Who are you when you're great?
Lisa Haneberg over at Management Craft does a brain dump of open ended questions on her blog today. One of them especially caught my eye:
Who are you being when you are GREAT? We all are great at one time or another. Some of us more than others. But it is useful to think about who you are being when you are great. What are you thinking? How are you feeling? How do you begin the day? What does your voice sound like? What can you achieve? How do you choose (and we do choose) when to be great?
I would add a couple more questions to that list:
* How do you define great?
* HOW are you being when you're great?
* What's stopping you from being great more often?
* What are some small ways you can build that greatness into your everyday life?
Curt Rosengren
Having been a Corporate Trainer at several different points in my career, the times that I reach 'greatness' (your word) involve the sessions of training wherein the participants and the material gell.
Too often there are times when one or more participants simply do not wish to attend the session, or that the software being taught crashes, or other acts of Murphy's Law causes continuity to go out the window.
Then there are times when all is right, and the virtual 'light-bulbs' can be seen over the heads of the participants, and you know you are in the zone.
Posted by: Charlie on the Pennsylvania Turnpike | February 01, 2005 at 08:32 AM
So, who are you when you are great?
Posted by: Troy Worman | February 01, 2005 at 09:00 PM