Volition

When I was a kid my Dad used to tell me I could do anything, be anything or have anything if I really wanted it. Naively I thought all I had to do was want something badly enough and there were lots that I wanted really, really badly.

It took me many years to realise that what he really meant was that I had to want something so badly that I was prepared to do whatever was needed to be done to have that thing. I had to be willing to pay the price.

I’ve met very few people who wouldn’t say yes to more money, a bigger car or a more impressive job title, and yet I’ve met hundreds of people who don’t want to pay the price for those things, even when they’ve already got them.

So when we are looking for new team members a really important question to work out is ‘how badly do they want this job/ to work for me / to join this company/ to be successful?’ Because if people arent really strongly motivated they probably won’t do very well and they almost certainly won’t last the course or excel.

I am really excited to have Verne Harnish’s new book delivered. It is called ‘12 Habits of Valuable Employees’. The reason I am so excited is that this is the first time I have seen anyone else talk about volition. Here is an extract from the summary ‘Your employees must want to be great, and they must have a clear idea of what that looks like and how to get there’

Do your employees want to be great? remember the man at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.

So the questions for this week are;

• To what extent do I understand the internal motivations of my team?
• Do they want to be great, individually?
• Do they want to be great collectively?
• Do they know how to get there?
• How can I help them?

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