How to Be Pliably Dynamic- Business Coaching to Success

What does it mean to become Pliably Dynamic? Mastering the art, skills, and cadenced habits required to overcome challenges, navigate a long successful career, continually grow your emotional intelligence, be the optimal servant leader, and let nothing stand in your way of a successful life. Making you Pliably Dynamic is my business coaching aspiration.

First, one cannot survive or have a successful career in the business world by brute force alone. Nor can you overcome life’s challenges outside of work without developing successful practices to navigate the shark-infested waters of life. There are a few anomalies out there. However, the large volume of successful people in business and life are masters of this art. They are Pliable (flexible, malleable, bendable without cracking) to move around challenges. They are equally Dynamic (powerful, high-octane, positive, and forceful) to generate constant high performance.

Who are the Pliably Dynamic-

These people are labeled as amazing, rock stars, or invaluable. It could be a small business owner pursuing their dream. They could have launched multiple startup unicorns. They have worked their way from field technician to become an executive of a major corporation. What they have in common is a Pliably Dynamic approach to any endeavor they pursue. They are driven, and self-starting strategic thinking or creating a solution drives them to circumnavigate roadblocks and overcome challenges. They are notorious for rising to the top of any field, industry, or stack rankings. These individuals use these tactics to optimize their work-life balance. They serve as fantastic friends, spouses, family members, and pillars in the community. Humbly behind the scenes, they have also sought mentors and business coaching too.

What does it mean to be Pliable-

Pliable-

“The world belongs to those with the best workarounds or builds of the best Band-Aid.” -KM Lanzel

 

 

Application of Pliable-

Early in my professional career, even during jobs in high school, I found myself creating and patterning ways to make myself more efficient and more productive than my co-workers. Whether it was preparing for my work in advance or pre-building things that would make me hit a job site already 10-20% complete just by showing up or using technology to do my admin work to run scripts or copy-paste-complete, it generated exponential advantage over my counterparts.

 

This productivity pattern and the success it garnered became a part of my professional career and eventually into my personal life. I was tasked to provide coaching for my peers or promoted to multiply my effectiveness on a larger scale. These patterns optimized my performance of chores, errands, household maintenance, and organization. This led to even further productivity in getting things done in my personal life. In turn, knocking out ‘to-do’ lists at warp speed truly maximized my time with my family and doing the hobbies I enjoy.

What does it mean to be Dynamic-

Dynamic-

“We are selfishly foolish if we do not make our best workarounds into best practices and resolve the need for the Band-aids for the entire organization or company.” -KM Lanzel

Application of Dynamic-

When I was in my mid-twenties, I started to notice and became youthfully frustrated with some of my peers for constantly bringing me their work gripes and issues. At the time, I had selfishly taken their issues personally. Thinking they thought I was the cause of their issues. However, I had a solid boss and mentor at the time who provided me with business coaching. He said, “They are not bringing you the issues because the thing you are the issue. They are bringing you the problems because they know you are the only one that will do something about it.”

This was solid emotional intelligence wisdom and business coaching. It was also my first glimpse of the success of being dynamic. He showed me what I would use throughout my career. By being dynamic, earned the respect, candor, and confidence of my peers and my leader. I began to fully embrace being a change agent and driver of business success. Then I was promoted to a leadership role the next month. I have been providing this business coaching to others ever since.

 

 

 

Roadblock to Being Pliably Dynamic-

So, Ken, why do people not just go after every issue, every result, every task in a dynamic fashion? First, they are too prideful to seek business coaching and mentoring. Second, and the largest obstacle holding people back from success is FEAR! There are so many quotes out there supporting this as the largest challenge. My advice is to see fear for what it is False Evidence Appearing Real. The worst thing that can happen is someone above you decides not to pick up the torch on your suggested resolution. It might get an explanation to you why we can not do it at this time. Never think for a moment; your efforts, energy, and dynamic attempt went unnoticed. It will get noticed, so stay after it and keep dynamically changing the game at your level.

 The Pliably Dynamic Point-

In conclusion, you want to know what is the point. The point is not just creating pliable one-off workarounds to manage your daily routine. The point was not that you know you are dynamic when your peers complain. Those are just a by-product. On the contrary, humbly keeping your focus on crushing your job while continuing to be better at your work, lead your field, and seek out and eliminate gaps for yourself, and the entire group is being Pliably Dynamic. Trust me when I say, that if you genuinely execute improving the work and the organization with the intent to better all and NOT for selfish reasons, some of these projects, processes, and stop-gap programs will be the best interviews you do not realize you are having for a promotion. Get after it because it is the right thing to do. The reward is accomplishing the task at hand.

Welcome to Pliable Dynamics!! I look forward to the journey.

First, SIGN up for one of my business coaching packages. Second, throughout the PliableDynamics.com blog, I will continue to outline methods, tactics, habits, processes, life hacks, and cadence practices to develop your Pliably Dynamic skill set. However, here are some basics to start the snowball heading downhill:

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi 

• NO Procrastination and lead by being FIRST. Not just first in results but to find an issue, resolve an issue, and beat it to the punch.
• Identify what you are tolerating today, setting you back. HINT: It is not another person. Humbly own this.
• Take accountable ownership for your work, tasks, and area of responsibility.
• Take the mindset that you can solve all problems and optimize every process. Think LEAN! Aim for a solution, and if it is not possible, at least you have improved it to the point you could.
• Narrow your scope to the critical must-do aspects of the task you are performing. Get tasks that are NOT yours to the appropriate owners.
• Reverse engineer the issue or task needing to be done to prevent having to do it or take minimal time if reoccurring.

Get Things DONE!

• Take action and do the tasks you can own. In the GTD methodology, if it takes 2 minutes, DO IT! If it takes longer, DO IT then optimize how it is done for next time. (And Read GTD by David Allen and get business coaching)
• If it is larger in scope, educate yourself on the aspects and build a sound business case or proposal for resolution. Prepare it as if the CEO is going to review it. You would be surprised where some of this lands.
• Seek to understand other’s challenges. Collaborate with others upstream and downstream of you to either produce a better outcome or set expectations for accountability if the issue comes from them.
• Be dynamically bold in taking the necessary larger organization changes up the food chain. Remember, if you did steps 8 and 9, you have identified you are not the only one with the challenge. Show you are Pliably Dynamic and advocate for change!