Why Do We Don’t Do What We Should!

Why are we not doing the things we should at work?  What can be stop­ping us from pro­duc­ing pro­duc­tive out­put in our daily work?  From another angle, what can be the things that are block­ades for your co-workers in deliv­er­ing qual­ity work on time?  We’re humans after all…  But we seemed to be unpro­duc­tive every­day and hop­ing to pass the dreaded day through with lit­tle excite­ment.  There must be some­thing that is just not right for us to get things out on time.  To get us achieve some down-right pro­duc­tive, right?  What can they be?

Now if you are an employee, you may fall into the following:

• They don’t know why they should do it – wrong job scope or unclear instructions.
• They don’t know how to do it – lack of guidance?
• They don’t know what they are sup­posed to do – unclear instruc­tions or scope
• They think your way will not work – not con­vinc­ing enough?
• They think their way is bet­ter – again, not con­vinc­ing enough?
• They think some­thing else is more impor­tant – what’s impor­tant to them?
• There are no pos­i­tive con­se­quences for doing the task – is this a man­date task?  Is there some ben­e­fit from this task?
• They think they are doing it when they, in actu­al­ity, are not – no align­ment with the del­e­gated person.
• They are not rewarded for doing it – straight for­ward.   Appre­ci­a­tion of the employee? No one likes to be taken advan­tage of.
• They are pun­ished for doing what they are sup­posed to do – poor lead­er­ship and man­age­ment style?
• They expect a neg­a­tive con­se­quence for doing it – neg­a­tivism?
• There are obsta­cles beyond their con­trol – have they con­sider all avenues or looked for assis­tance in order to get the work done?
• Their per­sonal lim­its pre­vent them from com­plet­ing the task
• Per­sonal issues that is dis­turb­ing to the employee performance
• The task can­not be done – plain sim­ple.  You can’t pluck the stars from the sky.

If you are a man­ager, you may fall into the following:

• Pro­cras­ti­na­tion – too com­fort­able in their position?
• Per­fec­tion­ism
• Analy­sis Paralysis
• Lack of Con­fi­dence – why is he made a man­ager in the first place?
• Dis­like of Risk
• Loss of Pas­sion – mid-career dilemma?
• Wrong Pri­or­i­ties
• Dis­or­ga­ni­za­tion
• Fail­ure to Involve Oth­ers – self-centeredness?
• Lack of Com­mit­ment – hav­ing per­sonal agenda?
• Per­sonal polit­i­cal agenda…

What are the other rea­sons that are stop­ping co-workers in deliv­er­ing qual­ity work in the office?  Have you feel some­thing sim­i­lar like this at work?  Share with us!

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