100s of training sessions, team building activities, and employee engagement events have given me a super power – the ability to walk into a room and immediately identify a disinterested and disengaged employee!
Do you know that being a disinterested employee harms your team, your company, your boss…but most of all it harms you and your career.
Let me take you through how it harms you and then I’m going to leave behind some super practical tips that can help you shift your mindset and be a more engaged employee.
The reason why you are disengaged is probably because you don’t like the company culture, you don’t get along with your boss or your team or wait…it’s you! Are you a continuous whiner? Are you a perpetual complainer? Or are you just simply not interested? It could be a host of reasons.
When you are disengaged or disinterested this is how you harm yourself!
- You send off red flags to HR and to your team. Instead of being someone who people would like to offer opportunities to, you will now be shunned!
- You lose your competitive edge. You are so busy complaining that you miss what could have been opportunities.
- You stop working towards your goals. Your goals are more than your monthly paycheck. If they aren’t they should be. You stop looking at the larger picture of where you want to be and only focus on your day to day disappointments.
- You stop seeing the fun in little things and you stop being participative, you stop networking within your organization positively. You are soon that person that people talk to only because they want to gossip. You attract only the negative crowd.
- You harm your interview chances at other organizations because you are now desperate to just get out.
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How do you change this?
Set major and minor goals for your self . Major goals would include where you want to see yourself in the next 5 years. Minor would include a certain project that you want to be a part of, a new client ou want to crack. Focus on your goals and not your environment.
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Find things outside of your work that keep you positively productive – it could be running an eclectic Instagram account, joining a band, making viral memes, gardening. Anything that utilizes your negative energies and converts them into positive calm.
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Learn something new. This could be related to your work or even unrelated.
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Try to find out exactly what is making you disengaged and then try to find a solution – It is amazing how many people just make up their minds that this is not working for me, I need to find a new job, rather than trying to work out a negative situation at their current workplace.
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Workout. It will release happy hormones. The benefits of regular exercise are not just for your body but also for your brain. A regular fitness regimen helps sweat toxins away, releases endorphins that are happy hormones and also keeps your brain younger and more focused.
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Be participative. Too many times, I have seen employees hanging about running down employees who are enthusiastic about HR activities. As an outsider I have I have always found this extremely sad and also terribly annoying. Don’t be that annoying person. When you participate you enjoy yourself and that makes you feel good about your organization and also helps you bond with other employees.
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Don’t be that annoying person who says – kya yaar, this company sucks. Be that enthusiastic person that everyone loves having around for the right reasons.
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If you have any question, leave me a comment below.
Till next time, stay tuned, stay happy and stay focused!