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今天分享的是精益英文，主题是：Self-development 自我发展，这是丰田领导力发展四个阶段的相关分享之一。正文1940余字，欢迎阅读与分享！
附与本文相关的系列文章：
【精益英文】支持日常的改善 Support Daily Kaizen
【精益英文】Creating Vision and Aligning Goals 创造愿景组合目标
正文：
Self-development
自我发展
This is one in a series of 4 articles about Toyota’s Stages of Leader Development.
本篇内容是丰田领导力发展的4篇系列文章之一。
Being a leader means that you'll be responsible for driving the company forward – or at least some part of it – and helping those below you grow. However, a critical component of leadership (that often gets ignored by those comfortable in their positions) is the need to develop your own skills.
作为领导者，意味着你对驱动公司前行负责，或者至少对其中的一部分负责，并帮助手下人成长。然而，领导力的一个重要组成部分（这通常被那些在对自身职位感到舒适的人所忽视）是发展你自己技能的需求。
This is a critical component of Toyota's kaizen as well, and it should be one of your top priorities when pushing the organization towards constant improvement. Just remember that this improvement starts with you.
这也是丰田改善的一个关键组成部分，推动公司不断改进应该是你的优先级任务之一。记住，这种改善从你开始！
Streamlining your own work
简化工作
One of the best ways to ensure that you're always on the right track to self-development is to avoid cluttering your workflow with unnecessary details. Ideally, you should have a completely standardized working environment, where you always know exactly where everything is. That way, you can occupy your mind with only what's truly important,attaining new skills and distributing them down the chain.
确保你一直在自我发展的正确轨道的最好办法之一，就是避免工作流程中的不必要的细节。理想情况下，你应该有一个完全标准化的工作环境，你会一直对事情了如指掌。这样，只有真正重要的东西才占据你的头脑，获得新的技能，并将获得的技能分配到链条中。
Another way to look at this is that you should always strive to apply lean principles in your own work. Look for waste and remove it. Is there some process that you keep repeating on a daily basis, but can be automated or where waste can be removed? Are you wasting any time on daily communication that can be summarized in weekly or even monthly e-mails? It might only take a minute or less each day, but those little struggles can stack up incredibly fast and leave you cluttered with senseless details, never able to look up to the big picture.
从另一个方面看，你应该在工作中努力运用精益原则。寻找浪费并消除它。是不是有一些流程，你坚持每天重复，但可以自动化，或可以消除浪费？你是否在日常交流中浪费时间了，而这本可以通过每周，甚至每月的电子邮件进行总结？每一天可能只是一分钟或更少的时间，但是那些小小的挣扎会让你快速堆积如山，让你陷入无意义的细节中，永远无法面对大局。
Learn from others
向他人学习
If you're not at the highest position in the organization, there is someone above you who can teach, coach and mentor you. It's important for you to show an active interest in those coaching sessions, and take as much as you can from them. Ideally, you'll want to establish a mentor-like relationship with one specific person.
如果你不是组织的最高只职位者，那么总之会有人可以教授、辅导及指导你。在辅导环节，对于你而言，展示积极的兴趣非常重要，并且尽可能从辅导环节中多获得点东西。理想的情况是，你想在与某个特定的人建立一个像指导的关系。
Even if you're the top leader of the organization, you can still find someone to guide you through the mass ahead of you, and to coach you how you can do something truly good with your current potential.
即使你本人就是组织的最高领导者，你仍然可以通过你前面的人群，找到可以指导你的人，让他辅导你，怎么样用自己的当前的潜力去做确实很棒的事情。
Don't forget that those useful tips don't necessarily have to come from someone above you either. Sometimes,an employee sitting below you in the hierarchy can give you some surprising insights. Don't disregard them, and make sure that you always take as much useful information from the world around you as you can.
别忘了那些有用的技巧，不一定来自你的某一个上级。有时，组织架构中，你的一个员工也可以给你一些很好的见解。不要忽视他们，并确保你总能从你周围的世界中尽可能获取更多有用的信息。
Challenge yourself
挑战自我
Last but not least, it's important to remember that you'll never be able to truly grow without challenging yourself constantly. If you never get out of your comfort zone, you won’t learn anything significantly different from what you already know, and you’ll stagnate. And with you, the organization will suffer as well.
最后，但并非最不重要，请记住，如果你没有不断挑战自己，就不能断真正地成长，这一点很重要。如果你从未走出你的舒适区，你就不会学到任何与你已经了解的不一样的东西，你就会停滞不前，而组织将和你一道遭受考验。
Of course, this doesn’t mean that you should take unnecessary risks, or put yourself in a position where you can't complete a task because you “bit off more than you can chew.” But by adding onto your work in appropriate increments (like training at the gym), you should see some noticeable results in your ability to grow and learn.
当然，这并不意味着你应该冒不必要的风险，或把自己放在一个不能完成任务的位置，因为你有点太自不量力了。通过对你的工作适当增量（就像在健身房锻炼），你应该可以看到自己的在成长与学习能力方面看到一些明显的成效。
Another way to challenge yourself is to ask others to rate your performance, and actually take their feedback into consideration. Many leaders let these comments slide past their ears – unless they’re positive. Often the negative remarks from people who report to you can open your eyes to something critical about your way of working that you might have missed before. Never underestimate what you can learn from those below you, as we pointed out above, and always show them that you respect their input and value it.
另一种挑战自我的方法，是让别人评价你的表现，并把他们的反馈真正考虑进去。许多领导人对这些评价充耳不闻，除非评论是正面的。通常，向你汇报负面评论的人，会让你对之前可能错过的重要事情的工作方式有所体会。永远不要低估你能从手下人身上学到什么，正如，我们上面所指出的，并始终向他们展示你尊重他们的投入，且他们的投入很有价值。
Conclusion
结论
As long as you’re willing to sweat and struggle along with everyone else in your organization, you’re going to see obvious results in your self-development. And as each individual makes improvements, the whole organization is going to grow and move in a positive direction.
只要你愿意和组织中的其他人一起努力奋斗，你就会在自我发展方面看到明显的成效。每一个人做了改进，整个组织就会成长，并朝着积极的方向去发展。
Don’t ever fall into the trap of thinking that you’re in a position where you can’t improve anything else about your way of working. That’s a surefire way to limit your career. When you’re in a place where an entire organization depends on your thoughts and decisions, it’s a completely irresponsible attitude to have.
永远不要陷入这样的陷阱：你处在一个无法改善你工作方式的位置。这是限定你的职业生涯的保险的方法。当你所处的整个组织都依赖你的想法和决定时，那是不该有的完全不负责任的态度。
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