Attack The Challenge Together

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this video we're going to talk about attacking the challenge together.
• 00:09 Coming together with your team, coming together with your employees,
• 00:12 coming together with your staff, okay?
• 00:15 And overcoming the challenge together.
• 00:17 Now again, this is that collaborative style of leadership.
• 00:21 Regardless if you're authoritative or you're exemplary dominant, right?
• 00:26 In these situations you want to come together collaborative,
• 00:29 because if you've got the A players, we're gonna talk about in future videos.
• 00:34 They're going to help you overcome these challenges, okay?
• 00:38 So the first thing is you want to make it okay for your team to fail, what?
• 00:44 Did you just say fail?
• 00:47 Yes, because here's what I tell my clients.
• 00:49 There is no success without failure.
• 00:54 It's so important, I'm gonna say it again.
• 00:55 There is no success without failure.
• 01:00 When you look at the companies that are at the top of their game right now, right?
• 01:04 A lot of times we think the graph looks like this,
• 01:06 it just goes straight up, right?
• 01:08 In reality, when somebody gets to this level, it looks like this, okay?
• 01:13 There's ups and downs, and these downs are those failures.
• 01:17 And what's great about that is you can learn from your failure,
• 01:20 course correct, right?
• 01:21 Like we talked about in the last video, and
• 01:23 keep moving towards your target, towards your goal.
• 01:25 Make sense?
• 01:27 Okay, so if you don't make it okay for
• 01:29 your team to fail, it's gonna stifle their creativity, right?
• 01:33 Because when we go to school, think about this.
• 01:35 In our 20th century, going to school, they teach us that hey,
• 01:39 you gotta be right, we're gonna grade you on your grades.
• 01:42 You got a A, or a B, C, D, F, whatever it is, right?
• 01:46 So we've been trained, like hey, we can't fail, we can't fail.
• 01:49 And if you have that mindset you're not gonna take risks, and
• 01:53 if you don't take risk you're not gonna innovate.
• 01:56 And if you don't innovate, your company's going to go bye-bye, okay?
• 02:00 So you have to make it okay for your team to fail.
• 02:04 Now your team can come up with solutions that you may not have even thought of,
• 02:09 right?
• 02:09 You've got this dream and this vision,
• 02:11 and they may have some solutions to help get you to that dream or vision quicker.
• 02:16 So that's why collaborative style leadership is so important to inject here.
• 02:20 And next, you wanna allow your team to contribute so
• 02:24 that they take ownership of overcoming that challenge.
• 02:27 Because when you get your team to take ownership of overcoming the challenge,
• 02:31 that's when they're gonna work late on their own.
• 02:33 They're gonna come to work early to start attacking this challenge.
• 02:37 This is when they're gonna really start thinking about it and
• 02:39 coming outside of the box to overcome it.
• 02:43 You want them to take ownership, okay?
• 02:46 Now this next one is a big one, don't point blame.
• 02:50 Don't point the blame.
• 02:51 Make everyone responsible for success.
• 02:54 Or make everyone responsible for the failure in overcoming the challenge.
• 02:59 When you have this team mentality,
• 03:01 now you guys are gonna be able to go further together, okay?
• 03:05 So I'll give you an example in my own business.
• 03:08 In 2001 after 9/11, the corporate parties came to a stand still, and
• 03:12 I had a special events company, and a lot of my clients were corporate clients.
• 03:18 So event companies that had been in business for
• 03:20 years were going out of business left and right.
• 03:23 And so we were in Beverly Hills, we had all the studios.
• 03:26 The studio stopped doing parties cuz nobody was really in the mood for
• 03:31 a corporate party after that had happened, right?
• 03:34 So my team and I,
• 03:35 we focused on getting together and what can we do to overcome this.
• 03:40 How can we attack this challenge together?
• 03:42 And what we came up with was if you remember back to 2001,
• 03:46 people were really starting to come together.
• 03:50 Remember that?
• 03:51 And people who had been dating for a while started to get married.
• 03:55 And people started to realized how much they loved each other and
• 03:58 wanted to come together.
• 03:59 So we said hey, you know what?
• 04:00 Why don't we take these same clients and start doing high-end weddings and
• 04:04 private parties.
• 04:06 And that's what we did.
• 04:07 And we built a whole another segment to our
• 04:10 business that we didn't even have before.
• 04:12 So when the corporate events did come back,
• 04:14 and eventually they did, we had instantly doubled our business.
• 04:19 So what appeared negative in the beginning was a huge win for our business.
• 04:24 And I'm so glad that I brought in that collaborative style of leadership
• 04:28 where we can get these ideas and
• 04:29 start thinking out of the box in some things we never thought of before.
• 04:33 Sound good?
• 04:33 Okay, good.
• 04:34 So remember, just to recap, collaborative style of leadership,
• 04:38 regardless if you're authoritarian or not, make it okay for your team to fail.
• 04:43 There is no success without failure and
• 04:46 your team can come up with solutions you didn't even think of.
• 04:49 And allow your team to contribute so
• 04:51 they take ownership of overcoming that challenge.
• 04:55 And don't point blame, make everyone responsible for the failures and
• 04:59 make everyone responsible for the successes.
• 05:01 All right, you guys got this and we'll see you in the next video.

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