Happiness at work – how you achieve it
Julie Crowley of Clear Mind
How do you see your manager?
As a colleague you work with, who has an overview of the team and responsibility for the team’s actions?
A bossy boss who just tells people what to do or what they should be doing?
Someone who knows their stuff – has knowledge of your industry/business and guides you too?
Someone you respect for their emotional intelligence in getting the team to work well together and individually, understanding problems and helping you to find mutually convenient solutions e.g. flexitime or bereavement absence?
How you perceive them affects how you behave towards them – in conflict, resentment or joyful interactions where you give your all and get fulfilment in your role in return.
Stress in your workplace
Your managers’ or colleague’s stress and anxieties, their negativity, can rub off on you. You are influenced by the people you are surrounded by – ‘you become more like the five people you spend most time with’, even if you are normally a happy, positive outlook type of person.
That doesn’t mean that people who need help shouldn’t ask for it or seek it, and you can help them resolve their stressors perhaps, encourage action for themselves and ideas how they could manage it e.g. your company Employee Assistance Programme for counselling, telephone support or legal advice if that’s on offer.
That doesn’t mean that empathy and understanding has to become your feelings too, and take you down so healthy boundaries need to be in place too.
Your Professional Development
You will always grow from experience, learning formally or not, developing better strategies and techniques or using new tools to help you time manage, short cuts to outcomes, or easier ways to do you jobs.
Growth happens when you push your boundaries, when it’s less comfortable and raises anxiety just slightly! But that’s how to expand your knowledge, skills and confidence – how you grow and develop personally and professionally. You cannot ‘unlearn’ something and you can bring it in to action when you need to in future making life easier and recognising new achievements.
Time and Energy management
Knowing your Self means understanding how you will work best, feel good and be able to handle what is tossed your way – and what is and isn’t your responsibility.
Know your own strengths and your tendencies – to drift off and create ideas, or analyse data and when you have the most energy and focus so you can do those ‘heavy duty’ tasks them or the ones that flow from you naturally when you have less energy – and or time!”
Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
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