Management lessons from Driving-3

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# Change gears to drive faster- learn more to grow in executive ladder:

If you want drive faster, you know that you need to press the accelerator pedal down. But, it would not help even if you keep pressing it all the way down to the floor if you are not changing the gear up. You would rather end up burning more fuel, burning your engine and will not achieve what you want to. So the key lies in changing gears appropriately and not just pressing the accelerator hard.

Even at workplace, you cannot keep doing the same thing over and again and expect to grow up. You need to enrich your role on a regular basis, be open to take new tasks and assignments and ensure that you pick up all the skills required to grow. If you do the same thing for a year, your experience is one year. If you keep repeating what you did for another 9 years, your experience is not 10 years, it’s still only one year and the remaining 9 years are more of repetitive experience.

# Unleash your car power - Turn your talent into performance

How does it feel to have brand new Lamborghini in your Garage? Nothing less than being on top of the world.

What if you don’t know that your new car can do 500 to 600 HP and hit 0-100 in 3 to 4 seconds. (Lack of awareness) OR

What if you don’t know how to handle your car? (Lack of skills) OR

What if you are not keen to drive the way it has to be driven ? (Lack of interest – Attitude)

It does not make any sense to own a Lamborghini and you can very well have an Alto.

Similarly, even at workplace, it does not matter how talented you are and what matters is your performance.  You need to realize what your potentials are, pick up skills required to grow up with utmost determination and commitment and show performance.

You need to perform well and demonstrate your performance consistently. Even if you are highly talented but your performance is just meeting expectation, it’s as good as driving your Lamborghini as 40KM per hour.

So unleash your true potential and demonstrate consistent performance at Workplace.

# Blow your horn – Blow your trumpet

The horn that you have in your car is not any kind of musical instrument and it certainly adds to the noise pollution. However, you need to use when it’s required and whenever it’s absolutely required.

Similarly in Corporates, if you are not getting recognized for what you do, you don’t have to wait indefinitely or feel victimized. This will affect your morale.

May be your boss was busy or it was not intentional that he just missed or may be he missed it intentionally. Irrespective of whatever be the case, you should not hesitate blowing your own trumpet and getting yourself recognized.

The caution is you should do it only when it’s required.  Overusing it for your personal advantage will result in noise pollution at Workplace and it will never be appreciated.

Be cautious but don’t hesitate to blow your own trumpet if you genuinely deserve it. (BTW, This is called as “positive stroke” in transactional Analysis which means asking for positive compliment when it’s not given) 

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