Expansion

It’s about creating new skills, perspectives, relationships, awareness, and achievements. It’s about taking on and solving intriguing challenges. It’s about transforming ourselves and our systems. Maybe it’s a need. Definitely it’s a longing, even if sometimes it’s also scary.  Ideally, expansion betters us, sometimes beyond what we thought possible.

Longing for expansion?

Achievement

It’s completing something by effort, courage, or skill, that sparks happiness, satisfaction, pride, confidence, motivation, or performance. It brings us peace, too. No matter big or small, simple or earth-shattering, alone or with others, achievement feels great and moves us forward.

Pursuing achievement?

Engagement

It’s the connection and enthusiasm we feel about our jobs and workplaces, and it’s reflected by our vigor, resilience, dedication, and ability to get into flow. (Check out the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale). It’s linked to better performance, higher productivity, greater wellbeing, and lower absenteeism.

Want to ramp up engagement?

Wellbeing

It’s how we feel. Professionally, it’s how we feel at work and about work, including job satisfaction, emotional experience, meaning, and purpose. (Definition from Oxford experts Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward.) Deep wellbeing is directly linked to recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, and financial performance.

Want to nurture wellbeing?

Belonging

It’s a fundamental human need. It means we’re welcome as our whole selves, we’re deeply connected to others, we’re fully seen, and we can make our own choices. (Check out UC Berkeley’s Hossein Ayazi’s amazing work.) It’s what employees want most, and it drives happiness and profit. (Indeed.com and Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre have great new research.)

If belonging is your thing

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