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Twenty-two years ago, when I first started my business to help people engage in meaningful work and purposeful lives, I spent a lot of time educating organizations on the business case for supporting employees in finding meaning and purpose in what they do.
‘That sounds nice,’ I’d hear frequently, ‘but we’ve got more pressing issues.’
Nowadays, thanks to increasing research, numerous workplace studies, companies reeling from the costs of the ‘great resignation’ and ‘quiet quitting,’ and a generation of employees asking about meaning and purpose at work before they even sign on, smart businesses are already well aware of how creating an environment of meaning and purpose benefits them in countless ways. I’m still happy to educate, but I’m even happier that meaningful work has become part of the everyday ‘let’s take action’ conversation rather than the ‘wouldn’t that be nice’ one.
Whether you are the CEO of your organization creating a culture of meaning and purpose, a leader striving to help your team members know the meaning behind their work, or an individual wanting to make your own work feel meaningful, I’ve got some practical starting points for you in my latest Reading And Purpose newsletter – subscribe and read here!