Being effective means staying focused at one thing at a time and achieving focus at work means that you are able to do the right thing at your own time! More importantly, the best are the ones that make things Slow Down.
Managers with a large number of employees and contact points need to master this. An example of focus is tunnel vision; the effect of focusing too much on one thing. This is what naturally happens during a highly important or serious situation like a life threatening event, an accident, a very happy moment and even true love moments. Time slows down as your brain shuts out everything else except what is important. You feel you live in slow motion.
In everyday business we face a multitude of tasks, a large number of issues, serious problems, thousands of emails, co-worker requests, meetings, tasks from legal or regulatory authorities or other organisations outside our company, all arising continuously and requiring attention, challenging us for time and resources.
You need to focus really hard in order to cope with the daily challenges of a demanding work position. CEOs, Executive Directors and generally managers with a large number of employees and contact points need to master focusing. It does not mean doing the work fast as this has a limit. It does not mean working more and doing the work in less days as this has a limit also. What is focus really?
“Achieving focus at work means that you are able to do the right thing at your own time!”
Really, the best of managers have an ability to master their time and live in a different time frame than the rest. By shutting out of their thought frame all distractions and all irrelevant issues and tasks, they become extremely focused on what is happening and what has to be done. They impose tunnel vision onto themselves. An observer witnessing this believes that their mind is quick and they are very smart but in reality they have managed to have their mind pinpoint focused and for them time slows down. They think more on the issue and less or not at all on the distractions thus producing a seriously improved outcome compared to the rest.
In our work, many can be fast or even faster. But only the experienced and best managers can train themselves to such a level of focus that will make things go slow for them.
“The best ones make things Slow Down”
There is a way to program yourself to achieve this also. You need to do as follows :
- As soon as you enter the workspace you full heartedly enter into the context of things at work. It is a different world and you have to automatically adapt to it’s reality. This is a cyber situation you are living in with the main difference from computer games being that its results are known to 100% affect your real world also.
- You need to “super prioritize” as it is not only time that is of essence but also your own energy. You may be a master of multitasking but you rather not multitask. Requests will always be more than the cores of your CPU. Your brain has a limit. It can but it does not like doing so many things all at the same time. Super prioritizing means more than writing down priorities. It means prioritizing based on what will help you achieve the end result and not what has come first in a chronological series.
- You need to keep distractions at a distance. As this is almost impossible in real life, you will either have to become a super nerd, a person that only deals with his work and has little human contact or you will have to set a time-frame within which human contact is not allowed. That is why your best work usually comes out of you early in the morning. No one is there to spoil it for you.
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