Virginia WaltonI recently read an article on Facebook that was built around a series of pictures of mishaps from people not paying attention.
I am sure you have seen this, driving into the garage with the $5,000 bicycle on the roof rack, backing out of the garage without opening the door first, driving away from the coffee place with the drink holder full of coffees or worse your cell phone on the roof, pouring the smoothie into the glass that was upside down and my favorite grabbing the chicken stock not the almond milk container and pouring it in your morning coffee.
Hopefully, you have not experienced any of these, but once I finished laughing, I realized, these are examples of what happens at home when we are not focused or to sound a little more “coachy”, not present in the moment.
These examples all had a consequence some more severe than others from thousands of dollars of damage to wasted time and coffee.
What risks are you creating when you are not focused or present at work?
Financial Risk
If you are rushing through work, multi-tasking in a meeting, or have multiple things bouncing around your mind at a time, you are putting the quality of your work at risk. That means you could miss something. Just like the examples we already talked about the consequence could vary from something small to something substantial. Odds are you will soon be starting the budgeting process for 2023, if you miss something that could have a major financial impact. Trust me, I’ve seen executives have to own up to costly mistakes in the budgeting process. It’s not pretty!
Reputational Risk
This seems obvious after this example, but even if your misses are smaller like forgetting to include the attachment on an email, not sending a complete response because you read the email to quickly, are not paying attention in a meeting, or missing a minor item on a risk assessment, they impact your reputation. The more frequently these small misses take place the greater the negative impact on how you are perceived by your team, your peers, and your superiors.
Your behavior will begin to frustrate them which will impact your engagement scores, your reviews and that means your COMP! Yes, this will again have a financial Risk.
Emotional Risks
This one is probably the biggest! If you are not focused in your relationships, it will have a negative impact.
If you are rushing out of work to get to your child’s game, recital, performance, do not spend time checking your phone during it! Focus!
How will you feel when he or she gets in the car to go home and shares the moment that meant the most to him or her and you missed it! You were multi-tasking.
Relationships require attention and if you are distracted and multi-tasking rather than focusing on the other person. It does not matter if it’s your spouse, partner, your child, or sibling, all relationships require your attention in order to thrive.
If this sounds familiar, it is time to put your mitigation plan in place!
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