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5. Develop your emotional intelligence; it matters more to your success and happiness than your IQ, and it can be learned. Take an EQ assessment, The EQ course online, work with a coach, read, and practice.
6. Engage
services of a coach. This will greatly shorten your learning curve re: how you apply your natural abilities and talents and how well you develop your EQ, and he or she will hold your feet to fire on accountability until it becomes second nature.
So there's a formula: Knowing your leading strengths and crafting your life around them, defining and managing your values and mission which give meaning, and actually accomplishing this because you've become organized.
Lastly, stay connected. In an interview, Mother Teresa was asked, "You've been in India dealing with illnesses like cholera and AIDS. What's worst illness you've ever seen?" and she replied without blinking an eye, "The worst illness I have ever seen is loneliness and isolation in West." So, in conclusion, whether or not "pleasures" can occur in workplace, deeper satisfactions of life can and your job can be one path to happiness.
If you're leader, more opportunities for personal growth, development of potential, respect for strengths, opportunities for personal excellence, and "flow" you facilitate, happier everyone is likely to be, and therefore more productive.
It could be that employees are more after this sort of experience than pizza parties and hoopla.
Susan Dunn, MA, Emotiotional Intelligence Coach, http://www.susandunn.cc . Offering coaching, Internet courses and ebooks around emotional intelligence for your personal and professional development. Visit the EQ eBook library - http://www.webstrategies.cc/ebooklibrary.html .
