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| YOU ARE KEY!!! |
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these days are perceptual and psychological, not technical
or skills-based. The major adjustment you'll need to
make to the changing workplace is mental: How
you frame things at work, how you process
events in your head, your attitude and outlook about
how your job and organization now have to operate. |
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The secrets to your professional success in this century lie within
you: in your ideas, your imagination, your energy, your instincts
toward exploring, innovating, and pioneering. These powerful resources,
together with your inherent ability to manage yourself, position
you to take advantage of numerous opportunities that are to come.
Look at it this way.
Imagine that you are an excellent chess player. You've played for
years and you are able to win against just about every opponent.
But what if a new opponent insisted that the two of you play a video
game. You'd quickly realize that your expertise at chess won't count
for much. A whole new approach is needed. While chess is a game
of deliberation, strategy, and planning, the modern video game is
about speed, adaptability, and responsiveness. Quick trumps careful.
How you manage time becomes ultra important. Your ability to deal
with the unexpected plays a key role in your ability to compete.
This is not to say that one game is more difficult than the other.
Video games are very different from chess and if you insist on applying
the approach you used with chess to a video game, you will perform
poorly. You will need to embrace a different way of thinking and
apply a different set of behaviors and assumptions if you are to
become an excellent video game player. Of course, you could refuse
to ever play video games, but by doing so, you miss out on the new
skills you could learn by seeking the challenges inherent in learning
this new type of game.
The same is true when applied to your workplace. The workplace
of the new millenium simply won't accommodate a lot of your former
beliefs about how your job and organizations ought to work. The
game of work has changed!
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To effectively manage your performance in the
new world of work, consider the following -- and remember,
your perspective heavily influences your performance.
- Realize
that some of your well developed work habits may now interfere
with your effectiveness. The more you struggle to apply
former problem-solving and decision making techniques
to the new game, the harder it is to score.
- Change
your mindset, the way you frame things at work, your perspective,
your approach, the way you process information and events.
My making the mental shift necessary to play the new game,
your work won't seem so overwhelmingly complex and confusing.
- As
the world and workplace evolves, so must you. Your work
will slowly destroy you (i.e. ulcers, high blood pressure,
stress- induced strokes) if you don't update your methods
and mindsets.
- Look
at your organization in a new light. What are its new
values? What are its most urgent priorities? What are
the new realities for the organization and for you? How
can you get ahead of the curve and engage the future?
Consider what contributions you can make to add value--to
the organization and for youself as an employee?
- Because
work is different from what it was in the past, it is
easy to believe that it is more complex. However, today's
situation calls for new relationships -- between you and
your work, you and your employer, you and yourself. New
thinking is required and, quite possibly, a lot more
nerve.
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| ABOUT US |
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This "Leadership
Moment" is designed to give you
tips to help you become more productive. We
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Human Capital Developers is a consulting
company specializing in leadership and organizational
development.
At Human Capital Developers... "Excellence
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