A "two sides of the coin" concept.

Willpower is a term for helping us grasp an intangible concept. A concept that all through lives people can be trained in, while training and exercising their brain to daily strengthen the willpower which prompts healthy life choices.

Another intangible concept is hindsight. Although hindsight is supposed to bring wisdom often the knowledge gained being released once it is too late for the first protective offensive.  Bad habits then need to be broken.  Our minds, bodies, families and peers retrained enabling the 'us' to stay on track and reach for the new foundation goals.

This being said how does one gain a functioning, resourceful, thinking on feet sales team?  One that pushes their subliminal limits, over comes hurdles at a mear thought and charges in where angles fear to tread??



References:
Luminosity
The Sydney Morning Herald

Step 1 with business communication building structures

Communication begins at home right?

Replace the word home with "business". Now choose one or more of the following add ons:

• Between the others and you <-> you and the others.
• Between yourself and what you want <-> what you want and what the others need you to do.

The third one is : What you want to do <-> what your body limits are !

Take three pieces of paper strips. label them as above.

Place the  <-> above each other, while the "arms" form a six pronged star.

The star is actually a six forked communication process that meets up through a central point. To have balanced energy flow the 'energy' must always be able to flow from one side to the other and back again continuously in harmony. Back a forward.

 Sometimes the amount of pressure the incoming arm exerts on the meeting point may block up and try to force a blow out or take over of the focal meeting point.  Should this happen the equilibrium of the six armed communication meeting point is thrown out of balance. 

Imagine a person who begins work for what ever the reasons are. In the beginning all three communication junctions are functioning evenly. Energy comes.  Energy flows through the other arms interchanging with energy from the other arms.  Harmonious. 

Both the person, and those around them, are able to communicate. Knowledge and skills are passed on and freely swapped.  The business prospers.

Over time the communication from one arm is either choked off or blocked off.  The arm becomes  toxic. Effecitively communication gangreen sets in.  The wellness balance is affected. No one knows what is happening, what needs to happen and why it is happening.

In an ideal world this point would not be reached.  people leave, contacts and contracts being to vanish. tensions rise. the blame game occurs.  No matter what way it is seen the situation fast destructs into a Lose / Lose situation.

To begin to rectify this situation watch what is happening.  Now Is what is happening process falling within the business or project charter? 

• Collect data. 
• Create a needs analysis from what you see happening.
• Compare what is happening to the benchmarks set out in the business / project charter.
• The part [gray area] between what is happening and what is desired to happen is the focus of the needs analysis.
• Draw up a needs analysis. 
• Ask for help with this project.

When people start to come on board the attitude will change.  Be warned it is a long road to get to the end.  However the journey with many people travelling in the same direction is usually fun, fulfilling and very rewarding.

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5 points... there they are

• Be creative.
• Use Social Media
• with Persistence
• add Social Networking
• repeat the lot again

There you have the how to's in five dot points.

Listing the challenges faced.

Needs analysis re a one month project called 'The 2011 Traralgon Show'

 The challenges are laid out as follows

• time frame differences.
• transportation means unable to meet timetable.
• language struggles.
• forming a work in progress team of basically unknown people.
• talents and skills of the team are not known to others or maybe the work in progress team members themselves.
• depth of understanding re where a project fits into the overall scheme of lang term goal.
• experience / depth of use re using an IT media. 
• the variety of IT gadgets that can be used to used to participate.
• using a means of communication that brings all the ideas "to the Table" for further co-development without loosing any that may be used in another activity project.
• stream lining these ideas into a media [blog] with which many are uncomfortable using.  

Read more for the strategies worked out

Strategies to meet the needs analysis

Follow on from listing the challenges
Strategies towards meeting needs analysis with the project

• Use a holistic approach that achieves a defined project focus.
• Define the project as -  2011 Traralgon Show- showcase 
• Ownership and 'creative license' by team members of project while developing that working team.
• Some initial working ethos to be there at the beginning while further development occurs.
• Use technology skills within group and their network.
• Train all members to have initial working ability that enables the members to participate in the intra-exchange of knowledge through the technology and skills levels already in action.
• Expand the comfort zones of team members so that use of new machinery, technology or situations are able to be turned into positive outcomes rather than fearful ones.
• Introduce through use of documentation that has instructions for use. 
• Successfully network through as many people and social networking sites as possible. 
• Have diverse multi stream employment opportunities within company guide lines.
• Create enough positive PR for flow on 'jobs' through the company to assist with above commitments.

Did I mention about the critical review happening  Transparency in the results and... it keeps on going. Just hang in there

Karma

A few years ago a young lady had an opportunity to gain experience as a secretary with some receptionist options.  The employment was with a firm that changed the rules as the boss desired.

During the actual time away from the home base the workers stuck together.  They did not like the fact that the employer had booked two rooms for 6 people.  The employers idea was to stick the young lady in with the seasoned men's sleeping dorm while he slept next door.  Luckily for the young lady one of the workers realised that he had worked with her father a few years earlier.   The young lady ended up next door so that she could do the typing required and not 'drive the men crazy with key board tapping' as she worked.

Things went from 'bad to worse' work wise.  The employer did not meet her wages, used her phone bill into the thousands, took her expensive reading glasses, only brought beer instead of coffee or tea. The workers tried to protect the young lady in her naivety. Eventually I was called onto the scene.

I had later talked to all the employees and found that they knew that after a hard 12 hour day -cutting logs up- they could come back to a substantial  home cooked meal, clean bedding and room.  All they had to do was put money in the food kitty and have a shower before they came to the table!

After two and a half months the young lady went home.  A ride to a highway was organised for her via the local off duty police man. A truck driver known to be a relative of the police man just happened to be passing and 'stopped' for a chat.  Strange as it may seem that truck just happened to be going past the young ladies door!.... about eleven hours travelling time away.

To this day nine years later I often wonder what happened to those men when the boss found out that the young lady had gone.  I had heard that the tuck had got impounded through men wanting what was their friends wages and expenses. that the employers wife had a holiday she had always wanted [care of the justice system] and that the employers business had ceased to exist and he was unemployable... or soon became unemployed.

Ho hum.

4 steps for a get 'there' goal.

The need is to directly communicate with others to achieve a goal.

Sometimes the awareness of the following dot point list is jumbled at best. Meaning the sequence of events may be repeated often until another step is moved through.

• Become aware that there is a potential negative aspect of work in progress.
• Complete a needs analysis
• Use the vision and mission as a support guide line.
• Work out strategies designed which enable the objectives to come within the guide lines. 

Our get there goal is to have a stall at the 2011 Traralgon Show.

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