Accuracy is to any workplace what money is to a bank. The results you produce at work may be the only deposit that lets leaders see what you’ve really got – and in that sense accuracy is everything. The most successful business leaders tend to treat accuracy as truth or honesty, and inaccuracy as falsehood or dishonesty – and they notice the difference.
Interestingly accuracy spans across a person’s multiple intelligences and can be developed in one – without impacting other parts of the brain. For instance, Howard Gardner, originator of multiple intelligences said…. If I know you’re very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you’re going to be good or bad in other things.
Do you agree?
The keys to accuracy tend to lie in authentic details, and so we stand on guard daily for it’s evidence as we do our daily work. When accuracy gets lost again and again, it’s often the system itself that is broken and in need of repair to eliminate the flaws. Do you agree?
Unfortunately, the human brain can adapt to inaccuracies, so that areas such as the basal ganglia simply output shoddy work without much diligence. Have you worked in any system or overall project in need of reconstruction, due to frequent inaccuracies? If so you have likely noticed that people lose their focus for accuracy.
Lines between accuracy and shoddy claims tend to blur more when organizations or workers advertise results for the sake of profit. In this regard, a listener who is intently aware of what is said and who values accuracy, can often motivate more accurate accounts.
Here are smart skill considerations that help to develop more accuracy at work:
1. Ensure the validity and reliability of the measuring tools you use.
2. Invite people from the team to check for inaccuracy and lack of precision.
3. Take extra training or action, whenever you sense repeated inaccuracies.
4. Invite others to score work completed, and to add feedback for accuracy.
5. Insist on supportive and factual evidence for main conclusions drawn.
Imagine accuracy as a boomerang which will come back to you sooner or later, and to which you will catch or miss its rewards. To survive at work, and to enjoy the game, we place accuracy at the center, even in front of speed. What do you think?
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