asked me a very surprising question. He asked how he could become more confident in front of his customers.
Now, mind you, this is a manager who has had over 12 years’ experience in the same industry. You would have thought he had the capability to achieve this by now! However, confidence is not just about a skill – it’s a state or a feeling that you need to experience.
People learn to make choices in life, but we don’t always know what kinds of choices to make. We know that in order to achieve results, we need to spring into action – one of the fundamental choices we can make (choosing to act).
I believe the next choice we need to make is to see from all angles. If something is perceived only from one angle (usually the one we favor) then it may not always be the clearest picture.
It’s been said that you need to have lots of passion for entrepreneurship. Recently in the Money section in The Straits Times, I read Michael Ma, the owner of IndoChine restaurants in Singapore, that you have to have passion or else “you might as well retire”.
I think that’s fine and dandy for someone to say that. It gives a lot of hope and forward promise. Unfortunately, that’s not really a solution. Let’s back up a bit and talk a little about passion and where it comes from.
I’m actually in the middle of training leaders, and an interesting question popped up: when people are being leaders, are they demonstrating what to be, or what others want to see?
It’s quite a tricky question because on one hand, leaders do things that make them leaders but nobody really calls into question whether they are “faking” it. Sometimes, it’s people who “display” leadership at the right time that become leaders, get praised or promoted as a result of it.
At the same time, people who have leadership skills but do not display or communicate this may end up sidelined, simply because there is a perception of this lack of leadership ability.
Hi everyone,
I’m just starting to rebuild the site, so pardon me while the renovations take place. Meanwhile, if you want to pick up information about NLP, please go to http://WorldOfNLP.com – this site is purely for personal purposes.
Also, http://Stuart-Tan.com is no longer hosting my website.
As I take the next few weeks to re-populate my content here, do drop me a hello anytime.
warmly,
Stuart
