David turned off the ignition, got out of his driving seat and slammed the door of his car as he walked briskly towards the entrance of his apartment. Ignoring his dog that ran up to welcome him he knocked on the front door even as his wife Sarah sensing he had returned opened the door. He walked through the sitting area, up the stairs into his bedroom ignoring his wife’s welcome. Sarah went up after him, baffled and a bit disturbed about her husband’s unusual behaviour. Honey, what’s the matter? She said to her husband as she entered the room. He was lying halfway across the bed with his legs on the floor. His palms locked against the back of his head, he was staring at the ceiling. Sarah, I’m fed up! He managed to utter struggling with the urge not to cry. Fifteen years! honey, fifteen years! and I’m still a bloody middle manager. The promotion letters were given out today and again I didn’t get any. People who joined the organisation five years, ten years after I did are already senior managers, the worst pain is that Benjamin, a guy that used to report to me three years ago was made my director today! Sarah, enough is enough! I’m quitting! I’m tired! I can’t take this anymore. Sarah leaned against the wall, folded her arms across her chest and sighed. Benjamin is very hardworking and purposeful; I saw this coming, congratulate him for me she said and walking out of the bedroom. Your food is at the dinning she called out on her way down stairs to the kitchen. Rising very fast and experiencing frequent promotion cannot be divorced from being a goal getter at work. Your ability to deliver and get result on time will accelerate your recognition, appreciation and promotion by the management. The challenge for many however is how to consistently achieve objectives and in fact exceed expectations when appraised over a set period of time. Work environment is very dynamic and unpredictable. Micro and Macro environmental matters dictate the next line of action, decision and choices you need to make. In fact, at times it’s so complicated that even with available information it is still difficult for you to choose a direction. Often also, bureaucratic challenges, approvals, limited powers, and your level at times mitigate the ability to make quick decisions and respond to work matters urgently. These factors including office culture and personal competence may affect your ability to achieve your objectives at the end of a year. But do you know that these issues do not limit or stop everyone. As realistic as they appear, a few individuals have found ways of achieving and surpassing their targets again and again. Some I’m sure are in your office and you wonder what makes them tick. Some of these folks may not even be as qualified or hardworking as you are yet they deliver in manners and frequencies that are too impressive to be ignored. What is the secret? How do they do it? Some within a short period of time in your office have risen to the top; enjoying better remuneration, allowances, perks, power and prospects that have been so hard for you to apprehend despite your consistent effort. This situation may have left you discouraged, unhappy, laid back and lackadaisical towards work. In fact you may begin to blame it on your own task as being more complex, difficult, or harder to measure in terms of result. You may also think your supervisor is stricter and has very high expectations and is difficult to impress. Your thinking may begin to incline towards discrimination, favouritism, and segregation, tribal, ethnic or gender biases. These, often times may make you lose your zeal, passion, excitement and commitment to work and your excellence at work begins to wane. Frankly speaking, I believe every growth oriented organisation will be more than willing to encourage, motivate and retain their best hands. I do not suppose they will be willing to subjugate productivity and business growth for sentiments creating unnecessary problems and division in the rank of their various teams especially in profit driven establishments. Dear friend, I’ll want to share with you an important ideology that can make you outstanding at your place of work as well. It is called result oriented thinking. This is simply the ability to always see the end of every matter from the start. It is to effectively evaluate the outcome of a task from the beginning. It is very easy really to be very busy at work yet achieve nothing. Achieving objectives is not just about being busy and investing several work hours on assignments. It’s about evaluating the impact of that assignment on the overall output of the business. Many of us in thinking confine ourselves to just our deliverables and job descriptions, hence when we feel we have done our part, we conclude we have achieved success. This is not very correct. You are part of a process of value creation and value management. Everything you do must sit well within this context. How exactly does your role improve the overall efficiency in managing the business? How do you prioritise your to-dos? Is it based on convenience, or effectiveness? For example as an accountant do you pay suppliers based on their importance to the business or how nice and polite they are to you? Do you frustrate other departments in urgent need of cash because you want them to respect your position and appreciate your power? As training manager is your selection based on training needs of staff or a way to reward friends and colleagues that are nice to you? You see, your result oriented thinking mindset will help you make decisions and choices that will truly improve and impact performance. Hence you will always be seen as a value builder not just another employee. Promotion and good reward comes faster to value builders than longest serving members of staff. To enhance your relevance and importance to your organisation, choose today to be a value builder. Think of the outcome of any assignment before you start. Prioritise based on overall business impact. Choose not to be a people pleaser, chose to build and create value always, don’t see yourself as too important to do any task as long as it’s critical to the business. Result oriented thinking allows for good initiative, forward thinking and foresight. It protects you from negative surprises, embarrassment and poor performance. Choose today to see the end of every task from the beginning and it will amaze you how vital your achievements would be today. You can get the promotion, elevation and recognition you’ve always wanted. Be a builder, see the big picture, see the end from the start then prioritise. Enjoy your day. hotep gods
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:47:12 +0000
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