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Personal effectiveness refers to one's ability to meet set objectives within the specified time. Some of the reasons many people struggle with the achievement of their professional or personal goals are their inability to handle distractions, self-limiting habits, professional incompetence, and bad management of time. Increasing one's personal effectiveness requires the effective and efficient use of time toward the achievement of set goals.
Everybody has an equal allocation of 24 hours, but not everyone fulfills their goals with it. Improving one's personal effectiveness is critical as it is the bedrock of professional and personal success.
Here are 8 Tips for recharging and boosting your personal effectiveness :
Set a Clear Compelling Goal
A well-defined goal triggers behavioral changes while giving you a guided focus. Goals help you converge your energy and resources to the pursuit of a single agenda. A clear goal gives you direction and acts as an energizer keeping you motivated. With a clear goal, you can measure progress and identify where you need to make the appropriate adjustments.
Commitment to Continuous Self-development
The world is evolving and so is work. Skill and competencies get obsolete faster than ever. You must constantly re-skill and upskill to beat change, remain competitive, and ultimately reach your goal. You can't be effective if all you know and are capable of are in the past. In a rapidly changing world, you are either improving or regressing; there is no in-between. Commitment to continuous personal development is all you need to stay abreast and ahead.
Have a Daily To-Do-List
Where there is no purposeful agenda, abuse of time is inevitable. A daily To-do- List would provide you a guide for a wholesome prioritized action. It is more or less a systemic roadmap to your goals. Itemizing your action plan and making a commitment to follow through is the recipe for increased personal effectiveness.
Arrange your To-Do-List According to Order of Importance
Not all activities carry the same weight or value. How much impact the end result of an activity has on the achievement of set goals is what determines its value in the scheme of things. Armed with this knowledge, organize your to-do list with the most impactful set of activities occupying the topmost positions on the list. Place important and urgent activities ahead of others. Next up should be the important but less urgent ones until you get to the unimportant ones that you should delegate.
5. Put First Things First
By acting on and finishing the most important activities first on your To-Do -List, you would have prevented yourself from letting the things that matter the least be at the mercy of the things that matter the most. Focus and finish the most important and urgent activities ahead of others. Followed by the important but less important and urgent ones.
Delegate Low-Value tasks.
We all have strengths and weaknesses. The best way to handle your weaknesses on the job is not to train yourself to become strong in them but to train yourself to become smarter in delegating duties that fall within your areas of weakness. You should focus on the jobs only you can do best
Quit Self-limiting Habits
Goals and competencies alone may not always guarantee sustainable success. It requires a certain size of habits to facilitate the achievement of a measurable and sustainable Success. Habit is to succeed in what oil is to a locomotive engine. Not all habits lead to success, some undermine it. The habits that enable success often don't come naturally. Identify the kind of habits that support the achievement of your set goals and work hard to cultivate them.
Become More Self-Disciplined
Self-discipline is about the ability to follow through without supervision. It's doing what you ought to do, when you should do it, and how you should do it.
In conclusion, improving your personal effectiveness begins with realism. Being objective about your personal capacity about the set objectives. Realistic goals combined with the above tips will most likely increase your level of accomplishment.
