In an organizational context, there are may connections between our work and helping others reach their goals. Consider:
- It is our responsibility and opportunity as a leader to help others reach their goals.
- As members of teams we have the chance to help others reach their goals.
- As a trainer you are in a unique position to help people reach their goals
- When serving Customers, by definition, if in only a small way that is what you are doing.
Perhaps because of all of these factors, I have been ending emails with "Let me know how I can help you reach your goals in 2007" for a few days now. Since doing so, several interesting things have happened.
1. On the day I decided to make this a regular part of many emails, I sent a note to a colleague and friend, ending it that way. Her response included: "Oh baby - I love that question "please let me know what I can do to help you reach your 2007 goals". That's awesome and right back atcha." She added that a friend of hers had asked her the same question the day before and was also resolved to ask people that question everyday.
2. I added it to my basic email signature yesterday, and a person I didn't know emailed me a question. My inclusion of that line caused him to send a note asking for some help which I was able to provide. (It also led to me finding out that one of my articles was reprinted in a very visible place I was unaware of).
3. Several people have replied, asking me what they can do to help me.
4. Perhaps more important than these occurrences is that I am now much more consciously focused on helping others reach their goals. Not only is that good business, given the business that I am in, but it feels great.
I urge you to ask this question of others in your own way in the coming days. And let me close by saying...
Let me know what I can do to help you reach your goals in 2007.
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As Harry S Truman once said, You can accomplish anything in life provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.
ReplyDeleteI did ask this question to many people and got several reply but some of spam for me like asking to help by money and lots of money and I am sure that this kind of email everyone received specially from “Africans” country but some of the really good reply I got it where people really need help and I did help to them, some were from America itself and same were from other countries but I loved to helped them.
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