Dealing with mistakes: 2 X 5 top & flop strategies

As we with mistakes, failure and Criticism deal with, has essential effects on our professional success. which are the best Strategies?

If you do not fail, you have not tried anything new

The other day I read the appropriate saying: “If you don't make mistakes, you haven't tried anything new”. A very fitting saying. And yet we all too often try to avoid mistakes from the outset, even to exclude them categorically in order to prevent them.

Haven't you caught yourself getting to yours? Executive say, "But I don't know if I can really do this?" Sure it is nice Meant: You will of course try everything, just in case it doesn't work, he shouldn't be angry with you...

Sympathetic, but incompetent

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Many People build ahead And Women especially like to. "But it could be that", "Perhaps better not..." are typical phrases used to express uncertainty about the success of an order or a project. Gladly, for example, if the boss is known to be a choleric person who likes to freak out at the slightest mistake! Human. But the wrong signal!

Um Honestly to be, I personally like people more who prefer to be skeptical at first instead of making grandiose promises - which they then fail to keep. That sounds honest and thoughtful. But it can also make you nervous. For example the boss, whom one gives one's name to Performance actually merchandise want. And to be honest: special competently it doesn't work!

Hope for mitigation

If you take a closer look, such a course of action is also less sympathisch: Whoever acts like this wants to warn the other person in case things go wrong, so that he or she doesn't get angry. One hopes that this is the conventionalized attitude, a kind of reduced sentence in the event that things actually go wrong.

But this is also implicit behind it: Anxiety. Namely before your own failure. And the desire to want to shift the responsibility onto others. According to the motto: “You knew beforehand that it could go wrong. I told you so!" With this one also wants the (imagined) negative reaction of the other under Control hold.

5 flop strategies that do not work

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OK. Comfortable thought. Make many people happy. But does not work. For several reasons:

1. The boss is still angry: Even if you have told it to his colleague or boss, the afterwards do not want to know about it and are nevertheless sour
2. The boss becomes suspicious: But if you tell the boss in advance that it might go wrong, he may become suspicious - and maybe angry right from the start!
3. Control addiction is not working: You can not control the behavior of others, no matter what you do! As hard as it gets: sometimes you can only continue with confidence.
4. Those who feel insecure undermine their competence: Fact: those who think unsure from the outset only point out their weaknesses instead of emphasizing their strengths. It undermines its own competencies. The boss thinks: “Doesn't he dare to do anything? What kind of a washcloth is that? ”
5. Choleric types might become acidic: And the other one is probably still pissed, for example, if he is a choleric guy, because he immediately realizes that he wants to be as quiet as possible and feels patronized!

So it's better to leave it with the stems. You may only wake up sleeping dogs, the benefit is zero! Therefore: more Courage please! That's easier said than done, because failure is not part of our successful society: We only ever read and hear the success stories of winners.

5 Top strategies for dealing with errors

That many of those in life also had to put back bitter setbacks and often made mistakes, do not mention these success stories. What a nonsense! But how do you deal courageously with criticism, your mistakes or your own failure?

1. Sticking to 0 error culture is stupid: But in an increasingly globalized society, where there are less and less straightforward careers, and interpersonal relationships are anything but stable, adherence to such long-standing thinking and behavioral patterns and an 0 error culture is just stupid: stubborn persistence of past principles leads to no success in the end. If we always believe we can continue as far as ever, we will ultimately fail. And this both humanly and economically.
2. To learn from mistakes: Better than insisting on a zero-error mentality is to learn from your own mistakes and those of others and do better. The best example from business, very topical: the media industry. Like the music industry before her, she smiled at and despised the new medium of the Internet for years. There was no thought about serious business models. Now that it is clear that more and more readers are switching from printed paper to the Internet, financing ideas are being frantically discussed. The train may have long since left, because players like Google, Facebook or Amazon are already firmly in control of the Internet
3. Back and then with startup before: Digitization and disruption could be the death sentence for many companies. But it could also be that you learn from the mistakes, develop new, innovative ideas and develop new, much better ideas. In fact, to be honest, I expect to, because that's how innovation and progress has always worked throughout history. And that also applies to the individual: setbacks are important: they stop us if we go too far at a certain point and show what we can do better for the future. Failure is simply part of it so that we can become even better in the future!
4. Depending on the situation: Of course, proper handling of errors also depends on the context: there are situations that are so serious that it is actually better to discuss the problem with the boss or client beforehand. But to exclude that something goes wrong, you just never - just as little as 100 percent control over the reaction of the other win. And: There should also be people who appreciate talking to them about their insecurities beforehand.
5. How is it important? But it is always important how we deal with our own failure: Whether we are tickling, stubbornly trying to continue at any cost, blaming others, whining around and seeing ourselves as victims. Or whether we admit our mistakes - to ourselves and to others - and are ready to learn from them, to get up again and - perhaps a little smaller at the beginning - to continue.

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