Six Childlike Behaviours You Need for Your Business

Cashmanager | 7 years ago

There’s no place for childlike behaviours in the workplace! Well actually, there are many behaviours that we were taught or learn from a young age that we should be applying to our business mindset.

Be creative, confident and innovative

If your five-year-old self had just spent two hours planning to build a fort and slay dragons in the garden, would we accept someone telling us that we couldn’t or that they didn’t exist? As we get older, we develop an inane crippling fear of self-doubt that suppresses our creativity and ability to succeed.

Creative imagination is essential for innovation, and ingenuity is the core of modern entrepreneurship.

Do not obsess over your mistakes and performance. Negative thoughts and self-criticism will be destructive to you and your business.

Be kind

If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. We can apply this saying to your management style: if you only have negative feedback, turn it into constructive criticism.

Your employees are a product of your management. Employees that were hired above their skill and have not received the correct training will struggle in their role, and if they are told they’re not good at their job, they will feel undervalued and unproductive. 

Engage with every person in the company and make them feel that they are an integral part of your business success. Help identify and improve their weaknesses and scope opportunities for them to use their strengths. Expand this sincere appreciation to your clients, partners and customers.

Have role models

Idols and mirrored behavious should not be something we grow out of as we get older. Use successful companies and their CEO’s as inspiration for where we want to be.

Every great entrepreneur will tell you that they didn’t earn success over night. Read about their journey; the setbacks, the hard work and the achievements, and use this for inspiration for your own; and never be too proud to take advice.

Network and schmooze

Children are fickle at relationships, but an admirable quality is their confident approach to networking, and their persistence at making friends through kindness and flattery. New people excite them and present an opportunity.

Relationships can be testing at times but for them to work, they need maintenance and neglected relationships will disperse over time. 

You never know in business when the person you met at a conference the year before could become a valuable contact. Keep in contact with all the people you encounter in your business journey, even if it’s just sending them a Christmas greeting. A phone call asking for their help a few months down the line will be much more welcomed.

Pick yourself up and try again

You didn’t learn to walk over night. There would have been multiple falls, setbacks, injuries and frustrations. When presented with difficult tasks, repetitive failure didn’t hinder our pursuit for success.

A business venture is not a smooth road and there will be setbacks and obstacles. The key is to overcome them, don’t give up and keep going until you get it right.

Trade to benefit everyone

Just as we swapped cards in the playground, utilising strengths across businesses through partnering, can be beneficial to everyone involved. By pooling their resources and expertise through merging with similarly minded companies, businesses are able to achieve goals that may have been unattainable independently.

It could be as simple as reciprocated recommendations, or businesses may want to share a skillset to expand, develop new products or make the move into new markets.

 

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