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Dr. Henry Cloud, author of Integrity, identified two key traits essential to success in the workplace (and life itself.) Look at each one and ask yourself how your peers would rate you if they could answer anonymously.
1. The ability to connect authentically which ultimately leads to trust. Connecting "authentically" means, in Dr. Cloud's terms, is dealing with the people as they are without regard to race religion, sex, age, OR WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR YOU IN RETURN.
If you help someone because you genuinely want to help them, then you connect authentically.
With whom have you connected authentically recently? (This does not have to be in the workplace.)What led you to make that connection?Do you think that was a rare occurrence or common?Who has connected authentically with you recently?What was your reaction to what they did?Ifthey were a coworker, would you be willing to help them in return sometime without them asking for help?What do you think this statement about trust means: "Trust is historic?"How does that relate to you?2. The ability to be oriented toward the truth (which leads to finding and operating in reality)
How well are your hopes and dreams anchored in truth/reality? The example we think of here is the television show, American Idol, and viewing the auditions. While there are certainly people who have dreams of being successful singers and have the skills to support them, there are obviously many others who also have a dream but are not in touch with the truth; i.e., the reality that they have absolutely no talent at all.
Any viewer watching some of those hopefuls as they screech and scream in a strange variety of costumes and outfits must ask himself or herself, "What are they thinking? How can they believe they actually have the talent to get on to a singing show?"
Are your career hopes and dreams solidly anchored in the truth (reality) or are they based on some false hopes that deny reality? Can you accept the fact that being tone deaf and unable to carry a tune will actually keep you from winning a singing contest?
Another risk of not living in reality is the danger that it can seriously harm you.
Jim Collins, the author of "Good to Great", interviewed retired Admiral James Stockdale, USN, who served on active duty in the regular Navy for 37 years, most of those years at sea as a fighter pilot aboard aircraft carriers.
Shot down on his third combat tour over North Vietnam, he was the senior naval service prisoner of war in Hanoi for 7-1/2 years - tortured 15 times, in solitary confinement for four years, leg irons for two.
Mr. Collins asked which prisoners did not make it through the years of prisoner-of-war confinement. His reply, "Oh, that's easy. The optimists!"
When the author admitted he did not understand, the Admiral clarified by saying, "The optimists were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' Christmas would come and go. Then they would say, 'We'll be out by Easter.' Easter would come and go. Then it would be Thanksgiving and Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart."
Then he turned to the author and said, "This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they may be."
Another consideration for truth and career success is our self-imposed limitations.
How many times have you heard someone (or you) say something like, "I'm too old to learn about... or... I'm not smart enough to understand that...or...I never finished high school and can't..."
A fact of human nature is that if we argue hard enough for our own limitations, we will always have them.
What limitations have you imposed on yourself as an excuse for why things are not working out for you? (Something like, "My schedule is so busy I don't have time for _______.")What opportunities do you think you have missed in life because of these self-imposed barriers?What do you plan to do about them?Can you keep these barriers and still expect to achieve all of the things about which you dream?Do you expect to move upward in your career without formal or technical education beyond high school just by wishing for it or thinking you somehow 'deserve it?'Do you actually think your propensity for unusual styles of clothing, body piercings or extensive tattoos will not slow down your advancement at work - at least working in a non "arts related" occupation?Do you really think that arriving for work just in time, taking every minute available for lunch and breaks, while being the first out the door at the end of the day will help your career?The truth/reality is simply fulfilling the job description is the least you can do to remain employed. If you want to move upward, you must show your employers that you are worthy of consideration.
In addition, you must extend yourself first without asking for what you will get in return if you want to be successful. While there is no guarantee that you will be successful if you do this, it is virtually guaranteed that you will not move upward if you do not.
And that is the truth.
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