You Want to Become a More Successful someone? Read This Story.

Do you want to make the process of change towards a better life? Doing the change of behavior (behavior change) that you grow into a successful private nan prosperous? Or maybe you wanted to make the process of change for the company's performance and your organization become more sleek. Conducting the process of "organizational change" that worked?

The theme of change - both in the realm of personal or organizational - has long been a hot topic in management circles. Just unfortunately, many initiatives of change (change management) that failed and nyungsep in the middle of the road, and then foundered. Why be like this?

And what should be cuddled closely whenever we want to make a successful change process - both on a personal level or organizational?

A number of expert behavior (behavioral expert) called the process of change often become ineffective due to begin with weakness-based approach to orientation. Often also referred to as problem-based orientation. The point is this: change initiative begins with the premise that there is something "wrong" in us or our organization. That we or our organization has many deficiencies (weakness), and problems.

For that and then we conducted a series of actions to "cure" the weakness, or also to treat so many problems that arise in the organization / company.

Problem-based approach-based or weakness is so pervasive in the discourse of management for this. So we then about science problem solving skills, or competency gap analysis, or also a variety of methods to analyze the root cause (root cause problem analysis). All these methods depart from the premise that earlier: that there are "shortcomings", "disease" or "problem" in us or our organization, and we have to treat it.

And aha, a number of studies show that such an approach is often ineffective in bringing superior performance. The reason is simple: an approach by easily pushing us to get stuck in a negative mindset and culture. We spend so much energy and tiresome to dwell only on the shortcomings, the weakness, the problem (problem) that seems never ending.

Problem-oriented approach and weakness-based it easily will also bring the culture of pessimism and to discourage our spirit or team members. We or pessimistic because the team members as though we have so many weaknesses, and our organization is full of problems / issues. In this situation, we easily lose inspiration and motivation.

That is why now appears that the approach is radically different from the approach above. The new approach is often referred to as a strenghts-based orientation. The basic principle of this approach is: we will work toward a better, if the change initiative that relies on the strength we already have today. The key is this: focus on your positive strenghts.

So rather than spend the energy to focus on the shortcomings (remember: competency gap analysis) or on the problems of organization, we just have to look for elements that already exist on the strength of ourselves, or the positive elements already present inside our organization. Instead of using the language of "root causes of problems", we must use the phrase "root causes of success" to track the success story that would have been there in our organization.

Concretely: instead of lamenting the continuing weakness of yourself, why not remember anything about the strength (strenghts) that is inside of you, or positive experiences you will ever have (surely you've got excess dong or positive experience). Well, studies show that individual performance would be much shot if then "positive points" that already exist that continue to be accumulated, duplicated and kept separated toward the optimal point.

In the context of the organization, it is also true. Instead of busy diagnosing problems that exist in organissasi / company, and then tired to treat it, then it should be directed our energy to explore "positive moments" or "power features" that already exist within the organization. Then create a series of actions to duplicate a "positive moment" was, and continues to grow existing power features leading to the maximum level.

In the extreme this approach would say something like this: forget your weakness / problems, and just focus on your strenghts / positive expectations. Find your positive areas and discover your bright spots. And miraculously, various studies show similar premise had already succeeded in converting many individuals and organizations become more successful shot.

So starting today, if you want to become a more successful person, always remember this sentence: always, and always focus on your bright spots.