Get out of your comfort zone
Staying in place or in one place and position for too long makes it a comfort zone, tendency is that peoples head becomes big and we become full of ourselves, unmindful of what really is the true situation outside our box(comfort zone).
I believe that every now and then we should, as a part of our development process, venture out, socialize, mingle, participate and truly know what is happening in the real world. If a social event presents itself, treat it as a personal development activity, as we get more than what we pay for by participating in such.
Some activities would be conferences, summits, social gathering, focus group meetings, training’s and seminars. Aside from the technical value we get, the social aspect often yields more. One of this is the expansion of your personal network and the social skills we develop. More importantly, we get to learn what others in our field are doing, best practices, new technologies, implementations tips and others, we also get a chance to immerse at what the real situation is out of our comfort zone(box).
I attended a online and mobile marketing summit a year back and I can still remember the flood of information I learned from the two day event. I got immersed at a totally different industry from where I was and yet I was able to translate it into how I can capitalize on the new ideas this industry was undertaking.
As days, weeks and years pass by without people going out of their comfort zone, it becomes harder for people to venture out and admit that we are but a tiny fraction of the industry we are in and that the world is bigger than the box we have made. It is a hard fact to admit for most.
As we stay in our box day after day, we tend to bring other people inside our box too and we then become the hindrance or the boundary for other people. If we are truly open and free, let us not put a box in the first place, let us socialize and build relationships.
Trust is the key, as we build relationships among our peers, colleagues and management, trust becomes more and more important and vital. Let us capitalize on these relationships and make it worthwhile for all stake-holders, let us value each individuals strength and focus it to value adding initiatives.
Let us continuously poke each others minds and drive us to improve and evolve, as people become more flexible and open, organizations… corporations must be as agile and open as its human resource, the company who is not able to adapt will loose out on the new, upcoming and future great minds.
Trust and communication is the key !