Archive for July 7th, 2007
Winning With People #6 – The Big Picture 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 Big Picture Principle
People who remain self-centered and self-serving will always have a hard time getting along with others. To help them break that pattern of living, they need to see the big picture, which requires perspective, maturity and responsibility. Here are some steps to follow: Get out of your “own little world.” Go places you have never gone, meet the kinds of people you do not know, and do the things you have not done before.
Check your ego at the door. If your focus is always on yourself, you’ll never be able to build positive relationships. Understand what brings fulfillment. Ultimately, the things that bring fulfillment involve others. A person who is entirely self-focused will always feel restless and hungry because he or she separates him- or herself from what’s most important in life: people.
As we know, networking is always useful in any walk of your life. All human beings possess a desire to connect with other people. Finding opportunities, converting those opportunities into actions, and accumulating these actions for the ultimate success – all these things cannot be achieved single handedly. Building a strong network means building long lasting relationships.
To build lasting relationships, we must stop thinking about ourselves and begin focusing on the people with whom we desire to build relationships. When we stop worrying so much about ourself and start looking at others and what they desire, we build a bridge to other people and we become the kind of person that others want to be around.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
To read more principles from this series, please visit: Winning With People
