Find Joy in Any Job: How Do I Get My Team to Love Work?

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Not everyone likes everything about their job all the time. But we know from research that people who are energized by at least parts of their work perform better – and feel a greater sense of well-being. So there’s a huge benefit when teams and organizations encourage employees to spend more of their work day focused on their strengths and passions. In this special series from HBR, we’re looking at how to figure out what you really love about work and craft your current job around that. In this episode, we’re scaling up from self-help for individuals to advice for managers and explaining how they can balance these efforts with business goals. IdeaCast co-host Alison Beard speaks with Marcus Buckingham, head of research on people and performance at the ADP Research Institute and author of the new book Love + Work.

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0:00.0	So you got the job. Now what? Join me, Eleni Mata, on HBR's new original podcast, New
0:08.1	Here, the Young Professionals Guide to Work, and how to make it work for you. Listen for
0:13.8	free wherever you get your podcasts. Just search New Here. See you there!
0:30.0	I'm Allison Beard. This is the HBR idea cast and we're looking at how to find joy in our work.
0:43.2	At a time when lots of people are feeling burnt out, disengaged and unhappy in their professional
0:53.6	lives, we're explaining with the help of author Marcus Buckingham how to change our jobs
0:58.4	with the better. We've already talked about how to figure out what makes you happy and shift
1:02.4	your job so you spend more time doing those things. Today it's about the team and organization,
1:07.9	how to get everyone doing more of the work they love. What I've discovered over time is that my
1:13.6	strengths are somebody else's weaknesses and my weaknesses are somebody else's strengths. So I
1:18.9	really rely on my staff and my interns and my attorney and my accountant to help me in the areas
1:26.7	that are not my core competencies so that they have not only a chance to shine but also do good work
1:33.0	for me and because they are subject matter experts in these areas it takes them less time to do.
1:40.8	I really love the people that I work with. The team is incredible, passion-driven and really
1:50.0	wants to make a difference and be accountable to their work their work and as president I
1:55.6	manage that team so I am working directly with a variety of different team members trying to make
2:02.6	sure that they're happy and fulfilled and all the work that they do. Marcus's book is called Love
2:09.6	and Work and Marcus I'm so happy to have you back. I'm so happy to be back.
2:19.6	We've talked a lot so far about what we can do on an individual level you know managing
2:25.6	ourselves and what this process should look like. The next step obviously would be to try to scale
2:31.6	that up to the team level. You can do it as we discussed before by helping other people find their
2:38.6	red threads which are those things that really bring them joy get them into flow but then how does
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