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Quick Hits are 10-minute conversations designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to hear other people‘s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In February of 2021 I and the members of my mastermind group thought other people might enjoy listening in on some of the lively conversations we were having. But we realized that no one was going spend 90-minutes listening to us going on about anything and sometimes nothing. Instead, we decided to pick one topic and have a short conversation to share. I took the reigns because facilitating those types of conversations sounded like fun. Over the course of a few months it grew from just members of our mastermind group to four (sometimes three if schedules go sideways) people from various parts of the world and from ”short” to exactly 10-minutes. Thus was born ”Quick Hits” hosted by me, Dr Robyn. I hope to get caught up with posting them here on PodBean at some point. As of this writing, I have over 100 ”episodes.” If you‘d like to see the videos of these conversations, they are available on my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/DrRobynQuickHits If you have a topic you‘d like to hear discussed, I encouraged you to use the contact page of my website: https://drrobynodegaard.com/ to let me know.
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Friday Feb 17, 2023
What does it mean to feel engaged at work?
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Employee “engagement” is a big buzz word in many organizations. When I was working for a large corporation they used to bring in pizza to help us feel engaged. To this day I have no clue what lunch has to do with me doing better work. But there it is.
Michael Davis started the conversation off by talking about being in the flow. It is easy to know you are engaged in what you are doing if time just slips by and the work magically gets done.
I wondered how happiness and engagement are related. Do you have to be enjoying yourself to be engaged?
Brandon Mahoney shared a great example of happiness and engagement not being the same thing. He is currently working on a project that is a lot of manual effort. Certainly not fun. But, he understands how it relates to the final outcome and the success of the company so he is engaged in doing.
Gary Fredricks mirrored this sentiment – there are lots of things at On Point Partners that he doesn’t love to do but he does them anyway because it’s his business and he wants it to succeed.
Does that mean you have to care about the outcome and understand how your work fits into it to be engaged? I think so. Does that mean you have to be happy doing it – no so much.
What do you think it means to be engaged at work and do you think it is something that can be externally created by an employer?
Connect with the panelists:
Brandon Mahoney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandoncmahoney/
Co Founder of Launch Point Labs, a start up studio and early venture funds where he is the expert in creating sales departments. currently based in Oregon
Michael Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldavisspeakingcpr/
Founder of Speaking CPR where he helps business leaders and speakers improve their presentations and speeches
Gary Fredericks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garyfredericks/
CEO of On Point Partners where they provide back office services for small businesses
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
High Performance Concierge Psychologist and Quick Hits Facilitator
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
#engagement #disengagement #happyatwork
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