Concentration is very crucial in doing every activity. Fully concentrated is believed to accelerate the process of completion of the task carried at the time. In fact, to keep our mind focused is not an easy job, especially for people who are very sensitive . Here we want to share how to maintain our concentration at work by reducing the external factors barriers.
The concentration disturbance is caused by two major factors, internal and external disturbance. The internal disturbance comes from ourselves, while the external is triggered by our surroundings.
Internal disturbances
Everyone has their own personal problems, such as family problems, finance, or romance. Very often, these issues are brought in our working activity at office. Our professionalism is tested in this case. Sometimes we find a woman who looks grunted, sullen, irritable, and others. As we all know, women prefer using their feeling than being logic.
Besides the above mentioned factors, internal disturbance can be caused by a lack of employee’s capability in his field . The fact is, most employees’ placement are not based on their educational background. It causes the employees becomes confused in doing their tasks.
That what makes the employees difficult to concentrate, the worst thing is, it may cause depression. There are several ways to prevent or at least reduce the disturbances and more concentrate at work :
- Pray before starting work is believed to be most effective in giving inner peace.
- Know yourself. Yes, know yourself and self-conscious or in other word is introspection. In this way, employees are expected to place themselves as they are at home and work. The person who can put himself properly and able to control himself in any situations, shows that he is capable of adjusting himself and separate the personal and office problems. Leave personal problems behind and let the mind focuses on office activities only.
- Disciplined. The disciplined person is able to manage the assigned job and set the priority scale. Although the priority scale has been set by the company, we must have the initiative if there is sudden project and should be prioritized.
- Keep on learning and explore self-potency. Learning is not always at formal institutions, such as school. We can learn at home, office, wherever and whenever there is an opportunity. Even we can learn from experiences. Reading a book, like accounting can broaden our insights and skill in accounting knowledge. A person with broaden insight will have initiative in taking action or decision.
External disturbances
External disturbances may become the part of our life. Disturbance is like an unexpected risk, suddenly arise and make us threatened. At work, this disturbance may be caused by too many interfering from work mates, slow response from other departments while our job is closely related to the division, unscheduled activities, or just employees who walk around our workplace.
Tips to handle the above situation:
- Working in a quiet place, away from the crowds. Crowds are identical to workplaces that directly connected to customers. For example the front office in a bank or store. That is the reason why the company provides special back office space.
- Give the workplace partition like a booth. This can minimize our sight of people passing around the workplace. Surely we will focus on our own work.
- Coordinate with other divisions to submit the report on schedule. It makes us ready when the reports is received, unless for urgent reasons.
- If we work in a special-closed room, it is better to close the door to avoid the noise of printing machine, coffee machine, or the voice of speaking persons and will not disturb your concentration.
