If your work requires “filling a bucket”, meaning you have a quota to make daily, can be a little daunting. The old metaphor of eating an elephant one bite at a time is helpful here. Break your task down into small increments, that way your task isn’t so big. This applies to anything in work or life. We often look at something in totality but if we take it in segments it works out better for us. Work smart, not hard I always say.
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Learning As You Go At Work
Today at work I learned that making decisions and making policy are things you have to create as you go along. Sometimes it means changing things to suit the current situation. In a transition you learn a lot about yourself and those who work with you. I am honoring those who got me where I am by trying to do my best to meet expectations and achieve goals set before me. Much of the times it’s about figuring stuff out on your own. Also there is leading people and hopefully inspiring them to do their best too.
Well, It’s Monday Again Everyone
Monday came too soon. I am pretty sure it’s not the end of the world but you know how it goes. Let’s start the new week strong good people. Hang in there everyone.
Hey, It’s #Friday Y’all. Let’s Do This!
Today is Friday…let’s be productive, solve problems and other stuff like that. I am glad to be at the end of another week. We are all working for the weekend though. Have a great day my blogging friends.
Happy Friday Fellow Workers
Pretending to look busy on a Friday is hard work. I think everyone agrees with this.
What I Learned This Week As Team Leader
Being a team leader in any line of work is a big responsibility. You are placed in trust of the lives and livelihoods of everyone you are placed in charge of. Management is not easy because you have to coach, correct and discipline when necessary. It is also a fun job because you get to do different things and to impart your vision to your team. I hope to grow and develop as a person as I do this job.
Of course you have production goals to achieve which requires a lot of work and being sure that work is done by every team member. You as a middle manager which I am means you get pressure from the top to perform and you get it from below from your team when they have problems, and you hope that you can manage them as they happen.
In my line of work there statistics, metrics, data and spreadsheets that one can use to measure performance and productivity. However a co-worker said that stats don’t make the person, the worker is more valuable than that. Now that I am headed into my second week in management I see things coming together and things smoothing themselves as I go along. Indeed I am grateful for this opportunity.
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