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Workplace Fears That Hurt Your Business and How to Manage Them

Author: 'Dr.Proactive'RandyGilbert Total views: 7 Word Count: 829

Fear can halt businesses like no other emotion. People of every nation in the world know this same powerful feeling. When fear is in the workplace, nothing else saps the efficiency, morale, and momentum from your organization like it.

How then can you make your business an effective and unstoppable force? Gayle Gregory, motivational coach, leadership consultant, and co-author of the book "The Grand Experiment: An Expedition of Self-Discovery", feels that the key to an unstoppable business is identifying and eliminating the fears present in the minds of its employees. "The source of innovation is a place of fearlessness where we are not trying to force things to happen," says Gregory.

Gregory has identified seven fundamental fears found in the human psyche that are reflected in everything, from personal lives to careers. "The seven fears are universal," Gregory observes. Everyone in the workplace, from those at the top to those at the bottom can find some aspect of all seven fears within them. These fears are not always something people are aware of yet they have a profound effect upon the creativity, interactivity, and efficiency of a business workplace.

Gregory challenges that the world is not a scary place, but rather, an individual's own perspective determines their intimidation level. There are thousands of possible ways to interpret the situations presented everyday. How to react is your decision. To dismantle the fear of the world, make a conscious decision to react proactively to a challenge rather than in a negative manner. "The world just is," advises Gregory, "You give it meaning."

To determine the unstoppability factor of your workplace, you must first identify the fears that are present within it. When fear is present, employees are dissatisfied with their jobs, and lose passion for the work they do. Without this passion, your employees' creativity and power of innovation moves elsewhere, away from the workplace, decreasing the force your business achieves. "Go out into the workplace and find out what prevents people from doing their work," Gregory says, "Why are they standing around vending machines having conversations? What are those conversations about? Its all fear based."

The next step to making your company unstoppable is to take the power out of each fear. Most managers and leaders find the process is difficult at first because it requires open discussion and admission of individual fears. Few employees are comfortable being so open. "The only thing that holds fear in place is our unwillingness to look at it," Gregory shares, "As soon as you place your fear out on the table, it begins to dissolve and lose it's power." Gregory teaches managers to take the initiative and lay out each of the specific fears to be discussed. This proactive method creates a shared purpose that goes a long way to managing the discomfort associated with sharing personal fear.

Gayle held a lucrative position in a Fortune 500 company before she left to explore the human condition while sailing to Mexico. In the Sea of Cortez, Gregory realized through her introspection and her own spirituality, that it was the same fundamental fears of the human psyche she was learning about that had held her back in the business world. Understanding how costly fear can be in a work environment, Gayle is dedicated to improving morale and energizing businesses around the world by teaching people in the workforce how to overcome fears and reach their fullest potential.

To gain a competitive edge, your business needs to be perceived as bold and innovative. Fear prevents companies and their employees from reaching their full potential. In an enterprise where fear is present, internal conflict often diminishes a workplace or department's ability to function smoothly as one contiguous unit.

A business that is has fighting amongst its workers cannot also effectively fight its competition. "We're so busy competing with each other that we forget to compete with competitors in the marketplace," warns Gregory. Fear that there is not enough resources, time, favor, and other commodities for all breed individualistic attitudes rather than team players and undermine the innovative ability of a team. To stop this, encourage an attitude of even cooperation among your employees. Employees that are afraid to share their ideas or work together cripple the overall productivity of the workplace with their fears.

Ultimately, the unstoppability of your business lies with your decision to expose fears rather than let them rest. A fear kept in the dark, no matter how small, decreases your company's performance. Even if your business achieves its highest visions for the future, you are settling for far less than your maximum potential when you do not dismantle the fears within the organization and individuals. The resulting environment expands exponentially the vision of what you and your enterprise can do. "When you take the fear away, the automatic outcome is you energize your performance," says Gregory.

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Randy Gilbert 'Dr. Proactive' enjoys producing "Inside Business Success" with host Jan Schleicher. Get Gayle Gregory's interview (free) by going to: Gayle Gregory Build your team's Morale and Stop Business Fear

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