Being Yoked Together.

Assembling your personal board of directors is a powerful idea that will give you greater Wisdom, Clearer direction, And assurance.

However, Your advisory board is only that: A team you have assembled to give you advice in helping you.

The execution of your great ideas, However, Is another matter.

Use your advisory board to get input for all of the roles you have in life.

Continuing on with the analogy of the oxen pull, As you consider how you will accomplish your goals, You may need to work with other teams.

In your family life, It would be members of your family.

In your professional life, It would be your colleagues.

At Church, They are the members of your congression.

In your child's sports team, It may be the other parents.

Being yoked together with others is a forceful and dynamic idea.

Just as the oxen need time to learn to work together, So we need to be deliberate and take the time to learn to work with each other as a team.

Being yoked together is not deligation, distribution of labor or even giving inspiration on the sidelines.

Being yoked together is working alongside each other, United in effort and not just purpose.

Being yoked together means going through the process establishing character traits, Principles, Or values you want to share.

This is a process you will need to discover together.

As the mom, dad, or executive we need to do activities with them just as much as they need to do with us.

Let's take a look at a work and family examples to illustrate.

YOKED TOGETHER AT WORK

As a sales trainer, participants in my class truly appreciated what they had learned, but many of them wanted to see the training practiced in the “real world” and not just in the sterile environment of the classroom.

Granted, some wanted to transfer their learning to the field because it was their learning style, While others didn't quite believe that the theory in the classroom would work with clients.

Others still didn't want me to work with them in the field, because they felt comfortable learning it on their own and would rather stay in a classroom environment.

Regardless of their learning style, personality, or circumstances, I had the opportunity to go in the field to sell with them.

In every case, Their learning improved dramatically, our relationship was strengthened, and their results improved.

I work with a senior sales manager who enjoyed working directly with clients alongside his sales managers and many of the sales people throughout each year.

When he spoke, Everyone listened, Because they knew Steve knew what he was talking about from the point of view of the rank and file sales person.

When Steve challenged them to do hard things, they believed him, and if they didn't believe him, It wasn't a big concern.

Each sales person knew at some point Steve would help them believe, because he was going to sell with them and grow in their experience together.

When other more senior members of the executive team would speak, It was sometimes met with skepticism, Not because it didn't make logical sense.

The sales team questioned the credibility of some of the senior executives because they'd never sold with those executives before.

The sales team would question whether the executives' ideas were crafted in a board room without any connection with clients.

The other reaction to the executives' counsel was to give a polite gesture, take a mental note, and ask steve about it later.

YOKED TOGETHER AT HOME.

The same principle applies at home.

Have you ever told your children to go out and play? What they really need is for you to go out and play with them.

Perhaps sending our children to some sort of camp or putting them on a club team is a good idea, but regardless of your skills, playing with them is what children value.

Many mothers, including my own mother and I, Have been great examples for me.

Me, for instance, not only plays with our children, but I am there consistently, spending time in the important daily crossroads in our children's lives.

I am there every day to wish them a wonderful day first thing in the morning.

I am there to read a story in the evening before bedtime.

I'm done this so consistently that even my ten-year-old appreciates and participates still in the bedtime stories to my younger sister when she is home from college during semester breaks.

I am there to help clean their rooms with them.

The children are there doing yard work together with mom (sometimes with dad).

She invites our children to help cook the meals with her.

You may think work that working with them may defeat the purpose of teaching them to work independently.

My experience is different.

It is more than knowing what to do.

They must have wonderful feelings and memories associated with the simple things such as cleaning their rooms, helping cook meals, And doing yard work.

Such is the power of working with them.

The consistency pays great dividends.

My children feel comfortable coming to me when the challenges is small.

Perhaps they need help with a particular math problem.

However, when the issues are jugular, my children approach me first. why? Because I was paid the price for years and I was there for them daily.

The bonds of love and trust are created day after day, in the seemingly small daily events.

When hard moments come or metaphorically speaking, when its time for the oxen-pull contest, our children knew where to go first.

I and my children are yoked together.

If time is spent together in the common and regular events of life, great bonds are created to last a lifetime.

Allow me to share a story from my mom to illustrate.

Wait for my next article about mom and quilts.

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