Dick Lyles presents four key strategies for fostering collaboration and strength among individuals in a work environment. These include recognizing and honoring people's strengths, avoiding competition in favor of collaboration, maintaining perspective to avoid egos and binary thinking, and developing a shared vision for future efforts. The focus is on creating a supportive atmosphere that emphasizes collective success rather than individual competition or blame.

1. Dick Lyles’s 4 SECRETS OF WINNING WAYS Presenter: SAIMA AKHTAR

2. Make People Feel Stronger Rather than Weaker as a result of your interaction with them. Forget about pecking orders of any type. This includes organisational as well as intellectual hierarchies. Recognize people’s strengths. Focus on what people bring to the party, not what they leave home. 1 Cont…

3. Honour people’s efforts. Build upon the things that other people have achieved, not what they haven’t. Involve others in planning, problem solving, and decision making. Work with people rather than against them, with the knowledge that more can be accomplished through collaboration than competition.

4. Make People Feel Stronger Rather than Weaker as a result of your interaction with them does not mean: Using idle flattery in an attempt to win their approval. Offering help in ways that cause people to feel inferior. Giving up my own self-esteem.

5. Camels Are Okay. In fact, today’s camel builders will be tomorrow’s leaders. 2 Some racehorses win and some lose, but a camel will cross the finish line every time. Collaboration is better than competition over the long term. Camel building should not be left only to committees. The shortcut most often turns out to be the long cut in the long run.

6. Camel building does not mean: Using everyone’s suggestion merely to make each person feel good. Camels should be built around goals, objectives, and legitimate needs. Everything should be accomplished through a committee.

7. Avoid Two-Valued Thinking Traps, because very few decisions are choices between right and wrong or good and bad. 3 Keep egos out of it. It’s not who’s right or wrong. It’s usually not even what’s right or wrong. More often than not it’s what is best under the circumstances. Cont…

8. Most decisions are multi-valued, depending upon the situation. Almost every situation can be analyzed properly if viewed from a variety of perspectives.

9. In avoiding two-valued thinking traps , be careful of the following: Avoid Analysis Paralysis . don't bring so many variables into play that you can’t reach a conclusion. Avoid Indecisiveness . Looking at multiple variables isn’t an excuse to avoid being decisive. Remember that some decisions are two-valued . When choosing whether or not to act according to your personal ethics or the values of the organisation, more often than not these are decisions between right and wrong.

10. Influence for the Future, rather than the present or the past. 4 Develop a common vision with your colleagues. Ensure all your efforts are aligned with a common sense of purpose and clear goals for your efforts. Cont…

11. Solve problems in the future. Don’t blame and criticize others for things that happened the way of future achievements. Create a shared sense of identity and responsibility. Going one step beyond alignment, it is important that people also invest in the success of your joint efforts.

12. Influencing in the Future does not mean: Ignoring present realities . Everything you focus on for the future should be grounded in reality and take into account your current capabilities as well as limitations. Ignoring the lessons of the past . Experience can be the best teacher of all if we learn the right lessons from our experience. The key is to learn what we can and then apply what we’ve learned to our future success.