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Mind Your Own Career: Your Guide to Right Working for Right Living can help you to explore important questions about how you, your work, your career and your life are integrated, and to understand, and even to change, the answers you find.
The guide lays a foundation with a basic philosophy and some practical tips for changing your answers to these questions, so your answers become more suitable for who you are, what you need and what you want – in your work, as well as in your larger life.
Being Engaged With Your Work
In Follow This Path: How the World’s Greatest Organizations Drive Growth By Unleashing Human Potential, Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, Ph.D., based on research conducted by the Gallup Organization, identify three levels of engagement that you may experience in your work:
- You are Engaged in your work when you use your talents every day, maintain consistent levels of high performance, are emotionally committed to what you do, and have high energy and enthusiasm.
- You are Not-engaged in your work when you just meet the basic requirements of your role, feel a low level of commitment and have no real sense of achievement.
- You are Actively Disengaged in your work when you normally resist change, feel a low level of trust and commitment, and feel isolated.
According to Coffman and Gonzalez-Molina, you can create work that fully engages you by ensuring that the following conditions are met:
- You know what is expected of you at work.
- You have the materials and equipment you need to do your work right.
- You have the opportunity to do what you do best every day.
- You receive recognition for doing good work.
- Someone at work cares about you as a person.
- Someone at work encourages your development.
- Your opinions count at work.
- You feel your work is important.
- You and your associates are committed to doing quality work.
- You have a best friend at work.
- You communicate about your progress at work.
- You have opportunities to learn and grow at work.
Your Personal Reflections on Being Fully Engaged and Happy
How well does your work experience meet these conditions for being fully engaged: clear expectations, necessary and sufficient resources, natural talent, regular recognition, caring management, encouragement, acceptance, alignment, shared commitment to quality, social connection, progress, learning and growth?
How can you keep yourself and the people you work with fully engaged?
What is true happiness – how do you know when you are happy or not happy?
Is happiness necessary?
How happy are you with your work and your career?
How can you increase your happiness with your work and your career?
How can you keep yourself happy with your work and your career?
How would you characterize full engagement and happiness in other areas of your life – in your inner experience, in your choosing, in relating to others, in doing for the sake of doing, and in investing in yourself and others?
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