Bill Nelson

A few weeks ago I posted some of my thoughts on the subject of Momentum. At the time I suggested that momentum is one of those aspects of life that if we have it, we want to maintain it. If we are losing it, we want to regain it. If we have lost it, we want to get it back.

It is an aspect of life that spreads far and wide. It is an aspect of life that we can find relevance and place in everyday activity. Momentum is something that we would like to see in our personal life, in our professional life, in our sporting pursuits, in our relationships and in our health and well being.

I then went on to explain that although there are many different aspects that go into building momentum, from my experience three of the key ingredients needed for building momentum are:

1. Understanding
2. Awareness
3. Vision

Understanding in what is going on. Understanding in what has got you to where you are and why. Understanding of what is working for you and what is not. Understanding of what are the controllable's and what are not, and the effect of both.

Awareness of standards and approach needed to regain, build or maintain momentum. Awareness of the type, depth and breadth of the competition or opposition. Awareness of the price you will need to pay to start, build or maintain momentum.

Vision of what is your end result. Vision of what is the outcome you are really pursuing. Vision of the road you will need to follow to see those outcomes achieved. Vision of how you want to feel when the outcomes you have identified a have been accomplished.

However during the writing and posting of that information, I was heavily involved with building a very specific type of momentum for a very important client and during that engagement, there were further areas I was focussed on making sure would come to the forefront.

Those two areas were:

1. Belief
2. Commitment

On the belief aspect I needed those involved to have belief in:

• Where they were headed
• How they would get there
• In them self
• In their team mates
• That they could get it done
• The goals they had set
• In the values that underpinned what they were doing
• In what they were asking of each other

On the aspect of commitment I needed those involved to be committed to:

• Their goals
• The process to achieve those goals
• The standards they had set
• The brand they were developing
• To individual responsibility
• To the culture they were attempting to create
• To each other

Although a lot of these may seen common sense, it has always been my experience that what is common sense is not always common place, and this situation was no different.

Each and every aspect outlined above, brought with it a set of challenges of understanding how it would be best introduced, developed and analysed to each individual member of the team. Sometimes there were economies of scale, where as in others, it was very much about dealing with it in a very individual manner.

The Journey Continues!