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This week, our list is from losers.   But they aren’t really losers.  They are just “disguised” as losers.  Just think if you could find the winner – even the champion – in everyone on your team!  How much more productive would your team be?  What would happen to the bottom line?

Finding the winner in someone who is “‘disguised” as a loser is to me, one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences in management.  It requires a lot of patience.  And a lot of faith that there really is a winner in there somewhere.   When that faith is running low, resources like these help a lot:   

• High Expectations from Pygmalion  
•  80% Perform Below Capability 
• Quote of the Week: On Winners & Losers

Now – on to this week’s Quick List.  10 Tips from Losers on how to find the winner in them.

1. Make it very clear what you expect from me (what, how much, by when?).  For more on this, see series that begins with Quote of the Week:  #1 Killer of Productivity.
2. Expect a lot from me.  I may not be delivering a lot now.  But I am capable.  For more on this, see series that begins with Quote of the Week:  Expect A Lot.
3. Tell me how you measure success and progress toward success and give me a tool for tracking this myself – on a daily, weekly, monthly basis.  See suggestion for this in #3 of 10 Steps for Push to Goal and #3 in The Joy of Independence.
4. Tell me when we’ll meet again to review progress.  Tell me who to contact (and how to contact them) if I need help in the interim.
5. When we meet to review progress, give me your undivided attention.
6. Recognize me and show appreciation when I make my goals – and when I make progress toward them.
7. When I don’t make my goals, don’t beat me up.  Instead – ask me what I think I need in order to do better next time.*
8. Tell me/teach me  how to get better.  For ideas, see The Joy of Independence.
9. Care about me, my interests and my success.
10. Encourage me, push me in fun and challenging ways.*

And one last thing – no matter how much I resist sometimes, PLEASE find the winner in me.

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*More stories coming throughout the week.  So please come back!