Regardless of the size of your team or business, you need to know how well you’re doing. Everyone wants to be able to have confidence their contribution matters. In Three Signs Of A Miserable Job, Patrick Lencioni explained that immeasurability is the first sign of misery. Employees need to be able to measure their performance themselves and see objective results regarding how they make a difference.
He went on to discuss some constraints on the measurements. First the employee needs the measured behavior to be almost-totally within their control. [click to continue…]
In Patrick Lencioni’s book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
, he asserted that employees wanted to know their work was meaningful. He called the sign Irrelevance. People want to know that their work is important. But, more than that, they also need to know how it’s important and to whom.
How does their contribution fit the organization’s goals and objectives? In smaller companies this may tend to be less pervasive and complex but it may exist nevertheless. Individual contributors can fail to understand how their unique contribution fits into the organizations goals and objectives. Many technology people can’t connect the dots from what they do to how the company makes money. You can help your teammates by helping find what I call the Apex of Purpose for your team. [click to continue…]
