Tag: yourself

How Do I Get Someone To Change?

Everyone wants to know how to change someone, it seems. I get the idea – if I can change my team, then I can push MY work to the next level.

So, you have an abundance of tools and techniques on the internet. It’ easy to find, type in “top ten ways to ch” on Google and watch Google not only finish the sentence but then provide hundreds of pages of results.

Well, lucky for you, I am going to save you a ton of time and give you three instead of ten.

Even better, they all start with the same word:

• Over-index
• Over-correct
• Over-communicate

That’s it.

Next, you have to deal with “who cares.”

What do I mean?

Who cares:

• That you put that much work in
• That you made sure the work looks great
• That you bothered to tell everyone

Depending on where you are, it may even annoy people. I’ve worked in a few places where what I do makes me a weirdo.

Why? You end up with just the hard parts:

• Doing it every day
• Working in the darkness
• Staying on target

Then that annoyance turns into respect. That respect gets contagious.  The rest of the team begins to lean in.

The key isn’t to change them, far more easy to improve yourself. Humans love to model the behavior around them.