Workplace Fears That Hurt Your Business and How to Manage Them
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Fear can halt businesses like no other emotion. People of every nation in the world know this same powerful feeling. When fear is in the workplace, nothing else saps the efficiency, morale, and momentum from your organization like it.
How then can you protect your business and employees? Motivational coach, leadership consultant, and co-author of the book "The Grand Experiment: An Expedition of Self-Discovery" Gayle Gregory, feels that identifying and eliminating the fears present in the minds of its employees is the key to an unstoppable and effective business. "The source of innovation is a place of fearlessness where we are not trying to force things to happen," says Gregory.
Gregory has identified seven fundamental fears found in the human psyche that are reflected in everything, from personal lives to careers. "The seven fears are universal," Gregory observes. Everyone in the workplace, from those at the top to those at the bottom can find some aspect of all seven fears within them. These fears are not always something people are aware of yet they have a profound effect upon the creativity, interactivity, and efficiency of a business workplace.
"The world just is," advises Gregory, "You give it meaning." Fear is not about the world being a scary place, rather it is an individual's own perspective determines their intimidation level. There are thousands of possible ways to interpret the situations presented everyday. How you react is your decision, Gregory challenges. To dismantle the fear of the world, make a conscious decision to be proactive about a challenge rather than react negatively.
To determine the unstoppability factor of your workplace, you must first identify the fears that are present within it. When fear is present, employees are dissatisfied with their jobs, and lose passion for the work they do. Without this passion, your employees' creativity and power of innovation moves elsewhere, away from the workplace, decreasing the force your business achieves. "Go out into the workplace and find out what prevents people from doing their work," Gregory says, "Why are they standing around vending machines having conversations? What are those conversations about? Its all fear based."
The next step to making your company unstoppable is to take the power out of each fear. At first the process is difficult and uncomfortable because it requires open discussion and admission of individual fears. Take the initiative and lay out each of the fears to be discussed. This way you can manage the discomfort associated with sharing personal fear and turn it into a proactive game that can be won. "The only thing that holds fear in place is our unwillingness to look at it," Gregory shares, "As soon as you place your fear out on the table, it begins to dissolve and lose it's power."
Gayle held a lucrative position in a Fortune 500 company before she left to explore the human condition while sailing to Mexico. In the Sea of Cortez, Gregory realized through her introspection and her own spirituality, that it was the same fundamental fears of the human psyche she was learning about that had held her back in the business world. Understanding how costly fear can be in a work environment, Gayle is dedicated to improving morale and energizing businesses around the world by teaching people in the workforce how to overcome fears and reach their fullest potential.
To gain a competitive edge, your business needs to be bold and innovative. Fear prevents your company and it's employees from using their energy to be courageous and innovative. In an enterprise where fear is present, internal conflict also often diminishes a workplace or department's ability to function smoothly as a team.
Obviously a business that is fighting itself cannot also effectively fight its competition as well. "We're so busy competing with each other that we forget to compete with competitors in the marketplace," warns Gregory. Fears such as thinking that there is not enough resources, time, favor, and other commodities for all tend to breed individualistic attitudes rather than team spirit. To stop this, encourage an attitude of cooperation among your employees and share rewards among many rather than granting one first prize. Employees that are afraid to share their ideas or work together cripple the overall productivity of the workplace with their fears.
Ultimately, the unstoppability of your business lies with your decision to expose fears rather than let them hide. A fear kept in the dark, no matter how small, costs your company performance ability. The emotional environment of a workplace expands exponentially the vision of what you and your enterprise can do. Even if your business achieves its goals for the future, you are settling for far less than your full potential when you do not dismantle the fears within the organization and individuals. "When you take the fear away, the automatic outcome is you energize your performance," says Gregory.
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