6 signs of a truly effective employee
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
If you are away from the office last, and the house continues to perform work tasks, do not consider myself super-efficient worker. Everything is just the opposite.
Maxim Yurin
Managing partner at Little Big Agency. He worked as a director in the SMM-Red Keds company.
Thank you very much and work hard? Often left late at night? Takes a job at the weekend? Recently heroically fulfilled the work of another department? You constantly have to do everything myself, because is difficult to find someone who is better cope with your tasks?
Congratulations, you are ineffective.
Constantly watch the tape in positions of processing, exclusiveness and indispensability, the absence of three years, holiday, Heroism in the spirit: "I drank 8 cups of coffee and ate a couple of tranquilizers and still finished the project - oh, what I well done!"
The author of these posts are usually united by an unwavering belief in the fact that they are incredibly efficient and cool. And all around lazy and worthless middling: they also finish the working day just half an hour later, sometimes even go to work on time, and most of the tasks are transmitted to others!
C at a glance everything seems perfect: the employee does more than the rest, sick of his work, does not retreat before difficulties. Miracle.
But this is not a miracle, and here's why.
1. Units can keep this pace for a long time. 99% burn. Typically, after a few months of starting failures: worker is disappointed in his position / supervisor / field. Begin tragic dismissal, finding yourself, "I flew to practice yoga and the chakras to open in Goa." Moreover, often such people are starting to roll a barrel for a company that they "used and underestimated."
2. Such a person (especially if it is on a top position) plunges into the abyss of false efficiency all around them: subordinates, contractors, agencies, secretary, home, cat. All around are starting to convert, Rushing from one thing to another, trying to catch everything. To take on more than they should. To engage in a foreign operation. After all, the environment (and especially subordinates) also want to meet the "head of the super-efficient". As a result, companies are gradually begins to happen uncontrolled chaos, a large turnover, arguments and generally hangs unhealthy atmosphere.
3. The head of these people is also difficult. When someone from the staff outside the scope of the rules (even if in a positive way), head difficult to control, often have to come up with special conditions for him to show special attitude. For example, to forgive the guilty, because he was "the last week even before 22:00 left work." All this also leads to chaos.
In the medium and long term efficient other type of employees. Those who can:
- organize their work time and processes in such a way as to carry out their tasks within the framework of working time (I personally believe that it is 4-5 hours of pure working hours per day);
- allocate time out to think calmly, properly organized its work processes and processes of the company, to optimize them, forth and implement new ideas, read / see something useful for themselves and the company, but is not directly related to the current activities;
- structure your files, documents, processes, roles and responsibilities that they can be easily understood and, for example, pass on to others;
- find the person to whom you can delegate tasks and delegate them correctly;
- to comply with the normal work-life balance, have hobbies, personal life, other values, other than work;
- refuse and say "no" new tasks, duties and everything that would interfere with the first five points.
If you are an employer or the head of a man stop too rejoice at his success, and processing. Try to temper his zeal and good sense to drive it into the normal operating limits. You may benefit from its super-efficiency now, but is likely to lose in the future: will decline, tantrums, threats, chaos among the other employees.
If you are such a "super-efficient" worker, first, stop brag or complain to Facebook. Second, come home early today, stroke wife, hug the cat and once again re-read and agree to adopt 6 points is really effective employee.
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