How to Build Productive Goals Around Obstacles Faced By Employees
Whether you’re an
entrepreneur, employee, creative or CEO, if you are passionate about your work,
there is always room for improvement. While there are common traits that
signpost a successful and happy employee, there are some mental obstacles that
prevent any team from reaching the next level of their professional journeys.
Here are some of those
obstacles, and what employees and employers can do to remove them.
Not acknowledging incremental progress
Many people set large,
ambitious goals for themselves and become disheartened when they don’t reach
them within the rigid time frame they have set for themselves. Or if they do
achieve them, they barely take the time to acknowledge or celebrate their
success. You need to mark smaller increments that make up those larger goals.
Celebrate them and map out goals for the next season. Create posters of your
goals and put them on display. By having these more regular checkpoints, it
keeps people accountable and motoring forward. It’s important for employers to
recognize that even if employees don’t achieve these goals, their effort counts
and there are vital learnings to be had.
Fear of failure
Fear of failure is a
highly endemic obstacle to success. Many people are afraid to attempt bigger,
more challenging things, due to fear that they might fail and show others — or
themselves — that they are inadequate. However, these are the very things they
need to be attempting in order to unlock new opportunities for growth (for both
the individual and the company). As the expression goes, nobody ever achieved
greatness by staying in their comfort zone. The people who are most successful
are those who accept the probability that they will fail sometimes but are
willing to give it a go anyway. After all, there is no failure, only feedback.
A perfectionist mindset
Perfectionism is
perhaps the root of all evil. There are many high-achieving people who have a
strong perfectionist program and it locks them out of a lot of opportunities
that would lead them beyond what they’re currently capable of. They struggle to
accept themselves as they are in the present moment, so they refuse to attempt
things they may not immediately succeed at. With self-acceptance comes the
freedom to have a go at anything, because you’re not saying “am I doing it
right, am I going a good job?” Instead, you can say “I’m okay, I’m doing my
bit. Sometimes, I’ll get it perfect, sometimes I’ll mess it up. But it’s okay,
I’ll just pick myself up and keep going.” This resilient mindset will get you
much further than a perfectionist one.
Not thinking in terms of impact
Many of the workers
think in terms of impact. So, they’re not thinking “am I doing a good job?” but
“how impactful is what I’m doing?” Employers should ensure that everyday
employees leave feeling like they’ve accomplished something that is actually
going to move the needle in the business and help change the lives of our customers.
Thinking this way is essentially the antidote to perfectionism, as it means you
will choose to be happy with an 80 per cent minimal viable product, process or
approach to ensure you get it to market.
Not eating for mental stamina
Many people underestimate
the impact their nutrition has on their productivity and cognitive function.
They go for the convenient options, eating toast for breakfast, a sandwich for
lunch and pasta for dinner.
Eating carbohydrates at
every meal doesn’t set you up for the mental stamina and endurance you need to
power through the day. When you eat carbohydrates, it spikes your insulin
which, in turn, leads to an insulin drop. That’s when you get that sleepiness
and brain fog, leading you to lose an hour of productive work in the afternoon.
Eat some form of protein with vegetables and a source of good fat for lunch
instead. This will keep you firing on
all cylinders throughout the day.
source:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/324584
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