I think that there is a very deep relation between the different arts and
sciences, as you can see in the influence of
Freud in the surrealism, and that
you can apply a practice applied in an area to another area, as some invents
discovered in the space by the NASA are applied nowadays in our real life in
the earth, as for example, the nappies, the joystick or the Velcro.
Some years ago I did a exercise inside my
company called "Bilan de Competence" that consists in analyzing all
your professional career, obtain
feedbacks from your colleagues, friends and bosses, find your strengths and weaknesses and considering
all the data, the final results are two:
1) Your ideal professional position
2) The action plan to get there.
Although it
was a very demanding exercise in terms of time, analysis and psychological change
to assume the real facts, I am very satisfied about the results, because now I
know how to take advantage of my strengths,
I am more conscious to avoid errors
coming from my weaknesses, I am more
constant and regular, I have a target to get and eventually, I am more motivated at work.
But I discovered that there was a link between
my failures in my professional life and in my personal life, because at the end the person is the professional and you behave in the same way, and
surprisingly I discovered that I was not using some very good traits from my personal life in my professional life; for
example, I am a very consensual and
friendly person in my personal life, but
I was not so friendly in my professional life, because I was too absorbed by
deadlines and tasks to complete.
And I discovered something more interesting,....
in the period from September to November, all companies plan the actions and budgets for
next year and fix the set of KPIs that defines the success of all actions. This
set of KPIs are called Dashboard. I realized that I could take the results from
my professional analysis to define a Personal and Professional Dashboard for the
next year.
And from now on, I am doing this Dashboard all years. Why?. No wind is good
for the sailor that does not know where goes. I will explain the rules to do this Personal and Professional Dashboard in my next entry.
