Script: Have you ever heard well-being? Why nowadays scholars mention it a lot? This episode will guide you through three questions: What is well-being? Why well-being is important in workplace? How can you improve your well-being at work? Sonnentag in 2015 defines well-being as a combination of feeling good and experiencing a sense of fulfilment and purpose. It means when you are at work, you not just feel good but also have the sense of fulfilment and know the meaning of work. Try to think if you ever had this moment during your work. I had one I can share. When I just joined the work, I felt the sense of achievement and felt good to learn, for example, when I organized an event and get it successfully done with complementary and recognition from my leaders. I fell I am more capable than before, and I am feeling good.
Why well-being is important? Image this, you lost your sense of fulfillment, you lost your purpose, you don’t know what’s the meaning of work, you don’t feel good anymore, how can you present well in your job? If you don’t present your job well, you can’t feel good in the workplace, right? You might put yourself in vicious circle.
So that’s come to our third question: how can we improve our well-being at work? According to Sonnentag’s definition on well-being, we could try to switch the order of definition, find the sense of fulfillment and purpose, then you will feeling good at work. For example, why you do your job? Other than moneys, there should other reasons that you take this job. For myself, personal growth is important for me, so once I feel I am on the right track on growing myself to be more capable, I have the sense of purpose and feel good.
In the end, I invite you to think about other than salary. what’s the purpose of your job? And i think this is the one you can you takeaway today.
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Have you ever heard well-being? Why nowadays scholars mention it a lot? This episode will guide you through three questions: What is well-being? Why well-being is important in workplace? How can you improve your well-being at work?
Sonnentag in 2015 defines well-being as a combination of feeling good and experiencing a sense of fulfilment and purpose. It means when you are at work, you not just feel good but also have the sense of fulfilment and know the meaning of work. Try to think if you ever had this moment during your work. I had one I can share. When I just joined the work, I felt the sense of achievement and felt good to learn, for example, when I organized an event and get it successfully done with complementary and recognition from my leaders. I fell I am more capable than before, and I am feeling good.
Why well-being is important? Image this, you lost your sense of fulfillment, you lost your purpose, you don’t know what’s the meaning of work, you don’t feel good anymore, how can you present well in your job? If you don’t present your job well, you can’t feel good in the workplace, right? You might put yourself in vicious circle.
So that’s come to our third question: how can we improve our well-being at work? According to Sonnentag’s definition on well-being, we could try to switch the order of definition, find the sense of fulfillment and purpose, then you will feeling good at work. For example, why you do your job? Other than moneys, there should other reasons that you take this job. For myself, personal growth is important for me, so once I feel I am on the right track on growing myself to be more capable, I have the sense of purpose and feel good.
In the end, I invite you to think about other than salary. what’s the purpose of your job? And i think this is the one you can you takeaway today.