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What makes you happy at work?

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Question added by EMAD ElKHBIRY , مديرمشروع , ----------------------hospitality industry
Date Posted: 2016/06/15
SHAHEEN khan
by SHAHEEN khan , Cro/Cso Cutomer Services Officer/Customer Relationships Officer , COMRADE SOFTWARE MARKETING LLC

when i got new business for my company and doing work on proper manners than i feel good 

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Thanks for invitation -

1. When you give all what you know to who work with you .

2. All the time try to keep smile .

3. Maintaining good relations in working with all colleagues.

For example .

 

Short answer .

When I find a job, I'll feel happy

Manzoor Khan
by Manzoor Khan , Admin Clerk , National Group of Companies

Whoa, big question!  I'm going to digress into non-specific stuff first, because happiness has a lot of components for me.  I think about being happy this way: everyone has a personal sea level -- their starting basic level of (un)happiness.  Waves that come through that are above sea level are peaks of being truly happy, and troughs where you're really unhappy.  You can also think of it as a spectrum (drawn to scale -- there's a smaller distance between 'fine' and 'unhappy' than there is between 'fine' and 'happy'):|Unhappy|--------------------|Fine|--------------------------------------|Happy|When you're unhappy, you're in a swamp (apologies if you hate the sea level analogy, but it works for me).  Water isn't moving anywhere, much less up or down, and the basic level of the water is pretty low.  When you're fine, you're in a lake.  There are some ripples, but nothing that gets you super pumped.  Finally, when you're happy, you're in the ocean.  There are really big peaks that come through.  To be consistently happy at work -- which means to have the opportunity to feel those peaks as they roll through -- you need to be in an ocean.Alright, enough of that analogy -- time to get practical!  You have to figure out what kind of environment you're in first -- are you in a place that basically makes you unhappy, a place where you're fine but not pumped, or a place where you're happy?  There are a lot of things that go into this - you might have a job you dislike, but it lets you spend tons of time with your family (which you really love) and so your overall level of happiness is really high.  Everyone has a different indicator that they should pay attention to in order to figure out if they're in a good environment in the first place, and this is something that gets refined with time.  For me, the things that contribute to environmental happiness factors are:

  1. Ability to spend meaningful time with my family (more is better).  I know that I will likely switch jobs, run different companies, etc. over time, but I only have one family.  So flexible schedules are a big deal to me -- I don't mind working until 11pm each night if I get to be home in time to give my kid a bath and have dinner with my wife before I go back to work. Lots of places still don't really believe that good work happens at home, and many of my co-workers (past and present) hate working at home, because work is work and home is home.  And lots of people don't compartmentalize well, and wouldn't be able to stop thinking about work during that bath and dinner.  I'm really good at compartmentalizing, so this work patterns works for me.
  2. Freedom of action at work.  Emotionally, I am REALLY bad at falling in line. I do it (and I do it well, because I have to pay attention to it and work really hard at it), but it's one of those things that makes me really, really unhappy. I am much better at being given a goal (or giving one to myself) and doing whatever needs to be done to get to that goal (or, on the flip side, figuring out why that goal is unattainable, because some just are). I've found that, while every organization says that they want someone like me, they don't really know what to do when I'm there because there's all sorts of processes in place that are designed to keep employees in their role. And, to be fair, that's usually what's best for most organizations. But it's terrible for me.
  3. An honest workplace.  I started my career in finance, where people swore at each other to say hello. Then I went to a whole bunch of touchy-feely places, where people would live by the compliment sandwich.  I found this maddening -- I think praise should be doled out when you do something good, and criticism when you do something bad.  Mixing the two confused me.  Then I went to a few places that were swamps, where everyone was negative about every single project all the time, and even when you forced something through sheer willpower, people still told you it sucked, even when it made them more money.  Now, I'm at a place where people tell you exactly what they think of something -- good or bad -- and it works really well for me.  I should note that this started as a more negative workplace in some ways than I expected, but we've had a nice culture change.  Now, when I produce something and someone else on the team dislikes it (at any level -- they could have just started last week or they can be the CEO), they tell me exactly why they had that reaction.  And, if they don't, they're willing to sit there while I dissect their opinion to get it down to what they really dislike (sometimes, it's a bad concept, and sometimes, I used a bad color scheme). And, when they like it, they tell me why they like it.  Being able to talk to people honestly about their work -- and have them talk honestly to me -- makes a huge difference for me.

Those three items combine to produce an environment that is either bad, fair or good for me.  Most of these things are cultural issues that you can't change until you're in charge, so if you're in a place that's not good for you, jump to another place (and keep jumping until you find the right environment).  It's really hard to be successful in an environment that doesn't work for you, and success is a big part of happiness.All the environment does is set up your potential for happiness.  You still need to do stuff at work, and the outcomes of that stuff is what will determine whether or not you're happy.  The stuff falls into two buckets for me:

  1. Stuff I do to maintain the base level of happiness for everyone else.  I run a number of individual businesses at work and also am in charge of all things IT, from help desk through making sure the wiring in our office works to maintaining our servers.  I'm ok at the IT stuff, but I definitely don't like it. Problem is, no one else likes it either -- no one likes it when their computers break, and the junior people on my team definitely don't like explaining that your email didn't send because you forgot to press the send button.  As a result, I take on a disproportionate portion of the crap work so that my team can focus on the things that they're good at.  I've even crawled up in the ceiling to re-wire our office internet (that was not a fun day).  This keeps everyone else at a higher base level of happiness, and also makes people more willing to do crap work when I ask (because they all see that I'll do it, too).  The more senior people on my team get, the more of this crap work that they take on.  Maintaining a base level of happiness for everyone else relative to me means that no one has an incentive to break the environmental aspects that enable me to be happy at work.
  2. Stuff that makes me happy.  Finally, I can focus on me!  It's about time!  Here's the stuff I do at work that consistently makes me happy:
  • B2B Selling.  I'm good at sales, and there are few things that compare to the rush of convincing someone else to buy something from you.  This is multiplied when that something is a product I designed and built, too. Even though my job relies partly on my consumer marketing skills (which means I'm very rarely on the phone with my customer), I definitely enjoy negotiating and selling with someone on equal or better footing than me, one-on-one.  For whatever reason, getting 20,000 people to download a $1 app I designed isn't as fulfilling for me as selling one $20,000 package (don't get me wrong -- they both feel good).
  • Learning.  A long time ago (like, 20 years), I got really pissed off at my bosses because I didn't think that they knew how do actually do anything (I was wrong, of course).  And so I dove headfirst into every relevant topic at work so I could learn different aspects of each business.  At the time, I was in the insurance industry, so I dove into everything (ironically, except IT) -- sales, claims handling, underwriting, actuarial work, etc.  I wanted to make sure that, when someone was talking about any subject, I had deep knowledge of it.  This has turned out to be both good and bad for my career -- it's good in that I can call bullshit easily,  but no one likes the person who calls bullshit all the time (plus, having too much knowledge sometimes leads you to second-guess your instincts).  However, I still love learning, and I try to dedicate time each day to either learning something new or telling other people what I've learned in the past (hence, writing on Quora).
  • Completing small projects. Most of my job is completing large-scale projects that take 3-6 months to get built and then have a massive grind afterwards in maintaining and selling the service. But while we're building that giant new thing, there's lots of little things that need to get done.  I dive in and do some of these small projects myself; I generally pick design-oriented ones (e.g., layout for a page or UI for this interaction). This works well for my team, who are generally happier doing the heavy lifting in code or making individual graphics, and it's something I enjoy.  Best of all, I can finish a functional prototype for most of the sites and apps we build in a day or two so that everyone can play with it and give me feedback.
  • Giving credit where it's due.  Finally, I really like telling everyone when someone on my team does something awesome. I like this for two reasons -- first, they light up (even if they're embarrassed to be singled out); second, it means that I did my job well as a boss, because my ENTIRE job as a boss is to make sure my team has the potential to be rock stars in their jobs (but that's a subject for a different post).

Awwab Ahmed
by Awwab Ahmed , Web-Developer, Graphic-Designer. , Conobio

First of all the most important thing for me, work is of my interest.

By seeing a good results, By someone's encouraging on my work,

Consider as, your work as part of family work.

 

 

SATEESH KUMAR GUPTA
by SATEESH KUMAR GUPTA , Sales Advisor , H&M retail pvt ltd

well ! this is how we understand happiness at workplace.

* your friends and colleagues

* your go and greater attitude

* zeal and zest to achieve

* something new everyday

* cracking jokes on bosses lolz :D

* at the end of the day you get a new reason to come again.

* end results on your efforts

* bonus

* leaves

* salary

* rewards and recognition

 

 

Muhammad Abubaker Ghani
by Muhammad Abubaker Ghani , Content Writer , Shop72

The sense of being employed and being highly employable makes an individual happy

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