Awareness And Mastery – Two well-known Keys To A Successful minute Business

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path."
~ George Leonard
US pioneer in human potential

We often hear managers complaining that their employees aren’t productive, don’t listen and unbiased can’t consistently earn the job done. As a youth sports coach, I hear coaches with similar complaints—the kids don’t listen, don’t know where to go and don’t try very hard. I can’t represent. The boys on my team are usually focused, do what I ask of them, and work hard. As a business owner, my employees are focused, do what I ask of them and work hard. What am I doing that is different from the rest? And what can this recount you about running a successful exiguous business?

As a coach, I build my boys’ jobs very simple. I ask only two things of them. I ask them to master one shot and I ask them to be aware of what is going on around them. Of course we work on defensive and offensive strategy, but both of those revolve around the two keys that I gave them for success—awareness and mastery.

I order awareness by constantly asking them to be aware of where the ball is and at the same time to be aware of their teammates are and where their opponents are. I relate them how to peruse the ball and their opponent when he doesn’t have the ball. Sounds simple, but for ten year olds this is work.

I recount mastery by assigning homework to each boy. The second week of practice, they have to explain me a position on the court from which they can perform a shot every time. I don’t care if it is from honest two feet under the basket. I want them to know they can compose it every single time. As the season progresses, they may gradually go their situation further and further out, but I detached ask that they be able to construct their shot every time unguarded in practice.

These two simple concepts have a huge enact on the boys during their games. They have astonishing confidence in their ability to create shots because they “know” that they will always design it. I don’t need to scream at them like other coaches about where they should be on the court because they have developed awareness of what they are doing and seeing. Now let’s glimpse how you can employ this in your successful itsy-bitsy business.

As a business owner, I place these two key principles to work in training my employees. From the first day on the job, I work with them to be aware of what tasks are needed, what I inquire of them, how I want customers treated, etc. And I ask them to master tasks and customer scripts. Once they are mastered, I start it up for them to adlib unprejudiced like with my players. When correction is needed, it is usually in one of these two areas. They are either unaware of what is needed or they haven’t mastered the task at hand.

Not only does following these two concepts create it easy for me to regain results with my players and employees, it also brings extraordinary results. My first team lost only one game all season and my employees rarely lose a sale. My businesses and products acquire awards earned by my employees. And, as a bonus, everyone enjoys themselves with this simple structure. I knew I was doing it just when the father of one of my boys told me that his boy enjoyed practice so mighty that he chose to approach to practice instead of going to study our professional basketball team play one night. And I know it works with my employees because they indicate up on time jubilant, focused and ready to work. Remember, awareness and mastery are two principal keys to a successful slight business.