Why Encourage Your People To Ask For Help

In your professional life as an employed Optometrist or an independent practitioner, you constantly need to ask for help. You need your superiors to help you in issues related to the corporate setting you are working in as much as you need the expert’s help at different levels when you are running your own business and there is plenty of legal, business, financial, and other technical issues you don’t know about. You are not the only person who needs help. Every one of your employees, when you are running your own private practice, might find that he needs to ask for help, regardless of how much experience he has in the eye care field. The simple idea of asking for help at work can be challenging for many employees, especially when they are new and don’t have a lot of friendly connections at work. You need to have good relationships with your coworkers to find it easy to ask for help, at the same time asking for help can help build your skills and develop stronger relationships with your coworkers. Moreover, people are reluctant to ask for help because they fear looking incompetent, imposing on others, losing others’ confidence, and looking needy.

You will be surprised to know that not everyone is comfortable asking for help at work. Even employees that have been at your organization for a long time may still hesitate to ask for help. Your job as a leader is to comfort them and make the process of asking for help easy and appreciated.

Once you understand the importance of fostering and encouraging employees to ask for help, as an Optometrist and practice manager, the first thing you will do is put a strategy that makes sure that everyone is subscribed to these guidelines of asking for help and being open to also offer help. The benefits of having such a strategy include fostering a collaborative work environment by sharing skills between colleagues, providing leaders with new skills and learning tools as they take their coworkers’ advice, improving workload management, developing better relationships at different hierarchical levels within the organization which leads to improved productivity, identify weak points within the workplace processes and collaboratively find new ways to strengthen them, and improve the overall capabilities of the team aiming to solve new untapped challenges and responsibilities.

You will be surprised to know that not everyone is comfortable asking for help at work. Even employees that have been at your organization for a long time may still hesitate to ask for help.