FAITHFULNESS: FAITH, COMMITMENT AND FOCUS DRIVE VISION

BEING FAITHFUL IN BUSINESS can mean different things to different people.

If you’re a person of faith, it may mean applying those principles to how you conduct yourself at work.

For others, it could mean embracing positive attitudes and applying them to daily tasks and in relationships with others.

Having faith also means believing in what you and your team can accomplish together. It means embracing and nurturing the potential within others— and within yourself.

Leaders who are the best recognize faith as a close cousin to hope and understand that being faithful includes a dogged determination to see things through. A no-matter-what level of commitment that says we can do this together. A laser focus that envisions the goal as already accomplished.

THAT’S WHY FAITHFULNESS and vision go hand in hand—because the latter can’t be achieved without the former. The following best-in-business tips can help you combine the two:

• BE CONSISTENT. Consistency is a big part of faithfulness and shows others they can count on you to do what you say, when you say you’ll do it.

• BE PERSISTENT. Although challenges may be a daily event, demonstrating a keep-at-it determination can help the members of your team to do the same.

• BE ENCOURAGING. Even if you’re frustrated with progress at times, encouragement beats criticism to optimize the potential of your team.

• BE VISIONARY. Embrace an audacious mindset that balances realism with a willingness to stretch beyond the what’spossible box.