BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
YOU ARE GETTING BETTER. YOU ARE getting gooD at thiS game! This is apparently a very normal reaction when you play rather well the first time. When you do it again it’s not such a fluke and you may not make that comment. When you play a great shot or score a great goal for the third time in a short period then it’s no fluke. You are getting better. You are getting good at this game!
Sadly there are people who do not see you play so often who will try to tell you that it was a lucky shot or a jammy goal – ‘Bet you can’t do that again!’ This does not help your skill building or your confidence when it happens. I often wonder why people say such things. I usually conclude that this is to put you off or to comfort them when they are not playing so well themselves.
Worse, these people are usually not around when you consistently show improvement. For example, when you are playing computer games for long periods and your hand/eye co-ordination or body balance is progressing in leaps and bounds as the minutes and hours tick by.
YOUR CONFIDENCE IS HIGHER AND YOUR EXPECTATION OF FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IS GREATER When you return to the game after some success your confidence is higher and your expectation of further improvement is greater. The more often you play well the greater the expectation you will continue to play well. If you do not practice for a while doubt may set in, your confidence might lower and your performance can suffer.
So many times we hear football managers say that they select the match team on the basis of their players’ fitness and performance in practice games. This is because the manager (who sees a consistent good performance from players during practice) expects that performance to continue onto the field on match day.
Those of us in supervisory or other leadership positions can also expect that individuals and teams will do well at work if we: 1 Identify the competences we need them to display
2 Train them and let them practice until they become confident and competent
3 Resist telling them that their good performance is a fluke!
Why number three? Because they are worrying enough about it themselves and do not need you to validate in their minds that it was just a fluke. Dr Bandura concludes that when we think a good performance is a fluke our performance can peak at ‘the fluke’ and then go down or progress more slowly.
STOP THINKING THAT A GOOD PERFORMANCE IS AN EXCEPTION OR A FLUKE
He concludes that you and I can be better if we will stop thinking that a good performance is an exception or a fluke. Our performance will exceed our expectations (permanently) and we will move faster towards a much higher peak if we will just say to ourselves ‘You are getting better’ rather than ‘you were lucky that time’.
I would like to encourage you to have a positive expectation of yourself. In a learning or challenging situation you may need to stop remembering past mistakes and start recalling how you felt when you were successful at learning a skill or overcoming an obstacle.
Most of us ‘hope for the best’, but sometimes we ‘fear the worst’ so much that we prepare more for the consequences of failure than we do for the prospect of success.
I am asking you to prepare for success by concentrating hard and then expecting it to happen. Some success will happen quickly and some will take a little longer. May you have lots of little successes and some big ones and may you reach your full potential much sooner!
Frank Newberry
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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