In modern scenarios, companies require more and more of a competitive human capital, which has as many skills as possible, so that with this they can give the best results to their company.
Unfortunately, human beings often do not innovate or reinvent their way of doing things, based on that old paradigm, that the way we do things is the best because we have always done it that way, which is flatly false.
It is from all this that the concept of Benchmarking for his life arises, where based on the managerial concept of the Benchmark it is intended to give an adaptation in such a way that it can be applied on a daily basis by the human being in the diversity of activities in it to develop.
It is vital to give the definition of Benchmarking before going into the subject further. This concept is defined as: the process by which organizations evaluate various aspects of their processes compared to best practices within their own sector. For example, if you were to establish a fast food business at this time, your role model would be a world famous chain like Mc Donalds, which has prevailed for many years worldwide.
As is common in any human being, there are defects, mistakes are made, which should not be seen as something bad, but as an area of opportunity that we can improve in order to improve our quality of life.
Benchmarking applied in our day to day can be a very useful tool as long as we know how to correctly identify who are those people that we should use as a parameter to follow, in order to improve in those areas of opportunity that are presented to us, but always trying to give an added value that allows us not only to improve, but to be the best.
Like the environment, the human being must be constantly changing. Innovation is fundamental for success, that is why the application of benchmarking in our should be seen as a continuous process so that it can pay dividends in our lives.
Really if we stop for a moment we realize that applying this concept in our lives is something extremely easy, it is enough with informal conversations, or simply observing how we can obtain new ideas, methods, tools, that will provide a greater amount of information to our minds, which will allow us to make better decisions, making success in our daily activities very common. But at the same time, it will often allow us to determine what we should not do if we want to continue on the path of success.
In summary we can establish a series of steps that will help us find those successful people from whom we must learn to grow as people:
to. Identify areas of opportunity in your life: carry out a deep self-examination, identifying in which areas you think you can improve.
b. Identify the leaders in your areas of opportunity: establish based on your judgment, and the people who work in your same area, who or who are the best in that area in which you want to improve performance.
c. Use techniques to approach the area leaders: try to establish contact by various means (invitations, chats, emails, etc.) with that person. Observation is a fundamental tool in this process, but you can finally use creative techniques that come to mind in the course of the process.
d. Implement and give added value to the areas in which you worked: once the learning process is finished, you will have to put it into practice, in order to determine if we really achieve our mission.
But it is not enough to make a copy of what we see in other people, we must try to provide added value to those areas in order to give it a sense of identity of its own, which in the long run can be crowned as an insurmountable improvement.
In conclusion, innovation based on best practices is a fundamental tool to stay current in any area of your life, since competitiveness is something that is becoming more common, so we have to make use of our full potential.
This process of self-improvement must prevail over time to be functional, and we must give it a personal touch to make it conform to our principles, and to overcome the practices that have already been created.
