12 Important Questions To Ask In Regard To Your Work
Published June 27th, 2007 in Work, Success, Life.
1. Do I know what is expected of me at work?
2. Do I have the materials and equipment I need to do my work right?
3. At work, Do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?
4. In the last seven days, have I received recognition or praise for doing good work?
5. Does my supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person?
6. Is there someone at work who encourages my development?
7. At work, do my opinions seem to count?
8. Does the mission/purpose of my company make me feel my job is important?
9. Are my associates/colleagues committed to doing quality work?
10. Do I have a best friend at work?
11. In the last six months, have I talked with someone at work about my progress?
12. This last year, have I had opportunities at work to learn and grow?
The above 12 questions are extracted from First, Break All The Rules co-authored by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman, which aimed at examining how the world’s greatest managers find focus and keep talented employees. I nevertheless also found that the book contains many insights for individuals who crave to excel themselves.
So, where are you now? Does your current position / company provide you the chance to perform at your best? Do you feel needed? How about sense of belonging? Is this the place for you to grow?
The authors argued that it was a mistaken belief that a person’s greatest room for improvement lies in his weaknesses. Instead:
People don’t change that much.
Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in.
That is hard enough.
It is strength, not weaknesses, that we should focus on.
And, it is talent, not skills and knowledge, that is the most important, for while skills and knowledge can easily be taught, talents cannot.
No matter how you total success in the coaching profession, it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred great coaches of whom you have never heard in basketball, football, or any sport who will probably never receive the acclaim they deserve simply because they have not been blessed with talent. Although not every coach can win consistently with talent, no coach can with without it.
~ John Wooden, coach of the UCLA Bruins
Therefore, find your talent, groom it, pick a career/position in which you can be yourself, you can be your best.
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I read this book before. I remember that there is a statement, something like: it is not how lousy, how small the company that lead to quit of a talent staff, but it is the boss disappointed him/her. It also quite encourgage the communication of a supervisor and his staff. And the success of a company is much depends on whether a manager can pool all the talents together and make them contribute on their responsible part. Quite a good book for all the managers.
Hi Johnson, thanks. I remember that bit too. It is a really good reminder.
Great post. This is def important for managers to think about. I am working with a very talented entertainment business woman and we had her position and responsabilities clearly defined when she started. We recently decided to change our target audience and now her responsabilities don’t apply to our new audience. It’s time to redfine before she gets bored and feels unimportant.