opening and welcome edmt : formula for success

OPENING AND WELCOME EDMT : Formula for Success

Ms M.P. Mokhutle District Director Bojanala District

May 2008

ARE WE ROWING IN THE SAME ?DIRECTION?

Answer honestlyWhat is the District’s mission?What is the District’s vision?What are the District’s values?How is the staff working towards the

vision?How do you as managers live the

vision?Have you inducted the new

employees?What about your offices? Do they

reflect your passion for the work?How is your planning? Your

reporting? Do you represent your District with

enthusiasm?

Are you a team even if it means dying together?

What is success?

“To be all I can be, I need to help you be all you can be”

John C. Maxwell

Why Do People Fail?Three reasons why people do not

become successful:Many people just don’t feel the

need to succeedSome are afraid of successOthers are suspicious of success

S – Select Your Goal Do you know what you want out of

life?Your goal must include othersYour goal must be worthwhileYour goal must be clearYour goal must be measurableYour goal must be expandableYour goal must be filled with

conviction

U – Unlock Your Imprisoned PotentialHow do you unlock your potential?Look up: find a modelGive up: at any moment all that we

are in order to receive what we can become

Fire up: desire to live, think, and do better

Show up: don’t be intimidated by challenges – meet them head-on

Go up: to the top of your potential

C – Commit Yourself to God’s Plan

Ask the following questions:Am I spending time with the Planner?What are my gifts?What are my desires?What are my true friends saying

about my strengths and weaknesses?

What are my opportunities?Am I carrying out His plan?

C – Chart Your Course“Those who fail to plan, plan to fail”

We must plan Plans fail when you don’t take inputs Don’t rush into the unknown The sensible watches for problems

and prepares to meet them Any enterprise is built by wise

planning

“Plan your work and work your plan”

E – Expect Problems“ You can always tell when you are on the road to success;

it’s uphill all the way” (Paul Harvey) Lock him in prison, you’ll get Nelson Mandela; John

Bunyan Burry him in the snow of Valley Forge, and you have

George Washington Cripple him, you’ll get Sir Walter Scott Raise him in poverty, you’ll get Abraham Lincoln Strike him down with infantile paralysis and he becomes

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Burn him so severely that doctors say he will never walk

again and you have Glen Cunningham, who set the world’s record in 1934 for the one-minute mile

Deafen him and you’ll have Ludwig van Beethoven Call him a slow learner, retarded, and write him off as

uneducable and you have Albert Einstein

S – Stand Firm on Your Commitment James Corbett, once heavyweight

boxing champion was asked what it took to be a champion, and he replied: “Fight one more round”

When asked how he had been so successful in his inventions, Thomas Edison said: “I start where others leave off”

The most famous speech of Sir Winston Churchill was only six words: “Never, never, never, never give up”

Don’t quit!

S – Surrender Everything to God Surrender to God… The first part of every day The first day of every week The first portion of your income The first consideration in every

decision The first place in all of your life

When we surrender to Him, we unleash a power that caps off the formula of success!

SUCCESS…S – Select your goalU – Unlock your imprisoned potentialC – Commit yourself to God’s planC – Chart your courseE – Expect problemsS – Stand firm on your commitmentS – Sustain your vision

“The road to success is always under construction!!”

(Anonymous)