#2: 3 Questions for More Consistent Performance and Joy at Work

The Carvery with Alex Dorr

In this episode, I dive into the importance of steadiness as a skill to be developed. So many people focus on their performance and improving their skills, but many don't realize how important consistent and steady effort is to being successful in their career. This episode allows you to reflect on your own steadiness along with 2 more areas where we can evolve ourselves to the next level, and most importantly, to be happier at work.

This has been an idea I've been chewing on for awhile and can't wait to have you listen in and join the conversation.

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So if you are someone thinking about:

• How can I be a more consistent contributor in my role at work?
• What can I do for my team to stay consistently energized?
• What great reflective exercises can I share with my team to improve performance and get better results?
• How to continue to evolve my leadership to be happy and successful regardless of challenging circumstances?
• How to identify the most 'willing' people on my team to buy-in and continue to develop them?

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Title: Willing, Able and Steady

Three massive pieces to a successful and happy career.

Are you willing?

You cannot work with the unwilling AND you cannot make great impact in the world with half-hearted willingness. Most people put spend enormous amounts of energy either focused on the most unwilling or showing up each day with low willingness to do what it takes at work. They spend hours trying to bargain, beg, and plead for their unwilling folks to finally get on board. Or, they show up to work every day collecting a paycheck, but their mind is somewhere else.

Gallup tells us that nearly 70% of the American workforce quits their jobs every single day. The problem is they keep coming to work and collecting a paycheck. This is active or passive disengagement from the work they do and essentially, underlying unwillingness to buy-in each day.

So notice this idea of willingness - yours and others - and spend as little energy as possible working with unwillingness.

Are you able?

If you find your workplace experience shifting to the point where you feel you are "unable" to do your job at a high level - stop ignoring that feeling. Notice it.

That is a gift. It is shining light on your next growth opportunities.

If emerging tech or new software, for example, is swallowing up the way your job was done in the past, don't continue to resist and hunker down until the transition passes.

Remember you have the ability to continuously evolve.

Look at the last thing you learned - a new recipe, a new skill within your favorite hobby, or how to assemble something you bought online through a YouTube tutorial. You have an endless ability to learn and absorb, but many don't generalize that skillset of learning to adapt to less-than-preferred newness (aka change) at work.

Realize you are able, but you haven't applied it to this new situation yet. Step into the learning in front of you, take the training or learn the new skill with this shifted perspective.

Too many continue to skip the necessary growth needed in any profession yet continue trying to do their job without modernizing their skillsets and live in fear and defense each day to not be "found out" that they are 'unable' to deliver what's needed in their new reality.

No happiness flourishes there.

Are you steady?

Have you ever had that team member that quickly responds with, "I'll add that to my list." and you come to find out, a few weeks later, that the 'list' they referenced often disappears and no action is taken?

One day this person is a rockstar, gets it done at all cost, and succeeds in spite of the facts, and the next day, you can barely recognize their work.

Maybe we've all had moments in our careers personally when this was the case.

This is all about steadiness and being steady is highly underrated.

Can you consistently show up to work in 'high-self' and bring energy to move us forward? Or is your energy or effort highly dependent on external circumstances in your life?

Two people can be in very similar challenging circumstances and, based on their mindset, one stays steady while the other can no longer be relied on to continue executing their role.

Steadiness is tied to our accountability levels

given the circumstances,

but isn't dependant on our circumstances.

Pause and reflect. In this moment of your career:

- Are you consistently willing (whole-heartedly bought-in each day)?

- Are you able (updating my skillset as needed)?

and, most importantly...

- Are you steady (in my accountability level regardless of my circumstances)?

If not, you know what to do. You always have.

Go be great.

-Alex 🚪

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• Continuing to evolve your understanding of working beyond ego in the workplace

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