Making a Difference
How does your role make a difference? This is a powerful question which I have started to ask when I am connecting with employees about their progress and potential. Research has proven that people who feel they are making a difference at work have higher levels of engagement and greater overall wellbeing. Gallup recently identified that nearly 50% of America's working population are actively searching for jobs and watching out for new opportunities. Gallup re-framed the current societal "Great Resignation" into the "Great Discontent" . Their data supports that the rise in resignations is not an industry, role or pay issue - it is a discontent with the workplace issue. While it takes more than a 20% increase in salary to lure away an engaged employee, it takes next to nothing to poach a disengaged worker. Maslow's famous human needs model places esteem and self-actualization at the top of the pyramid. In the workplace, esteem aligns with