Business Journaling
is private... and it helps you to develop your (professional) personality
Yes, journaling is private and journaling stays private.
Even in a Business context!
Yet, Business Journaling helps with developing and growing your communication and leadership skills. Also it improves your relationships.
Who wouldn’t want THAT in an organisation?
Any organisation that is serious about their people and their business will want:
Self-aware people who regularly reflect and want to develop further intrinsically motivated.
People who work well with each other, i.e. who can and want to co-operate and to co-create, depending on the needs of the business, clients and stakeholders.
What still seems to be more secret, what you rarely get told is that Business Journaling:
is an awareness trainer
is an appreciation detector
is a switching-off helper
Business Journaling is an awareness trainer
Especially in fast-paced digital environments that require us to be (almost) constantly on and “ready to move”, these three simple steps do not require much time:
practising being in the here-and-now
by writing stuff down
with your very own hands
Yet they have a huge impact on situational- and self awareness.
It is like mindfulness practised “just” with a pen and a paper using 3-5 minutes of your work day.
Mindfulness for yourself and for your co-workers, for your stakeholders and clients. Focussing on the right work (tasks) and delivering effective valuable results.
Business Journaling is an appreciation detector
Sadly oftentimes in business, NO time is taken for appreciation.
With a Business Journal at your desk you have a cue to watch out for appreciation.
With such a cue, you notice more of what happens around you.
You will e.g notice:
that helpful behaviour of someone who supported you with a task
the help with “thinking something through” a colleague provided
an behaviour that could easily be overlooked as “part of the job” but is just as worthwhile to feed-back and let your coworker shine
something that might enlarge and enrich your co-workers perception of themselves
You can give better, preciser feedback as a peer or as a manager because you’ve jotted it all down in your Business Journal.
Business Journaling is a switching-off helper
You have a hard time switching-off after a busy, full workday?
You’re not alone with this! Try doing a little Daily Logging
unload your brain at EOB (end of business),
re-load the essential parts tomorrow at the start of the next workday.
The distance - often “just” some hours - will help you to see, feel and act more intentionally.
Your Business Journal helps you to distinguish the helpful and useful parts of your busy workdays… and to let go of the rest.
Read the next piece to learn why Business Journaling is about getting organised (of course!)…and at the same time it contains several hidden, powerful effectiveness nuggets.
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