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How satisfied are you in your job? Or, if you manage people how satisfied are they in their jobs?
They say that the best performances are willingly given. In other words it is the person's choice as to whether they bring their best efforts to a job or not. How they feel about the job is critically important when it comes to their personal motivation to do it well.
We owe it to ourselves, and those we manage, therefore to spend as much on Satisfaction Management as we do on Performance Management. But how do we get a better fix on our own and others' job satisfaction needs?
Here are some tips:
1. Understand your own Personal Values and Beliefs e.g. Achievement, Learning, Integrity, Family Happiness, Fun etc.
What can you do to achieve more satisfaction of these values in your job?
2. Describe your ideal job and then map your existing job to it. Where is there a fit, where is there a mismatch? What can you do to change the areas of mismatch?
Consider the following:
- Working Environment
- Use of skills/knowledge/capabilities
- Type of work
- Motivational needs
3. List down your natural talents and gifts. What do you easily do well and enjoy doing? Think of at least ten areas of skill.
Ask yourself - How could I use these natural strengths more in my job? How could I get better at what I naturally do well?
List down your ideas. Share them with your manager.
4. Think about the last time that you were in Flow' i.e. you effortlessly achieved a great result and enjoyed every minute of it.
Describe the occasion and why you found it so exhilarating?
List down the reasons.
Why did you succeed? List down the contributors to your success.
How should others manage you bring out the best in you? Draw up a list of ideas.
Do not think for one moment that it is others' responsibility to figure out what you are looking for in terms of job satisfaction. Think it through, analyse yourself and present your findings to your manager with ideas on how you could do a better job.
Take control of increasing your own job satisfaction.
