lawyer career fulfillment
Having just returned from a much-needed and really terrific family vacation, I could easily relate to the “going-back-to-work blues” discussed in this CS Monitor article on finding greater career fulfillment. According to the piece, there are several roads we can take on that quest for contentment. One is to go to the powers-that-be with a job re-design proposal forged on a “WIFT” (a/k/a “what’s in it for them”) analysis of how our co-workers and firm would benefit from the overhaul. The brainchild of Sharon Jordan-Evans, a workplace consultant and author, WIFT follows the basic premise that we have the ultimate power to find fulfillment in our careers and, so, must “take ownership [and] identify what's wrong or what's missing." If the WIFT approach seems too daunting, the piece suggests some baby steps to bringing “joy back to the workplace,” such as: taking time daily to help co-workers, give gratitude and indulge your sense of humor or regularly meeting with co-workers to talk about “peak moments in the past six months - times when [you and] they were inspired or felt a sense of accomplishment.”
