When you surround yourself with the right people, with the right values, you can reach your destination a heck of a lot quicker and have more fun doing it. Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the people on my team, and what I love most about each of them. “What really makes them the right people?”, I asked. I also had them do the same activity.
Then it hit me, I only spend half my life with my team… What about my clients, my Facebook group, my LinkedIn followers, my family. Maybe I’m selfish, maybe I’m eccentric, but since I only get to live once I want to spend the precious time I do have left on this earth surrounded by amazing people who share similar core values and beliefs. After all, it’s the only way I can come close to accomplishing my vision, of impacting the leadership landscape of the entire auto industry by bringing coaching to the car business. #coachingthecarbusiness
After much deliberation, analysis of words, discussion with team members, family, friends, clients…etc. I have redefined my company core values and what it takes to be a #CarMotivator. Did I make up the words? Yes. Do they have deep meaning to everyone who I want to partner with, hire, surround myself with, coach, develop, promote, and share in my success with? Absolutely! Are you a #CarMotivator? What does it take to be a #CarMotivator? Here are our core values!
- Posiastic – We lift others up, help them see the silver lining in every challenge and help them understand when the positive possibilities outweigh the negative outcomes. We are excited about any opportunity to make a positive impact in the lives of others: our customers, each other, our clients, and our supervisors!
- Growfective – We are thirsty for knowledge, always wanting to achieve more, willing to learn, accept coaching, want to develop others and are always seeking continuous improvement. A #CarMotivator is always looking to master each thing we do and do it to the best of our ability. We know that our personal brands, the lives of our families, friends, and companies DEPEND on us being the BEST that we can be. We plan, execute, improve and persist! We educate ourselves so we can have the knowledge necessary to improve others. We always aim to help others grow as a person, in their careers, and in their business!
- Honitiative – Painfully honest. We caringly tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear and we do it even when it’s uncomfortable for us. We engage others, take ownership, and interact with each other in a thoughtful way, seek opportunities to help others, step up when a leader is needed, take ACTION and don’t WAIT for success, we move towards success every minute of the day possible. We don’t understand the word “wait”. When we see others aren’t on the same page, or something his holding them back, we confront the challenge directly in an attempt to help!
- Insportive – Inspire people to stretch their comfort zones, do more, and reach their fullest potential! People will be up, people will be down: We will ALWAYS be there to help lift others up when in need. We help others think bigger, set goals, create visions for success and ultimately support their efforts along their journey!
- Teamership – We work together to accomplish more together. There are too many lone wolves in the car business, out for #1 and we tend to put others first. We believe ANYONE regardless of position, title, salary, experience, OR age can be a leader. I’ve seen 19-year-olds in charge of people’s lives in combat, with no official management title or salary. Stepping up is the RIGHT thing to do, and a Motivator ALWAYS leads when it’s necessary. We lead by example and don’t ask people to go where we haven’t gone before. Motivators are people of character who always try to do the right thing, and when we don’t (because we’re human) we are humble enough to own our mistakes. We stay competent and able to transfer skills to others because we have mastered them ourselves. We don’t easily give up on people, we give others a chance to improve and grow before throwing in the towel!
- Awariosity – We are aware of ourselves, our weaknesses, our strengths, and the people we surround ourselves with. We take time to ASK, pause, reflect, discuss, and as such, people are drawn to us because of this high level of insatiable curiosity and understanding. We ask and listen first, then ask and listen more before assuming and talking, because we understand the mother of ALL lost sales is an unasked question. We live in the moment and make the person in front of us our greatest priority. Every interaction is a dialog, and a collaborative effort to understand the situation and work out a win/win situation!