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Challenging WorkChallenging Work is important if you want to engage and energize the people in your business. People want to feel that each day a bit more of their potential is realized and utilized as they contribute to the business goals. Regardless of the actual work that is being done, people generally want to feel a sense of
Work that many see as demanding - for example being a dentist or an air-pilot may well become rote and uninspiring if the individual is not regularly given the opportunity to extend him/herself. Similarly, work that for many may be seen as rote and uninspiring, for example a cleaner or a supermarket cashier, can become challenging by incorporating other activities, that are meaningful to that person, into their daily work.
In other words, when you increase the scope of work to be done, to the level of the individual's capability, then people generally become more engaged and energized.
Work with the individuals in your team to find out what additional task/duties they would like to incorporate in to their job in order to make it more stimulating.
The last thing you want is to have people working with you who have died on the job. Often people stay in jobs because they like the company, their workmates, the pay or it's close to home, but they stopped being engaged by the work that they do years ago. It's the leader's responsibility to provide the environment that enables their team members to feel challenged and engaged by their work.
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