Work-Life Balance 5: What to Balance on the Work Side

This continues my series on balancing your work and your life to achieve peace or satisfaction

Most people focus on what they want to balance their life . People generally feel incapable of controlling their work life. While regimentation increased in the last decade, you can still exercise a great influence on what you do at work. Obviously, taking control of your careers remains a major theme of my blog. I believe we can find satisfaction if we prepare, work hard, and communicate effectively with management . Today’s post reflects those beliefs.

Today’s Demeaning and Domineering Corporate Culture

Today’s global corporate culture generally restricts, dominates, and diminishes individual efforts and contributions. Many companies view employees as expendable expenditures rather than assets that grow the company. Even once nurturing companies changed.

They replaced incentives, generous salary increases, pensions and health benefits with standards of conduct, invasions of privacy, phone conversations, and workplace surveillance. Today’s human resource department concentrates on adherence and compliance rather than career development and enhancement.

You Can Still Find Your Balance in the Workplace

You can do what you want if you know what that is. For example, you can:

• Identify the skills, abilities, or responsibilities you most want to perform
• Maneuver your job to spend more time on those things you like
• Collaborate with others who like doing the skills and activities you dislike the most
• Identify the projects, assignments, and teams that would please you most
• Demonstrate you could contribute effectively to those assignments
• Communicate your contributions, ROI, and desires to management effectively

In addition to taking control of changing what you do at work, you can find more enjoyment in what you are already doing:

• Determine the meetings, collaborations, and conversations you enjoy
• Identify people, groups, co-workers, clients, and suppliers you want to be with
• Find another job (remember they will not be advertised) and walk away from this one

You have to know what you want to do, before you can start spending more time doing it.

Friday we will begin discussions on how you can start doing more of what you want to do