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As companies become purpose-led, where does that leave charities?
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“Without a sense of purpose, no company, either public or private, can achieve its full potential; it will ultimately lose the license to operate from key stakeholders.”
Larry Fink
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Human Well-being
As companies strive to become more meaningful, purpose-led, sustainable and connected to human well-being, they are seeing increasing value among stakeholders and customers.
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A crucial Alliance
To make real progress, governments, civil society, companies, and charities must come together and form an alliance.
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The new skills required
As companies work towards their purpose, these are new skills they need to learn:
- Empathy
- Global movement
- Employee orientation towards meaningful work.
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Global Movement
Normally, companies are spending top dollar in marketing and lobbying around economic agendas, to increase their profit share in the market.
They need to have a similar global movement towards social causes, using the resources they have, to have a real impact.
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Helping Employees find meaning
Good, purpose-led values that drive work in the charity sector needs to be cultivated at the workplace.
Corporates should unlock the purpose and motivation that a charity has, by making their employees find meaning in their work, and helping society, starting from their workforce.
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Define what meaningful work means to you.
Find your own personal satisfaction and connection to your work. It could be the people you work with or a project you are passionate about.
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There’s always some level of personal investment in your work.
If what you're doing has a positive impact, it adds up and makes you feel proud of what you’re working on.
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Finding your purpose
Many seem to think that purpose comes from your unique gifts and sets you apart from other people. That is only partly true.
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Reading connects us to people across time and space.
- Research shows that those who read the Bible more tended to have a stronger sense of purpose.
- Reading fiction also seems to make a difference. By seeing purpose in the lives of other people, we are more likely to see it in our own.
Find purpose in suffering
Finding purpose is not just an intellectual pursuit, it is something we need to feel. That's why purpose can grow out of suffering.
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The Pressure Of Time
Most leaders have familiar approaches to managing time: setting goals, planning, delegating, tracking commitments, and creating to-do lists. While these approaches do help in self-organization, the...
Sustainable Productivity
Instead of increasing the number of productive hours, we can focus on getting the right things done in a timely way. We also need to restore and balance ourselves, our colleagues, family and environment, instead of a neurotic or pathological focus on deadlines.
Find out what's truly important to us and use the finite resource of time wisely.
Phantom Workload
Phantom workload looks like real work but results in massive unproductivity and even conflict in an organization. The pressure to meet unrealistic expectations causes a vicious cycle of further workload.
Leaders need to take a hard look at what is being avoided or not addressed. Facing difficult tasks that were 'swept under the carpet' earlier strengthens them further to make hard decisions and face difficult people and situations.