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這是一篇來自領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力研究專家Maxwell的文章。說的就是這么一個道理，只要你有雄心和事業(yè)心，想要對這個世界做出一份貢獻(xiàn)和付出，首先請從改變自己開始。改變他人有時候容易，改變自己最難，但是改變自己卻是最能夠給自己帶來最大回報的。這篇文章對我，想要成為一名杰出的英語教練的啟發(fā)是：一方面要研究英語學(xué)習(xí)者的現(xiàn)況，另一方面要重點從培訓(xùn)、教練的方法上入手和改良，去適應(yīng)和滿足每一位個體英語學(xué)習(xí)者的切身情況，從而切實做到幫助學(xué)習(xí)者學(xué)好英語。這點目前已經(jīng)有一點心得，簡單來說就是采用符合中國人學(xué)習(xí)英語特點的理論教學(xué)，結(jié)合西方的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，表格和管理工具來監(jiān)督和管理學(xué)習(xí)的過程。從而能夠解決中國人在英語學(xué)習(xí)上的兩大問題——正確的方法與長期的堅持。
Leading Change byDr. John C. Maxwell
Leadership is aboutchange. If you need no change, you need no leader. In times ofchange, people seek out more andbetter leaders. Those successful sought-outleaders embrace the following thought: "The best reformersthe world has ever known are those who beganwith themselves."
Mahatma Gandhisaid, "We must be the change that we envision." Tolstoy said,"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks ofchanging himself."
The followingcomments are about personal change:
1. One person cannot change anotherperson.
When I started as a young leader, I thought that a leader couldchange the people; and boy, did I work at it. I said, "All right,I'm going to give them thoughts, ideas, and principles; and I'mgoing to change people."
After severalyears, I awakened to the thought that the only person who canchange himself or herself is himself or herself. You can changeyourself, but I cannot change you. You see, I am responsible to youbut I am not responsible for you; and there is a world ofdifference between those two. I am responsible for teaching yougood leadership, I am responsible for sharing things that can helpadd value to your life; but you are the only one who can takeresponsibility to change yourself, and that is what this wholearticle is about.
2. Most people need to look at the way that they look atchange.
How many times have you heard somebody say, "I sure hope thingswill change." The only way things will change for me is when Ichange. It has nothing to do with hope. You can't just say, "Well,I just hope things will change around me," and expect results. Theonly way that things will change for me is when Ichange.
I have also heardthis before, "I don't know why I'm this way." Well, you are the wayyou are because that is the way you want to be. Let's expose it forwhat it really is.
3. When you make the right personal changes, other thingsbegin to turn out right.So when people say,"I'd like things to turn out better for me, I'd like things to turnout right, I'd like things to turn out better in the organization,or in my family," I say to them, "Start by making personalchanges."
