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这是一篇来自领导力研究专家Maxwell的文章。说的就是这么一个道理，只要你有雄心和事业心，想要对这个世界做出一份贡献和付出，首先请从改变自己开始。改变他人有时候容易，改变自己最难，但是改变自己却是最能够给自己带来最大回报的。这篇文章对我，想要成为一名杰出的英语教练的启发是：一方面要研究英语学习者的现况，另一方面要重点从培训、教练的方法上入手和改良，去适应和满足每一位个体英语学习者的切身情况，从而切实做到帮助学习者学好英语。这点目前已经有一点心得，简单来说就是采用符合中国人学习英语特点的理论教学，结合西方的标准，表格和管理工具来监督和管理学习的过程。从而能够解决中国人在英语学习上的两大问题——正确的方法与长期的坚持。
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."
