Let’s break it down. What actually is Personal Effectiveness?
Personal Effectiveness is when you are able to use and combine all of your resources, and channel them into achieving your professional goals. Essentially, it’s you – at your best.
Resources can include your behaviour, skills, and experience, but also stretches to your self-awareness and internal growth. At NKD, we believe that focusing on emotional intelligence is the first step – and a crucial human element. It lays the foundation for mastering your own emotions, and ultimately affects how you build relationships with others at work.
Why is it important?
Personal effectiveness is important because it encourages your people to take responsibility for their own work and impact, and strengthens workplace relationships at the same time. Driving accountability and autonomy as part of your organisation’s culture makes your people better colleagues. They’ll be more agile when confronted with change, more motivated, and more engaged.
Investing in employees’ Personal Effectiveness is a crucial step to success and is often overlooked, with organisations often focusing on recruitment, systems and processes to drive the bottom line. We know that engaged people is the key to driving a culture of healthy high-performance. And, it’s not just us, there’s plenty of research proving that an investment in Personal Effectiveness is strategic, and can yield great returns. Simply acquiring new recruits or systems definitely isn’t a sustainable solution for growth without taking a focused look at how to get the most out of your people. Sometimes it’s a case of acknowledging that the grass really is greener where you water it.
A deliberate push towards Personal Effectiveness is truly a decisive factor in driving healthy high performance and delivering value. Harnessing decision-making, time management, and communication skills are just a few practical examples of the positives we see in individuals when Personal Effectiveness becomes a priority for businesses.
How can we support you?
We can help your people to be at their best every day by understanding emotional intelligence, cultivating communication skills, and managing competing priorities. We have the solutions to support your teams to gain back control, to think productively, and to provide the appropriate tools so that they can put this all into practice.
If you’d like to know more, visit our Personal Effectiveness solutions page here.