10 Ways to Re-inspire yourself at Work

Are you feeling tired at work? Perhaps a little bored? We all need to reboot and renew ourselves occasionally.  Here are 10 different ways to locate that spark again.

1. Use self assessment instruments to learn more about your style, motivations and values.

Building your self awareness and exploring your motivations and your life themes can help to build your sense of value at work and will offer insights into how you can use your strengths for greater impact. We recommend using Harrison Assessments.

2. Read one book a month on topics related to self growth and development.

Be inspired by the thoughts and experiences of others.

Working with our Strongest Traits and our Unused Traits. Building Balance and Strength.

This week we are focusing in on behavioural traits. Harrison Assessments identifies 175 traits that provide a profile of those traits that are strong for you, those that are used easily and with comfort, and those which you have not yet given sufficient attention for them to have built strength in their use. Looking at your traits through the Harrison Profiles gives you wonderful insights into how to best use your traits at work, which jobs will suit you the best, which areas to target for development.

The profiles are also very useful for building your own self awareness, and minimising that “Not Known by Self/Blindspot” window of the Johari Windows.

What happens when we distrust our behavioural traits?

A small note today on our behavioural traits that might be holding us back in some way, compromising our ability to be successful in life and in our career. We are all a collection of traits that define our behaviour – in fact, Harrison Assessments lists 175 different traits. Each person is a unique collection of traits, and each trait is either expressed strongly, expressed well, or under expressed. Today, let’s quickly explore those under expressed traits that can compromise our ability to be successful in our relationships, careers and other parts of life.

Good Reads

There have been some interesting reads on the internet this week. Here are a couple worth your time.

Culture Change

• Have you ever wondered how much more productive it is to engage people in the change process? About 5 times, according to research mentioned in this article.
  The article contains 3 great questions that fed information to one CEO:

What we have been reading

There have been some interesting reads on the internet this month. Here are a couple worth your time.

Managing Clever People

• A short reminder that creative, clever people can be fun to work with and inspirational. However, managers often see them as their greatest challenge, wanting them to conform to the “normal’ workplace culture.

Performance Focused Organisations: Extreme Leadership

In Performance Focused Organisations, diversity in style is welcomed. PFOs are not “cloned” organisations where a mono-culture exists. Rather the ideal is an active culture built around strong and deployed values where diversity is welcomed, honoured and respected.

Leadership styles vary. Some are strongly driven, some are strongly people-oriented. Others are detailed, thorough and exact, cautious or forever seeking opportunities. Some leadership styles work best in small groups, some are best in very large teams. As long as there is a central respect of People, Results, Profits, Customers and Process, each style has a part to play.

Mentoring your Mind

Written by Anama Morriss, Associate Consultant

Have you ever thought how important your mind is to your life?

Through our minds we create the results in our workplace, care for our families and ponder purpose and meaning in our lives. Arguably the brain is:

the biological base for the mind, and is affected by the mental and physical aspects of our lives.  It is the control and coordinating centre of the central nervous system, and seat of thought, memory and emotion (Collins Concise Dictionary).