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How to Create a Workplace that Actually Inspires Passion
Helping employees cultivate passion
Two critical work environment design principles that help employees cultivate passion:
- Creating systems for experimentation to help learners discover their particular domains. This can happen through processes, tools, and management support.
- Supporting connection among workers. Companies can make it easy for employees to find others with relevant expertise, both within and outside the organization.
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Passion leads to motivation for learning
There are three qualities of people who have the kind of passion that is associated with performance improvement.
- A long-term commitment to increasing your impact in a particular area, such as banking, medicine,
- A desire to find new challenges and seeing them as exciting opportunities for growth.
- A connecting disposition that actively seeks connections with others to help address these challenges.
Helping employees cultivate passion
Two critical work environment design principles that help employees cultivate passion:
- Creating systems for experimentation to help learners discover their particular domains. This can happen through processes, tools, and management support.
- Supporting connection among workers. Companies can make it easy for employees to find others with relevant expertise, both within and outside the organization.
Helping employees apply passion
- Frame a powerful question using open-ended prompts, such as "is this what we should be doing" and "what else is possible," that encourage creative thinking and inspire new approaches.
- Prioritize performance objectives. Set high-impact performance objectives and track the progress. Make tradeoffs to accelerate movement toward the shared outcomes.
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According to a recent survey of U.S. workers, only 20% report being truly passionate about work.
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- It isn't a cakewalk.
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Encouraging people to be curious generates workplace improvements.
When we are curious, we view tough situations more creatively. Studies have found that curiosity is associated with less defensive reactions to stress and less aggressive reactions to provocation.
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Discover your passion
In order to be able to be happy, one should do what he or she likes as work. However, not always what we are drawn to can bring us money.
If you are willing to pursue your hobby and make profit out of it, you should first make sure that doing what you like can actually help you live a decent life. Therefore, if you do have a hobby, you might want to consider checking out if there is a real market for it. For almost everything that is well presented there can be a market. So go on and take your chance!
Decide on a field
Once you have committed to turning your passion into something profitable, the next step is to carefully research the options: check if there is a real demand for your offer, have a a look at what competition has to offer, etc.
Furthermore, maybe the most important is to find ways to innovate. This way, you will develop your competitive spirit and gain clients while learning to become better in the chosen field.
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