She has decades of experience writing about human resources. Are you weary? No matter how much you love your job , love your employer, and love your life, sometimes you just feel weary.
In recent years, work has expanded as fewer employees work harder and longer. Employer expectations have escalated as competition increased. The pace of change is relentless and growing. You struggle to maintain a work-life balance while increasing your job satisfaction and efficacy. These ten tips will help you combat weariness. Nothing overcomes weary and increases job satisfaction like doing something that you love to do every day. Discover small things about your job that make you happy.
Make sure that these activities or tasks are on your agenda every day. Hard pressed to find something that you love to do at work? Make sure you combat that weary feeling with an external activity to balance this lack.
But, certainly, there is something that you can identify that you love to do on your job. Nothing will impact your job satisfaction and make you weary faster than hanging out with people who wallow in a sea of negativity. There is plenty to make you weary in every job and workplace. Why spend your time with people or groups that you know will only make you feel worst — about yourself and your job.
Schedule a conference room for lunch if the lunchroom overflows with dissatisfaction. Hang out with the coworkers who share your positive outlook; the others will only bring you down. Nothing makes you feel as weary as a heavy, stomach busting lunch.
The excess food makes you tired and sluggish when you need a second wind for afternoon effectiveness. Drinking at lunch — does anyone drink at lunch anymore? To battle weary feelings, bring healthy snacks to nibble on to maintain energy all day long and eat a light lunch. Nothing makes you feel better than to competently perform a task or create a desired outcome.
Combat your weary feelings by doing something that you excel at doing every day. Success breeds more success and employees who are pushed or who push themselves to achieve and excel, experience increased self-confidence and self-esteem. It's a welcome employee satisfaction and employee engagement cycle. Do what you do well - do well - experience the joy of doing well.
Repeat every day. You're in charge of your relationship with your boss. No one will ever share as much concern as you do that the quality of the relationship helps you achieve your goals. At the same time, your boss has information that you need to succeed. He can't do his job or accomplish his goals without your help. So, your manager shares a critical interdependence with you. If you don't accomplish your work, your manager will never shine for his or her overall responsibilities.
You won't progress without the information, perspective, experience, and support of your manager. Feeling weary? Sit down with your boss for interaction and feedback.
Looking for more job satisfaction? Researchers have identified four factors:. The following jobs have the four ingredients of engaging work that we discussed.
The key difference is that the second set of jobs seem to help other people. People who volunteer are less depressed and healthier. A randomised study showed that performing a random act of kindness makes the giver happier. And a global survey found that people who donate to charity are as satisfied with their lives as those who earn twice as much.
We explore jobs that really help people in the next part of the guide , including jobs that help indirectly as well as directly. Being good at your work gives you a sense of achievement, a key ingredient of life satisfaction discovered by positive psychology. It also gives you the power to negotiate for the other components of a fulfilling job, such as the ability to work on meaningful projects, undertake engaging tasks and earn fair pay.
If people value your contribution, you can ask for these conditions in return. For both reasons, skill ultimately trumps interest. However, you want the potential to get good at it. And this probably means working with at least a few people who are similar to you. Research shows that perhaps the most important factor is whether you can get help from your colleagues when you run into problems. When we think of dream jobs, we usually focus on the role. But who you work with is almost as important.
A bad boss can ruin a dream position, while even boring work can be fun if done with a friend. So when selecting a job, will you be able to make friends with some people in the workplace? And more importantly, does the culture of the workplace make it easy to get help, get feedback and work together? To be satisfied, everything above is important. But you also need the absence of things that make work unpleasant. All of the following tend to be linked to job dis satisfaction.
Although these sound obvious, people often overlook them. The negative consequences of a long commute can be enough to outweigh many other positive factors. There are famous examples too — Einstein had his most productive year in , while working as a clerk at a patent office.
This is what to look for in a dream job:. Read more about our evidence for these six ingredients. And when we look at successful people, they are often passionate about what they do.
The research above shows that intrinsically motivating work makes people a lot happier than a big paycheck. One problem is that it suggests that passion is all you need. If a basketball fan gets a job involving basketball, but works with people they hate, receives unfair pay, or finds the work meaningless, they are still going to dislike their job.
The third problem is that it can make people needlessly limit their options. But in fact, you can become passionate about new areas. The six ingredients are all about the context of the work, not the content. Ten years ago, we would never have imagined being passionate about giving career advice, but here we are, writing this article. Many successful people are passionate, but often their passion developed alongside their success, and took a long time to discover, rather than coming first.
Steve Jobs started out passionate about Zen Buddhism. He got into technology as a way to make some quick cash. In reality, rather than having a single passion, our interests change often, and more than we expect. A quick aside before we go on. Or simply: do what contributes. You can have all the other five ingredients, however, and still find your work meaningless.
So you need to find a way to help others too. For instance, Jess was interested in philosophy as an undergraduate, and considered pursuing a PhD. The problem was that although she finds philosophy interesting, it would have been hard to make a positive impact within it. Ultimately, she thinks this would have made it unfulfilling.
Instead, she switched into psychology and public policy, and is now one of the most motivated people we know. Read Jess's story. To date, over 1, people have made major changes to their career path by following our career advice.
One caveat is that givers also end up unsuccessful if they focus too much on others, and burn out. So you also need the other ingredients of job satisfaction we mentioned earlier, and to set limits on how much you give. Ask what they agree with, what they would do differently, and what they would add.
This helps them feel part of the bigger picture. Constant communication is key for both building relationships and ensuring that important work information does not fall through the cracks.
To create a culture that enables open and honest communication, lead by example. This means communicating your feelings so others feel safe to communicate theirs and providing constant visibility on the information you have. Frequently check-in with your team on both a personal and professional level. Showing employees that you genuinely care about their well-being is one of the most effective ways to increase employee job satisfaction.
Whether that means motivating employees towards achieving a fitness milestone or encouraging them to disconnect when they are feeling the early signs of burnout. Encourage peers to check in on one another and take time in your 1-on-1s to chat on a meaningful human level before jumping into work discussions.
Before you can have satisfied employees you need healthy and happy employees. When employees stop learning, they eventually look elsewhere for stimulation.
Managers, allow employees to hone in on their skills by attending conferences and webinars, or encourage them to teach others via Lunch and Learns. Keep a mindset of curiosity and learning high! Schedule time to speak with your employees about their development and what they want to focus on. Give them concrete information of the learning resources and job training available for them to grow their skills.
Employees crave feedback on how they can be more efficient, work smarter and perform better. To be sure that your feedback is properly phrased and well-received, take a look at our Manager Toolbox filled with templates and frameworks for giving better feedback. Feedback is at the core of our culture and our product. Our 5 best practices can help guide you towards constructive and healthy feedback sessions.
Whether you use pulse surveys, eNPS, or another employee survey solution , the key is to host these frequently. Officevibe is the easiest way for managers to measure employee engagement frequently. You can start right now for free! Extrinsic job satisfaction will never be enough to retain employees, although one perk that can go a long way is flex time. Let employees self-organize and create working schedules that work best for them.
Demonstrate that you trust them and want them to find value in life outside of work. Having positive relationships at work is a key proponent of overall employee job satisfaction. Encourage employees to bond about commonalities outside of work to build strong trustworthy relationships that fuel better collaboration and team trust.
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