Saturday, November 17, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Truly wise parents, educators, and leaders are go-givers
Truly wise parents, educators and leaders are go-givers
Say Savuth
Obviously, go-givers always earn more. How?
By dedication to giving, one already starts opening the receiving current, via which path the gains need to come.
In the case of seminar participation, those who come well prepared to give/contribute to the learning session and environment will get more than those who come prepared to just get; because the latter don't have any opportunity to verify facts, figures, misunderstandings etc; they therefore gain less, even far less in most cases, while the first are ready to actively participate in and contribute to the learning environment.
In the case of working to gain practical experiences, those who give all they have (time, energy, effort, knowledge, talents etc) to whatever they do without thinking of the credit (rewards, pay, titles etc) will sooner or later earn more - because they gain for themselves the concrete practical experience via which they can make a better living, if not a fortune, later on. They then shift from being dependent on just others, to being independent and being interdependent.
On parenthood. Those parents who choose to give their little kids attention, loving-kindness and caring will earn all these in great amount later on in life. Direct results can be proved with that their kids becoming more brilliant, brighter, more successful and more responsible in the society. Indirect ones are inclusive of that cases of crime and social problems decreasing in the society resulting from the fact that their kids have always been nurtured to become responsible, solutions-oriented and compassionate citizens since their earlier age.
On teaching students. Giving (faithful and caring) teachers, lecturers and professors choose to pay their full attention to their students' knowledge, curiosity, turning points (points that intrigue their mind), before teaching and inspiring the inquisitive learners. That way they can ensure their teaching is effective and their worthwhile mission in building qualified and solution-oriented human resource for the nation and the world can be highly appreciated by all on earth.
On training and people development. Trainers can not develop their great training materials without firstly giving their focused attention to their potential trainees' base knowledge and learning needs. From training needs analysis to quality delivery, trainers must ensure they remain open-minded, attentive, learner-focused, listening besides flexible to give out the best they can.
On corporate department leadership. Directors will find their directions more efficiently and effectively implemented if more of their undivided attention is paid to their staff. Directors can always choose to give all they have to teams for speedy and efficient work. Such things as listen attentively to their team, respect and honestly appreciate their team contribution, care more for their people are indeed invaluable. Wise directors can achieve more by selecting, trusting in and nurturing their great team members. By choosing to build leaders, their department will enjoy an exponential growth later on in serving both types of their clients - internal and external ones.
On enterprise leadership. Giving counts even much more. Entrepreneurs who know how to firstly give will find that they have all they need to speed up their business growth. This giving is required at every moment of their business operations. That starts from choosing to offer the best quality service possible to selecting and trusting in the best talents to help serve their clients the most cost-efficient they can.
Giving entrepreneurs choose to firstly give to all their stakeholders: staff, investors, clients, suppliers, competitors, government and communities with whom and in which they operate their business. They are the type of strategic thinkers and optimists in the issues they are striving to tackle, or in the quality service they are determined to provide. They are highly committed to being winners from the very beginning, and they no doubt will in the end.
On community leadership at grassroots level. More than ever open-minded, friendly and humble personalities have been making up the majority. In terms of prosperity, a few are rich, most are poor, and the poorest are very rare. Yet they choose to give without any expectation, regardless of their personal economic status. All they want is that theirs would one day become better and more prosperous communities.
On Cambodian politicians. Unfortunately, the reverse seems to be true. Rarely have we noticed leaders (both ruling and oppositions) being the go-givers. Often, they choose to be the reverse. For one to gain a better advantage over the others - in most cases, they should take a softened approach by adopting the feminine stance, never the masculine, if ever can national interest (peace, prosperity, stability, participation in development, people etc) be put first.
Buddha taught us 'hatred can never end with hatred, but with love. We reap whatever we have seeded. We gain whatever we have given.' This encourages us to begin with the end in mind. He encourages us to not pass onto others what we don't want for ourselves.
One should start becoming solution-oriented and go-giving, because that can give Cambodia what her people have been long hungry for; I believe Cambodia as a whole prefer prosperity, oneness, unity, stability, peace etc. Leaders, educators and parents should therefore take the leading role models by choosing to firstly give, and to firstly be softened. They should take teams and people using a peaceful, open-minded and humble approach toward win-win solutions.
May all Cambodian parents, educators and leaders choose first to be attentive listeners and faithful go-givers. May all be united. May Cambodia be more prosperous sooner. May Cambodia remain forever united. Long live Cambodia, the Kingdom of Wonder!
---END---
Thursday, November 15, 2012
8 people factors required for successful entrepreneurs
Say Savuth
16 November 2012
It's all about people. If an entrepreneur has good people skills, s/he will be able to handle his/her tasks very well as an entrepreneur and especially succeed with the following 8 people factors. Below are 8 common people factors that (potential) entrepreneurs should adopt in their mindset for them to be very competitive in any industry they are going to enter.
People factor 1: (leaders, entrepreneurs, partners, founders, co-founders). They should be client-oriented, professional, humble, friendly, frugal, industrial, just etc. - role model. They tend to select those who want to deliver the best service for their clients. They always treat their staff the way they want their clients to be treated. They know that they need to hire those with good character, and they train them skills.
People factor 2: (directors, managers, supervisors, frontline staff). They should have similar characters to or same as their leaders/founders. Those founders with good character normally attract into their business like-minded personalities. More often than not, they share common personalities.
People factor 3: (clients). Not everyone can become your clients. There needs to be primary targets, and secondary targets. As entrepreneurs, you'll need to identify for your own focus. If you don't have clients to concentrate your focus on, I don't think you have anything to focus on. If you have too many of them, you just can't focus. If you don't focus, you don't seem to be able to deliver your clients quality service.
Next, everyone at the company needs to be client-oriented. They should be willing to service clients. There are two types of clients - the internal and external ones. As an entrepreneur, you'll need to ensure you can service your internal clients very well; so that they can service your external clients well too. If your internal clients are not happy, you can't expect your external ones to become well-satisfied with your service. That will never be possible. And again, your staff need to have good people skills for them to service their clients well.
People factor 4: (suppliers). In business, you're no longer alone. You need suppliers. You need the cost-effective ones. And you need the trusted ones. If for schools, universities, you'll need the most client-oriented teachers, lecturers, professors at an affordable fee; if for cake bakers, you'll need to ensure you're well connected to your raw material suppliers; if for drinking water, you'll need trusted suppliers of your parts. Can you have those great ones, if you and your team are not good at people skills? Not likely.
People factor 5: (bankers, friends, relatives). You'll need to keep very good credit to ensure you can have access to either capital financing or debt financing from friends, relatives and/or banks. Besides that good credit, you need great people skills.
People factor 6: (media representatives). If you're talking about media, you may say it's about an institution; yes, it is; but it's composed of people. And you'll need to talk to people to get your voice heard, to move your way up; whether that's press release, or press conference. You need your great people skills to get yourself well connected to those media representatives. But to play it fair with the media, make sure you do care for the public, because media is of the mass public. It exists to communicate things that are necessary for the mass public to get well informed of. If your cause is of major public interest, media would be on your side. Hence, you need to bear with yourself both public interest and good people skills.
People factor 7: (friends, best friends and family members). As an entrepreneur, you may feel like you're alone at times. So, make sure you got a few good and understanding friends who you can turn to for advices and encouragement. Your heart needs that sense of togetherness, happiness, understanding and peace. Without few understanding friends around, you may find it hard to remain satisfied, peaceful and successful.
People factor 8: (networking with others, internally and externally). You can be with your senior directors, managers, with your clients, with your suppliers, with your competitors etc. Spend some time to get better connected to others. And nowadays, there are just too many networking and training events in Phnom Penh. Besides those training events, you can get connected to communities of entrepreneurs via chambers of commerce, business clubs and associations. You can never know! They may become your friends -very close ones, clients, suppliers, advisors etc. Just keep building networks and never burn the bridge; because you never know when you may need to use that bridge in the future. You can succeed in this network building, only if you have good people skills.
16 November 2012
It's all about people. If an entrepreneur has good people skills, s/he will be able to handle his/her tasks very well as an entrepreneur and especially succeed with the following 8 people factors. Below are 8 common people factors that (potential) entrepreneurs should adopt in their mindset for them to be very competitive in any industry they are going to enter.
People factor 1: (leaders, entrepreneurs, partners, founders, co-founders). They should be client-oriented, professional, humble, friendly, frugal, industrial, just etc. - role model. They tend to select those who want to deliver the best service for their clients. They always treat their staff the way they want their clients to be treated. They know that they need to hire those with good character, and they train them skills.
People factor 2: (directors, managers, supervisors, frontline staff). They should have similar characters to or same as their leaders/founders. Those founders with good character normally attract into their business like-minded personalities. More often than not, they share common personalities.
People factor 3: (clients). Not everyone can become your clients. There needs to be primary targets, and secondary targets. As entrepreneurs, you'll need to identify for your own focus. If you don't have clients to concentrate your focus on, I don't think you have anything to focus on. If you have too many of them, you just can't focus. If you don't focus, you don't seem to be able to deliver your clients quality service.
Next, everyone at the company needs to be client-oriented. They should be willing to service clients. There are two types of clients - the internal and external ones. As an entrepreneur, you'll need to ensure you can service your internal clients very well; so that they can service your external clients well too. If your internal clients are not happy, you can't expect your external ones to become well-satisfied with your service. That will never be possible. And again, your staff need to have good people skills for them to service their clients well.
People factor 4: (suppliers). In business, you're no longer alone. You need suppliers. You need the cost-effective ones. And you need the trusted ones. If for schools, universities, you'll need the most client-oriented teachers, lecturers, professors at an affordable fee; if for cake bakers, you'll need to ensure you're well connected to your raw material suppliers; if for drinking water, you'll need trusted suppliers of your parts. Can you have those great ones, if you and your team are not good at people skills? Not likely.
People factor 5: (bankers, friends, relatives). You'll need to keep very good credit to ensure you can have access to either capital financing or debt financing from friends, relatives and/or banks. Besides that good credit, you need great people skills.
People factor 6: (media representatives). If you're talking about media, you may say it's about an institution; yes, it is; but it's composed of people. And you'll need to talk to people to get your voice heard, to move your way up; whether that's press release, or press conference. You need your great people skills to get yourself well connected to those media representatives. But to play it fair with the media, make sure you do care for the public, because media is of the mass public. It exists to communicate things that are necessary for the mass public to get well informed of. If your cause is of major public interest, media would be on your side. Hence, you need to bear with yourself both public interest and good people skills.
People factor 7: (friends, best friends and family members). As an entrepreneur, you may feel like you're alone at times. So, make sure you got a few good and understanding friends who you can turn to for advices and encouragement. Your heart needs that sense of togetherness, happiness, understanding and peace. Without few understanding friends around, you may find it hard to remain satisfied, peaceful and successful.
People factor 8: (networking with others, internally and externally). You can be with your senior directors, managers, with your clients, with your suppliers, with your competitors etc. Spend some time to get better connected to others. And nowadays, there are just too many networking and training events in Phnom Penh. Besides those training events, you can get connected to communities of entrepreneurs via chambers of commerce, business clubs and associations. You can never know! They may become your friends -very close ones, clients, suppliers, advisors etc. Just keep building networks and never burn the bridge; because you never know when you may need to use that bridge in the future. You can succeed in this network building, only if you have good people skills.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
