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The ultimate guide to job crafting

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November 25, 2024•1 min read

The most important skill nobody ever taught you: Job Crafting

Here’s 5 powerful steps that bring about greater happiness for you AND make you more valuable to your company.

Research from Gallup shows that people who love their jobs have great lives. Yet, only 23% of us love our jobs.

How? They said that…

Loving your job is almost an antidote to human suffering

🤯 Think about that for a minute… that’s how much our work impacts us.

And, the secret to how to have a job that you love?

JOB CRAFTING

This isn't about waiting for the perfect role.

It's about designing the role you have into one you love.

Here are 5 ways to craft your current position into something meaningful:

✴️ Shift your tasks
- Take on projects that energize you
- Delegate what drains you
- Build new skills through stretch assignments

✴️ Deepen relationships
- Connect with colleagues outside your department
- Mentor junior team members
- Get out and talk to people

✴️ Change your environment
- Adjust when and where you work
- Create boundaries that support focus time
- Design your workspace to match your style

✴️ Find purpose
- Link your daily work to company goals and your own values
- Measure impact beyond metrics
- Share your expertise with others

✴️ Expand influence
- Spot gaps you can fill
- Propose solutions to ongoing problems
- Create systems that help everyone succeed

Your job description is just a draft.

Rewrite it!

Infographic: "The Ultimate Guide to Job Crafting - Only 23% of people love their jobs. Here's how to join them." It highlights the benefits of job crafting, including increased satisfaction, reduced stress, and higher productivity. It defines job crafting as changing tasks, relationships, or skills to work better, and offers 5 steps to craft your job: Re-enlist: Decide to make your current job work. Reframe: Find meaning in your work. Remodel: Change tasks or relationships. Relocate: Find a new role internally. Reinvent: Retrain for a new role internally. It also suggests actions for leaders to encourage job crafting, such as providing autonomy, psychological safety, and opportunities for connection. By Jill Avey, with references to research on job crafting.

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Crush Your Goals in 2022

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