It is often said that we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. Early in my career, that was a key learning point for me.

I looked at failure as an event and not a process of continuous improvement. The fact is, even if you take your time, and put in place the best processes, you will fail at some point. Failure is almost always going to be part of the process. The balancing act is to not the small failures snowball into bigger ones.

This Talent Tip is about how to use your failures to grow and succeed as a leader and professional. The failed efforts I'm talking about are those faithfully executed, quickly modified, and thoroughly learned from attempts by ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results.

I hope you enjoy this video, learn something that you can apply right away, and by the end we've helped you start to get from where you are to where you want to be.