Today's TQ

Daily Lessons in Intentional Excellence
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Who's Ready To Go From A Good Performer To A Star Performer?

Don't always delegate to the best and brightest. Take time to develop everyone's skills, thereby increasing overall team esteem and morale.

Think of yourself as a mentor. Lead others to their full potential through careful delegation of additional challenges and responsibilities.

Today's TQ Challenge: Help Others Achieve Personal Excellence.

Choose to be SUPPORTIVE! What can you do to ensure that everyone is given a chance to grow and excel?
Choose to be EMPOWERING! Who on your team is ready for more responsibility?
Choose to be NURTURING! What challenge could you delegate today, and to whom?

When managing others, your primary responsibility is to do whatever you can to help them accomplish their tasks -- to the best of their abilities -- in as short a period of time as possible. Your productivity is not measured by how much you can get done in a day, but by how much your team accomplishes as a whole. You must learn how to coach and support co-workers without taking on their duties and responsibilities. No one learns if you do their work for them. Create an environment where everyone's performance is raised to their highest potential possible -- and mutual goals are achieved timely.

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." ~ Stevie Wonder

Think about it. How well and how often do you actually DO Synergize Factor 7D?

"I coach and support others to get their work done as well, and as quickly as possible."

A high commitment (7D rated 8 or better) suggests you know the payoff in helping others succeed. You consistently support and empower others to achieve their personal best. You help others by inspiring them to achieve their best -- at all times. You create this inspiration with sincere praise for things done well -- and with honest feedback that identifies and reinforces preferred behaviors. Your genuine interest in the progress of others is evident, and you love the pride and satisfaction felt when others succeed as a direct result of your influence.

On the other hand...

A lack of commitment suggests you are someone who makes high demands on others -- and then waits to see what happens. This applies to your relationships with your family and friends as much as it does to your co-workers. Your "requests" may come across as "unrealistic demands." Or, you clearly tell people what you want, but then you offer them no feedback or support along the way. Whether you do this out of ignorance, inexperience or insecurity, you fail to understand that to get more from others, you have to give more.

What happens when you CHOOSE to do Factor 7D a bit more frequently?

Your support and care earns the respect and loyalty of team members as they excel at what they do. You accumulate performance positives like "Supportive, Empowering and Encouraging" -- immediately moving you towards the results you expect.

What happens when you FAIL to consistently do Factor 7D?

Your team members fail to live up to their potential -- and so do you. Negatives like "Unsupportive, Critical and Demanding" start to take their toll on your performance -- quickly moving you away from the success you want.

Now Ask Yourself This...
Is Factor 7D Causing You Problems?

If you believe this factor is a key performance obstacle -- and that it's preventing you from realizing your personal dreams and goals -- then you need to improve it.

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