This episode is part of the Happiness Reset at Work campaign, where Klaudia introduces you to 5 drivers that contribute to building more satisfaction in our careers so that you can reconnect and re-energise with your work in 2025. 

The 3rd driver of happiness at work is: Purpose.

This episode focuses on practical hacks for increasing our sense of purpose at work. Klaudia shares three actionable ideas to implement at work to find more meaning and satisfaction.

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Happiness Reset at Work campaign, part of the Happiness Challenge Podcast.

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And also visit happinesschallenge.co.ukcourses to learn more about my new online program to help you to create an action plan for more fulfillment and impact at work. And in this short episode I will share some practical hacks for increasing our sense of purpose at work. And you know what?

It's actually always very difficult to know whether people are listening in order to the campaign or not. So just in case if you have missed it, the episode 139 dives into the science behind the purpose at work as one of the drivers of our happiness.

So check it out. But for today, let's crack on with some actions to increase the sense of purpose at work.

My three ideas for you are Number one, reflect regularly on how can you be useful at work, specifically in relation to any particular challenges or issues at work.

Because this will allow you to identify essential issues that you can be fixing by utilizing your knowledge, your skills, your experience and having that real impact and creating that extraordinary value at work. Number two is to set weekly or quarterly goals.

Again, those are specific quests, specific things we want to focus on to really understand what are we working on and how it contributes to that sense of purpose. Because I feel often, especially if we very much in a reactive mode, we may forget, okay, but what is the bigger picture in here?

What am I contributing to that truly matters? And number three, celebrate weekly or quarterly wins. Again, I really don't think we celebrating our achievements enough at work.

We often moving from project to project, from a task to task, and actually making frequently a list of achievements, no matter how small or how big, really ensures that we see that we making progress at work and we can see a meaning behind our work more clearly.

There is a very interesting piece of research to note here about the fact that progressing towards our goals distinguishes whether we have a good day or a bad day at work.

So authors of the book the Progress Principle, Teresa Amabile and Stephen Kramer Ask over 200 employees from seven different organizations to submit their reflections about their work.

They had over 12,000 entries submitted and the authors concluded that actually what ignites that happiness at work resulting in a good day are those regular small wins. And those small wins give us that sense of progress towards a bigger purpose.

But it's very difficult for us to spot our progress to see the bigger picture if we don't have space specific goals and if we not capturing our wins. So that's all for today. Thank you for listening to the Happiness Reset at Work campaign.

As always, I would love you to share this episode with someone who needs this because again sometimes you might be struggling to harness that sense of purpose at work.

I hope to see you at the next episode 141 where I'll be talking to Christine Brown who Queen career strategist and Christine will be sharing her insights on finding purpose and defining our ambition at work. So I hope to see you there and as always I dare you to be happy. Bye.