Whether you want to step up your game as an executive in your career
path, or you want to onboard new hires that are going to perform the
way that you want them to perform, in this video what I want to share
with you are five key habits of A players in the workplace.
Let's face it.
You are a career executive, and as a career executive, we are expected
to lead and you may have a number of direct reports that report to
you, but make no mistake about it an executive.
This is where it is important to be able to lead, influence and
persuade through the layers down beneath you management leaders down
beneath you, and even sometimes opportunity to lead up as well to your
executive leadership team.
So that's why in this video, whether or not you're desiring to step up
in your own game to perform the way you want to perform, to have the
career growth, or you want to be able to inspire and persuade your
team, your team as well to perform their best, then these five key
habits in this video are going to help you here.
So let's go.
Key habit number one, avoid the discomfort of stagnancy.
When it comes to A players, they naturally continuously want to be in
momentum.
They want to grow.
They want to climb to the top of the mountain, just like the mountain
I'm on right now.
So when, when A-players are not moving, when they are stagnant, this
is where they feel utmost discomfort.
This is where they're going to do whatever it takes to get back into
momentum, to figure out why am I stuck to figure out the roadblocks
obstacles to figure out how can I get back into momentum?
And how can I stay in momentum?
These are A players.
That is the first key habit.
If you are the one who wants to bring your game in this time to bring
out your discomfort around stagnancy, understand and reconnect to the
inspiration when it comes to climbing and the same thing with your
team, your team members, as well.
From taking you all on a little bit of an adventure with me as well,
up here on Whistler mountain.
We're a little bit in between the summer and the winter seasons here
we have, I'm on the top of the mountain and the snow on one side, it
looks like somewhere on the other, but it's really warm.
So let's go for a walk and let's continue the discussion.
Key habit number two, believers of the mission.
When it comes to being an A player, A players are clear what the
mission is, the mission objective.
They know where they're going.
They know what the objectives are, and they know the path to get
there.
And therefore, they also have accountability that along the journey
and progression towards the mission, they know if they've gone off
track and they know how far they've progressed and how much farther
they have to go.
But it first begins with believing in the mission.
So if you want to step up your game, it is understanding what is the
mission I'm on and being on board with that mission, ensuring that
your core values, your personal values, you can see the alignment with
the mission on the team that you're on.
And if you're a team leader, you want to inspire your team as well,
those A players it's really communicating to them what is the mission.
Why is that mission important.
And how do we know we're going to be successful and also
accountability towards that success as well.
So this is the Keystone habit number two is believers of the mission.
A players are true believers.
Key habit number three of A players is that they conduct themselves
with emotional intelligence.
So emotional intelligence, number one is being self-governed.
They have an internal thermostat of how to manage their emotions.
They understand where their emotions are coming from, but they don't
make decisions by their emotions, but they know how to manage them.
They know how to contain them, and they know how to overcome the
traumas of their past.
And this is a self-governed individual.
On the outside, A players with them conducted with emotional
intelligence.
They have a pulse on how to connect with their audiences.
They have a pulse on how to collaborate and how to create harmony
within teams.
But more importantly, they have a pulse on what constitutes good
leadership versus bad leadership.
A players will know whether or not this leadership is trustworthy.
They'll know whether or not the strategic direction is whether or not
the leaders are making the correct strategic direction or whether or
not they are reliable or predictable.
A players have a pulse on these things.
Their intuition brings it to their attention and they will not rest
until they are in a place where they are constantly in momentum.
So if you're somebody who is an A player, or you want to step up your
game, or maybe you are managing a team as as well, and you want to
hire and sure that you hire a team of A players, then one of the
challenges that you may come across as some of my team members
currently aren't A players.
Is it impossible for me to train them, to provide them with resources
or maybe with some coaching in order to turn them into A-players.
How can I help my team to become A players?
Or maybe you yourself are finding that I have deficiencies when it
comes to leading, when it comes to emotional intelligence or believing
in the mission that I'm on.
If you're finding these things, then I invite you to work with me.
Below this video, in the description, there is a link and that link is
for it to apply for my executive coaching program.
And in this program, this is where I'm going to help you.
If you're a team leader, how do you train your teams and coach them
for success?
How do you ensure that they stay in momentum?
And what do you do with your current team members who aren't quite A
players, but something about that relationship makes it really
difficult to let go?
And if you are finding that there are some gaps with respects to your
performance, and you want to take things to a whole new level as well,
then every single week, this is where I provide you with training and
coaching, to understand the principles on how to step in your up in
your leadership, how to lead the management levels below you and above
you as well.
So if you're serious about that kind of growth for yourself and for
your teams, then click the link below and I look forward to working
with you on the inside.
Key habit number four, demand full utilization.
A players are restless.
They are individuals that are constantly looking for better ways of
doing things, and they will not rest until they are operating at their
fullest potential.
They don't like to be hired and only operating for part of their
skills or only hired for part of their intelligence or only doing part
of the work that they know they can do.
The A players desire to be working and hired and demanded for their
fullest potential.
And that is the definition of full utilization.
So if you are a team leader and you're seeing somebody in your team
who is bored, who is feeling restless, who is not constantly looking
for ways to help and constantly creating new solutions for problems,
they are A players.
And you yourself, if you're finding that there's a level of
complacency, when it comes to your food full utilization, or maybe you
find yourself in an environment where you're not fully utilized, you
feel it.
If you're an A player, you feel it, it feels restless.
It feels uncomfortable because A players characteristically, they are
made up the way that they're made up the way they're wired they demand
to be fully utilized Keystone habit, number five.
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All right, so last keystone, habit.
Keystone habit number five of A players is extreme ownership.
Now the term of extreme ownership was coined by a Navy seal.
And when it comes to Navy seal training, when they are trained to
become Navy seals, they are constantly working in a do or die
situation.
If they don't take full responsibility for their role and for their,
for their tasks, someone can die or themselves, they can get injured.
And that's where that terminology came about with taking extreme
ownership.
So what does this mean?
Extreme ownership is like making no excuses.
It means I know what I'm responsible for.
I know what I'm being held accountable for, and I'm not going to blame
anyone outside of me.
I'm not going to blame any systems.
I'm not going to blame the environment.
I'm not going to blame any processes.
I'm going to take full responsibility for it.
If there was a mistake or there was a misstep, I'm going to own that
mistake.
And instead I'm going to correct it.
I'm going to course correct.
I'm going to improve.
I'm going to be back in momentum again, this is extreme ownership.
People who are A players take extreme ownership.
They are not victims of their circumstance.
They do not play the blame game.
They don't blame themselves or other people.
They're like, okay, what can I do better?
How can I move past this?
And how can I move past it as a stronger version of myself that is
extreme ownership.
And so I have another video for you.
If you're somebody who is a leader and you want to become a better
leader for your teams in the next video, I'm going to be talking about
how you can become more valuable as a leader of your teams.
That video is coming right up next.
So don't go anywhere.