Proactive!

"The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success." - IBM Founder T.J. Watson

Be proactive to identify the mistakes and correct them instantly, it helps us to minimize the lose which can occur because of that mistake.

A good Manager/Leader having strong intuitions against the failure of tasks can stop/safeguard the major failure of any project/transactions. Whereas reactive Manager/Leader can do postmortem of failure only, which indirectly  decrease the trust of level of management in him/her.

Proactive Response includes following:

1.       Self Awareness

2.       Imagination

3.       Conscience

4.       Independent  Will

Proactive Language of a Manager/Leader

1.       Let’s look at our alternatives

2.       I can choose a different approach

3.       I control my own feelings

4.       I will choose an appropriate response.