ARE YOU FULFILLED?

Work should be fun and fulfilling. You are supposed to live in the world happy and fulfilled with unspeakable joy, but your choice of job has turned everything upside down. Being unfulfilled on the job is now as common as ‘keke Marwa’ on Lagos roads.

The importance of you finding fulfilment on your job today can’t be watered down. It is the life blood of your workplace productivity, the wheels on which productivity thrives. Without it, you run at loss.   

The reason why you are not fulfilled on your job is be because you are on the wrong path. You are doing on the outside what your inside does not agree with. And if a group does not work as a team, how can they achieve anything worthwhile? In order for you to be fulfilled and productive on your job, you have to be in sync with your inside.

The reality is this, only about 13% of workers feel engaged by their job as shown by statistics. That means they feel a sense of passion for their work, a deep connection to their employer and they spend their days driving innovation and moving their company forward. The vast majority, some 63%, are not engaged, meaning they are unhappy but not drastically so. In short, they’re checked out! They sleepwalk through their days, putting little energy into their work. A full 24% are actively disengaged, meaning they pretty much hate their jobs. They act out and undermine their co-workers accomplishment. Add the last two categories together and you get 87% of employees today who are not fulfilled on their job. Forbes.com/unhappy-employee.

This is adversely impacting on employee’s productivity and it is negatively affecting the profit of most organizations today. There is no how you will be at your best doing what you are not happy doing. Because, happiness and fulfilment fuels the fire of productivity.

If you want to be fulfilled and happy, try to find out what makes you happy anytime you do it. The truth is you have a spark within you that when discovered, will always spark up fulfilment and happiness in you which will in turn unleash untapped creativity in you and lead to a leap in productivity that will astonish you.

The tool to a successful job, career and fulfilment in life is to find out and maximize the use your natural talent on the job or to earn money. The tool to high performance work is to have everyone on the team working in the area of their natural talent. Professional sport teams do this all the time. They seek out top talent in specific positions and develop those players based on raw talent and position. This same principle can be applied in the workplace and on projects to enhance overall team performance.

Here are a few classic tips to think about to help you identify your natural talents.

·         Have people consistently complimented you on something on the job and you thought nothing of it? What was it they were referring to? Look deeply into it.

·         What three subjects fascinate you most? Why?

·         Make a list of your hobbies, past and present, since childhood. What do they have in common?

Result: Happy employees, a thriving organization…

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