Through the quest to get energy from work, we developed a proven method, which has since led to success for thousands of people. The E=mc² formula to regain energy from work is the result. With the following steps and tips you can get started yourself.
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How much energy do you get from your work?
Ask yourself how much energy you get from your work and rate it from 0 to 10. Ask yourself what you need to increase this grade. Look back over the past few months; is this grade dropping or rising?
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See if you can improve anything about your environmental factors, your values
Write down what is important to you in your work, e.g. getting appreciation, commuting distance, your pay, working together ... and write down what can be improved and how.
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See if you can improve anything about your position
What are you good at and do you like to do? These are things that give you energy. Write this down and see if it comes up in your job today. What costs you energy in your job today? Can you phase this out and ask for something you like to do instead?
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See what you would like to learn
Is there someone internally who can teach you this, is there an unused training budget?
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Schedule a meeting with your manager
Tell him what you wrote down above. Emphasize mainly what you want, not what you don't want. Make a proposal to make your job as engaging as possible and agree on a date when you will come back to this.
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Engage in internal networking
Look beyond your own department, engage with people internally who do work that interests you. Tell them what you would like to do. If there are opportunities internally, they will let you know. Then add these people to your LinkedIn profile.
Often more is possible than you think! It's just a matter of making this known to your supervisor, to HR... I once read Els De Meester's quote in the book "Silence, I speak" by Sylvie Verleye: "When I came back after giving birth, there was an appointment I knew nothing about. They assumed I didn't have the ambition to fill the position. To be honest, I had not expressed that ambition".
We advise our clients to first see if you can improve the current position and give this a few months time, after you have had conversation with the supervisor. Agree with yourself how much time you want to give this and put it in your calendar. If after this date nothing has changed in your energy level (rating from 0 to 10, see step 1), start looking for other opportunities internally that answer the things you wrote down in steps 2, 3 and 4. Engage with people in HR and agree a deadline with yourself. If nothing has changed in your energy level after this deadline, start looking for opportunities externally.
The more concrete you know what you want, the more likely you are to actually achieve it. Every day we see with clients that once they take steps to be more satisfied in their work, it also has a positive effect in other areas of their lives; their health, their relationships, their social contacts... They become happier people!
We also work from the philosophy of Personal Branding. You can read more about it in the free eBook Personal Branding, which you will receive when you enter your name and email address below.