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Shaping Your Job to Fit You BetterShape your role to fit your talents and interests. Have you ever noticed something like this going on at work? It's now about six months since the arrival of a new Program Office Administrator, and the focus of the job has changed subtly. The previous post-holder, Rebecca, did a great job, using her competence in finance to develop new procedures for checking the monthly financial reports for all of the projects in the program. Her successor, Stephen, however, has a particular flair for graphic design. He's now enhancing the different progress reports to make key information stand out more effectively. Overall, though, they've both been really good performers, making a big contribution to the efficiency and organization of the team. So, what's going on? The answer is that both Rebecca and Stephen have been using the concept of job crafting. The idea here is that many jobs are actually quite flexible, meaning that their focus can be adjusted to fit the skills and preferences of the current job-holder. By subtly redesigning your job like this, you can play to your strengths, improving both satisfaction and performance. You shift the emphasis of the job towards things that you can do really well, and away from those where your performance is likely to be weaker. Job crafting may seem like a simple idea, but what makes it a really powerful tool is that it allows you to increase the control you have over your own professional life, while "wowing" your employer at the same time. Practically any job can be crafted, at least to some extent, and you can start whenever you want, without necessarily consulting managers or having to wait for their approval. How to Start Crafting Your Job TodayTo "craft your job", follow these steps:
Let's look at each of these steps in more detail. Step 1: Decide what you want to change by crafting your jobYou can make changes in one or more of the following areas to craft the way you work, so that it's closer to your "ideal" job.
Note: Step 2: Evaluate how crafting your job will impact you and your environmentNext, you need to assess the potential impact of these possible changes on your wider work environment. Here, you should take into account your clients, your colleagues, your supervisor or manager, and the organization as a whole. Remember that effective job crafting usually depends on finding a win-win solution. For example, you may have significant experience in using your organization's internal accounting system. You could volunteer to train new-hires on the system, or provide updates on system changes for your colleagues. What you get out this could be simple enjoyment because you enjoy teaching people things, or a boost to your own self-esteem, or more interaction with people from other departments. What your organization gets from this is a better-trained, more effective workforce. Avoid any temptation to turn a job crafting exercise into a win-lose situation. For example, if you dislike having meetings with your supervisor, you might be tempted to craft your job so that you spend more time in the test lab, where she's less likely to find you! You might achieve your short-term goal of avoiding these meetings, but the overall impact may well be negative. So make sure you're headed for a mutually beneficial outcome, or at least that your job crafting is compatible with your work environment. If this isn't the case, go back to Step 1, and see if other job crafting changes might work better! Also, if you have any managerial responsibilities, you need to take them into account when you consider any job crafting. When you have a number of other people to supervise, even small changes in how you work can have significant effects on the people who depend on you. Step 3: Act to put positive job crafting change in placeAt this stage, the key is to get rid of any symptom of what psychologists call "learned helplessness". This is the phenomenon whereby people have become so accustomed to indifference to their contributions that they believe that no matter what they do, nothing will come of it. Job crafting gives you the chance to turn this situation around. By refocusing your job in this way, you decide what's going to make you feel better valued and more productive, and you decide to make the necessary changes. The only condition is that your decisions must have positive outcomes for your organization, as mentioned in Step 2. Step 4: Check on your job crafting progress, adjust and continueHaving gone through Steps 1, 2 and 3 above, it's time to put your job crafting into practice, check that it gives you what you want; ensure that your boss and clients are happy with what's going on; and make sure that it really is compatible with your wider work environment. If everything checks out, and you feel good about what's happening, you can let your changes become a habit. What Job Crafting can do for YouThe benefits of job crafting can include:
And of course, perfecting the skill of job crafting can, in itself, lead to career enhancement opportunities.
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Tip 3: Key PointsJob crafting is something that you decide to do, in order to change aspects of your current job, so that it suits you better. There are four basic steps: you decide what you want to change, you look for a win-win solution, you put the changes into practice, and then, having checked they're having a positive effect, you make sure they become a habit. An important element of successful job crafting is that it's you who takes the initiative: you don't need to wait for your manager or supervisor to give you instructions. The benefits you can get from crafting your job include boosting results, increasing enjoyment, building skills and increasing your general ability to cope with your work. Start crafting today!
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