Charles Dushek Presents Best Business Tips

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Charles Dushek Presents Best Business Tips

• As youre watching your favorite sporting team do
  battle on the playing field, you might just learn
  a few new business management techniques and
  discover a winning game plan for you and your
  team at work.
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• Also a humanitarian organization advisor, youth
  career coach and sports lover, Charles
  Dushek says that managers who take some of the
  key principles in sports and apply them to
  business and advisor volunteer work can coach
  their staff and business associates to
  premiership status. I think if corporate trained
  their staff like athletes theyd do 200 percent
  better, Chuck says.
• Charles J Dushek, whos helped coach staff at
  humanitarian organizations, originally
  established his sports-themed philosophy while
  running his own businesses in personal financial
  planning for families. To get the best out of his
  team and family clients, he began drawing on his
  experiences as a careers Social Enterprise
  Business coach to identify numerous qualities
  indoctrinated into athletes that translated into
  business teamwork and perseverance.
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• Before I started managing people, I had a full
  head of hair, jokes Chuck Dushek. I realized
  people management was the greatest challenge I
  would face if I wanted to succeed. I decided to
  draw on my experiences from the sporting world
  and approach managing people like a game of
  football, soccer or baseball. Coaching them to
  become what I call business athletes.
• Charles Dushek says that one of the biggest
  differences between elite athletes and most
  people at work and a key factor holding them
  back from better outcomes is just attitude.
• Seven out of ten people have a ho-hum attitude
  to work, whereas people in sports dont.
  Sportspeople want to be there and thats
  because their intrinsic passions are being
  pressed theyre engaged. Theres not the high
  level of engagement in workplaces, he says. The
  biggest common denominator between high
  performing people in elite sports and in
  successful companies is that they both focus on
  two things What do I want? and How do I get
  it? Their attitude is positive,
  solution-centric and self-managed.

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• He also believes that to get that level of
  engagement, managers should consider themselves
  as coaches personalizing their management
  approach to identify what motivates their staff
  and, as a result, encourage better performances. 
  People in general respond well to positive
  feedback that they are doing a great job.
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• The number one job a manager was being to fulfil
  their peoples untapped potential and to find
  their innate talents so they can manage people
  from their strengths and not their weaknesses,
  says Dushek.  A Key Belief of Peter Drucker is
  to focus on what a person can do, not what
  he/she cannot do.   We get a lot more progress
  when were focusing on peoples strengths, than
  when we focus on their weaknesses. Theyre more
  engaged and motivated to come to work and so they
  make a lot more progress. And progress is the
  drug of success. When people get addicted to
  progress amazing things happen. Adrenaline and
  momentum is created by ongoing and continuous
  victory.
• Encouraging staff to self-manage
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• Motivating Triggers are different from person
  to person, so its important that managers step
  away from a one size fits all belief, when
  managing people. According to Dushek, managers
  should teach staff how to effectively self-manage
  a trait elite sports people excel in.
• We need to manage people individually and I know
  for busy managers thats a lot more hard work,
  but if you truly want to get the most out of
  people you must understand that nobody is the
  same as somebody else, Dushek believes  We can
  be collective as teammates, but we are different
  as individuals.
• Another valuable lesson from successful sports
  teams is the attention to feedback. In the AFL,
  coaches tell their players what theyve done well
  at the end of the first quarter, so they know how
  to do better and how to adapt their game plan to
  succeed.  They are coached to success, not
  coached on how to avoid failure.  You Play to
  Win, not Play to Not-Lose.
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• In high performance sports, you get lots and
  lots of good feedback whether you want it or
  not, says Dushek. In AFL they get feedback
  every quarter, after the game and they get a
  video tape. And then they get feedback on their
  individual game. But in business, we have yearly
  reviews. And we wonder why were not getting it
  right.
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• Five traits of a successful business athlete
• Self Awareness Have the ability to get the most
  out of yourself by intimately understanding your
  own key drivers, strengths, blockages and
  challenges.
•  Confrontational The ability to address any
  situation with manners, professionalism and
  clarity, regardless of fear of offense or
  negative reactions.
•  Dedicated Stay focused and loyal, they never
  take their eye off the main objective or waiver
  of course.
•  Positive Be focused on the positive in every
  situation, no matter how challenging, and block
  out all negative internal thoughts.
•  Self-managed Be accountable and take
  responsibility for your own actions, be
  self-motivating and know how to manage yourself
  effectively.
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