Strategy – the right one for the right situation

Are your strategies up to date?

We all have strategies that we use in particular situations. If you want to be successful you need to make sure you are using the right strategy in the right situation.

Do you remember your parents making you finish all the food on your plate when you were young? They may have even said you could not have your pudding till you had finished your vegetables.

That was probably a useful strategy to get you to eat the healthy food with all the vitamins in.

Out of date strategies

Now you are older, are you using the same strategy? This strategy is not a very good one for maintaining a healthy weight. You need a different strategy, because your objective is different.

But we tend to get comfortable with strategies that we grew up with.

Do not interrupt

When you were young, were you told not to interrupt others? Not to speak till you were spoken to? Many people were.

Others grew up with a strategy of interrupting when they wanted to speak.

If you are from the first group in a meeting with people from the second group, you will have trouble being heard.

The right strategy

Neither strategy is wrong, you just need to know which to use when.

The strategy you choose depends on your objective and your situation. But many people don’t consciously make a decision to use a particular strategy; they just carry on doing what they have always done, even though the situation has changed.

It is time to review your strategies and see which are working and which need to be updated.

Start with checking your objectives and what you are doing to achieve them. Is it working? If not, it might be you need to change your strategy.