What are you doing with the rest of your life?

Highly motivated people know what they want from life. Most of us have some ongoing ‘wish list’, but few of us write it down. We ‘forget’ goals that were apparently important a month or two ago, but have now faded, and are often surprised when we get what we want. This is not a particularly effective way of moving through life.

If you are focused on where you are going there is a much higher likelihood of you getting there. If you can find out what your staff want, it will make it much easier to present some of the department’s objectives in a format that appeals to their personal goals.

Your support for your staff’s personal goals will be appreciated and will be rewarded with much higher levels of co-operation. Most of us just want someone to be interested in what we want – ask any customer who has had to suffer an offhand attitude at the hands of a bored sales assistant. When interest is shown, the response far outweighs the effort it takes to demonstrate interest.

We are all on a journey through life, and our working life accounts for a huge chunk of that. If you enjoy what you do, like the people with whom you work, get appreciated for the effort you put in, and work in a friendly and relaxed environment – would you want to leave?