Success and Satisfaction
In this month’s webinar we talked about how to maximize your success and get more personal satisfaction from your work.
BUILD CAREER VALUE
Listen or download the webinar to learn more.
The Magic Intersection
- Your Strengths
- Where you Get Energy
- What the Business Values
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Satisfaction does not come from loving your work. It comes from working at this intersection where you get energy, you are using your greatest strengths, and you are doing things the business values — so you’re good at your job, you get the recognition and rewards you deserve, and you enjoy doing the work.
Strengths
Use your strengths
It is very painful be in a job where you have key strengths that don’t get used or appreciated. The most successful people know their strengths and make sure to use them. They renegotiate their job over time to put themselves in the position to use their strengths most of the time — that’s why they’re so successful.
Know your strengths
As humans we tend to take our natural strengths for granted. Our own strengths don’t feel impressive to us so we tend to overlook them. We talked about the problems this causes and how to discover and use your natural strengths.
Stretch
We also talked about the importance of getting out of your comfort zone, the difference between strengths and skills, and how to use your strengths to make successful leaps into new and bigger roles.
Energy
Satisfaction
When you get energy from your work, you feel more satisfied and have more fun doing it. We talked about how to learn to follow your energy and make job choices that will maximize it.
Build energy
The more energy you have, the more value you will create. Think about the things in your work that give you the most energy and the ones that drain your energy. We talked about how to tune your work so you are building energy, not having the life drained out of you.
Business Value
Negotiate
Don’t treat your job description as a life sentence. Your job is a contract with your company. We talked about how to renegotiate your job over time to suit you better. Don’t wait for someone else to figure this out or do this for you. It’s up to you.
Make a business case
You can’t just say, “I want my job to be different so I’ll enjoy it more”. You have to make a business case for the change. We talked about how to build that business case, and show your boss that your desired way of working is better for the business.
Visible, But not Annoying
Communicate
Share your value. Deliver high value outcomes and then communicate about them. As long as you are communicating based on excellent results, it is not annoying. People like to know about good results. They like to feel in the loop.
Less Chaos
Value not activity
Working frantically does not mean you are more committed. Think about outcomes not output. Make sure you are adding value. Don’t compete on being the most chaotic! We talked about the risks of being over-busy and how to compete on value instead (and how to deal with a boss that demands long hours).
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About Patty
Patty Azzarello is an executive, best-selling author, speaker and CEO/Business Advisor. She became the youngest general manager at HP at the age of 33, ran a billion dollar software business at 35 and became a CEO for the first time at 38 (all without turning into a self-centered, miserable jerk)
You can find Patty at www.AzzarelloGroup.com, follow her on twitter or facebook, or read her book RISE…How to Be Really Successful at Work AND Like Your Life.
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