Passion Is Everything

The Leadership of an organization can only do so much. We are all responsible to ourselves for invigorating passion into our line of work. How is passion defined? Passion is when people discover the work that motivates them to achieve their potential by seeking extreme performance improvement. Passion makes our job become more than a mode of income.

Why is passion so significant? Because it drives a questing character that is essential to employee performance as they react to the inevitable unexpected challenges/opportunities in today’s work environments. Passionate workers tend to participate more in the life and growth of an organization. If an organization can create an environment that encourages passionate workers, the organization will surely benefit.

Let's see some passion!

What Is The Million Dollar Question When Implementing Change?

Throughout my career I have been involved in projects that affect people and processes in many different ways. During project initiation the project requestor or manager would talk about all the great things that the project was going to do to benefit the organization. But often there was one thing that was lacking that should have been prior to initiating the project. In my mind that one thing is the million dollar question, “What is going to motivate people to get on board with this project?" If that question has not been answered, then without a doubt there will be an uphill challenge for the project to be successful.

So to sum it up before I start any project and preferably before the project request is submitted for approval from a sponsor or governance team, I always ask the million dollar question.