Career failure – who or what is behind it? Bad boss, colleagues or just bad luck? At the University of California, Morten T. Hansen conducted research on 5,000 employees and managers to discover the reasons for professional failure. Despite the different culture, the research conclusions can be accurately applied to Slovakia.
Where to look for the reason for failure?
Have you ever experienced a situation when a comfortable colleague got a pay rise and you didn’t? Or that they promoted someone else to your dream position instead of you? All this despite the fact that you are the first to arrive at work and the last to leave. Is it a bad boss, unpleasant colleagues or a coincidence that is responsible for your professional failure? The conclusions of the research will probably not please many of us – Mr Hansen and his team have concluded that career failure is self-inflicted.
How was the research conducted? 5,000 employees and managers were given a simple task – they were asked to rate the job performance of their boss and themselves. They also had to answer several questions about their working habits. What conclusion did they come to? The most successful employees are not the ones who spend the most time at work. It is much more important for the efficiency and success of employees if they learn to work properly (“with intelligence”).
How to work properly? Passion and purpose!
Stop blaming your boss or colleagues and focus on the job. Choose the parts of your job that you enjoy, that you are passionate about and that you enjoy doing. If you enjoy your work, you will work easier, more efficiently, faster and better at the same time. Focus your attention and passion on purposeful work tasks that have high added value for the employer. If you manage to combine passion for your work with time efficiency, you won’t be short of good results. Are you saying to yourself that something like that will not be possible in your case? That you hardly like the work you do? You don’t have to change jobs right away. Experts advise you to find at least one specific activity in your job that you enjoy doing, in which you find pleasure, and find new meaning in your work through it.
With the constant rush of new tasks, don’t be afraid to say “no” to your boss. Subsequently, however, it is very important that you communicate with your supervisor. Give a reason for refusing a new task – tell him that you want to work efficiently and that giving new tasks would cause you to not give your full attention to your work. A large number of diverse tasks has a negative effect on the employee’s psyche. The result is such poor, mediocre employee performance. He simply can’t keep up with multiple things at once, so he only does them half-heartedly. Therefore, focus on tasks that you enjoy doing and that benefit your employer. The results are sure to come.
Source : www.businessinsider.com
