5 Star Attributes of a Managing Supervisor – Part 4

Response-Ability

Wherever you are in the pursuit of your dream, it does not matter if you are just getting started, it does not matter if you are only a few months away from seeing it become a reality, a key factor that will determine your outcome is your response ability. This is the level of your ability to respond to all of the circumstances that life is and will continually bombard you with.

Are your responding effectively in the way you communicate? Are you getting the message across that you need to? Are you at your optimum level of response ability in dealing effectively with tasks which you are being held accountable for?

It is so easy to get caught up in the day to day workings of achieving your goals that you become distracted and forget, or just plain ignore those warning signs that keeping popping up. When that oil light in your car starts to flicker on and off, its telling you something, it’s saying to you “hello you need to stop and check me out because I am running a little low and I need to be brought up to my optimum level.

If you continue to ignore that light, then one morning when you turn that key, you will hear nothing, you will only be greeted with deafening silence. Never be too afraid, or too distracted and or too complacent to stop and check your response ability level.

Always be open and listen intently to how others perceive you. When you build your schedule set aside time for real and honest self-examinations. Setting aside this time is so important because your response ability level can fluctuate from high to low at the drop of a hat.

This is your dream, this is your future, this is the future that you are creating to live in. There are so many outside challenges beyond your control that will come at you from every side, beating you down, trying to discourage you from getting up and keeping on.

You will face all of these like the true champion you are and you will overcome them. The greatest fight however will come from within, the battle you will face with yourself. And it is this battle that will require from you to exert every ounce of your physical strength.

It will require from you to believe so strongly that when you share it with others they will feel that your heart is in it to win it. Your mind must have such a focused intensity that nothing will slip by it, no warning sign will go unchecked.

Your Dream, Your Future is out there waiting for you, only you can seize it and only you can let it slip through your fingers by not being proactive and maintaining an optimum response ability level.

Keith M. Dean