Procurement Entrepreneur Challenge - Identify your fears
Channel: cpsmtraining
Date: 2019-10-01

When you shift your mindset to be a procurement entrepreneur, you accept and even welcome fear and challenges. 

On page 8 of our Challenge Guide, we get into the details of fear.

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As part of our challenge, the next step to shift your mindset is to identify what scares you and may be holding you back, so you can confront those fears to bring the supply chain into the boardroom of your organization. 

The reason we fear change is…
 Changing means leaving certainty. 
 When we change, we feel like we’re losing something. 
 Change means leaving something you might be invested in.
 
These fears are true for both negative and positive changes, such as when you’re changing from a manager to a director, or you're moving to a different organization that sees the value of procurement professionals, so you implement strategic sourcing. You experience doubts, even though you're excited for a new future. 
Let’s take action!!!

Go to page 11 of our Challenge Action Guide to see the exercise to help you identify what types of situations cause you fear. An important part of this exercise is to think about what you would have done differently. 

Next, go to page 12 where you see a life without fear, where you’re focused on moving procurement into the boardroom from the backroom. 

The results of this exercise show you when you’re in a situation that makes you fearful, then creates a mindset that shifts you into a state of action to work through these situations.
Go now and to complete this exercise.

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