Workplace-The Perfect-fit for resolutions

Undoubtedly! It’s again the time to make a list of the state-of-art wishes, expectations to welcome the New Year. It also includes the exhaustive agenda to follow not only for personal happiness but also for professional accomplishment. Then definitely we need to frame such resolutions that will help us to reach our goals with good spirits and make our work place an Enjoyable zone to work with.

Let your New Year encompass with some better resolutions that may help you to work with good fortune sans any threats.

Flash Positivity:

It may seem to be MISSION IMPOSSIBLE for every one of us to maintain positivity in the work areas. But recent researches prove that the set of positive emotions we exhibit in the work place not only improves productivity but also helps in sustaining healthy inter-personal relationships. According to Professor Barbara Fredrickson, a social psychologist, positive ethos helps to produce emotions like joy, hilarity and pleasure in the workplace and may inspire employees to ignite their performancelevels.Instead of grumbling “our performance was unsatisfactory due to the non-cooperation from other departments as well”, try to pick the possible genuine positives in the scenario and try to be optimistic.

Clip Gossip:

It is inevitable that a sip of Gossip is tasted by everyone in the organisation. But it is the contributing cause for many apprehensions in the work areathat may shake the organisations as a whole. While cornering the gossipers and confronting them about their objectionable tasks, you take the lead to see that the gossip ends with you. As the saying goes “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas” Declare that this year you‘lead by example’ and do not become a part of spreading information that might be false or hurtful about another person.

Boost up Fun:

In today’s competitive working environment, struggling with deadlines, targets have become inevitable. Perhaps, we need to struggle with longer working hours that may take a toll on our physical and mental health. This strenuous working environment needs to be substituted with a tinge of fun in the work place. Studies also substantiated that Fun and laughter in between strenuous working hours tend to release endorphin, a natural pain killer in the body that enables employees to induce more productivity.

Every manager may resolute to be include a tinge of fun and humour in the work place through conducting recreational activities, jokes contests, team games periodically to promote a cheerful and fun filled environment. Celebrations or playing little pranks at work also add to the fun at work place.Organisations can encourage employees to participate in humorous skits and play-lets that may keep them in energetic spirit. Beyond any doubt, in this year, try to introduce thesesimple techniques to inculcate the amusing spirit among the members of the team.

Squeaky Desk:

The place where you will spend most of your working hours is obviously, with the Computer desk. A well planned and an elegant desk always keeps you in a cheerful moods. It may be tricky to infer that that every year we need to promise to improve the efficiency of desk management. But Desk organisation is not rocket science. All you need to do is make some simple adjustments. Just take a little time out of your daily schedule to organise it. Categorise important items such as stationary, papers, pocket stuff, and keep them in separate containers or boxes. Things should be handy where sorting can be done according to the priority of items. Spare few minutes daily to monitor and remove unnecessary files and papers that occupy extra space on your desk so that you need not burst out and make a war on the desk in search of files.

Audit your Smartness:

Does the today’s smart technology acknowledged the work place with increased productivity? It may be disturbing to debate on this as it has also opened up new vistas of opportunities for career growth. Joggling with email, Twitter, Facebook, and all the apps on our smartphones has become a common scenario.Incesssant interaction with the smart devices may disturb our memory retention and span of attention skills.Recent researches also warned that these brief disruptions may lead to loss of mental energy and thus enhances our chances of committing mistakes. Each signal you receive may drain your energy to choose between two actions ‘to respond or not’?

So this calendar year devote your attention to minimise the usage of smart technologies in order to retain the originality ofone’s span of attention. Why don’t we choose methods to enhance our performance by just leaving a breathe space to all our Gadgets at our convenient times.Hopefully, think of times to turn off the monitor, put a pause with the smartest way of working, and introduce distraction-free periods in between work schedules.

Respect Ergonomic Principles:

Continuous exposure to computers, laptops, smart phones can cause multiple health problems like headaches, eye strain, neck, shoulder painand musculoskeletal disorders likeTendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome that warns to introduce good ergonomic schedules in our work routine.

Include periodical breaks quite often that have proven benefits both to the employee and the organisation. Between the periods of work, look away from the monitor and focus at a distant point and while resting your eyes, remember to blink. This helps keep your eyes naturally protected and lubricated and helps prevent dryness in the eyes.Say ‘no’tomultitasking.Make a rule to reform your work habits. Split monotonous and repetitive tasks according to the order of priority.Try to perform diverse tasks in a more innovative and creative way to improve your efficiency.

Workholism– the admitted dispute:

It is apt to interpret that home has become the second office to many to reach our targets, even on holidays. This may compel many to stick to workspaces to reach the peaks of targets within the shortest possible time. Today many are workaholic and addicted to work. But psychiatrists and psychologists warn that this may not prove to be productive and become a botheration to peers, colleagues demanding to accomplish impossible things.Experts say that certain work environments also spurworkaholism. It is the need of the hour that organisations should also deal with this socially acceptable addiction in a more supportive way. Studies reveals that a reasonable amount of time spent on working produces better results than overworking can.Just convince with the fact that working for longer hours will not improve your productivity. Indeed we need to give the go- ahead that we ‘work to live' rather than ‘live to work'.

All New Year Resolutions definitely includes a series of drafts like take proper rest, have a balanced diet, incorporate physical exercises, meditation or yoga in your daily schedule. This list is always inclusive and everyone needs to follow their own methods of adhering to those inevitable tasks, especially in the workplace. But, do not push beyond reasonable expectations and make the work day enjoyable. As it was aptly quoted that “Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.”

It’s time to jot down all those creative resolutions for this new year and initiate the custom of progressing towards an extra mile daily to bring Smiles both in personal and professional paths.

Wishing You a Happy New Year 2016

By: Dr.P.V.Radhika