More than 10 years ago, in October 18, 2007, at the Howard Johnson Hotel in Bucharest, HR Club organized a conference at which I’ve first seen Nigel Risner. His talk was about “How to Create IMPACT as an HR Partner”.
At some point, he asked for volunteers for a task which anyone should have volunteered to (be in front of people, be applauded). He picked the fastest person to raise his hand, and then asked a curious question to a participant – “Why didn’t you raise your hand?”. And the answer came “He was faster than me.”, to which Nigel replied “So, it’s his fault?” (I wrote about this previously on the blog).
There’s one more thing – at the event, people were sitting on chairs. He said something like, „OK, try to get to the highest height. Do your best. Give all you can to do it.” People complied. Then he said, „Now do it more”. And people did it more. Question – The request was clear the first time. Why the need to specify „do it more”? Initially, people, including myself, didn’t do it as often. (I’m not 100% sure it was at this event, but I think so)
I see things like this all around me: 1. People blame others, not taking accountability. 2. When people work, they don’t work as much as they could.
Of course, I also do this.
And I consider this to be life’s coaching solution.
