WHAT DO HIGH PERFORMERS DO

Nigel Risner

I was speaking at a British Junior Chamber Conference yesterday, and as I left I was thinking about what do High Performers do that makes them special.
So I have put together five traits which I would like you mark yourselves against.
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Never doubt that if you have a dream, you share the vision and play with whomever shows up that everything is a possibility.

Here are five characteristics of people who perform.

1. Performers value their team-mates.

When you think about your team-mates, place a '10" on their heads. If we think of others as 10s, we'll do everything to add value to them. Our behaviour is totally different when we think of someone else as a two. Seeing others in the very best light makes the entire team better because usually our level of performance equals the level of value placed on us.

2. Performers know and relate to what their team-mates value.

Here's how you can tell if you value people: Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

When I want to know and relate to others, I look for five things. I want to know their dreams, values, skills, attitudes and life questions. We all have questions, by the way. If you can find the pathway to a person's questions, you can always find the pathway to a person's heart.

3. Performers add value to their team-mates.

Whatever the project, task or situation, enlargers find ways to make others around them better because they approach life as a win/win situation. They realise that making others better isn't just better for others, it's better for everyone. As the old adage goes, a rising tide lifts all boats.

4. Performers make themselves more valuable.

You cannot give what you do not have, so self-improvement precedes team improvement. The first step toward improving the team is to improve yourself. I've been teaching leadership for 20 years and I've written twenty-some books.
Here's what I know - the only way I can keep leading is to keep growing.

The greatest way that I can add value to my team is to make myself more valuable. If I can become a better player, if I can continually increase my skills, if I can continually become enlarged within myself, then I have the capacity to enlarge others. Too many people are still trying to give what they learned fifteen years ago, and they're in trouble.

5. Performers initiate.

Performers believe in others before they believe in themselves, serve others before they serve themselves, and add value to others before they add value to themselves. See the common thread? The word "before."

They have the ability to see potential in another person before they even see potential within themselves. They have the ability to start action. They have the ability to start belief. They are initiators.

Initiate. PERFORM. Be a great team player.

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