Generating Successful Outcomes Depends On What You Focus On

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Successful business owners and administrators need to be very pleasant about what outcomes they yearn. Goals, objectives or targets are the considerations that you're ultimately judged. Outcomes unearth whether your business is a hit or a washout .

If you're an employed manager, you'll acquire them in your job description or contract and I'm sure your boss will occupy thoughts on them at your next performance review. Outcomes are what you're paid to accomplish.

Various business owners and managers allow themselves to be distracted and diverted from their outcomes. They get involved in all sorts of situations that take their "eye off the ball."

At the start of workshops they ask the directors to draw a map on a large sheet of flip chart paper of all the things they do in their job. Managers almost inevitably fill that page with all sorts of tasks and activities. Increased often than not they surprise themselves with what's on the page.

Facilitators then ask them to identify and daniel with a large cross, their real priorities, and the outcomes that they're ultimately judged on. Out of all the tasks and activities on the page they usually cross only five or six priorities and sometimes subordinate.

What we do procure however is that the priorities that they cross are not allocated the time they deserve on a day to day basis. The administrators will often blame their senior manager for countless of the tasks which divert them from their priorities, which is perfectly fair. However there are bountious tasks that a manager takes on because:

1. They don't like to say "no" or -

2. They don't trust anyone else to do it or -

3. They just 'like' to do it themselves.

Facilitators then spend time in the workshop showing managers how to communicate with their senior manager and their other colleagues in order to minimise the number of tasks that don't contribute to their outcomes.

Countless managers fall into the trap of believing that their manager will distinguish why they haven't hit their target or quota. They seem to think that because the senior manager has handed out all sorts of other tasks, then they'll accept your bungle to carry out your target.

This will definitely NOT be the case!

Some business owners presuppose that their bank manager or investors will deduce all the reasons why they haven't achieved their business outcomes. However, bank supervisors and investors only desire to hear that you've achieved what you said you'd do.

The successful business owner or manager keeps very focused on outcomes and doesn't allow anyone or anything to divert them without agreeable reason.

It's also essential to focus on outcomes as far as your team are concerned. In numerous cases the people in your team will be only too happy to do other little jobs and tasks that you ask them to do.

Salespeople may echo - "Oh, I'll deliver that to the customer, it's on my way." Customer service people will say - "I'll go and talk to distribution or finance department about that." You have to keep asking yourself the question, "Is what they're doing helping me to achieve my outcomes?" If the answer is "no" then don't let them do it.

Make it luminous to your team what the outcomes are and don't concern yourself too much about how they get there. That doesn't mean that you stimulate a salesman to get a sale at any cost, or a chef to use inferior ingredients. You obviously don't want a maintenance engineer cutting corners that could jeopardize safety.

Facilitators at these workshops often pay attention to a salesperson speaking to a customer and acquire themselves thinking - "That's not the way I'd do it." The inclination is to jump into the conversation or speak to the salesperson afterwards. Bounteous have learned to keep their mouth shut, because bounteous times the salesperson closed the business, the customer was happy and it probably was greater than they would do it.

The successful manager defines the outcomes to the team members and then lets each person procure their way of getting there. That doesn't mean you walk away or have no idea what's going on. You need to be constantly out there with the team, watching and listening and supporting what they're doing.

Two characteristics of successful business owners and directors are -

1. They get the job done and

2. They do it in the easiest and least stressful way.

To try and control your team's activities and get them to do things the way you require them done, is extremely stressful. It can also mean that you de-motivate the team and then it'll be much harder to fulfill your outcomes.

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