By Shari Simon, August 20th, 2021
In today’s ever-evolving business sphere, punctuality drives productivity and ultimately performance. It underpins that level of speed a company and its teams operate within setting goals, achieving targets, meeting customer demands, and maintaining fast growth.
Simply put, punctuality is about timeliness and commitment invested in ensuring every hour is well invested, whether in leisure and passive activities. It is also about getting fifty percent of any type of result from a task that is undertaken. For many people, there is this tradition that if an event starts at 9 AM, it is ideal to show up at 9:15. In essence, doing this inevitably hurts one’s ability to make steady commitments and work within a specific time period.
Within any high-performing work environment, it is important to show up on time or even before time, ready to perform a day’s work in the designated hours. Constant tardiness has a ripple effect that inevitably amounts to company loss not only in productivity but also on the company’s bottom line.
Developing a habit of punctuality involves planning ahead what needs to be completed. If you are aware that your work commute might take 10 or 15 minutes to arrive at your company, then leave at least 30 minutes earlier. By doing this, will allow you to arrive before the specific hour, prepare and prioritize the day’s tasks and responsibilities and when the golden hour arrives, you have the opportunity to deliver at your highest level of performance.
Once, you have mastered being punctual to work and other events, you are perceived as an asset, and a reliable focused, and dedicated individual who others can rely on. Eventually, you are able to manage how well you invest your time every day and begin working on developing your skillset and becoming consistent in your performance.
Nonetheless, developing, maintaining, and nurturing a habit of punctuality requires discipline. The mere thought of being a high-performer who can be unpunctual and still get the work done is not enough and wreaks of irresponsibility of the mind.
So, to continuously reap the benefits of hard work and commitment, always remain punctual, prepared, and consistent. At the end of the day, this will definitely catapult your steps to success.
