What gets you out of bed in the morning?
Chances are good that it’s not the prospect of a full day of work. Or even the promise of a paycheck.
Just like you, your employees are motivated by a wide range of factors that likely transcend the transactional nature of “you do work = I give money.”
Those factors are not the same for everyone.
What is important to some people is meaningless to others. But, we’re all united – we all yearn for a sense of purpose and meaning.
Considering we spend the majority of our adult lives at our jobs, this is a particularly important issue for our careers. Waking up day after day without a connection to our work beyond the transactional relationship of a paycheck is demoralizing and unsustainable.