Job Crafting
In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast’ Sheila shares few tips on how you can craft a job you love, she talks about what it means to craft a job and how you can do this. Sheila discusses 5 great steps on how to craft your Job.
Episode Highlights:
· ‘Job Crafting’ is actually a term that was coined by Jane Dutton and Amy Wrzesniewski, and it is the act of customising your job to better fit your own individual strengths, passions, and what motivates you.
· Sheila achieved success by focusing on the things that she enjoyed the most and that actually ended up helping her to make a pretty big career pivot.
· You need to ask yourself that what is it that fuels your energy, it's about finding the things you love, and that you're good at and what it is you want to be known for?
· Having clarity on what you love doesn't mean you can stop doing all the things you don't love.
· Shifting form commitment to action involves putting your insights to work and building an action plan.
· ‘Job Crafting’ is not a discrete activity, you don't just do it once, but it's something that we form into a continuous habit and process.
3 Key Points:
1. If your job has you dreading Monday mornings, start thinking about to craft a job that you love without needing to do that full update of your resume.
2. ‘Job Crafting’ isn't about changing your title or your function or your salary, necessarily, instead, it's about infusing more of what you love, and more joy into your work. You need to ask yourself a few questions like, “What is it that you're most interested in?”
3. Take notes, look for patterns, and then notice, what do you see, maybe you discover that your favourite activities include learning something new, or solving a problem. Or maybe you really enjoy mentoring, training or coaching other people.
Tweetable Quotes:
· “Step one, maybe this sounds simple, but it's simply making a decision making a decision to take action because job crafting begins with making a choice.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “You have to first know what brings you joy: the tasks, the actions, the projects, the conversations, the challenges, the interactions, etc.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “A state of flow is when you almost get lost in what you're working on.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “You might still need to do the boring meeting updates or run those reports that don't get you terribly excited or crunch those numbers.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “Start by finding links between the things that you love to do, and the potential positive outcomes for the company.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
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