Tag: Employee Encouragement

How Developing Yourself Can Help You Win

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Success doesn’t happen by mistake. Growth doesn’t happen by mistake. Failure doesn’t happen by mistake. And your future is not going to happen by mistake.

If you want where you are going to change, you must change. You must develop yourself. You must do things that make you uncomfortable. You must get out of your safe zone. You must change yourself. You must pay attention to what you are taking into your mind.

You must pay attention to the people around you. Yes, you have read about this before. But it is true. If you are around the wrong people, you are in trouble! Your dream is in trouble. Why is that? Because they don’t care about your dreams, your goals. They don’t care about what you are trying to accomplish. They just care about what you are doing for them. To say it simply, they are in the game for themselves, not for you.

If you want to see success in your life, you must change your environment. Where we are is powerful. The people around us are powerful. Our thoughts are powerful. They can change the direction of our lives. They can change how we think. They can change how we work.

If you are around positive people, you will benefit from their wisdom. If you are a learner, you will learn a lot from them. Because the right people make things easier for you. They make learning easier for you. They make your dreams even easier to go after. Because they never stop encouraging you. They are there for you when you need them. They are just great people!

When you are around great people, people who are doing great things, doing big things becomes normal to you. When you are in a positive workplace, getting difficult things done becomes nornal to you. When you are with positive people, you are not scared. You are free to talk about your dreams. You are free to be who you really are. You are free to live your life, to try new things. Because you get support from the people you work with.

But the opposite is also true. If you’re not in a great environment, your growth is not going to be fast. It is going to be really slow. Why is that? Because nobody cares about what you are doing. And you won’t even know if you are on the right track or not. But you have a choice. If you don’t like where you are, if you are not getting what you want, if your life is stuck, you don’t have to continue. You have got to leave!

Don’t fear. Don’t let fear keep you in a place where you are not going to grow. Don’t give in to fear. Because fear doesn’t care about your future. Fear cares about where you are right now. Fear wants you to be safe, to stay where you are, to avoid risks. Your fear is trying to keep you safe, not to put you out there. And success doesn’t happen like that. If you want to succeed, you must take risks.

When it comes to your growth, when it comes to your success, what you accept today is what you will face in the future. What you accept today is what you will sleep with tomorrow. If you want your tomorrow to be better than your today, you must take care of where you are today. You must take care of what is really important to you. You must be comfortable with the things that make you uncomfortable. Because that is where your growth is going to come from, if you do not give up.

Whether you choose to work today or not, your future is waiting for you?

‘The Truth About Employee Engagement’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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As a manager, if you want to get things done, don’t forget why you are leading other people.

Because leading other people is not easy. It is tough. But if you really like to do it, you can do it.

‘Don’t,’ according to Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden, ‘allow yourself to become distracted by the bogus assumptions that are often put before us, particularly those advocating kinder and gentler standards (or no standards at all)…’

‘Hire for fit and not just talent. Make sure the ‘fit’ requirements are relevant to business success, but then stick with them, no matter what.’

‘Hire people who truly want to take responsibility for their work; then get out of their way.’

‘Far too few employees know what the company does, where it’s going, what it stands for, what it believes in, and where they fit in.’

‘Committed employees are the only ones capable of delivering the kind of quality and service needed to compete and win.’

‘Caring is an attitude, not a program. It has nothing whatsoever to do with sentiment, emotions, or ‘being nice.’

‘Perks, benefits, and amenities don’t begin to tell the whole story of what makes a great workplace.’

‘If you care about your people, you tell them the truth- period.’

‘People need to hear bad news directly from the person who made the decision, rather than read it in a report, in an email, on Facebook, or in a tweet. And they deserve to hear it as early as possible.’

‘If you care about your people, you’re there when times are tough.‘

‘Don’t expect your employees to pay for your mistakes.’

Source

Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden (2012). Contented Cows Still Give Better Milk: The Truth about Employee Engagement and Your Bottom Line