Leader Lab 2 - Summary
Rosanne Longmore, CEO of Coroflo
Rosanne Longmore, CEO of Coroflo, gave us 10 tips to follow on your professional journey.
10 Tips
1. Start your day by eating that frog. This statement comes from Brian Tracy’s famous bestseller, Eat that Frog. An excellent book on procrastination.
2. Keep up one thing. In her case, it was swimming. She believes employers look for that one thing that you excel in because it shows commitment and discipline to stick to one thing. It’s also important for your health to have hobbies that are outside work.
3. Work on a Blank Piece of Paper. With any challenge, step back, think where am I now, where do I want to be and set steps.
4. Contextualise difficulties. You have two arms and two legs. Your health is your wealth. No difficulty is the end of life. Sometimes you may need to force yourself to smile but in doing this, it will help you address the day when the going gets tough.
5. Life isn’t linear. Last recession. Both husband and I lost our jobs. Restarted at the bottom again. It’s not so much the position but the matter in which you work and commit to a task.
6. Hard-work. Bread and butter work. While not attactive sometimes, it’s the donkey work that helps you find your passion.
7. Life’s steps are not the next step to the next pinnacle. It goes up and down, up and down. In every step, you are working your way upwards… Start in school, start in university, start in a job… in each step you work your way up. Her personal experience is starting off in jobs that did not look like they were leading anywhere but had a significant influence in her professional career.
8. Smile with your teeth out. Help yourself to help others. Body language is important. Smile. Dower demeanour doesn’t help. Seeing miserable people doesn’t help. You need to smile, change your body language to communicate to other people.
9. Laugh at yourself. It’s important not to take yourself too seriously.
10. Everything you see in the media is the best version of that person. You don’t see the hard work, the mistakes, the effort. It takes years to get to where they are.