Progress & Potential: Powerful 9
Grace Ueng
Business Consultant & Leadership Coach | “Secret Weapon” | Creator of HappinessWorks? and #HappinessHygiene Plunge Club!
Dear Happiness & Leadership Community,
First, apologies my letter was truncated last week due to technical issues. I include in full below: Gallup's 8 questions + mine = 9...
By taking steps of progress each week, you will fulfill your long term potential.
By illustration, I apply the questions to my company, Savvy Growth. And also to my piano playing:
I am figuring out how ChatGPT can be helpful. I asked its advice on what I should study next, based only on the 3 pieces in my recent performance.
My sister's reaction to Chat GPT: "Pretty good."
I hope my answering the 9 questions encourages you to also.
Gallup’s largest global study of the future of work reveals what every employee wants most: a great job and a great life. I share the 8 “Progress and Potential” questions from Gallup your direct reports will thank you for asking.
What is the future of work?
Last week, I shared how one of our clients holds regular "Progress and Potential" conversations. Their CEO loved the book, It's the Manager, by Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton and their Chief Scientist, Jim Harter so much, that she supplied copies for all 300 of her managers.
The core finding from Gallup’s largest global study of the future of work is that the new workforce wants their work to have deep mission and purpose. They don’t want old-style command and control bosses.
Clifton and Harter discuss how great managers maximize the potential of every team member to drive a company’s growth.? They give every employee what they want most:? a great job and a great life.? That is the future of work.
Gallup revealed that the No. 1 reason people are changing jobs is for better career growth opportunities. And the desire for career growth is only growing.
What are the 9 Questions you will be thanked for asking?
Accordingly, our client, the CEO encourages all 300 of her managers to ask, at regular intervals,? in their 1-on-1s with direct reports, the eight questions listed in Chapter 25: “Make ‘My Development’ the Reason Employees Stay:
Setting aside regular time with your people for them to share answers to these questions, creates the foundation for career growth plans to take shape.
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And add to these 8, my #9 which if you take action on every week, will actualize your career aspirations:
Question #9: What 1 to 3 things will you do this week to make progress toward your career goals?
How can you shift your job into a calling?
Last week, I delivered a HappinessWorks? workshop for a client.? We discussed the importance of creating meaningful work for themselves as well as the employees they lead.? This meaningful work is work where they can earn their success, have a sense of accomplishment, and where their skills meet their passions. Where their job makes life better in a meaningful way through their service to others.
I presented the concept of job crafting and the importance of mindset. I shared the example of the member of a hospital’s cleaning staff who considered her role not as a janitor, but as an important part of the patient’s care team. She would change the position of the artwork in the rooms of patients who were critically ill to offer them fresh perspectives each day. I was excited when one of the participants said during the debrief that he would focus in the coming month on job recrafting after hearing of this example.
Case Study: Applying the 9 Questions to Me! To illustrate, I thought it would be helpful to answer these questions as I discuss with Teddy, my piano teacher, my next goals for my piano playing (see my answers in intro above).
And of course, I constantly think about how to grow in my work as a consultant, coach, and workshop teacher, so I apply the 9 questions to my business too:
Answer to my Question #9: What 1 to 3 things will you do this week to make progress toward your career goals?
I encourage you to take a few minutes to answer these same 8 questions + my Question #9. Then ask each of your team to also.
I'm interested in hearing your progress!
About Grace Ueng
Grace is a strategy consultant,? leadership coach and human performance expert with Savvy Growth.
Her company offers workshops to move teams forward: Savvy's Seven: What You Will Learn. Transformative companies hire Grace to deliver her HappinessWorks? program to boost performance.
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