TOW#475 — Results-oriented employees
As a continuation of last week’s tip, if you’re not an average employee, then you should be someone that is results-oriented. Instead of thinking “which things am I going to do today?” when they wake up in the morning, people who are interested in results and aim to accomplish them think “which results should I achieve today?”.
We all know that at work, as well as in our private lives, results are what count in the end. When you start to see your ultimate goal, then it becomes easy to plan the things you need to do today in order to achieve X by a certain date.
Yes, it’s easy to become a results-oriented individual, instead of running on the spot and being average. But how?
- Multitasking — working on many things at the same time is suffocating you! You simply can’t do it (unless you’re truly that kind of person, though I’m yet to meet such an individual in my life). According to some statistics, when working on multiple things at the same time productivity drops by as much as 40%;
- Time — time flies and you need to eliminate all activities that take away too much of it. Here are a few of them and the amount of time they take away from each of us (this is theoretical, but I know it happens in practice):
o Greeting colleagues and morning coffee — 20 minutes
o Surfing the net (time.mk, social media, etc.) — 120 minutes
o Chatting with colleagues — 45 minutes
o Lunch — 45 minutes
o Private telephone conversations — 20 minutes
If you add it all up, roughly 250 minutes/4 hours of your working day is neither here nor there, meaning there are only four hours left for work;
- Set clear targets — only with clear targets are results achievable. If the targets are not clear from the very beginning, then it’s very easy to get mixed up, and results become unachievable. Everybody expects something from someone else, and only with clear targets can results be accomplished and perhaps even bettered;
- Resources and tools — results can only be achieved if the appropriate resources and tools are used while working towards them. Everything else is just toiling in vain and a desire to achieve. If you don’t have the right ones, find them!
- Communication — good communication with colleagues with whom you work closely leads to great results, and vice versa. Results are impossible without communication… since you’re not orientated towards results but towards satisfying yourself and your own needs, rather than the team’s. If you’re having problems with communication, find ways to improve it (regular meetings, use of new technologies and so on);
- Details — when you’re given a task from which results are expected, make sure you have as much information as possible about it and about what you’re supposed to deliver. Don’t just nod your head when in fact you didn’t understand anything. Going back to ask something 100 times leaves a bad impression, but then again not having all the details could lead to unnecessary and wrong results, as well as lost time;
- Planning — regardless of whether it’s being asked of you or you yourself are setting the deadline, please plan all tasks and jobs in advance. Don’t forget that here we’re talking about private as well as professional matters. Proper planning means less stress and more time to complete tasks.
I’d like to end this tip with an extract from an interview with Kosta Petrov, in which he said: “as the years go by I’ve learnt that it’s not my duty to explain to others what I am, who I am and where I’m from. My duty is to give my all in everything I do, and the results always speak for themselves.”
Wishing you success with the changes to come,
@kalinbabusku
“Tip of the Week” Team member
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