We live in times of change. Each one explores their own paths to carve out a future, and many try to do so by creating their own company.
But beyond the bureaucratic difficulties that we may encounter in this process, we must take into account many other factors at a psychological level, which must be crystal clear before starting the adventure.
Do you want to know some of the most important ones?
5 keys to founding your own company and making it successful
Let’s forget for a moment everything related to the paperwork with the Administration, which is neither few nor easy, which is needed when you want to register a new company. Instead, now let’s focus on the psychological issues that, well attended to, can be one of the keys to bringing your brand new organization to a successful conclusion
We must not forget that, in essence, a company is a group of people working as a team to achieve a common objective, and therefore it is essential to take maximum care of the quality of the interactions between them. And, delving deeper into each member of the group, it will be necessary to establish the appropriate guidelines so that each one feels as comfortable as possible in their job and therefore is motivated to carry out their tasks, so that ultimately they turn out as well. most efficient possible.
Next We are going to individually explore the keys that will allow you to found your own company and be successful in the attempt Some may be obvious, but others are not so obvious and that is why it is interesting to study them carefully. We hope you find them very useful!
Tips to be successful when creating a company
Psychology has a lot to say in the probable success that we can have when we create a company. These are some of the secrets to it.
1. Take care of interpersonal relationships
Possibly the most important psychological key when managing a company is to ensure that the best possible interpersonal relationships exist. You have to think that, except in very specific sectors where the jobs are solitary and there is hardly any interaction, In most companies there is a ceaseless flow of communication between individuals and, of course, coexistence, by sharing a common work space.
Someone who works the usual 40 hours a week will be spending a third of each day in an office , store or other type of commercial premises. He will possibly live more with his co-workers than with much of his family. Imagine the importance of taking care of relationships between workers!
Many times the employees themselves will have the necessary psychological tools to self-manage and know how to maintain a healthy work environment, but on other occasions we may have to establish a series of coexistence rules that mark the red lines that cannot be crossed, in order to maintain the healthiest work environment possible.
The importance of carrying out a good recruitment process is also reflected here seeking that, to the extent possible, each employee has the skills required for the position, but also with an adequate psychological profile to adapt without problems to the team, since it is equally important and is sometimes a factor that is can be neglected during the selection processes.
2. Motivation
If you want your company to be successful, your employees must be motivated Obviously a good salary is a powerful reinforcement to ensure that a worker meets his objectives, but oddly enough, it is not the most powerful. And about this, the psychologist Frederick Herzberg has a lot to tell us, through his famous two-factor theory, also known as the theory of motivation and hygiene.
According to Herzberg, in the workplace there are a series of factors that will have a direct relationship with employee satisfaction or dissatisfaction in their job, and therefore with their motivation. All of these factors can be grouped into the following two categories.
Motivating factors:
Hygiene factors:
What Herzberg proposes in his theory is that hygiene factors do not make the worker satisfied, but their lack does cause dissatisfaction On the contrary, the lack of motivating factors will not lead to greater dissatisfaction in the individual, but their presence will have the effect of making them more satisfied in their job.
In conclusion, we must take care of both factors, some because they allow the basic operator to not be dissatisfied, and others because they will make them increasingly motivated.
3. Management of emotions
We already anticipated how important it is to have an adequate work environment, and for this it is essential that employees’ emotions are managed in an optimal way.
This is especially important in areas where nerves are usually on edge, such as in the sales department , where there are usually very motivated people to achieve certain objectives that are usually demanding, but with very attractive rewards. The problem arises when the objectives seem unattainable, or the ambition to achieve them is excessive and this generates a certain emotional tension for the individual.
It will, therefore, be of vital importance for the leaders of each department to establish clear objectives from the beginning, which are reasonable (although they involve effort, of course), and that they are given the appropriate tools to achieve them.
If correct emotional management is not carried out in the company It is possible that our employees could experience anything from a gradual loss of motivation to more serious pathologies such as burnout or burnt out worker syndrome.
4. Time management
Time is one of the most valuable resources, if not the most, not only in the workplace, but in life. Therefore We must be extremely careful not to waste it and make the most of every second, in the smartest way possible
It will be vitally important to establish appropriate schedules for our workers. Measures such as flexible hours or teleworking, which help to reconcile family and work life, are extremely motivating, and can make the person more productive than working the same hours in rigid split schedules, or having to travel to the office. , far from home, from where you can perform exactly the same tasks.
When establishing delivery times for a project we must be realistic No matter how much we are in a hurry, quality work requires time dedicated to it and, sometimes out of impatience and other times due to a poor awareness of reality, we can establish very unreasonable delivery dates that will only lead to exhausted and frustrated workers. , and in a final work that will most likely have to be redone or modified (with the consequent amount of time that it implies), which will therefore not meet the initial expectations.
It is also essential have an efficient protocol when prioritizing tasks , giving way to those that are essential for the development of the company’s activities and postponing those that do not have a special impact on it. But be careful, this can create a problem for us, and that is that the task that is not a priority today may be a priority tomorrow, and perhaps there will come a time when we find ourselves with a significant accumulation of postponed projects, which added to the tasks of the day day to day and possible unforeseen events, are difficult to resolve in time to achieve our objectives.
It is essential, therefore, to anticipate these possible cases, being very aware at all times of the time we have and knowing how to use it in the most efficient way.
5. Self-care
All these measures on how to found your own company and be successful would be based on caring for workers but, just as important and often forgotten, it is the entrepreneur’s own self-care And it is essential that, faced with a challenge as demanding as running a company, we take care of ourselves on a physical level, but above all on a psychological level.
Creating your own company is an exciting, motivating and very enriching project, but to achieve success it is essential that you have an optimal mental state , which allows you to be the leader that your employees need as a guide. If you have adequate psychological tools, you will have an important part of the journey done. And if you think you don’t have them, it’s still the perfect time for a professional to help you discover them. They are inside you!
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