If you follow sports at all, you will be familiar with the term, so and so is an impact player. What this means is when ever this player is in the game, he impacts the game, people are aware he is there and he changes the game because of his presence.

If you want to achieve better results than what you are achieving now, you have to start to be an impact player. You have to change the course of events around your self and start to influence the activities that take place around you. In other words, you have to start to drive your own pre described Agenda, a term you have heard me use before.

Driving your own Agenda means you will be the person who dictates what you will be doing and how other people will be responding to you. I use a number of different ways to say the same thing but in the end, you have to make an impact on what goes on around you. Making an impact could be as simple as being the one who says when a certain activity will start to being the one who stops the assembly line because the product being produced does not meet company standards.

Making an impact could be stated as being pro active. You do not wait for some one else to jump in, you are the first into the pool, the first to address the issues and the one who sets the tone.