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SFHS
Academy Brief
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Welcome to St. Francis
Health Service’s Supervision I graduate newsletter. Our
objective is to review key methods and guidelines
learned in Supervision I: Fundamentals of Leadership and
to encourage you to reapply what you learned. The key to
learning any skill or technique is repetition and going
out and doing it.
Persevering and Success after
Mistakes and
Failures
Many
failures are merely mistakes and everyone makes
mistakes. Those who achieve success are those who
persevere after mistakes.
A
Peter Drucker quote:
“The
one person to distrust is the one who never makes a
mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the
safe, the tried, and the
trivial.”
I want
to share a paragraph out of John C. Maxwell’s book, Failing
Forward:
“Every
successful person is someone who failed, yet never
regarded himself as a failure. For example, Wolfgang
Mozart, one of the geniuses of musical composition, was
told by Emperor Ferdinand that his opera, The Marriage of
Figaro was ‘far too noisy’ and contained
‘far too many notes.’ Artist Vincent van Gogh, whose
paintings now set records for the sums they bring at
auctions, sold only one painting in his lifetime. Thomas
Edison, the most prolific inventor in history, was
considered unteachable as a youngster. And Albert
Einstein, the greatest thinker of our time, was told by
a Munich schoolmaster
that he would never amount to much."
“I
think it’s safe to say that all great achievers are
given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But
in spite of that, they persevere. In the face of
adversity, rejection, and failings, they continue
believing in themselves and refuse to consider
themselves failures.”
The
same is true for your team. Your team members may make
mistakes. Don’t make them an example, but lead them to
acknowledge what the mistake was, what can be learned
from the mistake, and how to move past
it.
As
the quote from Peter Drucker reminds us, the person you
should be weary of is not the one who makes mistakes,
but the person who does not make mistakes. Are they
trying their best, are they growing as a professional,
are they expanding their knowledge and skills, or are
they merely stagnant with the tried and
true.
Especially,
in our demanding economic times, change is constant. You
cannot stop change, but you can get out in front and
make the most of it. In the process of working with
change, you and your team may make mistakes – that’s an
indication that you are trying. Now you merely have to
respond positively to mistakes – persevere – and don’t
allow failures to consume and paralyze you and your
team.
Quote
of the day:
“Every
good and perfect gift is from above.”
James
1:17
I
wish you and your family a memorable and joyous
Christmas holiday season! |
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