You Can Make Your Own Success

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You have the power to make your own success. You have a lot of power over yours and your organization’s destiny. Even if the odds feel like they are stacked against you.

Market shifts, customer demands change, competitors and regulatory pressures, impossible deadlines and expectations, never-ending challenges, may make it seem like you have no impact.

But trust me, you do have influence over your circumstances. It starts with defining what success looks like.

Define success.

What is it that you want out of your career, organizational or departmental results? What does “best” or “success”, look like to you? Is it land that job that you feel connects with your purpose? Is to build a healthy organization that will serve others for many years to come? Is it to make customers happy and coming back for more?

Build a plan.

Once you’ve defined success, then its time to build a plan or a roadmap. Even if the goal seems so overwhelming like moving Mt. Fiji, start writing down steps to get there anyway. Such as find friends willing to help, buy shovels, and carve out spare time to shovel. Even Mt. Fiji can be moved, one shovel at a time! It may take time and many shovels, but just get started.

Focus on strengths.

Negative thinking will have you focus on weaknesses and how it can’t be done. Before you know it time has passed, frustration and regret take seed. Reject the “can’t do’s.” Think that there are no barriers, just opportunities. Leverage what you and your organization do well.

Measure for results.

It can be energizing when first milestones are measured and hit. An organization's leaders once asked my team hire 300 registered nurses over a certain time frame. This challenge seemed incredibly hard at a time when the nation’s RN shortage is at an all-time high. So we set up milestones: 100 nurses in 90 days, 100 nurses in 60 days and 100 nurses in 60 days. Once that first milestone was hit the team’s energy level skyrocketed. The thought occurred to us that we can actually achieve this goal -- energy, excitement, and anticipation could be felt throughout the organization.

Even if milestones or goals are missed, adjust. Adjust the method, process, or techniques and keep trying. Don’t give up. You got this!

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Tresha Moreland

Tresha Moreland is a 30-year organizational effectiveness and strategic workforce planning expert. She partners with business leaders to develop workplace strategies that achieve best-in-class results. She has held key organizational leadership roles in multiple industries such as manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. Tresha is the founder and principal consultant of HR C-Suite, LLC (www.hrcsuite.com). HR C-Suite is a results-based HR strategy resource dedicated to connecting HR with business results. She has received a master’s degree in human resource management (MS) and a master’s degree in business administration (MBA). She has also earned a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), Six Sigma Black Belt Professional (SSBBP) Certification. She is also recognized as a Fellow with the American College Healthcare Executives with a FACHE designation.