Votes are still being tabulated for the Presidential Election or 2020. To the eventual winner, suffering through the pain of the unknown outcome will be worth it.
Suffering through the pain of showing up day after day hoping that this day is the day I strike it big? Is that worth it?
If I do strike it big, it is obvious. If I never do (and I have not), it’s about still being in love with the journey to success, even if the destination seems improbable.
So I’ll keep showing up.
Am I writing daily for me or for thee?
Yes…
I am writing daily for me because I need the practice. I need the exercise. I don’t have the luxury of lots of free time (technically paid for time) to sit down uninterrupted and write ‘good stuff,’ but I can find moments here and their to at least write ‘stuff’ with the potential to be fairly good.
I am writing daily for you because you are the judge of what stuff is truly good or not. That is not entirely true, but someone must publicly judge, and you are the public. Without a crowd to perform for, the performance gets stale quickly, and the worth of it all gets lost.
So, am I writing daily for me or for thee?
As stated above, yes to both.
But the question I want an answer to: are you reading me daily for me or thee?
Feel free to take that beyond rhetorical and shoot me and answer at jclevelandpayne@gmail.com.
I am going back to an attempt to post a piece daily on my website.
Nothing monumental. Nothing overly long. Just a something that my brain thinks should be pushed out that hopefully someone will use and enjoy.
If you have any topic ideas. let me know.
There are really just three necessary steps to proper implementation of delegation, but I inserted a fourth one at the beginning of the process to address the stress many of us have with giving up on work we feel we have to do and letting others get it done in their own way.
And that necessary pre-step is to get over yourself. Go through your stages of grief or whatever you need to do to get over yourself and understand that you have too many tasks to complete and that many of them can and should be delegated to others as available personnel is found.
You must come to terms with the world of delegation, period. After you get past that, there are just three practical steps to get delegation to work.
Number one is to figure out what you could give other people to do, and what you should not be doing yourself if possible. It will be challenging to determine what work you should let other people handle on their own and the protocols that may have to change to allow it. This will become even more of a challenge if you have not come to terms with your need for delegation before you start to divide up the workload..
Number two is finding someone perfect or near-perfect to take on the work you choose to delegate. I put in the caveat’ near-perfect’ because no one’s going to do it exactly as you would, and maybe you can make a case that cannot do it as good as you. But if other people are taking part of your workload and are doing it a sufficient level, you can get more things done.
And number three, which comes back to my insert of getting over yourself before going through the process of getting delegation started, is letting them do the work. Let them learn how to do it. Let them make their own mistakes as you did in your first undertaking of developing the work. They will enjoy the fact that you’ve given them the work to do and the power to get it done their own way. They will learn how to get it done with greater personal efficiency, and maybe you’ll find they can do it better than you.
You will see pretty quickly that they are either doing it great or not. If not, re-evaluate the scenario and see if the right workload and amount was delegated to the right person. Although in most cases, any work you have delegated to others that gets done, even if not quite as efficient, will have a great impact for your organization, and your personal sanity.
There are only two important questions when making a buying decision.
What will it cost me and what will it give me.
All questions are just ways to widen or narrow the scope of those two main questions. Can I get it in blue is a question of what it will give me. Can I pay for it in installments is a question of what it will cost me.
Prepare your sales pitches with the ultimate correlation of these two questions in mind. What will the customer receive at what price point, and how much more or less can you offer as they shift their objection questions.
As always, be on the lookout for a tell that should alert you of a stall. From there, since your need to for continued negotiation is near zero, it’s up to your want to continue negation to determine what you can salvage for this.
Research on how well the market reacts to your offering? Research on how well your completion is faring in the market? Insight on the real needs of a customer base so you can engineer a solution they cannot refuse?
The science of the sales process is determining the right amount of what you will give a customer with what they will accept as a fair price to pay. The art is having the ability to adjust the measures of each side on the fly.