Don’t be a fool and do things at the last minute. Be wise and do things straight away.
In life everybody seems to be extremely busy with something, whether it is at home or the workplace. But when we’re busy, are we just busy or are we actually getting things done and making things happen?
There are people all over the world who are inspirational and can make things happen for themselves and for others. Are you an inspirational person who can make things happen?
1. Building Trust
When you make things happen, you are building trust with the people who are involved. This is a great thing, but what would be even greater is if you can make things happen sooner than is expected. If you can do this, then you are increasing your influence and building trust even more.
Trust is the foundation of leadership and influence. When you make the decision to do things sooner than is expected of you, the foundation of trust you are building will be stronger.
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This will benefit you today, and in the future because you will be asked to take on more responsibility by doing bigger and better things.
When you are building trust with others, you are growing their confidence in you. With this confidence you will be empowered to get on with more important things.
We’ve discussed taking on more responsibility in my other articles, and the expectations on you will grow. But, when you are doing things earlier than you are expected to then your boss will grow their confidence in you. You will become the go to person for new tasks and projects.
Your boss will lose confidence in you if you do things later than is expected of you. When they lose confidence in you, they will have no choice but to depend on somebody else for new ideas/recommendations. This will also create distrust in you along with the reduced confidence.
A train cannot move on time if it is stood still. You cannot beat your expectations if you don’t do anything.
If you create distrust with others, no matter if they are your boss, your friends, or your family, you will have no influence. The only ways you can influence somebody without any trust is if they have to follow you.
For example, if you are in a leadership position in a job, or you have a leadership job title. Or, if you manipulate a person with your physical presence or intimidate them. We both know you are not going to do that because it will just make things a lot worse.
Every principle you are reading in my articles has been practiced by me and many others all over the world, so if you put them into action then you will build strong trust with others.
2. Moral Authority
If you don’t do anything with what you learn, or you do the exact opposite to each principle then you will only create distrust with others.
We have discussed moral authority in other articles, and with this there is no need for job positions or job titles, and manipulation or intimidation will be non-existent. Your influence increases with others because they respect you, and the more they respect you the more your influence increases.
They respect you because of who you are, and they trust you because of how you are developing your character every day. You can lead absolutely anybody in the world with moral authority and character development.
When you do things sooner than is expected of you, this puts you in an amazing position to build trust and increase your influence with others. The relationship you have with your boss, friends, or family will only strengthen the more you beat your expectations.
3. Relationships
Do you have the desire to put the effort in, go the extra mile and excel at what you do to strengthen the relationships with the important people around you?
The important people around you are important because one day in the future you may need their help. So, by strengthening the relationship you have with as many of these people as possible, building trust and increasing your influence will be very important.
When I was an engineering production manager in Scotland in 2011, I was surprised at how many people were not willing to help each other because it wasn’t their job. While people were not willing to help others in our workplace, we were delivering later than was expected from our senior leaders.
This was creating distrust with our senior leaders, and I was lacking trust in the teams I was leading on shift.
So, I did my best to try and turn this around through leading by example. If I could show others in our workplace how I was trying to help others, then maybe they would follow my example. After a while they did follow my example, and more people were helping each other when it was needed.
4. Beating Your Expectations
When this happened, we started delivering earlier, and we were beating our expectations. The trust between myself and the teams grew, and between me and the senior leaders.
When this happened, I increased my influence with the teams and the senior leaders in a positive way. The teams increased their influence with me in a positive way and we were able to leverage our influence to keep building on the momentum of helping others.
I am very sure that when doing this I got some positive word-of-mouth advertising among the senior leaders also.
You cannot make a person trust you. The decisions you make and act upon will either build trust or create distrust with people. With the decisions you make and act upon, people can make the decision to trust you or not.
If a person decides to not trust you, that is all down to you, it has nothing to do with them. What decisions are you going to make to make you trustworthy?
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When you trust someone, you can make things happen. When you don’t trust someone, it is very difficult to make anything happen.
When you trust someone, it is all possible. When you don’t trust someone, it is nearly impossible.
When you trust someone, your relationship gets stronger. When you don’t trust someone, your relationship gets weaker.
When you trust someone, you know it. When you don’t trust someone, you will never know it.
The future you want to create for yourself and with others depends on who you trust. What decisions do you need to make to build trust with others? What differences do you want to make in the lives of others? Who do you want to build trust with? How are you going to make things happen?
A quitter never wins, a winner never quits.
To become successful, you need to do the things you don’t like doing, even when you can’t be bothered to do them.
I welcome hearing how this post has influenced the way you think, the way you lead, or the results you have achieved because of what you’ve learned in it. Please feel free to share your thoughts with me by commenting below.
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