“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and
the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of
ourselves to the task at hand”. Vince Lombardi
It is a good habit to go to sleep with the
satisfaction of what you did during the day, and it is the best thing to get up
in the morning with the determination to excel on every new day. As a student,
sports person, team member, manager, teacher, engineer, or doctor, you must be
determined to complete a given task to the full satisfaction of your
customer/seniors. Do not expect always “first time right”, since things may go
wrong due to the internal and external environment, which are often not in your
control. Any setback should be taken as a temporary phase to recoup and try
again. You must remain steadfast as it may take several attempts before you
achieve full success. It is very important to dare with calculated risk and
quickly take off to get the best out of a situation. Those who hesitate and
remain double-minded are spectators often described by a famous quotation - “Paralysis through
Analysis”. They remain
indecisive and opportunities do not wait for them. Some of the salient points
to achieve success are given below:
- Daring
to face challenges.
As a professional at any level, you must pick up the courage to deal with
any situation and go ahead. As and when the opportunity comes you
should be the first to take it on. It will inspire your teammates as they
observe that you can take a well-calculated risk and start the task
without losing any time. Do not get distracted by weak people whose
risk profile is low. You are to be a go-getter.
- Dealings
with stakeholders: While
dealing with students in a college, patients in hospital or customers,
consultants, senior management, team members, friends, relatives, parents
and children you must reflect maturity and trust. One must know who is
talking to whom and why. Each place and person need appropriate treatment
and respect. Similarly, while dealing with the welfare of team, one should
be generous and firm as per the emerging situation. You are to be tactful
while dealing with customer, vendors and clients. Similarly, you are to be
careful and respectful while dealing with stakeholders and forge good
relations.
- Dedication
is the key to success.
It is the passion and the vigour with which you must work and be a role
model for others around you. As a dedicated person, you will enjoy doing a
job and have no cribs or stress of work. Your concentration of energies
and focus will be natural. You will enjoy doing the job and making success
as a habit. Many successful people adopt the motto “Work is worship”.
Indeed it makes things so simple and success will be obvious.
- Delegate
to Accelerate. There
are some over- enthusiastic people who think
themselves “know-all” and want to do every job themselves and
be perfectionists. They actually become bottle-neck as they keep
accumulating more and more instead of finishing and delivering as per
priority.
They overload
themselves to do most things in their own style and standard. You should
be judicious to delegate the workload as per team member capability. If a
team member is in his/her comfort – zone, he /she will perform to his/her
full potential. Once you delegate, allow them to perform and manage their
commitments. By so doing you can devote time to responsibilities for which
you are accountable.
- Commitment
to delivering on time. In
any organization, you are among many others who are interlinked in a project
/process. If you delay and do not meet deadlines, it will affect your
teammates. Such delay will impact client’s business as they are in turn
linked to someone else. Therefore commitments and deadlines must be met at
any cost In every field say education, transportation,
manufacturing infrastructure construction, you and your team must
complete the job/task as per schedule. If you commit to a deadline that
must be adhered to. Your credibility to be on-time and every time will
impact your relationship with customers and vendors.
- Dependable. Whether you are a
marketing person, vendor, supplier, doctor, engineer, professor in college
or even as a financial consultant, you have to be dependable. Your
product, services have to be delivered on time, within budget and to the
delight of your customer/ client.Your competence and commitment to the job
will make you dependable and you will be always adequately rewarded. You
will win hearts of both seniors and peers. You should always say what you
mean and mean what you say.
- Demonstrate
right approach and lead. One
of the most effective leadership traits is the demonstrative performance
to show the right way for the team to follow. It establishes your
professional excellence and willing cooperation from the team.
- Destiny.
God has blessed you
with various strengths and faculties. Accept those and work diligently to
improve/build further in stages. Your destiny is in your hands.
- A
determination is a power. All
things being equal, it is the will-power and self-confidence which make
one put in an extra bit to complete the last lap of the race. If you are
determined to win, you will make it happen. In all fields like sports,
adventures, marketing, long hours of hard coding in an IT-related project,
you must not quit and just go on since success is waiting for you.
- Doing
different things or similar things differently. To make your name in
the organization, you are to be innovative doing something different than
routine or doing the same thing differently which has good look and feel
and more cost-efficient. Repeating the same process, product, service will
slow down the progress of the organization and your team will become lazy
and lesser productive. Remember change is spice of life
- Dignity
and love of Job.
All jobs are linked to employee’s competence and related parameters. You
must maintain the dignity of your job and status. No job is small since
even door keeper also has an important role like that of CEO of an
organization. Therefore love your job and respect job of others, as all
have their own task to perform. If you love your job, you will enjoy doing
it and you do not require to be supervised.
- Discipline
and efficiency. Self-discipline
helps to control body and mind, improves credibility and performance. It
also inspires team members to follow you and becomes a well-knit team
leading to success in every initiative you may undertake. If as a
manager/team leader you adhere to office timing (IN/OUT) religiously, your
whole team will follow you. Discipline flows from top to bottom. Keep the
interest of the organization as priority one and enforce discipline by
personal example. A disciplined team always completes the task on –time,
every time and within budget.
- Do
it now. Do not ask what
and why to avoid responsibility, instead look at the task ahead and just
do it to the best of your potential. Be a go-getter and demonstrate your
initiative to take on any task assigned to you. Infect, you should help
others and enable them to do well. Good old saying ---“Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do
today”.
- Duty
and discipline. Be
a role model for punctuality, discipline and follower of organizational
policies and procedures. You must be seen as a highly disciplined person
with 100% commitment to the job, without wasting time in waling and
gossiping around. This will enhance the productivity of the whole team.
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