How successful you are at work is determined largely by your attitude and how you spend your time.
Here are 5 ways you can take control, improve your performance at work, and reach new skill levels and professional development.
1.Set interim milestones and reward yourself
The road to your destination may be long and winded and the end-goal may still be a few moons away but don't let that stop you from stopping to smell the flowers along the way. Set clear milestones for interim success and reward yourself with a self-congratulatory break and private or public accolade at every deserved opportunity.
2. Manage Your Priorities
To improve performance at work you must have the ability to set priorities and to separate the relevant from the irrelevant when facing the many tasks of the day. You must also possess a sense of urgency, the ability to get the job done fast.
3. Focus
Avoid distractions as much as you can. Focus is a key trait of productive professionals. Online and other distractions are a bane to productivity. Focus on listening. Listen to your boss of course, but also pay close attention to your colleagues and subordinates.
4. Stop trying to multitask.
In 2009, a group of Stanford researchers released a study that showed how people who do heavy multitasking, keeping up several email conversations at once while texting, jumping from one website to the next and trying to work at the same time, do not pay attention as well as those who maintain a more streamlined workflow.
5. Make sure you give yourself genuine down time.
That means time away from the office when you don't check work email or let yourself think about the next project. It can give you a sense of control, of purpose, it can shake up your perception of time, and offer the space to expand cultural horizons and allow the kind of relaxed break everyone needs to refuel.
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