Clear Workplace Goals With Research-Backed Commitments
Clear Workplace Goals With Research-Backed Commitments
A new year, a new perspective on work.
There are New Year’s resolutions–the majority of which are rendered lifeless before February’s double-digit days, and then there are New Year’s commitments. These are enduring, potentially game-changing commitments that truly move the needle in unleashing your potential. How are you going to ring in the new year? Are you going to cling to flimsy promises or arm yourself with ironclad pacts? You get to decide.
Many of us forget that New Year’s commitments aren’t just applicable to our personal lives–our professional lives are just as worthy. Here are four workplace commitments that are astonishingly simple, yet unabashedly powerful in propelling you to new heights in 2020.
Make your office space yours.
Organizations have been likened to “psychic prisons” that all but deplete workers’ autonomy. Your office space shouldn’t constrain you–it should liberate you.
In his book, Tight Spaces: Hard Architecture and how to Humanize It, psychologist Robert Sommer delineates two types of spaces: hard spaces and soft spaces. Whereas hard spaces are immutable, soft spaces are amenable to human imprint, Sommer discovered that when people are empowered to define their own space, they are happier and more productive.
Your office space is a soft space. Embrace 2020 by turning the tables on your workspace. Adorn it with pictures. Embellish it with personal trinkets. Ornament it with productivity-fueling technology. Make it your own.
Say “no” to desktop dining.
Your desk should not double as a dining room table. Unfortunately, desktop dining is an all-too-common practice. As reported by the New York Times, a staggering 62 percent of professionals eat lunch at their desks.
The average worker takes only two breaks during their working day, according to a recent Asana study (full disclosure: I work for Asana) based on a 2019 qualitative survey among 10,223 global knowledge workers.
