Avert stagnancy at work

Imagine this – do you have the same food for breakfast and lunch? Or, do you wear the same clothes on two successive days? The answer obviously is a big ‘NO’. At the crack of dawn, when people wake up, they are fresh and have new ideas, new desires and new expectations. They harbour fresh hopes of doing something novel, something new. Besides precluding boredom and tedium from setting in, such an outlook helps people in increasing their self-assurance levels.

            Drawing a parallel fom the above actuality, there is a requirement to eliminate sluggishness and every form of torpidity in our job related existence, However, it needs to be ensured that our principles and values are not compromised. It has generally been observed that people straggle not because they are incompetent or not industrious, but because they do not perform smartly.

Smart work implies being inventive and pioneering. In the job sense, an innovative approach means being flexible and different with the intended objective of worth enhancement. It should be remembered that on the career front if one does a particular thing frequently or continually in a similar fashion, he or she is branded as mundane. Needless to say, the career graph of such individuals takes a downward plunge.

            Principles of marketing management state that the growth of any product in the market is never rapid in the initial stages of its launch. On the contrary, it is relatively slow, though it can be steady. Somewhere in its midlife, it picks up momentum before entering a dull period. If at all there are deviations from this, it is on account of innovative techniques adopted for marketing.

At work too, it is necessary to emit ingenuity and inventiveness. Such an approach will provide an impetus to one’s inspiration and enthusiasm. An environment like this, if created will facilitate figuring out newer methods of performing at work. A stance like this, because of its very stimulating attribute will serve to help out other individuals too, be it directly or otherwise.

              Imaginative ideas have brought about intensely optimistic and constructive transformations in many people’s lives. The sky is the limit as far as innovative propositions are concerned. A couple of decades ago, gobar gas plants became a source of energy in the rural belts. It was nothing but innovation that brought about their adoption, something that altered the lives of thousands of lives. There is also this case of a management graduate who envisioned that a cycle rickshaw can also be a source of some entertainment for a passenger. He came up with an idea that the hackneyed carriage should have an odd reading material and selected beverages to passengers. The idea sold well and boosted the earnings of venturesome rickshaw pullers. Today, they also vend mobile recharge coupons. These individuals, who had a hand-to-mouth subsistence, have now been able to muster savings. 

            Revolutionary ideas apart, ideas that are novel and ground-breaking may need some assistance from others for their naissance. It is not a bad idea to organize deliberations and discussions so that original ideas come up. The venue can well be anywhere – workplace or the home, depending who the participant s are. While at the workplace, the partakers could be peer groups and subordinates, at home the list could include members of the family, relatives and friends. Much that people would not believe, these ‘luminous’ endeavours definitely give rise to wheedle out highly inspired and ingenious thoughts, proposals and plans. And the best part of the entire thing is that the benefits of such exercises cannot be fathomed without indulging in them. 

            The above notwithstanding, it is absolutely inescapable to comprehend that inventiveness, as distinct from resourcefulness is not a magic formula that can be applied by exclaiming abracadabra. Nor is it a recipe that can be followed step by step.

The fact is that creativity is a two-way effort and a joint one at that which is required to be indulged in by every staffer. It is only then that workplace performance will register an upswing. Merely implementing a plan by itself may not suffice. One has to be also on the lookout for impact indicators that would help in gauging whether a plan is booming or not. Should there be impediments, then a contingency plan should be set into motion.

In order to be successful, one has to learn to live with various workplace-related environmental changes that are taking place across the globe. There is a specific need to keep abreast with technological advancements and general knowledge.

One can be innovative alright, but to put such innovation into practice, there are some inescapable imperatives. For example, it is necessary to have a collective and mutually-acceptable visualization, rationale and line of action amongst all those who would be involved in the execution of a project. All key players should have a futuristic outlook and regard alterations, modifications and adjustments as optimistic and encouraging developments. The basis of all innovative ideas may be uncomplicated and relatively easy to understand, however their probable effect is a rather complex issue to comprehend.

But the most important facet of the matter is that innovative ideas of innovative people have dual benefits. They have a colossal positive influence on the professional existence on the individuals, besides also helping the establishments with which they are associated with to accomplish monumentally. And if organizations benefit from an employee, it goes without saying that there is no stagnation for them.