No matter the vocation, pretty much in general,
people get better at what they do through repetition.
Coaching teachers, like coaching athletes, is designed to help
people get better at what they do.
I help
people get better at stuff by creating and facilitating infinite learning opportunities.
«I do like the opportunity to help
people get better at what they do.
This may or may not be stuff you enjoy at first, but my experience is that as
people get better at something they start to enjoy it more.
Dr. Archer says part of the reason many believe ADHD can be outgrown is because most
people get better at making lifestyle adjustments to better manage their symptoms.
I think it's only natural that if
people get good at a game, they'll want to show off, and if tournaments become a regular occurrence, then I'll be very happy.
Not exact matches
But a micro-manager won't delegate something unless the
person is actually
better than they are
at the task — 120 %
better — which means that nothing ever really
gets delegated off your desk.
But investing time in
getting good at this and
getting people around you who respond to it is the only way to
get time freed up to do more valuable things yourself.
And how about this uplifting message from Jagmeet Singh after he won the leadership of the New Democratic Party on the weekend: «
At a time when
people are feeling so despondent, when there is a lack of hope, when it feels like things will only
get worse before they
get better, Canadians must stand united and champion a politics of courage to fight the politics of fear.»
If you deal with somebody quickly, and
get them to focus on the things you're
good at, they'll ignore the fact that you're not the most beautiful
person in the world.»
There's also the matter of whether mobile medical care will ultimately reduce national health spending:
At least one recent report suggests that the technology may
well cause
people to pursue care they don't need precisely because it makes it so convenient to
get.
But persuasion isn't just for charismatic types — anyone can be
better at getting people to say yes to requests.
There's never been a
better medium for reaching so many
people at once but with only 140 characters you've
got to have a point — and it
better be a
good one.
And if you couldn't be there in
person, I hope you
got to follow the live - stream as
well as the terrific session reports my colleagues
at Fortune and Time wrote up lickety split.
In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm
at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the
best things about his new job is that he now
gets to spend a lot more time talking to
people on the front lines.
However, the
best part about this, and the most powerful route that entrepreneurs take to scale their businesses, is that if you know that sending 100
people to your site costs you $ 200, for example, but you
get two
people to convert
at $ 300 each, then you have a $ 600 return on $ 200 invested (300 percent).
Eventually you'll see that these apps that initially, especially like Tinder was very much geared towards hookups, it will end up moving up market and really disrupt the whole traditional online dating area, which I think is the most interesting thing going on right now because as we
get better and
better at our recommendations, as more
people get on the platform, I think
people will find less and less a need or desire to use things like a Match.com or Okcupid.
There's a great deal to be gleaned from
people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping
at the same time to
get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or
good ideas.
Sure, Community Manager
at Steam Whistle Brewing company sounds like a
good job, but how many
people get to introduce themselves as a brand's «Fairy Beer Mother»?
I'd like to see legislation pass
at the federal level, and there's a lot of
good activity
at state levels that
gets people the coverage they need.
While over time I've
gotten fairly
good at connecting with
people well above me on the success food chain, there are still some that elude me.
Watson writes, «I chose the management track, so I had to
get good at evaluating
people.
At InList, we've seen the value this approach can deliver: We often
get our
best product ideas from our concierges — the
people listening to our customers.
Ever wish you were
better at getting people to do what you want?
And don't
get suckered by
people who are
better at promoting themselves than producing results.
You simply can't
get good at reading
people without developing your self - awareness, which takes a fair degree of emotional intelligence.
So over time I've
gotten fairly
good at Social Jiu - Jitsu, the ancient art of
getting people to talk about themselves.
Watson said, «Advancing as a manager requires
getting good at choosing the right
people for jobs.»
Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant
at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often
get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting
people run with their own ideas.
It was really funny because when I talked to these guys
at Apple, I told them we just can't
get people on fast enough, and they're like
well join the club: we can't make iPads fast enough.
Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or,
better yet, the
person you do enjoy working with
gets a
better gig
at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.
I learned that I'm
good at making things happen and
getting people behind things.
You will never, no matter how
good you
get at interviewing, be able to identify every wrong
person before they
get a job.
All young
people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young
people need to do is continue to scream
at the politicians to
get some
good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning
at Life Planning Partners.
«The price points are lower, the food quality happens to be
better at a lot of these places, and
people don't want to sit, wait, and
get served and sometimes
get bad service.»
The authors say that the
better people are
at recognizing others» emotions the more able they are to influence others effectively and
get along with others, which eventually results in greater career success and higher income.
As sectors become
better at what they do, they often require fewer
people to
get the work done.
In fact, according to an old folk rhyme that many
people at the time would have known — «Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the
best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck
at all» — it would have been considered bad luck to
get married on a Saturday.
In the process they
got some clues as to why
people become trolls, and why trolls are so very, very
good at making their victims feel very, very bad.
A business owner
gets stuck insisting that there is only one way to sell a new gadget or there is only one
person who is
good at handling the customer support lines.
«I thought I was doing
well but realized I could
get better at helping
people in the company to be successful.»
The number of hours each
person needs to feel his or her
best varies, but try to
get at least 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep each night.
It's worth taking a look
at that Gates Foundation annual letter, because it includes a lot of data about how the world is
getting better for the most disadvantaged
people in it — and also how most of us are unaware of that fact.
The only problem is this: The only thing they're
good at is
getting people to cough up their money.
«The cost to go out if we lost all those
people to retrain and
get people that were as
good at doing a job as they were pre-fire, I think it would have been tenfold over what we ended up paying them out.
If you haven't done the
best job in the past of diversifying your communications, content, featured experts, or even the
people you have
at all levels within your company, don't wait to
get dinged for it by someone who is frustrated by it.
Get good at asking questions of the
people with whom you come in contact.
Obviously, you're going to have to
get good at building tribes and communities of
people.
People will
get along with you
better, and you'll have a higher chance
at succeeding in negotiations because you'll know what the other party wants.