WORKPLACE :The perfect fit for resolutions

It is that time of the year when we all are set to make a list of the state-of-art wishes to welcome the New Year.

While it ultimately comes down to you, there are many ways that can provide the extra motivation that help you to work with good fortune sans any threats.

The exhaustive agenda not only goes for personal happiness but also counts for your professional accomplishment. So here is a list which tells you how to boost up your professional life for this coming year.

Flash Positivity: It may seem to be “mission impossible” for every one of us to maintain positivity in the work areas. But recent researches have proved 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.

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 area that 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.

Boost up: 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. 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 these simple techniques to inculcate the amusing spirit among the members of the team.

Audit your smartness: Does 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 of one’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: Say ‘no’ to multitasking and take break between your work. 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 work spaces 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. 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'.

By:Dr P V Radhika

(The author has a doctorate in commerce and is at present working for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Vijayawada)