business strategy
W
ould you agree, asks
Rachael, that you know
what you could be doing
better than you are doing? You
simply know that you or your people
can do more. You invest time and
money into developing yourself and
your people with training courses
hoping that will improve things.
There can be short-lived inspiration,
motivation and lots of knowledge.
However, things may improve for a
short period of time and then go back
to the way they were. There is a gap -
the knowing and doing gap.
Why do you think that is? Well it
comes down to conditioning, beliefs
and habits –paradigms. When you or
your staff leave the workplace there
workplace. The sandbags combined hold
either you or the team back. Imagine if
you start dropping the sand bags how
fast the balloon would take off and how
Imagine a hot air balloon – you’ve
high it would go. What do you think
organised one of those fun activities would happen to the results in your
for your staff, or perhaps you've given business, and your team morale?
yourself a treat if you are in business
on your own.
conditioning, and by what we believe
about ourselves. Our personal
paradigm!
You are standing in the basket of the
hot air balloon. The staff/yourself
climb in and you want to take off.
Ground crew unties the ropes and
the balloon rises and off you go. On
the side of the basket is a bunch of
sandbags. Each of these sandbags
represents the paradigms of each
individual person that is holding
back the team, the business, and the
“There is a big difference between
what we know and what we do”
are all kinds of things going on that
you may or not be aware of– they
may have self image problems, health
problems, relationship problems that
thus limit belief about their potential
and capability. This is all happening
under the surface and impacts how
effective you/they are in the business.
This can result in some people being
highly productive, while some others
are “very busy” and not achieving
anything. Yet, others can be just plain
ineffective.
There is a big difference between
what we know and what we do;
the difference is caused by our
paradigm. You cannot outperform
these paradigms. This conditioning
is habitual and is located in the
subconscious part of the mind,
controlling the behavior of each
individual. Most training focuses on
changing the behaviour, but you have
to go to the root cause that is the
paradigm. These are the thoughts,
beliefs and habits preceding the
action. The gap is caused by the
excuses we give ourselves, our
AUTHOR
RACHAEL DOWNIE
TURN YOUR THINKING INTO RESULTS
http://rachaeldownie.com.au