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Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 5:56 am
Realizing yourself through your work
The aversion of employees to sometimes well-paid bullshit jobs shows that work is more than just earning income. After all, it is also about setting something meaningful in motion, about self-realization. By acting, we realize ourselves. That need for meaning is always present under the surface.
Unfortunately, we sometimes only discover this when it is no longer fulfilled in our work. If our work can fulfill a part of our need for meaning and significance, that is to the advantage not only of the individual, but also of the organization and society as a whole.
Meaningful work requires a personal check-in
In the book 'Check in' Jochanan Eynikel explains that a meaningful economy is all about personal experiences. Meaningful work requires a personal check-in. He distinguishes three types of capital:
economic capital
social capital
spiritual capital
The latter is about the inspiration from which people work together. This is not about information or data, but about meaningful stories that people share about and in the organization. Companies with spiritual capital have the ability to realize inspiring and inspiring meaningful stories with
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Stories show the soul of the organization
You discover that meaningful energy of an organization together and by starting with the individual. For example, by having teams share stories in which meaning was effectively experienced. Such stories form the narrative identity of the organization, they illuminate a piece of the soul of the organization. Not by defining or understanding them, but by discovering them through experience and making them tangible. By making them check-inable.
From personal story to meaning in 4 steps
Eynikel proposes to do this in a process of four dialogue sessions:
1. Personal check-in, in which each participant shares something about what concerns them.
2. My story in the organization: which factors brought about my experience and why do we find that meaningful?
3. In search of our story: the collective identity and culture of the organization.
4. From meaning to inspiration: with emphasis on the purpose and activities of the organization, and the extent to which these remain connected to meaning.
The aversion of employees to sometimes well-paid bullshit jobs shows that work is more than just earning income. After all, it is also about setting something meaningful in motion, about self-realization. By acting, we realize ourselves. That need for meaning is always present under the surface.
Unfortunately, we sometimes only discover this when it is no longer fulfilled in our work. If our work can fulfill a part of our need for meaning and significance, that is to the advantage not only of the individual, but also of the organization and society as a whole.
Meaningful work requires a personal check-in
In the book 'Check in' Jochanan Eynikel explains that a meaningful economy is all about personal experiences. Meaningful work requires a personal check-in. He distinguishes three types of capital:
economic capital
social capital
spiritual capital
The latter is about the inspiration from which people work together. This is not about information or data, but about meaningful stories that people share about and in the organization. Companies with spiritual capital have the ability to realize inspiring and inspiring meaningful stories with
Also read: 'Why are you still working here?' saudi arabia telegram data The importance of meaningful work
Stories show the soul of the organization
You discover that meaningful energy of an organization together and by starting with the individual. For example, by having teams share stories in which meaning was effectively experienced. Such stories form the narrative identity of the organization, they illuminate a piece of the soul of the organization. Not by defining or understanding them, but by discovering them through experience and making them tangible. By making them check-inable.
From personal story to meaning in 4 steps
Eynikel proposes to do this in a process of four dialogue sessions:
1. Personal check-in, in which each participant shares something about what concerns them.
2. My story in the organization: which factors brought about my experience and why do we find that meaningful?
3. In search of our story: the collective identity and culture of the organization.
4. From meaning to inspiration: with emphasis on the purpose and activities of the organization, and the extent to which these remain connected to meaning.