Do we need to stand alone and aloof?

You have a right to be yourself to accomplish your dreams - Dr V V Rao 

In these hard times, do we need to stand alone and aloof? My answer is a ‘BIG No’. Does anyone like to be alone? Are our families alone?  Are we down - hearted? Our feelings keep changing as well as such thoughts keep coming and going. But what we want to appreciate is that every man, woman in the situation has not entertained the thought of quitting from the present struggles. I am confident one can take the hard times and emerge a WINNER once again. And that brings us to the need to connect after long duration of struggle being enveloped in the jaws of low morale, out of the mouth of sadness, while all cynics are kept wondering when shall the reputation and faith of this generation of family be successful yet again? I believe that for many long years ahead, not only will people of this society, rather all our families must remember our victory. Wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts and looks back to what we have gone through and what we've done, they will say "do not quit, results did not yield without efforts”,  turn around straight forward and stay successful as a team and people.  We have emerged from one deadly struggle - a terrible fear has been cast on the ground and awaiting for our judgment and our mercy!

We, as the management, believe it is our moral duty and obligation to inform a larger section of the organization regarding the current situation as well as the future plans. As human beings, it is our obligation to visit people when they are sick, when people require us, when people need courage, when people continue to fight all odds, to keep the turbines up and running. It is for all such people, we believe, we need to find the opportunity to connect and reassure!

According to the human evolution theory, our sophisticated modern man has evolved from apes. It is not hard to believe that even today we have some common ground with the apes from the forest. But to believe we have common ground with the killer whales of the deep blue sea is rather unusual. According to Ken Blanchard the author of ‘Whale Done’, men do have something astute in common with the whales; the TRUST factor. Over centuries we have revolutionized into a socially acceptable society with norms, cultures and values. Though it is not picture perfect, it has its dents and broken intricacies. Our origin has come to a point where we assume everyone comes with an ulterior motive and thus must not be trusted or we are superior and thus the other is not capable of our trust. Here is where we must learn a lesson from the whales. In order to be able to train a killer whale for a sea show, you must be able to teach him. Teaching the world’s most dangerous predator that can eat anything in sight is an easy task if you get him to trust you. That is the stepping stone to building a positive relationship.

Moving to crux of the world’s current crisis – how do you get people to do what you want them to do? Be it at par performance at the work place during an economic slowdown or harmony at home with your spouse and children. It is a three step rule. 1. Build trust 2. Accentuate the positive. 3. Redirect the energy from negative and mistakes.

As human beings we tend to underestimate the abilities of animal, assuming we are the ultimate social beings – but start with an open mind and explore the possibilities. Same goes for people. To build trust accentuate the positive by paying attention to the whale while he does something right. The more attention you pay to behaviour the more it will be repeated. It’s like child’s play – the more we clap when the child does the trick, the more motivated he is to do it again. At the same time, when a mistake is made, redirect the energy back to the right way of doing things rather than criticizing them about where they made the mistake. As easy as said this is indeed challenging to always turn away from the mistakes and praise the positive. We are used to pointing mistakes and blaming others at home and in an organization, but what builds synergy and human relations is the exact opposite.

For most personnel in the corporate world today, there lies a big challenge. Motivating the employees, sustaining the talent, getting high end performance and all this is to be done at low cost. In order to trigger this one must Activate the behaviour that we want by motivating people, then observe the Behaviour taking place and ultimate respond as a Consequence. (ABC of performance) On a concluding note, the famous naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin, in his 1859 work about evolution states that ‘homo sapiens’ has only survived on Planet Earth because of their ability to adapt to change while the other genetic lines died off. Therefore we must stick to the motto but keep changing the ways motivate –be it whales or people at home and work for a positive harmonious and progressive life ahead.