Do you believe that regardless of the enterprise or industry people are at the center of every link in the value chain? Do you seek to become a leader with willing and even engaged followers? Do you wish to lead your organization, whether small or large, to achieve its full potential? Do you wish to help those you lead to achieve their full potential? Do you wish to achieve your own full potential?
Simply stated, if you answered, “Yes” to at least one of the questions above, then we have the experience and a toolkit filled with theories, models, principles, practices, and templates to help you achieve what you wish and seek. It is a toolkit to assist you in your lifelong endeavor to create, cultivate and become.
As Simon Sinek points out in his Golden Circle work, people are drawn to and motivated by the Why? So why, focus on your people to achieve your own and your organization’s full potential. The answer is within the definition of ‘Full Potential’.
What we mean by “Full Potential” is best understood by defining its individual parts and then putting them back together again to comprehend the whole.
We believe to be “Full” is to be complete, entire or at maximum. When we speak of “Potential” we see it as possibility or what one is capable of being or becoming. Together, “Full Potential” embodies complete or entire possibility, maximum capability of being.
Therefore, an individual who has achieved their full potential has reached a point of complete possibility or all that they are capable of being. This is an ideal state for any person. However, we believe it is not realistic for most of us imperfect human beings living and growing in an imperfect world. Yet, we do believe it is realistic and even desirable to seek to get as close as we can to understanding and achieving our individual “Full Potential” or in other words the maximum of what we are capable of being. But what does that have to do with leadership and organizations?
Simply stated, “Organizational full potential is achieved through its people achieving their full potential.” Therefore, leaders who focus on helping their people achieve their full potential are helping create the building blocks essential to their organization (business, non-profit, government, family, etc.) reaching its full potential. In other words, there is a greater probability that their organization will achieve the maximum of is capable of being. This principle is the foundation of the “Full Potential Model”.
What steps have you taken to achieve your full potential, individually and organizationally?