Avoiding Professional Complacency
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The document discusses complacency, which is defined as a feeling of self-satisfaction and unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies. Complacency can result from success, mastery of routine tasks, and familiarity, and can lead to underperformance, lack of creativity, apathy, and unhappiness. The document recommends continuously communicating goals, providing training, assigning challenging tasks, setting and reviewing goals, and maintaining a growth mindset to prevent complacency in organizations and individuals.
Avoiding Professional Complacency
- 2. COMPLACENCYSOURCE: MERRIAM WEBSTER • A FEELING OF BEING SATISFIED WITH HOW THINGS ARE AND NOT WANTING TO TRY TO MAKE THEM BETTER : A COMPLACENT FEELING OR CONDITION • SELF-SATISFACTION ESPECIALLY WHEN ACCOMPANIED BY UNAWARENESS OF ACTUAL DANGERS OR DEFICIENCIES • AN INSTANCE OF USUALLY UNAWARE OR UNINFORMED OF SELF SATISFACTION
- 3. WHAT NEXT? • WE CLIMB FROM THE TRENCHES AND HOLES TO REACH THE TOP, AND ONCE WE GET THERE, WE’RE CONTENT WITH OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
- 4. THE RUSTOUT SYNDROME “Rustout is the slow death that follows when we stop making the choices that keep life alive. It’s the feeling of numbness that comes from taking the safe way, never accepting new challenges, continually surrendering to the day-to-day routine. Rustout means we are no longer growing, but at best, are simply maintaining. It implies that we have traded the sensation of life for the security of a paycheck … Rustout is the opposite of burnout. Burnout is overdoing … rustout is underbeing.” —RICHARD LEIDER and STEVE BUCHHOLTZ, The Rustout Syndrome
- 5. RESULTS • UNDERPERFORMANCE • LACK OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION • APATHY • UNHAPPINESS • LOSS OF JOB
- 6. CAUSES • SUCCESS • MASTERY OF JOB ROUTINE • REPETITIVE JOB ROUTINE • RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS • FAMILIARITY AND FRIENDSHIP WITH SUPERIORS • LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY • FREQUENT MANAGEMENT CHANGES
- 7. PREVENTING COMPLACENCY • CONTINUE TO COMMUNICATE ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS MISSION AND VISION • REMINDS EMPLOYEES THAT BATTLE NOT OVER
- 8. CONTINUOUS TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT • BREAKS THE MONOTONY • CHALLENGES YOU FOR THE FUTURE • HELPS YOU TO GROW
- 9. ASSIGNMENT OF MORE CHALLENGING TASKS • KEEPS YOU ON YOUR TOES AT ALL TIMES • GIVES YOU NO ROOM TO SLACK INTO COMPLACENCY
- 10. KICK LAZINESS GOODBYE! • PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLACENT ARE INTERNALLY FOCUSED ON THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF EXTERNALLY FOCUSED ON OTHERS OR THE SITUATION AROUND THEM. • THEY WORK AT A CONSTANT SPEED, EVEN WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES DEMAND FAST ACTION.
- 11. SET GOALS AND REVIEW THEM CONTINUOUSLY • OUTCOME GOALS ARE THOSE THAT COMPARE THE PERFORMANCES OF ATHLETES WITH THOSE OF OTHER ATHLETES. FOR EXAMPLE, " I WANT TO WIN THE A CHAMPIONSHIP" MEANS THAT THE ATHLETE'S OUTCOME DEPENDS ON THE PERFORMANCES OF OTHERS. • PERFORMANCE GOALS ARE USED TO IMPROVE AN ATHLETE'S INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE. FOR EXAMPLE, SCORE 20 GOALS DURING A SEASON. THE ATHLETE HAS MUCH BETTER CONTROL HERE. • PROCESS GOALS ARE USED TO IMPROVE THE EXECUTION OF A SKILL. FOR EXAMPLE, IMPROVE 100M RUNNING TECHNIQUE.
- 12. WHAT ARE GOALS?
- 13. STEPS
- 14. IT’S A MIND THING, GET RIDE OF IT THROUGH THE MIND FIRST! • I AM GOOD AT THIS • NO NEED TO WORRY • I HAVE DONE IT BEFORE • I AM THE BEST
- 15. THANK YOU
Editor's Notes
- #14: A specific result that a person or system aims to achieve within a time frame and with available resources. ... Objectives are basic tools that underlie all planning and strategic activities. ... Some examples of business objectives include minimizing expenses, expanding internationally ... n