How do you measure the value of your work? How does your effort bring you closer to your goals? Do you even think about what you’ve achieved?
It’s easy to get to the end of the day and wonder where the hours have gone.
We’re busy. We’ve barely stopped. We’re tired and wrung out.
But did our effort take us closer to our goals?
Busy work is not substantive if it doesn’t take you closer to where you want to be. I can spend all day in meetings with clients, but the time is probably in vain if we don’t achieve the outcome we seek.
Measuring matters. It helps us keep track of how we’re performing. But we must measure the right things.
We must measure our impact.
Don’t measure how often you have coffee with stakeholders. Measure their attitude toward your organisation. The value you deliver. How they help you achieve your goals (and theirs!).
By measuring our impact, we start to work smarter, not harder. And that is good for us all.
Are you working hard when you could be working smart?
Are you measuring your impact?
Would improving things at work also improve your life?