Do you love your job
Dieter Weisshaar • July 18, 2021
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Are you looking forward to Monday Mornings
A great work environment
and the team around you can create so much positive energy.
The sky is the limit. Does your job feel like this?
If not, why don't you change. Most of us are spending more time on the job than with family and friends. Negative energy at work can limit our wellbeing and even our health.
This observation isn't only true if you are an employee, it is true in management positions as well. Everyone feels different about the environment. Positive or negative factors can be influenced by very different topics. Resilience
is the new skill, but at a certain point you need to check if you are great in getting on in an environment which does not value the assets you bring to the table or you move on. This is not about job hopping but to explore if you can create a perfect fit for you and your company.
You as a person may want to work in environments that give you the ability to create value hence factors like empowerment, trust and recognition are making you feel good. Other people like a secure workplace hence factors such as stable rules and responsibilities, job security and equal treatment, constant cashflow may be more important.
People, who want to lead change and create value, are normally feel comfortable in volatile, uncertain and dynamic work situations (VUCA). They can cope far better with change or even want to lead change. These people are the driving force on a change process or transformation. If you have such team members on your leadership team they can lead a transformation of your business
or the industry. You want to create a high performance culture -you need exactly those skills with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Large corporations are looking in their job postings for leaders with an entrepreneurial approach
- being ready to lead, take risks and create extraordinary results.
The laggards (corporations)
are hiring these people and give them little empowerment, they let them know that they won't be able to change the complex organization and need to serve the existing system. Small incremental changes will be put forward only when they delivered a longer documentation, business cases and served all stakeholders. If you have ever worked for a high performance company
that is able to take bold decisions quickly, learn, adopt and change, you will see that your positive energy is draining in such a legacy setup. You know, Agility feels different. So you have three options:
- you can either change the system,
- you can think about staying within the system and serve it or
- you leave.
To
change the existing system
you need C-level support
or being the C-level, that is a really good option if you have full support and empowerment to start the transformation. If you won't get the backing, empowerment and the trust, you loose energy, empathy and speed. This company may be successful in the way it works, but it may not be the perfect fit to the assets you can bring to the table hence you have a constant fight on the things you would prioritize and the speed of execution. It isn't about right or wrong,
it is just not your perfect fit
to make an impact and create positive energy and motivation for yourself.
If you are not looking forward to the next working day, reaching the next step on your plan and it feels like another painful day to come in long meetings without measurable results, it is time for a change.
A great work environment can create so much positive energy, spirit and results that it is important to find the place that serves your values and values your assets. Leading with empathy is important, it creates trust and drives better results. Have fun on what you do, if you haven't find it yet, you are not at the right place.
Steve Jobs:
“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle…
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Source:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/903982-you-ve-got-to-find-what-you-love-and-that-is
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