Success Is a Bonus Life Offers

Success is a bonus that life offers. What is hard is continuity.

To build achievements that will travel into the future — and organisations and people worthy of those achievements — we need individuals who work in harmonious collaboration.

Success is a little beyond small mistakes and failures. — T. J. Watson

What is hard is continuity.

We all live through rapid change and now run after success to keep up. We have individual goals, purposes and corporate policies. To reach them, every personal-development book and training says: FIRST MAKE A REALISTIC PLAN. Without realistic planning, reaching the goal is not possible. Planning matters for individuals and for businesses. Everyone has a success story; BONUS is won when those stories come together.

For success that will last, teams that work in harmony must be built. That requires reaching people who can work in harmony and selecting them according to the dynamics of the business and the work.

The recruiter should analyse the person almost like a psychologist — discovering expectations, talents and interests — and bring them into the organisation to form that harmonious team.

So how should a team member be chosen for harmonious collaboration?

It matters to question the need according to the nature of the work. The recruiter must ensure the new person can speak the same language as other members, join decision-making when problems arise, express a different point of view well, and share success. Drawing out these competencies in interview with concrete examples is one of the hardest tasks — and team balance depends on it.

Sustaining success is as hard as reaching it. For sustainable success, keeping harmony and motivation alive is as important as forming a harmonious team. Preventing success intoxication from creating emptiness is a responsibility of both the team leader and HR. Sustaining dynamism and motivation is the hardest — and for HR, often the most rewarding — part of the process.

Motivation meetings and training organised around needs or development, with voluntary participation, can protect dynamism and harmony and keep success continuous. Trainer selection also matters: experience, knowledge and the ability to manage large groups. A trainer who cannot converse with or engage employees may undermine the event and demotivate people.

Small steps combine into large movements. That movement of success can spread from the individual to the organisation, from the organisation to the country and to the world. Global goals, planning that matches them, and a team that can take part in that success mean sustainable, achievable success.