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Both styles can work in the same team quite happily together. To motivate
your options people, build in as many choices as you can offer them. Get them
to brainstorm new ways to do things. To motivate your procedures people,
get them to focus on the necessary systems and processes to bring more
structure and controls to the team.Checking In with Yourself
In order to keep on track to where you want to get or what you want to
achieve, on a daily basis or longer term, questioning yourself can be very
helpful. Therefore, check out the following list of questions to ask yourself
every day:✓ What do I want?
✓ What will that do for me?
✓ What’s stopping me?
✓ What’s important to me here?
✓ What’s working well?
✓ What can be better?
✓ What resources will support me?
If you accept the NLP presupposition that ‘There’s no such thing as failure,
only feedback,’ you aren’t going to be afraid of asking questions from the fear
that you may get answers you’d prefer not to hear. Tune into the feedback you
get for yourself as well as others as you ask the right questions.