If someone on your team hates their job, what do you do?
Our reader poll today asks: If someone on your team hates their job, what do you do?
– Nothing — it’s up to them to find happiness: 7.24%
– Point out the good things about their role: 27.35%
– Change their role to make them happy: 7.81%
– Encourage them to find another role: 57.6%
If you don’t like the job, take action. We’ll frequently have team members who aren’t happy in their roles. Your job as their leader is to help them find their passion for their job. One way to do so is to help them see their work through a different lens and point out the good about their role. The second is to encourage them to find a role that’s better suited to them. Sometimes you have to push them and remind them that if they don’t like their role, they should actively seek out a new one. Don’t just sit there and do nothing – push your people to where they’ll be happiest, even if that requires leaving your team.
Do you agree with these poll results? Let us know in the comments below!
– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC
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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 190,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.
Absolutely, my motto as an HR professional, so to speak, is to help people find passion and love their jobs. We spend way too much time in our jobs to not like it. I encourage anyone who comes into my office to either find something in their current role that makes them happy and capitalize on it or encourage them to find something new, and offer to help them. I was in a horrible job and it didn’t take me long to figure out that I needed to move on.