- Entrepreneur mindset, what do I mean by that?
Well, over the years,
I've been talking with mentees, students
about this topic.
Because once you switch your mindset,
you think that your employer
is actually your customer,
everything change.
If you think of yourself as your own company,
and you are providing a service to your employer,
that means that you always want to provide
the best service possible.
You always want to do your best,
regardless of your motivational state.
A lot of people, totally understandable,
they get very emotional if things go wrong
with the employer, and they start slacking off,
not delivering things that they should.
The reality is that's your name, your brand.
You are hurting yourself when you start slacking off
because you are giving ammunition
for your employer or your customer to say,
"Well, I'll let you go."
So you need to preserve your own brand.
Even if you are in tough situations,
even if you are not obtaining the amount
that you are putting in, which sometimes happens,
you need to preserve your name.
Now, of course, this means preserve your brand.
You start building this brand
and people start to look at you like,
"Hey, this person is excellent, professional.
I love working with this person," and this is spreaded out.
So if you're not having a good experience on your team
because, the reality is, many times,
management gets into the way.
You and your manager don't get along
or something that is happening.
You can move out to a different team,
but you only can do that if you preserve your brand,
if you continue to deliver with excellence.
So it's very important that you are active
and that you are putting into actions
because ideas are not enough.
Just say, "Oh, I have this idea here,"
and you bring your idea to your manager.
The manager says, "That's a great idea.
What are you gonna do about it?" Right?
So every time that you bring an idea, bring an action plan
to execute that idea.
Don't just bring the idea.
Same thing that you go to a meeting, you just criticize
and you don't provide solution.
If you just criticize the way that people
is gonna look at you or perceive you is as someone
difficult to work with, that is always criticizing
the work of others, but is not really providing
tangible solutions, right?
So be a leader. Be an enabler.
Learn how to collaborate.
Learn how to empower other people to do more
and learn how to delegate.
It's very important.
Sometimes you are on that state where you want
to do everything; that's not good either.
You need to learn how to empower others
by delegating activities so that you divide to conquer.
Everyone wins in this type of situation.
You cannot hold all information on activities
just because you only trust on yourself to do things.
If you only trust on yourself, then there's a problem.
You're not coaching other people to do better.
So remember that.