7 Areas of Work - Job - Career Path Satisfaction
by David Glober, CCMC, LBF, CLTMC
Life, Career, Leadership, Business and Organizational Coach
Copyright © 2009
If you can give gradual and complete attention to all of these areas, you can likely arrive at contentment, even happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment, in putting together a great work life - and a life!
1. Compensation: Regular pay, bonus pay, insurance and other benefits, profit sharing, retirement, perks.
2. Work environment: Physical comfort, furniture, lighting, ergonomics, location, commute, privacy to get things done, breathing room to think your own thoughts, social and work space in which to interact with others.
3. The work itself: Skill building, rewarding feelings more than not, not too much to do, not too little to do, enjoyable, intriguing, not intriguing but good for the time being, with acknowledgment, recognition, challenge and stimulation all in a dynamic forward-moving balance.
4. Relationships: Co-worker relationships, supervisory and subordinate relationships, vendor and supplier relationships, customer and client relationships.
5. Belief in the organization's vision, mission, purpose, leadership and team: A sense that you're working for a team or department or agency or firm or company or organization that has a mission and purpose that match your own values and that either has a useful role in some larger field of endeavor or community or both, and if competition is involved, a strong high regard for and use of products or services, ideally realized in clear market share, market differentation, value proposition, and externally perceived value.
6. Room to grow: An attitude is prevalent that is mutually supportive and encourages a commitment to continuous improvement and a realization of each individual's challenges and ongoing progress.
7. Inspiration / aspiration: A generalized organizational belief that most people show up at work to do their best and to give more than they receive, and that it is productive to first identify and then encourage this level of motivation in all individuals that fit the organizational mission and have the skills and enjoyment to continue on in current or other roles within the organization.
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About Me
- David Glober
- Training: Certified Leadership and Talent Management Coach; Certified Career Coach; Life Blueprint Facilitator; Permaculture Designer; Gardening and Composting Educator. ~ Affilitations (all in San Francisco, CA): Potrero Boosters; Bluepeter Building Restoration Working Group; Urban Energy Working Group; Permaculture Guild; Garden for the Environment. ~ Interests: Land Use, Water Resources, and Soil Development, in Urban, Suburban, Rural, Broadacre, Forest and Open Areas; Orientation of People to Sense of Place, Culture, the Natural World, and Each Other; Individual Development in the Context of Community Building, Group Dynamics, and Cultural Anthropology; Garden to Kitchen Connection in Cooking and Eating; Art and Architecture; Film and Music; Alternative Fuels, Clean Energy, Environmental Technology; Botany and Biodiversity; Ecopsychology.