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SUMMARY:Are you in control of your hours at work this week?
DESCRIPTION:Do you have agreements?\nIf I’m not busy, I’m not a success.\nI can’t go home early.\nWe hear it all the time don’t we? At the trade counters, office space, workplace\nor networking events and conferences. What’s that one first question we\nalways ask?\nAre you busy?\nThis is the ultimate question to which we defer. This is our subconscious\nmeasure of how successful that person is. Crazy isn’t it.\nAre you busy?\nSuper busy? I worked 80 hours this week.\nWow! You must be successful.\nLogically it just doesn’t stack up. I’d much rather achieve what I need to\nachieve through a nicely developed action plan which takes me 40 – 50 hours\na week and get more done than Mr busy every week of the month.\nThis is why we encourage busy Dads to track time, to create boundaries and\nmanage expectations, because it can be easy to fall in to the competitive\nrace of simply measuring ourselves on how busy we are at work.\nI’m not suggesting here that sometimes season and work pressures mean we\nwill have to pull the longer hours, but we should be able to see this coming\ndown the line and manage expectations across other roles we play.\nIf someone else controls our hours and our diaries we are setting ourselves up\nfor a fall. We’ve heard it mentioned before where busy people have meetings\nput in their diaries by their line management at 7am for example, knowing full\nwell this affects things at home.\nThe competitive and toxic culture for doing more, more, more has to stop and\nI think the checks and balances on that start closer to home.\nMaybe next time instead of asking if someone is busy,\ntry “are you happy?”…\n
URL:https://dadsinbusiness.co.uk/events/are-you-in-control-of-your-hours-at-work-this-week/
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