Growth!!.... Is it time to celebrate or commiserate?
Growth!!..... Is it a time to celebrate or commiserate?
Here's some good news for you.
I am lucky enough to have worked with some great organisations and people over the years and some of them are experiencing great success and growth. Here are a couple of examples of recent success and growth:

1) Andrew and Sam, Queenstown - my amazing partners at Lead the Way running leadership workshops with horses - 
Andrew has just published his first book,
 telling his story about horse whispering and how he has cultivated his art!

2)  Tigerspike 
- Digital pioneers innovating and re-imagining the future of the world through a mobile-first lens -
been awarded mobile competency as a consulting partner by Amazon and turned 13 this month!

3) AKA Asia 
- independent communications agency that's packing a punch when it comes to creating powerful campaigns 
- over the last few months have been winning numerous awards for their PR work, with the latest from Spikes Asia 2016! 

4) Heineken - most of you will know this company - launched a new and innovative hiring campaign called  Going Places  - check it out!

Congratulations to all of you!
And those of you not in the list above, there are 'quiet achievements' happening all the time so if you look closely enough there is always something to celebrate.

I feel torn though. I am witnessing great growth and success stories and I am seeing Managers (and people I care for who are Managers) struggling. And I hasten to add,  not necessarily in the organisations / teams I mention above.

What do I see? : 

They're stuck - they doubt their ability, they expect to fail.
They hide - they stick their head in the sand and pretend it's not happening.
They flap - they forget the green cross code - to stop, look and listen. 

I want to celebrate but at the same time I want to commiserate. Growth is great. Success is great! We all wish for it but we are not always ready for it. I am reminded of the old saying, "be careful what you wish for."

However, help is at hand! Below are a few things I have seen and also developed that are helping me and others I work with manage the highs and lows of growth. I hope you find them useful.

Don't stop growing and keep smiling!
Use your time and skill wisely

You have a million things to do, at least 10 people have said they want to talk to you about something TODAY, you have a conference call tonight you still need to prepare for. Oh and you've just got back from a week traveling and not spent any time with your family and you have dinner engagements all week.
Sound familiar?
You need to make sure you use your time and skill wisely.
 
Collaborate to Accelerate

A client from a small technology business, located here in Singapore shared a recent challenge with me: they had a new project that kicked off a couple of months ago which was going to bring in much needed revenue. The leadership team and people involved were really excited and it started out great but recently things had slipped, people were bickering and some streams of work had stopped. 
He thought it was due to teamwork but as he started to identify behaviours it was clear the issues was Collaboration (or lack thereof).

Be like an elastic band (or a push puppet)

Imagine an elastic band, it can stretch and stretch and will re-form. It may have changed a little bit, might be a bit looser, not quite as tight (sounds like turning 40!) but ultimately it is still an elastic band.

Why don't all humans have the same response to being stretched and pressured? We think we're coping until the pressure comes off a little and we realise we are a a little broken and mere shadows of our real, former selves.


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