Engagement, meaning and service: how to win at work without sacrificing your values

You might be surprised to discover that these 3 things are vital to your professional performance - out of a dozen or so common Quality Management Practices, development in these 3 areas ensures your value as an employee:

Engagement

Engagement happens when you are actively working with your natural talent set and developing them into strengths. If you are engaged with your work, you will feel confident, be focused and productive, and contribute well to your employer’s business outcomes, while enjoying a greater sense of success than around 80% of your colleagues

Meaning

A sense of meaning or purpose in your work arises from the alignment of your values with your employer’s values. When you believe that the work you do contributes something worthwhile to an organisation that is offering a useful product or service to the community, you are likely to experience your work as meaningful and satisfying

Service

An attitide of service is the mark of all real winners. If you gain great satisfaction from delivering a high level of customer service, (internal or external customers), doing everything in your power to meet your customer’s needs, and sticking with a challenge until you have found a solution for your customer, then you are likely to be valued highly by your boss

Contribution to business results and your professional performance

If you ranked yourself highly on the 3 dimensions above, chances are that you are highly productive, have an immense sense of satisfaction, and are making a valuable contribution to the business outcomes of your employer … creating a win-win outcome.

Engaged workers are more productive …

My next post will reveal why you need to find a way to be an engaged worker.

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