The Secret to an Unstoppable Business: There's Nothing to Fear
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Fear can halt businesses like no other emotion. People of every nation in the world know this same powerful feeling. When fear is in the workplace, nothing else saps the efficiency, morale, and momentum from your organization like it.
How then can you make your business an effective and unstoppable force? Gayle Gregory, motivational coach, leadership consultant, and co-author of the book "The Grand Experiment: An Expedition of Self-Discovery", feels that the key to an unstoppable business is identifying and eliminating the fears present in the minds of its employees. "The source of innovation is a place of fearlessness where we are not trying to force things to happen," says Gregory.
Gregory has identified seven fundamental fears found in the human psyche that are reflected in everything, from personal lives to careers. "The seven fears are universal," Gregory observes. Everyone in the workplace, from those at the top to those at the bottom can find some aspect of all seven fears within them. These fears are not always something people are aware of yet they have a profound effect upon the creativity, interactivity, and efficiency of a business workplace.
Gregory challenges that the world is not a scary place, but rather, an individual's own perspective determines their intimidation level. There are thousands of possible ways to interpret the situations presented everyday. How to react is your decision. To dismantle the fear of the world, make a conscious decision to react proactively to a challenge rather than in a negative manner. "The world just is," advises Gregory, "You give it meaning."
To determine the unstoppability factor of your workplace, you must first identify the fears and where they are hiding. When fear is present, employees lose passion for the work they do and find excuses to do it as little as possible or put it off. "Go out into the workplace and find out what prevents people from doing their work," Gregory says. "Why are they standing around vending machines having conversations? What are those conversations about? Its all fear based." When your employees are feeling fear instead of a passion to accomplish their work, your business is crippled and it will show with little red flags of time-wasting excuses.
The next step to making your company unstoppable is to take the power out of each fear. Most managers and leaders find the process is difficult at first because it requires open discussion and admission of individual fears. Few employees are comfortable being so open. "The only thing that holds fear in place is our unwillingness to look at it," Gregory shares, "As soon as you place your fear out on the table, it begins to dissolve and lose it's power." Gregory teaches managers to take the initiative and lay out each of the specific fears to be discussed. This proactive method creates a shared purpose that goes a long way to managing the discomfort associated with sharing personal fear.
Gregory, who once held a lucrative position in a Fortune 500 company, left to explore the human condition by sailing to Mexico. Through her own introspection and spirituality, while sailing the Sea of Cortez, she realized what she learned about human fears realized had held her back. Knowing how costly fear can be in a work environment, Gayle now enjoys motivating and energizing the business world by purging their workplace fears, which she sees keeping all companies from reaching their fullest potentials.
To gain a competitive edge, your business needs to be bold and innovative. Fear prevents your company and it's employees from using their energy to be courageous and innovative. In an enterprise where fear is present, internal conflict also often diminishes a workplace or department's ability to function smoothly as a team.
A business that is has fighting amongst its workers cannot also effectively fight its competition. "We're so busy competing with each other that we forget to compete with competitors in the marketplace," warns Gregory. Fear that there is not enough resources, time, favor, and other commodities for all breed individualistic attitudes rather than team players and undermine the innovative ability of a team. To stop this, encourage an attitude of even cooperation among your employees. Employees that are afraid to share their ideas or work together cripple the overall productivity of the workplace with their fears.
In the end, the unstoppability of your business lies with your decision to expose fears rather than let them rest. A fear no matter how small or well-hidden, decreases your company's performance. Even if your business achieves its goal for the future, you are settling for far less than your maximum potential by not managing the fears within the organization and its workers. The morale of a work enviornment expands exponentially the vision of what you and your enterprise can do. "When you take the fear away, the automatic outcome is you energize your performance," says Gregory.
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'Dr. Proactive' Randy Gilbert enjoys producing "Inside Business Success," hosted by Jan Schleicher. Access Gayle Gregory's interview for free by visiting: Gayle Gregory Learn how to Build Team Morale and Stop Business Fear
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