Working on your personal development means that you gain insight into your talents and shortcomings and use them to your advantage. Easier said than done, how do you do this in practice?
Do what you say, say what you do
Every person is unique and what works for one person may not work for another. That is why there is no general technique, exercise or manual that you can use in your personal development. There are practical techniques that can be applied to everyone. First of all, you must follow this rule: ,do what you say and say what you do, . It seems a bit of a lame rule that we would use for children, but it is also important for us adults. Because if you don’t do what you say, in the long run no one will believe/trust you. If you do this, you will create trust among colleagues, friends and customers. If you have created trust with this, you will notice that this is to your advantage and people actually do what you tell them. Saying what you do is also important, this creates clarity and people know what they can expect from you. This is also important to create trust.
If someone else can do it, you can do it too
It is important to acknowledge and recognize what skills you are lacking. This may make you wonder if you want to master these skills or perhaps realize that you are not in the right place. Assume that you can in principle do anything, after all: “if someone else can do it, you can do it too”. By mastering the skills you lack or are less good at, you develop yourself and gain more confidence in yourself. Some also find it fun or a challenge to learn something new. If you currently lack all kinds of skills for the profession you practice, but your talents come from a different source, you can ask yourself whether you are perhaps in the wrong place. This often results in stress and powerlessness at work.
You can learn to communicate
99% of what we do, we do unconsciously. Only 1% of what we do, we do consciously. You mainly see or notice this in communicating. For example, suppose you are having a bad day, you will feel a little less good and this will manifest itself (often unconsciously) in your communication with others. You then react less cheerfully or are less active than normal and your colleagues, customers or friends certainly notice this, even though they cannot do anything about it and have nothing to do with it. So what you feel inside, you express outside. Try to be aware of your way of communicating with others, empathize with what they feel and show genuine interest. What you radiate to others, you will eventually get back. Wouldn’t you also want someone else to approach you with respect and interest?
Human factors
The human factor is the most important in every workplace. You can release many different tools to control working methods, but they will be used by and for people. The human factor can therefore also ensure that your working methods do not work as you would like. That is why personal development is important: once it is clear which people you are dealing with in the workplace, you can first improve communication and collaboration and then you can adjust business development.