Winning Is Special

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There’s no doubt that winning is special. Especially if it’s involved hard work against the odds.

And you don’t have to be a goal scorer in the final at Wembley to feel that glow of achievement when you win.

Invincible

Yes, winning gives you a glorious glow – and knowledge – of achievement. Your team, your family and friends rejoice with you. You feel invincible, up for other challenges.

And here’s a happy thought: create your own definition of winning and you get many more chances to celebrate achievement.

Get that glow of success

Get it from succeeding in ways that matter to you. Don’t limit yourself to the targets agreed with your boss, your shareholders or society at large.

Create your own goals where perhaps you can score a quicker win. Or one that will make everything else easier.

What goals do you want to score?

I’ve worked with a seasoned President and CEO whose personal goal was to sound as confident presenting in English to a roomful of global shareholders as he did in speaking his own language.
With the Finance Director who led her global team during the pandemic with aplomb but still was taken less than seriously by her boss. Her goal was to boost self-belief, then score a CFO role before she reached 40.

With a senior VP, dedicated to her job and superb at it, who had lost respect for her CEO, the guy she reported to daily. As a result, she was boiling with anger when we met. Her goals were 1) to stop feeling angry 2) to find a way to collaborate constructively with him.

With the head of a small family business who felt his father was still the real boss. Through coaching together, he stepped fully into his role as CEO. It made a huge difference.

How to start: name it

First, name the goal. Or name the challenge and decide what you want in its place, your goal or outcome. Then decide the individual milestones where you can score a win on the way.

Then get the glow of success when you reach each one!

If this resonates and you’d like a chat about how I might help, just email me and we’ll fix up a call

pecialist in leadership communication, Alison Haill, is Founder and CEO of Oxford Professional Consulting. She has a track-record of 40 years working with business leaders and international professionals across 4 continents, achieving transformational outcomes.

Her approach combines practical business experience with powerful coaching processes, based on her knowledge of linguistics, neuroscience and Conversational Intelligence®, as well as on her international experience. Write to Alison here or phone her on +44 1865 436791.