Tag: Workplace Creativity

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?

How To Manage Poor Performance At Work

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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People want to grow. People want to do well. They want to do bigger things.

As a leader, you are there to help your people grow. You are there to lift them up, not to bring them down.

If your people are not doing well, work with them, not against them. Be real with them. According to Sylvia Lafair, ‘When one person is willing to be authentic, he or she gives space for others to risk telling their truth also.’

Work with your people, not against. Why is that? Because ‘system thinking makes everyone accountable, and there is no one person to blame.’

Focus on what is not working for you and your people. Improve what is not working. And do more of what is working. Because ‘by taking the time to understand and work on patterns, you open yourself up to opportunities and ways of being that you never considered before.’

‘You achieve freedom when you take conscious responsibility to individuate, both on a personal and on a professional level.’

Don’t forget your culture. As a leader, you are responsible for creating a better place for your people to work. ‘Organizations benefit when they examine their entire culture to understand and address the source of dysfunction with an enlightened, compassionate approach.’

Don’t ignore yourself. What do I mean by that? When you ignore yourself, you ignore your inner self. Your inner voice is your inner master. Why is it important to listen to your inner voice? According to Sylvia, ‘Listening to your inner voice gives you power over repeating thoughts. Once you become comfortable with this part of yourself, you can begin to ask yourself different kinds of questions, breakthrough questions that will lead to new and innovative ‘aha’ ideas.’

Open your mind to new opportunities. To do that, you must be willing to learn new things. ‘Being open to learning about yourself at work can increase your overall skill base as well as your creativity.’

Remember, to fix what you are going through in your life, you must revisit where you are coming from- your past. When it comes to growth, ‘the best, most fruitful thing we can do is tackle our past head-on, grapple with it, and finally accept it.’

Accept yourself. When you accept yourself as you are, only then can you accept what you are doing- your work. ‘You become whole by owning the parts of yourself you would rather ignore.’

Accept what is not working for you. Don’t sweep it under your rug. It is only when you face what you are struggling with that you can do something about it. ‘Once you claim the healthy opposite of your outmoded patterns, you can develop an action plan that is accurate and effective.’

‘Listen more than you talk. ‘To develop new ways of listening and responding means thinking systematically, asking probing questions, and sharing your observations.’

Source

Sylvia Lafair (2009). Don’t Bring It To Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success