Como seleccionar a las personas adecuadas para tu grupo

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How to Get the Right People on Your Team

By Jason Womack, 8:00 AM on Sun Dec 7 2008, 2,529 views

Most of us are better at keeping appointments with other people than we are at keeping time scheduled for ourselves. That’s why it's easier to show up at the gym when you're meeting a friend. Be careful which friend you choose to work out with though, or you may end up at the bakery enjoying muffins and a latte. The same is true with building your support network for your professional growth. When you get that urge to start making some changes in your professional life, do yourself a favor and build in a network of support. If you’re not ready to hire a professional coach, then get yourself someone who will help keep you accountable to set and hold to your new goals. This new model of peer-to-peer coaching is priceless, especially for people outside the traditional corporate environments like entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Here's how to develop your own peer-to-peer coaching network:

Create a mind map of all the people who have been influential in your life recently. Be bold and include authors, speakers, and other business professionals that might initially seem beyond your grasp. Imagine someone who can help lead your way. Consider someone with more experience than you in the area into which you are expanding but who can relate to you and your position. Note: Creating a full inventory will help the momentum if the first person you ask isn’t available.

Connect with that person and let them know you are looking to learn more about what they know and implement strategies that have made them successful. Hint: Check out www.anywho.com if you need help finding their contact information.

Part of a successful peer-to-peer coaching program is to offer something yourself. Do not just look from a position of taking. This may be the wave of the future: two people, each experienced in their own area, decide to connect and share ideas on a regular basis. So, in your initial contact let him or her know you're willing to be a resource as well.

In 2006, I experienced an extremely valuable peer-to-peer coaching program with an outgoing business leader with similar professional and athletic interests who happened to live on the other side of the country from me. We made up everything about the peer-to-peer coaching process to fit our goals, interests and our busy schedules.

Each week for three months, I called him at our scheduled time. He asked me a series of four questions. We co-developed these questions to represent areas of focus that I wanted to improve in my business.

I answered each question by rating myself one for low and five for high, with a short explanation for my answers.

The entire call took five to ten minutes, and at the end of twelve weeks he sent me the "overview" of the notes and ratings he took over the three months. Then, we switched roles. He called me once a week, I went through and took notes on his prompts, and sent him the results.

We each took two turns each that year, and we each experienced growth and development that was incredible and beyond what our individual efforts would have created.

Checklist for your new peer-to-peer coaching program:

  • Create your inventory of names of people to work with
  • Ask people until you find someone who’s excited to work with you
  • Write down three to ten questions you want to be asked each session
  • Create a schedule: what day/time you’ll talk and how long each session is (ie, how many weeks/months per person)
  • Get your technology in place: sign up for Skype or create a speed dial entry on your cellphone
  • Organize a place to track results: create a folder, spreadsheet, or even an online survey
  • Dream big. Imagine the life you’d like to be living and design the questions that will guide you to making that your reality.
  • Have you done any peer-to-peer coaching with another professional? How did you set up your program? Tell us about it in the comments.

Jason Womack travels the world teaching people and their companies about workplace effectiveness and productivity. He is a small business entrepreneur, a former teacher, a busy business traveler, and an active triathlete. He can be reached at 805-640-6401 and by email at jason@jasonwomack.com.

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