422
2019 was a crucial business year. It was a mixed bag of highs and lows, but yet it did manage to set trends in technology, management and economy. The question is what has 2019 taught us? Let’s have a look at what 2019 has left us when it comes it business management.
- Be Your Strongest Critic While it’s great to keep your impulses going, when it comes to formulating new solutions to business problems, you may want to let your ideas marinate for a bit by fool-proofing it from all possible angles. It’s completely natural to feel that moment of epiphany when that seemingly perfect idea hits you, but playing devil’s advocate is a great way to do a quality check. While you should stay confident and optimistic, you must also be your own finishing school.
Your objective should be to make all your ideas absolutely foolproof before it’s presented to others around you. This is a great habit to cultivate; you can pretty much apply it to any hobby as well. For instance, let’s say you enjoy playing the guitar.
A few days into your learning, you’ll probably be happy that you’re able to pull off the basic tune of a song you were learning. Now, before you run around and show others what you’ve learnt, revisit whether you’ve learnt the song well enough. Concentrate on minute details that will make your representation of the tune more accurate – you get the drift!
- Sell Your Ideas Holistically Some ideas are kindled by passion, some by practical thinking. However, selling those ideas are a completely different ballgame. To have everyone in your boardroom want to sign up to your idea, you must strategize your pitch in a holistic way. Here are the ingredients you need:
- Logic
This refers to all the data that can back you. Logical points play a big role in helping realise how your idea will apply to real-life situations. - Emotion
Human beings are emotional creatures. Nothing can quite drive a point like the right spirit and attitude, so let your pitch be presented with the zeal it truly deserved. You want to sound like you have 100% conviction in your idea. - Professionalism
Once you put the above ingredients together, make sure your presentation is as sophisticated, minimal, well-thought through as possible. It should leave people thinking you’ve said so much with so less, and that’s impactful.
- Logic
- Leave What You Don’t Need to Carry Into 2020 A new year is a good reason to only move ahead with all the positivity that you already possess and leave behind any negativity that may be lingering on your shoulders. Let’s suppose you’ve had a rough past year that involved an unforeseen miscalculation. Your immediate reaction back when it happened would have already involved a lot of disappointment and introspection. As you move to another year, leave out the fear and anxiety that these untoward outcomes may recur. Instead, carry those mistakes forward as lessons. Your outlook can change everything.
- Keep The Art Of Listening Alive A key tip for anyone in the professional universe is to never stop listening – no, we mean, really listening. It is commonplace for people to let their designation belittle what subordinates may have to say. But in actuality, true leaders know that a great idea can come from anywhere, and pure designation cannot be the accurate judge of an individual’s ability to contribute ideas.
- Set The Tone Of Your Work Culture By Your Actions Nothing quite impacts the people around you as much as your actions. The perfect quote to go with this is borrowed from Christopher Nolan’s movie Batman Begins which is as follows:
“It’s not who you are, but what you do, that defines you.”
If you want your enterprise to have a desirable work culture, exemplify it. Let your employees see you following what you wish for. Take breaks, show your team the importance of work-life balance. Show them your human side, so that all the misconceptions about the corporate world can dissolve, and make your workplace an organic part of your employees’ lives.
