Modern Business Magazine March 2016 | Page 57

MODERN LEADERSHIP you are currently delivering. The questions will then start to roll: Are we delivering a customer service that is meeting expectation? What would the customer want to have a truly outstanding customer experience? Who else is delivering that experience for their customers? What would we have to do to code that success and also deliver that experience? Even if you don’t have the conversation with them, at least watch them. What do they do that engages the customer? What does the customer appreciate about them? What do they do that is successful? Perhaps there is not anyone at your organisation to model. In that case, find someone else from a different organisation or company from your past to replicate successful behaviour. Code their success and put it into action for yourself. To make this come alive, it is easy to use a sports analogy. Imagine joining a sporting team for the first time. When most people join a team and are new to that team, who do they spend time with? Other new players. Therefore, they learn to train like rookies and have rookie attitudes and beliefs. Instead, find the best player on the team. How do they train? How do they act in the face of adversity? What is their belief system about success? Code what it is that they do to be successful and begin to replicate it. The same is true with fitness. What do fit people do? How do they exercise? What do they eat? MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR YOU Obviously, you would not be able to become fit overni