Does your employer have a Long Term View or Short Term?
When you are with organizations that have the Long Term Vision, that want to build products/services for future generations, that is working to create a lifetime of an experience, you would experience:
- People First Culture.
- Focus on Building Relationships, Empathy & Trust.
- Focus on Depth of Problems/solutions & not width of tasks.
- Clarity of Performance Outcomes & Career Paths.
- Focus & Investment on Learning & Development Initiatives.
- Calm & Relaxed Working Environment.
- Nurturing & Coaching of Talent.
When with Short term focussed organizations you experience:
- Task Orientation & Not People.
- Focus on achievement of goals/targets, at any costs.
- Multi-Roles/Multi-Tasks for individuals at any given point of time.
- Crunched Deadlines: Rushed & Fast Paced Working Environment.
- Aggressive, tensed tones.
- People Decisions based on current trending flavour of the eco-system.
- Processes & Policies made on current relevance; here & now basis.
- Robust systems & processes.
Know which kind of working place you naturally thrive in, and decide your #workplace accordingly.
No point cribbing about these when you join an organization which has a Short Term View-
- Lack of Work-Life Balance
- High Stress
- Lack of Empathy & Respect
- Lack of Career & Learning Opportunities
Similarly, you can’t crib about these when you join an organization that has a Long Term View:
- Slow Pace of Decision Making
- High Chain of Command
- Lack of Authority & Empowerment
- High Process Orientation
Choose Wisely.
Its not always the fault of the Manager, Culture, Leadership of an organization. Sometimes, we choose jobs without doing a conscious analysis of what works for us, as an individual.
It can’t be THEIR fault all the time.