Network: Relation with Time (Sense of Urgency)

24 Dec Network: Relation with Time (Sense of Urgency)

What are the biggest questions organizations and you are dealing with:

1. Why in most of the organizations, they start working double the speed when a Production issue happens?

2. Why do they start taking actions when there is a customer complaining and making noise?

3. Why is that when we have Ideas which we think will change the world does not ever happen?

4. Why do we feel under pressure when we feel we have less time and more to do?

5. Why is always there is a delay in taking decisions, particularly when we want to implement change?

6. Why does people and organization lose focus from their Goal?

The answer to this is how we create the Sense of Urgency in our thinking and develop this.

How is Sense of urgency is different from Urgency

Urgency means something is urgent, it needs to be dealt with as soon as possible and Sense of urgency means you always see things urgent. Meaning you don’t really wait for a situation when you are asked to deal with the situation urgently.

=>This means you respect time, you have always a deadline in your mind.

=>This also means you are proactive and NOT reactive.

=>This also means you understand the goals which we have set is important and you know the consequence if this goal is not achieved.

=>Urgency is a combination of thoughts, feelings, and actual behavior. The thoughts are, there are are great opportunities out there, great hazards. The feelings are a gut-level determination that we’re going to do something now, we’re going to do something to win. And the behavior is this hyper-alertness to what’s going on. It’s a sense of coming to work each and every day with a commitment to making something happen that’s on the important issues.

The most successful people maintain a sense of urgency in order to be the best they can be.

The task of leading a team of people in a transformation at any level will often require an ability to create an atmosphere of urgency that can be embraced, and in turn bring about an atmosphere of achievement.

Three type employee

1) Engaged Employee => Work with passion and put energy

2) Not Engaged Employee => Putting time but not energy and passion

3) Actively Disengaged Employee =>unhappy at work, they’re busy acting out their unhappiness and even undermine what their engaged co-workers accomplish.

Required real sense of urgency to convert 2nd and 3rd type to 1st type otherwise they will impact to 1st type also.

Today do below exercise

1) Find out what action you want to take but not able to taken due to lack of urgency?

2) What is the impact of this on you due to lack of urgency

3) If you have taken decision at right time then till now what you have achieved?