Monday, August 07, 2006

Work as an enjoyable flow activity

"When a group, team or company has a common purpose and open channels of communication, when it provides gradually expanding opportunities for action (empowerment) in a setting of trust, then 'work' becomes an enjoyable flow activity.

Employees will focus their attention on the group or organization relationship and, to a certain extent, forget their individual selves for the sake of experiencing the enjoyment of belonging to a more complex system that joins separate consciousnesses in a unified goal."*

Making work more enjoyable has proven to increase profits, cash flow and asset value.
Are you investing in your human resource assets? Do you have a focused and dedicated workforce?
Is there an investment that can produce a better return?

*Excerpted (and slightly edited) from "Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Harper Perennial press