Why Thriving Improves Productivity
Are workers or Organizations most interested in productivity as a metric? Organizations need productivity to accomplish their goals for improved competitiveness, cost control, and profits. Workers need to be productive to offer value to the Organization and improve their own career prospects.
Organizations are always trying to improve productivity with hiring people who fit their culture to create a synergistic and collaborative effect. They utilize the best technologies to support worker knowledge and make most efficient use of their time. The more difficult task is to help individuals reach their optimum productivity.
Measuring Thriving by Degrees
What is the difference between a normal athlete, a superior athlete, and an extreme athlete? Each has the skills and knowledge sufficient to engage in their sport with success above the person without their skills. The superior athlete separates himself with better preparation, natural or developed skills, greater intuition for the game, and maybe a stronger drive to be successful.
The extreme athlete is a few steps above the superior athlete because he places his life on the line. He engages in the most dangerous conditions for his sport and failure is often death. Therefore, he prepares knowing the possible consequences. He learns knowing the possible consequences. When he engages, he steps to a higher level than other athletes experience unless they too are in flow.
The Worker is Primarily Responsible for His Thriving
Thriving is a state the worker can reach through mainly his own efforts. The Organization can be supportive if it understands the worker’s needs and has the intention of supporting those needs. This may occur with enlightened organizations that understand thriving workers are better for productivity and competitiveness and maybe necessary for worker retention.
If the worker values thriving over everything else, he is likely to find the best Organization to support his high level of productivity and need for support. The first step for the worker is to understand how to thrive and therefore deliver at his highest potential.
Some workers may place work and career above all else. Some may value their personal lives and need work to support that. If a worker’s passion is his career, he is most likely to feel his personal life and work life are one. Both lives are compatible and flexible for each other.
Living in Passion Is Another Good Definition of Thriving
Thriving is a state in which the worker feels he is living in passion. He loves his personal life and work life and if work is his passion, that is easier to achieve. Now he feels he is living a meaningful life with purpose and knows why he is here. He has answered the most important questions.
Thriving ticks all the boxes for happiness. Happiness is a biological process that is stimulated in the brain with certain behaviors. Happiness is a tool gifted us by Nature to induce us to incorporate surviving and thriving activities. With our two advanced brains over the lizard brain, we have been gifted talents not found in most species although mammals share many of them.
Humans are induced and rewarded for learning, creativity, contributing, caring, protecting, and exercising, to name a few behaviors. Each of these prepares and supports our main values and goals if we are on a constructive track toward self-actualization.
The Balance Between Work and Personal Life Is Reached
This means a worker leads a life balanced in the activities that support his goals whether they be more oriented toward his personal life or his career. He is learning, engaged in creativity, and supportive of those in his circles including family, friends, and co-workers. He is living his life in purpose and the percentage of effort for personal or career is a metric he understands.
Thriving will include priorities for health, learning, contributing, and sharing. He has excellent time management and includes time blocks in his schedule for the most purposeful activities. At the end of the day, he says that was a good day. His life is moving forward as he planned and as he prioritizes. He is both a personal model for others and a career model.
A thriving worker stands out in his positive and optimistic attitude. He tends to be more generous, empathetic, and therefore emotionally intelligent. An organization would prosper with a full staff of thriving workers.
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As a Thriving Worker Consultant, I can engage in conversations with employers on how to begin the process of helping workers thrive and reach peak performance. It begins with a conversation to see how far an organization is willing to go to change the culture for workers.
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