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New Generations ... New Values

More and more people today are taking the time to stop and examine their careers and lives.  They are discovering that they have developed a revised set of priorities and values.  In many cases, they’ve found that they just want to uncomplicate their lives.

If you can speak to this need and support employees as they try to streamline their lives, you’re ahead of the game.  Recognize that when your people go home at the end of the day, they still have one or more other jobs: being a parent, spouse, bill-payer, installer, maintenance person … on and on.  And this pressure has led many of them into lives of quiet desperation.

It’s no wonder many people are burning out, willing to trade in money and prestige in return for less income and peace of mind.  We burn out when we lose the necessary balance between workloads, control, rewards, community and family, equity, and personal values.

The burned-out employee withdraws emotionally and intellectually . . . and as a result is not a particularly good team player. Obviously, the organization that prevents burnout in the first place is on the winning track.  It is that organization which consciously helps its people to embrace change, thus removing the obstacles to their performance.

The result?  Happier, more productive staffers who stay on the job longer.

First, you might want to help your people do some soul searching:  What are their core values?  What are their goals and aspirations?  What are the challenges and difficulties in their lives?

Only after they can tell you what's missing, can you supoort them as they find a restorative or preventive solution. And when you do, you will have broken through to a new paradigm in organization-employee relations.