Do your expectations match the level of effort you are giving? Aligning expectations to effort promotes productivity and a sense of accomplishment. Ensuring alignment between expectations and effort, and a growth mindset can be cultivated to stretch beyond your current capabilities. When expectations are aligned with effort, individuals can achieve success and a sense of accomplishment.
Overcomplicate
Do you overcomplicate? In multitasking fast paced environments, too often we make things more complicated than they need to be. Be clear about what needs to be accomplished. What outcome are you desiring? What problem are you trying to solve? What issue needs to be addressed? Prioritize what needs to be done first – if I do this other issues will be addressed. Don’t get sidetracked – stay focused.
Being Loyal Doesn't Pay off
Changing jobs paid off. Being loyal and staying is not. ". Put another way, the median worker who changed employers saw real gains in earnings in both periods, while the median worker who stayed in place saw a loss during the April 2021 to March 2022 period.1 Perhaps not coincidentally, Americans cited low pay as one of the top reasons why they quit their job last year in a Pew Research Center survey conducted in February 2022." Learn more.
The Toxic Work Family
It’s no surprise since we spend most of our waking hours (approximately one-third of our life) at work. Our relationships with our coworkers serve many functions — they can help us grow in our career and provide us emotional support and friendship. So it only makes sense that the relationships you build at work can mirror those you find within a family context."
Numerous examples and research show that overly loyal people are more likely to participate in unethical acts to keep their jobs and are also more likely to be exploited by their employer. These could manifest as being asked to work unreasonable hours or on projects or assignments unrelated to your role, or keeping things under wraps because it is in the company’s (read: family) best interest. We’re all in this together, so you have to play your part, right?
When employees work under this mentality, it’s only a matter of time until performance and productivity drop due to burnout, leading to conversations with managers or HR about what they did wrong. This creates a perception for employees to believe they’re not doing their part. Left unaddressed, employers could foster an environment where burnout is the norm and ultimately impacts the bottom line through employee attrition and lost productivity."