Sebastian Perrier

We’re all influenced by our mindset, problems and issues. This involves a circle of things we are concerned about in our everyday life. However, there are some things we can influence and others we cannot. We shouldn’t worry about those things we cannot influence, thats the zone of DOOM. You are losing time thinking and being worried about stuff which you can not do anything about.

Therefore, outline what’s your smaller inner circle of things which you can influence and you can work out. That’s your circle of influence. Every person can also do things to change the circles, thus means become more proactive: be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

In this context, some people become “victims”, and they tend to reduce their circle of influence to the minimum, and thus think that he is a victim of other people, and the rest of the people is guilty for his current situation. But remember, every time you point a finger at someone, 3 fingers will be pointing at you!

On the other extreme you can find “owners”; these are people that are very proactive and like to find solutions. He is not a frick control, that’s different thing.

Working with this framework within a team

• everybody understand the concept of circle of influence
• everybody writes in post its the things that are accelerators and breaks in their everyday job
• then the moderator groups all breaks and accelerators in categories and trash the repeated issues
• finally, you will locate each accelerator and break post-it in the circle whether it is something you can influence or not
• summarize with the team the list of things we can not influence and are breaks; so stop spending time and worries on them…!!!