Adopt Your Employer's Goals as Your Own

Do you want to be the most valuable employee possible to your company? If you do, it begins by discovering your  company's goals and adopting them as your own.

You have been hired for a purpose. Regardless of your company, the industry it is in, your level of education or experience, you have been hired to accomplish tasks that benefit the company. You probably took the job to earn a living and provide resources for your family. It is a wonderful thing if you love your job and it gives you a sense of accomplishment other than providing the basic needs of life. Many people, however, work at jobs because of need not because they are fulfilling a sense of calling.

Work is Important

Many people will spend up to 95,000 hours of their lives on the job. Work is not just how we make money, but it also is the source of many of our psychological needs such as the need for significance and fulfillment, and self-esteem. Because work is such an important part of our lives, we should do the best and be the best that we can.

The structure of work is changing, and that affects the way that jobs are organized. Most organizations recognize the need to have a flexible workforce.

Employees Should Strive for Personal Mastery

A previous post covered Peter Senge's conception of a learning organization. Personal Mastery is a major element of a learning organization to which every employee should aspire. Personal Mastery is a phrase used for high levels of the discipline of personal growth and learning.

For a company to continue to grow and be successful, they must be learning organizations. Learning organizations learn only by their individual members learning. Employees that strategically and consistently learn optimize their potential and reach high levels of personal mastery.

BR: Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Emotional Intelligence was a previous topic, now followed up with a book review on the same topic, "Emotional Intelligence 2.0" by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. They refer to Emotional Intelligence as EQ and remains a very popular topic in organization and leadership training.

Every day there are highly intelligent and well-educated people struggling to navigate in the world, while less intelligent and educated people are excelling. It has been thought that Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) makes the difference. EQ is harder to measure than IQ, but its power has been made clear.