Happy jobcrafting!

In the previous blog I have introduced the concept of jobcrafting, and the four elements that play an important role here:

1. Skills

2. Motivating environment

3. Meaning and inspiration

4. Needs within a specific market

1. Skills

Lets start with making a top 6 of your unique skills. Think of those skills that you would really like to employ more often in your work, and write them down in the following schedule. Furthermore, when you write them down think about:

• How often you already employ that specific skill each week at work;
• What small and realistic adjustments you could make in regard to your work(place) in order to employ that specific skill more often;
• Who could help you to realize these adjustments over the next 3 months?

The important point here is not to write down rather senseless and fantastic ideas, but to create realistic and clear adjustments. You will find that these adjustments also have a direct impact on the success of your work. I wrote down an example to help you to start off:

Skills	Employability	Adjustments	Coach
E.g. coaching	0,4 times a week, during staff interviews that I conduct	New monthly interviews/ update talks of 15 min., which will add up to 2 of these interviews a week	Peter
1
2
3
4
5
6

What did you find out so far? Where do you think that there might be some possibilities to take some small steps towards employing your specific top skills more often? Don’t forget, employing them more often will give you more energy at work, it will make you more successful at work, and it will enhance your resilience! Perhaps you could talk about your findings with a colleague, a good friend, or your manager. That often helps to get ideas into reality too. 

Happy jobcrafting!