“Purpose can propel you to achieve your best, live more fully, and be of service to others. Purpose fuels people and people fuel our organizations. Many team members put a lot of effort into organizational purpose (mission, vision, and values) but individuals should spend as much time (or more) defining their own personal purpose and its relationship to their work.”
For many, the last few years have been a crucible, pushing us to question our choices in life. Mental duress, fatigue, and more are leading people to question the relationships between their work, life, and their sense of personal purpose. Because of this, Dan Pontefract has updated his CoachingOurselves topic, “Building Purpose at Work and In Life”.
A sense of personal purpose can act as your North Star, keeping you on track, guiding your behaviours, choices, and alerting you to when you have gone “off path” in your life. It can also help you recognize and amplify meaning, especially when work and life become challenging.
But discovering your sense of purpose is not a one-time event, it is something you must continually refine throughout your life as circumstances, and you, change.
“Building Purpose at Work and In Life” asks you to explore deciding, developing, and defining what you are about, how you are going to show up at work, and what you are going to do about it. It also asks you to look at how you can support other team members in their own efforts to live more purposefully.
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This topic invites you to:
- Explore a declaration of purpose.
- Establish how you can craft a purpose while thinking simultaneously about life and work – thus your personal and role purpose.
- Appreciate how you can help your team members achieve greater purpose at work.
Dan Pontefract is the founder of the Pontefract Group, a future-of-work consulting firm that helps organizations enhance corporate culture, leadership, purpose, learning and collaboration practices. He is on the Thinkers50 Radar, has presented at multiple TED events, and writes for Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, and the Huffington Post. He is the author of four books, including The Purpose Effect.