How Can I Be Down: Execute
(part 6 of 6)
Once you are asking the right questions, believe, commit and think with your leaders, there is only one thing left to do – Execute!
At the end of the day, it’s the results that matter.
Unfortunately, some believe and commit but struggle to think with the boss or just don’t have the skills required to get the job done; and for one of these reasons they are simply unable to execute. It’s easy to see non-believers go and to wave the uncommitted goodbye, but when those who believe and commit are holding the team back (even after you’ve invested in training and coaching) it is particularly disappointing.
Yet, the show must go on – and that leaves the rest of us to make it happen. There’s work to be done and not much more should stand in the way of moving forward.
There is a mission to pursue, a strategy to develop, a plan to move towards, tactics to complete, course corrections to make, and successes to evaluate and celebrate. There is a job to do. It’s urgent. It matters. It will make a difference – and you are a key part of the team that will make it happen.
You’ll make it look easy, accomplish the goal faster than you thought possible, have more fun than you expect and be better rewarded than you anticipated!
That’s what happens when leaders and team members focus on a worthwhile mission, believe in and commit to one another, combine their intellect so that the sum of their efforts is greater than the parts, and then execute.
And that’s how you can be down!
