Archive for June 4th, 2007
Winning With People #5 – The Elevator Principle
Targeted Audience: Entrepreneurs, Students, Recent Graduates
Background: Renowned leadership expert and author John C. Maxwell describes how anyone can improve his or her relationship skills with 25 principles in his book Winning With People.
I plan to cover each of his principle in this series.
Please read more principles here: Winning With People
John Maxwell’s “The Elevator Principle”
People can be the wind beneath our wings or the anchor on our boat. People who add value to others almost always do so intentionally. Adding value to others requires a person to give of him- or herself. That rarely occurs by accident. In relationships, receiving is easy. Giving is much more difficult. We all want to be a positive influence in the lives of others. If you want to lift people up and add value to their lives, keep the following in mind:
- Lifters commit themselves to daily encouragement.
- Lifters know the little difference that separates hurting and helping.
- Lifters initiate the positive in a negative environment.
- Lifters understand life is not a dress rehearsal.
Superb! One message I strongly learned from this principle is that we need to take conscious efforts if we want to add value in others’ lives. Now we may think that but why do I need to add value to others’ lives? We might think that “whats in it for me?”. The answer to this question is brilliantly quoted by Zig Ziglar as below –
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. — Zig Ziglar
The bottom line is, however small it may be, we should work consciously to add values in others’ lives. It will help us to win at one day.
