You may experience challenges throughout your career. And this is completely normal every day and can bring you obstacles, but can also bring room for growth. Challenges may become a problem and being productive and can cause stress and disappointment to yourself and co-workers. This is caused by different ways of doing tasks reaching goals, management styles and lack of expertise.

What is a challenge?

This is where you become stuck in reaching your day-to-day goal and may affect your performance. Each part of your team can encounter challenges. It’s not just you, Your leaders may even experience this too. This can bring out your problem-solving skills and help you improve ways you do your job without affecting your professionalism.

Why is it important to overcome challenges at work?

We all know that challenges at work can be hard to deal with, but going through it can help you become stronger confident and face them with courage moving forward. The sooner you try to solve the situation, the easier it will be able to handle. Overcoming this does not mean you have to do it alone. Learn to ask for help. You have the option to reach out to your co-workers and managers for assistance.

You do not have to feel shameful and asking for help. But think of it as an opportunity to get more insights and advices from those around you. This shows your integrity and creates a safer environment in the workplace. When you work hard enough you realise you will build resilience within yourself. This also means you have underestimated your skills for nothing.

You take accountability of your responsibilities and demonstrate effectiveness as an employee. Other co-workers may even look up to you and try to follow your steps in overcoming these challenges. In the end, you become a hero and a role model.

What are benefits of overcoming challenges at work?

By doing this, you help develop and build your character in many ways.

1. Feeling empowered- after solving a challenge you can feel confident and empowered. You will feel like you have made an impact to your performance and to your value as an employee.

2. Feeling Motivated– This will give you the motivation you need to carry on your tasks. Motivation comes with results and results will be rewarded. After succeeding a task, you will find it easier to do more and may even gain self-trust.

3.Builds Self-esteem– When you value your work, you are more optimistic and expect a better outcome. You will feel confident in your skills and even learn new information and feedback when overcoming an issue.

What are common goals and challenges in the workplace?

1. New hire Managers– as we have discussed, even leaders and managers face challenges. Companies experienced retention and need to replace those employees who left. This can be challenging because they need to find someone who has the same or better qualities as the previous employee. There tasked to be keen on scanning through resumes and cover letters to make sure they successfully hire an effective and ineffective employee.

2. Challenges after getting promoted-This is a common challenge for new leaders. They are given tasks and responsibilities that are new to them and may take time to figure out the flow that can help them improve some may even feel overwhelmed and unworthy because of the workload given to them after the promotion. This gives leaders an opportunity to formulate goals for themselves and their team.

3. Challenges in a leadership role- Another challenge for leaders is new company demands and procedures. Most leaders have trouble with adapting to this because it disrupts the already well thought out process, that they follow. This means new delegations, new assignments, new goals and targets. This is also where they are challenged to reprimand or even terminate those employees who do not follow said new demand and perform poorly. The company’s success depends on its team members performance, and they may need to evaluate your value to them. This is quite the challenge for leaders as this may affect them personally and professionally.

How to handle challenges personally.

• Take deep breaths.
• Check to see if your actions and attitude may be the problem.
• Make a list of good and bad points.
• Break a solution down to see if clear if it clearly plans out and work in the end.
• Take action.

 How do we overcome challenges at work?

1. Stay Positive. This is an excellent way of keeping you motivated when challenges come to you at work. You can focus on what you can control and prioritise. Making a list of what you can easily accomplish can help you keep your focus. You can also take time to ask advice from your co-workers to widen your options, solutions and opinions.

2. Brainstorm Solutions. As mentioned above, brainstorming with your co-workers can help you face challenges effectively. Maintaining a perspective can be useful and ways of coming up with solutions. Keep an open mind when asking for feedback from workmates. This can help you enhance your problem-solving skills.

3 Be improvest about your capabilities. By figuring out your capabilities and skills, this can help you find a better way of overcoming the challenges you’re facing. self-reflection helps as you are able to assess your past experiences, strengths and weaknesses.

4. Delegate tasks. When it’s too much, why not try to ask for help from your teammates by delegating tasks. Assigning some of your workload to others can help you focus more on what you need to prioritise. This is not only given you freedom, but also a chance for others to learn new skills based on the workload you give them.

5. Use challenges to your advantage. It’s always a great idea to take note of the challenges you face. This way, you get to see this as a learning curve and not a burden. You can also then help others when they face similar issues that you have encountered.

When companies address these challenges and offer help to their employees. They create a great work culture that aims to make them succeed.