business mentoring
with Rod Richards, Business Enterprise Centre
Safe is Risky Business Business is about timing, being in the right place and doing something about it. Business is about leadership of the team not just being leader. Business is about finding courage to pursue your vision and creative instincts. Business is attitude to execute the vision, plans and strategies of a goal. Happiness and success are achieved more easily when you are invested in activities and pursuits that challenge, inspire and reward. Hence the ‘follow your passion’ mindset; create meaning and purpose in business and life. First we think, then plan, take actions, get a result to measure, review the outcome, refine and go again. Business Mindset The major factor in shaping outcomes and creating success is attitude and mindset. The power of the mind to achieve or believe is ‘mind over matter’. Remember as a child being encouraged by the phrase – if you put your mind to it you can achieve it. And the plea to a Nation - Yes we can. The belief and attitude for a desire to achieve, is a powerful energy force. Success in the face of adversity and winning against all odds is pure mindset. Mindsets can fall into two basic categories. People with fixed mindset and attitudes believe you are only as smart as your inherent or developed talent and skills and you live with what you’ve got. For this mindset, failure is a big issue where any slight setback sabotages tasks easily achieved and where issues fall apart quickly and are slow in recovery. In business, this could be losing sales to competitors, customer rejection or general fear of failure in changed markets and economic conditions. Whereas a growth mindset does not harbour a fear of failure and is not limited by qualification or given skill set. This group have an attitude of persistence and ability to overcome obstacles and setbacks, more interested to discover why they had failed rather than failure itself. Failure or poor outcomes are errors of insufficient effort so let’s try again. Goals Mindset When I relocated to Queensland from Gippsland’s winter chills and purchased a sailboat to live aboard, I had no knowledge of marine matters or sailing. Family and friends thought the idea was folly and a bad business move to establish a marine engineering business. Winning Brisbane, Gladstone and Hamilton Island Race Week three years later and achieving Queensland Government Ship Builders Accreditation were success of sorts. Failure and feeling limited by competitor’s reputations and histories never constrained a vision and goal to win. Mistakes were plenty with rudder designs that broke, mishandled sails destroyed and early racing moments of sailing in the wrong direction. When you believe you won’t achieve, you will be right. A growth mindset with vision and goals works best for success. Rod has 27 years’ experience as a company owner, director and entrepreneur, and 10 years as a Business Mentor and educator. He is a founding Director of the Business Enterprise Centre Sunshine Coast and Queensland Director of BEC Australia (non-profit Network). ca 1300 133 058 // www.businessenterprisecentresunshinecoast.org.au
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