How are your employees doing?
Using the 'career thinking' method, employees can become active players in their own careers.
How are your employees doing?
Exploring 'career thinking'
With the return to school and back to the office after the summer in full swing, now is a great time to review your organisations/employees' values and motivations for the rest of the year. With the growing return to normal life, organisations are likely to see a mix of excitement, and apprehension at what lies ahead.
Questions around motivation and current commitment are likely to feature in many 1-2-1's; and whilst organisations may not be able to answer these themselves, they can help employees to do so.
The "Career thinking*" method offers a complete action framework for employees to help them learn to be active players in their careers, their motivation and their professional development. Key points to explore:
- Identify what interests and motivates us professionally. What professional activities give me energy? What are my motivational drivers? Each person has a unique combination of motivations.
- Measure how well our motivations are satisfied today. List your key motivations and for each of them, evaluate your current level of satisfaction. If less than 70% of motivations are not being satisfied, it is time to take action.
- Build an action plan to improve motivation and fulfillment at work. Some people feel a certain professional discomfort, but sometimes it is because only one of their motivations is not being satisfied (lack of challenge, recognition, difficulties with a colleague...). In this case by thinking how to improve this single aspect you can quickly observe a positive effect on your motivation. For other people, many motivations are not being satisfied. In this case, it may be time to consider a change of role (mobility, change of position, or even a new professional project).
- If necessary, build your career plan based on your strengths. Although technical skills are essential for a job, they are becoming increasingly obsolete. Nowadays, it is essential to identify the areas in which you feel capable of developing your skills, your soft skills and your mindset, and to take them into account in your career plan. Without forgetting your motivations...
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References
*A method designed by Motiva's authors (Prof. Zwi Segal and Yves Duron)
Motivation, a skill that can be developed: A guide to developing motivation and commitment at work, Z. Segal, Y. Duron, Pearson 2015