Food for thought: proactive thinkers prevent incidents

The minority of people: proactive thinkers

Proactive: The dictionary definition hits the nail on the head. Proactive means taking action before something happens, preventing something, taking action that serves a future purpose. Wonderful! Actually, that says it all. Working proactively means looking ahead and drawing attention to potential hazards in the workplace. In fact, a proactive attitude has no down side at all. There is suddenly much less of ‘If only I had ...’ and ‘This should never have happened’. And the same goes for incidents in the workplace.

If working proactively has so many benefits, why do so many people still have a reactive attitude to work? In practice, you often see that – at first – people are rather dismissive of proactive solutions and proposals. That’s a real shame, because the prevention that results from a proactive mindset is very important indeed. The reason so many people are dismissive of this approach is that prevention does not tend to get noticed, which makes it seem less important.

Food for thought: prevention seems to be obscured by a cloak of invisibility

Conclusion!

Flip your thinking: Think in terms of possibilities instead of problems. That’s not as easy as it sounds, we know that. But when you proactively learn to think in terms of possibilities, you put prevention back in the spotlight and timely action can be taken. Long before an incident occurs and not afterwards.

Be receptive to proactive thinkers and be inspired by them!

Food for thought:

Just being aware that you could do things better is a step in the right direction*

*Source: Flip your thinking

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