How do I know if I am engaged:
- I have the skills, knowledge and technical ability to do the job.
- I receive hands-on feedback from my supervisor.
- I am appropriately challenged.
- I stay busy and active most days at work.
- I am interested in what I am doing.
- I like my work.
- I am invested in my job.
- I enjoy my required tasks.
- I look forward to being paid for my labor.
- I look out for opportunities to build my career and to make more money.
- I am loyal to my organization.
- I feel connected to my manager.
- I am allowed to focus on what I need to do to get the work done.
- I sense I am useful to my team.
- Sometimes my work requires me to just go through the motions.
How do I know if I am fulfilled:
- I leave work filling full and having accomplished something bigget than myself.
- I not only receive feedback from my supervisor and peers but they allow me to provide feedback to them as well.
- I look around my workplace and see where I make a difference.
- If I won the lottery today, I would ask my employer if I could continue to work for free.
- Career advancement and making more money is not my top priority.
- Not only do I have the skills, competencies and technical ability to do the job but I also have the emotional touch and the passion for my work that overflows every day.
- I feel inspired to reach for the stars because I know great things are yet to come.
- I see where I make an impact in what I do. I can spot the ding I am making in my work universe.
- I walk away everyday and I see my fingerprints, handprints and my footbprints all over my organization.
- I feel connected to my team on a professional and personal level.
- My workplace listens to my viewpoints and opinions even when we are not in agreement with those suggestions.
- I feel loved at work and think my teammates and manager care about my wellbeing.
- I am allowed to be the captain of the own ship and find my unique road to reaching my full potential.
- Purpose and passion fuel my service to my colleagues an customers.
- I wake up every day wanting to come into work.
From transactional engagement where it is all about the work to tranformational fulfillment where we focus on how we treat ourselves and others as we do the work. From knowing what to do at work and how to do it. As compared to why do I do what I do at work.
It is difference between hitting a single and a home run. Engagement gets you on base but fulfillment will take you all the way home.
