4. It crimps your creativity, because the creative process makes you uncomfortable.
5. Your need for perfection pushes people away.
Elizabeth Scott, a stress management expert cites these ways to identify whether you or a colleague are suffering from perfectionism.
1. Do you set goals and only accept a specific accomplishment? Anything less is failure?
2. Do you focus on small mistakes and forget the overall task and its goal?
3. Are you pushing or pulling? Perfectionists are pushed toward a goal through fear of not reaching it, where high achievers are pulled toward a goal with the desire to make progress in the right direction.
4. Are your standards unrealistic?
5. Do you become depressed if you fall short of a goal?
6. Do you procrastinate because you are afraid of failure?
7. Are you defensive? Perfectionists aren’t as likely to view criticism as a way of making better decisions.
8. Do you have low self-esteem? Perfectionists are often self critical and unhappy which leads to lower self-esteem.
Author Laura Vanderkam has written numerous books about the traits of successful people. She claims the “key to making myself happy is NOT to be a perfectionist.”
Instead, we need to convince ourselves that it’s okay to apply for a higher position even if we don’t meet ALL of the criteria. We need to start the negotiation process in regard to salaries and benefits before we accept a position and we need to point out our accomplishments and successes to be sure they are noted.
We need to stop expecting perfectionism from ourselves and learn to become more confident in what we can bring to this industry.
Kudos to Customers
McLeod Kingsgate Transportation Services Seeks Expansion
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fter 29 years in business and a successful handoff from the
founders to second generation owners, McLeod customer and freight brokerage firm Kingsgate Transportation Services is planning a new expansion and heavy hiring ahead.
Kingsgate has signed a lease for office space with triple the square-footage than its current address, said one of the owners, Jeff Beckham. Plans are to add more than 30 employees, about double the size of the company today, Beckham said.
Beckham said his family’s company still has its first two clients from when his parents, Tom and Merry Beckham, started the business in his old bedroom in 1986. And he attributes a culture that puts clients first for the company’s growth over the years.
Pictured left to right, are partners Jeff Beckham and his wife Julie Beckham, Amy Barnett and David Beckham. Jeff, Amy and David are siblings.
Additionally, Kingsgate announced on June 10, 2015 that it has been named a Finalist for the 2015 Goering Center Family and Private Business All-Star Award. A 2010 winner of the award in the under 25 years in business category, this is the second time Kingsgate has been named a Finalist for this honor.
Smokey Point Distributing Earns National Platinum Safety Award
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cLeod customer Smokey Point Distributing received a national platinum award for their 2014
safety records from Great West Casualty, an insurer of truck companies and fleets based in South Sioux City, Nebraska. The award is based on the percentage of at-fault accidents compared with miles driven. For a platinum award, a carrier must have no more than one such accident per 1 million miles.
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