Success stories always motivate?
Many of us want to be great leaders and lead our team to next level of success. So what makes us an eligible leader? Of course good numbers of managerial qualities & soft skills and don’t worry I am not going to start a leadership training session now.
With all those acquired behavioral and technical skills leaders have a great amount of experience. Experience where they survived a tough situation , experience where leaders turnaround the unfavorable situations to their favor, experience of giving great results to business and achieving objectives. Simply we call them “ Success Stories”.
We heard the term, right? Yes we do. During training sessions your trainer told his success stories , during daylong review or meetings you boss or super boss told you their success stories , during the so called “ motivational talk” your business head came and shared his/her success stories and all of them considered that you would learn from their stories and do better management with motivation. Think now and tell to yourself , have you learnt anything other than whenever you are going to lead the team you will also share your success story to them. :) I also did the same way in many sessions , shared stories which I used to consider as my success.
Once while i was delivering a session to a sales team who were at low business numbers my co-trainer was a senior business guy. He with his great experience of fighting various difficult business situations started sharing his success stories. Proud “ he” continued around 90 minutes with his success stories. Although the session was absolutely screwed up I got a very important lesson . Some said from inside , “ Dear Abhisek , no one is interested in your success stories , success story is a trap. let people find their success strategy in their situations and give them confidence of committing mistakes”
Think this before you jump into the trap of sharing your success stories to you team members and participants. Ohh!! the big question is then i we are going to tell them?
Well, if you take my opinion ( you can think of your own too) go and tell the mistakes committed by you , situations where you have failed to achieve numbers, strategies did not work for you and analyse why did you fail?
Yes, it needs a lot of courage . Want to try it?
