Average is burning your toast in the morning and eating it anyway, average is doing a job you hate everyday because the leap to happiness is too daunting. So you settle. You’re a middle of the roader, a make do’er, compromiser, a grade-C, fate acceptor.
But here’s the twist: maybe it’s not your job that’s the problem. Maybe your company is structured to prevent you from unlocking your full potential.
Contrary to what the Wu Tang Clan said, cash doesn’t rule everything around us. Nearly 70% of employees said they would work harder if they were better recognized for their efforts. What’s more, a study by Glassdoor found that an unhappy 33% quit their jobs due to a lack of career growth.
So in this new age of meditation apps & organic driftwood phone cases, we’d like to think that we wouldn’t sacrifice our happiness for a few bucks.
Obviously cash is king but there are a dozen kings at this table, and a King is nothing without its Queen and courtiers.
The King of Communication
The holistic, unmeasurable nature of these things may grind your finance
department’s gears, but solving these problems are essential to running a good business.
The top two factors cited by workers are a lack of advancement opportunities and excessive overtime.That’s according to a new survey by EY of 9,700 full-time employees in eight of the world’s largest economies: the United States, Brazil, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, India, China and Japan.
Also on the list were companies that don’t encourage teamwork (71%); and bosses who don’t give employees flexibility in when and where they work (65%).
The ‘Flexibility Stigma’
On paper everyone’s a nice guy, and more and more companies are starting to encourage a flexible work policy. But the cynics amongst us might see this as some nefarious plot to integrate work into our lifestyle, rather than shoehorn your lifestyle into work. In the same survey 67% of employees said they worked in offices where there’s a sense that you’ll be penalised for working from home. So none of this matters if you’re too afraid to take advantage of flexible working perks.
What’s more, a new study by the Institute of Leadership & Management found that “negative attitudes towards flexible workers are often prompted by a sense of unfairness and poor communication from senior management on policy. So you see, communication really is King.
All You Need is Us
One way to heal all of these problems is to have a central online platform that your entire team can access, such as our multi-award winning Academy LMS. The built-in performance centre takes care of all your talent management needs, and its social features stimulate instant live communication. So you end up with a happy, loyal team working for a company that pushes employee growth and open communication! And all you needed was Growth Engineering!
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