Understanding Can Influence Performance
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When the reason for a task, assignment, or activity, is not clearly understood, there is a tendency for it to be undervalued, overvalued or not valued at all. This can come into play for individuals or in team situations. It is possible for a person to be lazy at getting a particular task done, until the reason for that task is expounded to that person, and a new appreciation of the importance of that task dawns on the individual. With understanding can come motivation to not only complete the task but complete it with excellence.
In my earlier years in school, there was the question about how useful certain subjects and courses were to my career. There are some classes students are happier attending just because the point is clear.
Sometimes we don’t take some things as seriously, because we just don’t see the point. Some of us do not exactly understand why we are to do certain things. I have discovered that not having an answer to the question, Why? can sometimes hinder having answers to other questions like What? When? and How?
Evelyn Olorunfemi 