4. Winning people over takes time.
God isn’t just using this change to help improve others, he’s using others to grow and improve you. Whatever time you think it’s going to take to roll something out, multiply that by at least three. Winning people over not linear but multi-dimensional. There is more at play than we can see. With faith, persistence and a commitment to self-awareness, the stars will start to come into alignment down the road. It took me about three years to start to see a tipping point for some initiatives I’ve led in the past—not three months, like I projected.
5. Winning people over ongoing.
While you will build more advocates in your camp along the way, it will never be 100 percent consensus. You will need to keep refining your emotional intelligence, vision casting, coaching, storytelling and redirecting skillset. There will always be new team members or difficult personalities unwilling or unable to change. What you can look forward to, though, is the hard part being 20 percent of your job instead of 80 percent.
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