I invite you to go through the following short tips to help you up your game in the professional field and watch your productivity level rise.
Believe You Can Do It
Belief is a success factor. What you believe in gives you the confidence to do extraordinary things. The Bible says it is done according to your faith. Your belief becomes your reality. What you tell yourself consistently has a significant effect on your self-image.
If you tell yourself “I can do it”, it stimulates you to do things. The opposite also has an effect when you tell yourself “I can’t”. If you believe you can’t, you’re right.
To develop a high level of self-confidence, you should influence your thoughts by suggesting to yourself what you want to become. What we hear, what we feel, and what we see influence our actions. How do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as weak and fearful, or do you see yourself as strong and confident?
How you see yourself determines what you say to yourself, and what you say to yourself determines your actions and, in effect, determines your reality. The simple belief that you can and the actions you take help improve your productivity level.
Have someone you are accountable to
Have an accountability partner. An accountability partner is someone you can trust and whose judgment of you is true. Who is that person you respect and who values your growth?
When you have someone you are accountable to for your self-growth, it helps you develop faster. It gives you a sense of responsibility and a motivation to do more. It helps you become aware that someone is watching you and tracking your growth.
The important thing about having an accountability partner is that that person gives you feedback about your achievements and tells you the truth about your strengths and weaknesses.
An accountability partner can be your spouse, mentor, boss, or anybody whom you generally respect and have confidence in.
An accountability partner has to be someone you regularly meet to discuss. That person helps you assess the state of your well-being. This simple act of meeting that person who helps you track your development helps you have the consciousness of growth, and it helps you do more to improve.
Some people are self-motivated and may not need anybody to track them, but many times they look up to someone they want to measure up to, or they have a spiritual side that guides them.
What is important about having an accountability partner is just someone who is in a position of influence in your life. So, ensure you associate with people who have a positive influence so that you will grow positively and not be caught up in a trap of a critical or negative person who may discourage you.
Find someone who has done something you want to achieve and let them guide you. Emulate someone who is doing what you plan to do, and you will top up your productivity.
Keep the Learning Curve going up
Another thing you need to do to make your productivity level high is to up your learning curve. It is never too late to learn something new, and learning cannot be too much.
There is no end to learning. Something new comes up every day. You don’t get better by working harder; you get better by working smarter. You get smarter by learning something new that will help you where you are.
There is always a better way of doing something. Find it. The world is changing every day, and that is why yesterday’s knowledge can be obsolete today. Great organisations know this and ensure their staff are up to date by organising training.
A good employer would always consistently train its staff. The question you should ask yourself if you are a boss is, ‘What is the implication of not training your staff? It means it is your company that will suffer the loss due to the lower productivity of your staff.
As a professional, you should take responsibility for developing yourself to remain relevant to your business. Some bosses don’t care. If they need new people with the skills they need, they fire and hire new people with the relevant skills. It is okay as a professional to leave a job where you see that the opportunity for growth is no longer feasible and seek somewhere else where you can grow.
The quality of your Products or Services gives you Confidence
People buy your products or services only because you make them feel confident about themselves. Some people don’t care if you are the certified best in the field or not, but what they care about is that they want to feel the quality of your product or service from you offer them.
Feel confident about your products and services, then communicate what that will do to your prospects, and they will patronise you. People pay more when they perceive high value. People love to be hopeful about what they get from you. The confidence they see in you is what they buy. So, the quality of your products and services automatically gives you confidence in front of your clients. Ensure that what you give out is top quality and not a sham. IF it is not good for you, do not offer it.
Do More and Be More
Experience makes you more confident. We become better when we do more. The more experience you gather, the better you are and the more confident you are.
An expert was once a novice. They only became better because they continued to practice. Practice brings perfection, and perfection brings confidence.
Of course, it’s not a day’s job, but you must continue to grow. The fear of going out will only limit your growth and reduce your confidence level. The way to be more confident in your profession is to step out and create new experiences. The more experienced you are, the more confident you are.
