Hard times requires feedback commitment.
At the heart of hard times is feedback.
Feedback is the breakfast of champions and is needed in hard times. When you give others feedback, it should be brilliant, caring, and helpful. When they provide you with feedback, it’s irrelevant, uncaring, and unhelpful. It is interesting how your feedback is correct, but their feedback is unwelcome.
- Others don’t understand the pressures and stresses you feel
- You’re too busy to care what others think
- People are trying to change who you are
- Years of experience have made you more intelligent than everyone else
- People giving feedback are trying to make their own lives more comfortable
- You’re more successful than the people giving you feedback
- The people giving feedback have too many issues of their own
- You’re older and wiser
- Your position means you think you do not need anyone’s input anymore
- They do not provide feedback in the “right” way.
Most people are not qualified to give feedback. At least, it seems that way, mainly when they are in a stressful situation.
Never forget those people who helped you to win along the way. You rise on the shoulders of many others.
Respond to hard times positively and with a commitment.
Sometimes, when adversity strikes, the best thing to do is absolutely nothing. Just be alone to relax and reflect on your random thoughts, allowing new insights to emerge.
You will always face adversity, disappointment, setbacks, mistakes, and failures. The temptation to blame when trouble strikes dislocates leaders, as the blame game, which comes from any self-justification, usually leads to bitterness and a lack of progress.
When people disappoint, they will not screw up projects, get over it and move forward. How you respond and learn from adversity and disappointment will be critical to your success. Learn what works and what does not.
Leaders who skillfully handle adversity are usually humble and caring. Those who resist and miss the lessons to be learned become arrogant and ineffectual on their leadership journey.
Do what effective leaders do during hard times.
Are you ready to undertake expansionary or new activities in hard times?
In my experience, the success and failure of communities and their businesses in hard times are not always contingent on money; they improve due to adversity. I believe a significant contributing factor to poor performance is stagnation. A lack of time to objectively look at the direction of the forces impacting future expansion can also keep the brakes on.
You can design your community or business to stay the same size to complement your chosen lifestyle. If this is the case, your customer service must continue developing. Otherwise, oblivion could be just around the corner as others expand into your space. Adversity often comes in the form of technology disruptions.
Are your community and its businesses fitting into the new digital environment? Are they big enough to handle all the issues? Keeping up with modern technology and globalisation will make sense if you want to grow sustainably.
Quotable Quotes
“Good leaders start from where they are, utilise what they have available in the community and elsewhere, then do what they can, and do not complain”. Peter Sergeant
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing”. Pele