Me: "Yeah, me too."
You: "You too?"
Me: "Uh-hu, I've got extra stuff lying around."
You: "What do you keep? What do you get rid of?"
Mastering workplace performance means a lot of things to a lot of people.
To some, it means being productive, effective and efficient enough to leave work at the end of the day and KNOW the right things got done. To someone else, it might be the key to such an awesome increase in productivity they can stay at work a little bit longer and get that much further ahead of “the game.”
Here is a question I hear from time to time:
"Why would anyone want to be a master at work?"
When I was young, my mom, my teachers and my coaches used to tell me, “Practice makes perfect.”
Well, now that I’m a little bit older, I’m much more prone to say, “Practice makes habit.” I had a mentor of mine (thanks Kevin!) tell me to test THIS theory: "how do you do anything is how you do most things."
Please, do not just take that advice blindly. Give me a call, and invite me in for two days of coaching. Side by side, we will study, question, assess and address the results you’re experiencing.
No, I don’t start looking at the actions, tasks, projects or long list of things you have yet to do; we start by acknowledging your results. Why? Because in the RESULTS are the HABITS.
As soon as we both understand the habituated (behavioral) processes you have perfected, then we can talk about the new results you’d like to achieve…then, we’ll identify the to-dos, the projects, and the requirements to get there.
This year is about starting new discussions. After we do that, we will have a new conversation based upon engagement, and ideas on how to improve your workplace performance.
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