Life’s challenges force us to harden up. Relationships, work, children, family and finances all combine to put us under a lot of pressure and the way we are expected to deal with these is to develop resilience and to some extent indifference. We are required to be tough.
To teach our kids to be tough and with each blow life delivers to knock us down, we need to get up, dust ourselves off and pick up where we left off. The more times we start again, the colder and more jaded we become.
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Too often in a business setting, you have a group of people simply waiting for their turn to speak, not paying one iota of attention to the persons on their left or right. So it is a good teamwork skill to have the ability to listen.
Become a Bargain Shopper
The reason this is so essential is because there is always someone better than you at something, no matter how brilliant you are.
For example, if you have a room full of distinguished biologists, physicists, chemists, and psychiatrists, as soon as the discussion falls out of their area of expertise, they defer to the individual.
There shouldn’t be any offense taken to constructive criticism. You all want to succeed, and this is a vital step in doing so.
Consider the “Total” Picture
There shouldn’t be any offense taken to constructive criticism. You all want to succeed, and this is a vital step in doing so.
If one of your teammates or co-workers pitches an idea that you like, acknowledge that it is a great idea, and then offer thoughts in which you think it could be improved. It’s that simple. If they disagree with your assessment? That’s okay too.
The Early Bird Gets Futures Betting
We quickly discovered that we were all good at specific tasks. So, what we did was delegate each of these specific tasks to teams of 4-5 men who were better at them than the rest. The end result was of higher quality and it was done more efficiently. We became a well-oiled machine.
This same mentality must be applied to teamwork. Delegate roles to those who do them best.
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You are there to conjure up ideas and complete tasks. Show equal respect to each and every person, and work to your best ability.
If you and another person happen to be paired up and can’t stand each other, you can still put that aside for a couple of hours, treat each other civilly, and complete the tasks at hand. You may even overcome the dislike toward one another.
Live, Up Close, and Personal
There are no weak links when everyone helps one another. Some take longer to learn than others, but that doesn’t mean that they are of less intelligence. In fact, it has been shown that some slow learners are much better at specific skills once they learn them.
If at a company meeting someone asks a question because they don’t understand, don’t frown at them. Just answer the questions patiently and concisely.
Second Half Performance
If someone brings up a topic of discussion and a solution to this topic, question them. Respectfully question, don’t badger. Rather, ask them how it will work, why it will work over the long-run, and how everyone else can implement the idea.
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It is important to bring these people out of their shells. Oftentimes the quietest person in the room is the most reflective and does the most in-depth thinking.
Have the entire team encourage shy people to engage in the topics of discussion. Don’t demand it, but make them realize that you really want to hear their ideas.
Get Social
But these ideas have to be fact-based. If you are proven wrong, that’s a good thing as it gives you new ideas and a new foundation on which to build. Ideas built on falsities are the equivalent to a house of cards waiting to get blown over.
Bad ideas are bad for teams. Spirited, friendly, rational debate is where facts come forward, ideas are born, and quality rises to the top.
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But, when it came to the classroom and learning, that could not have been any farther from the truth. The instructors were charming, funny, and would even gently wake us up when we nodded off from exhaustion.
Remember, no one wants to create ideas and come up with plans of action in an environment where their heads are throbbing and necks feel like piano wire.
To teach our kids to be tough and with each blow life delivers to knock us down, we need to get up, dust ourselves off and pick up where we left off. The more times we start again, the colder and more jaded we become.
What you truly desire. Imagine what you could accomplish
Some people believe that showing tough love is an important way to ensure that their children are able to take care of themselves in the future. If you were the recipient of this approach on a regular basis, you might even believe that this has had a positive impact on your life.
Perhaps what’s needed is a shift in attitude. To become stronger and resistant to the tribulations of life, maybe the answer is that we need to become softer not tougher. Maybe what the world needs is more nurture.