Do You or Your Business Pass The Passion Test?

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy, on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. ~ Earl Nightingale

In November 2008 to January 2009, Gallup conducted a worldwide study of 100,000 people in 34 countries focusing on the meaning of work. 51% of the workers worldwide said they would sacrifice status and pay to have more meaningful work! Gallup concluded in their May 2009 engagement study that 71% of employees are partially or fully disengaged! An actively disengaged employee costs an organization an average of $16,000 a year, not to mention spreading low morale and countless hours of time, energy and frustration for managers. Imagine the difference that could be made in your organization’s bottom line if more people were passionate about their jobs.

Why The Passion Test® is so important for businesses and organizations:

• Innovation, fuelled by passion, is critically important for all businesses or organizations.

• Eventually baby boomers will leave the workforce. Since there simply aren’t enough people to take their place, providing
meaningful work to retain an organization’s best talent is critical.

• Generation Y is demanding they are passionate about the work they do – it has to be meaningful for them to fully invest their energy in an organization.

• For successful talent management and succession planning, including meaning and passion in the formula for long term success is the basis for identifying and culturing tomorrow’s leaders.

Outcomes That Your Business or Organization can expect:

• Greater commitment – Research has shown that when employees clarify their own values, their commitment to their company increases substantially.

• Openness to new ideas and innovations in change management – When employees realize that the company cares about what is important to them, they become more open to supporting change that is important to the company.

• More positive responses to ideas and suggestions from co-workers – As employees gain greater clarity about their own passions, they gain greater confidence and are less threatened by diversity. The result is an openness and respect for ideas from others, including people that are in different career life cycles and come from different backgrounds.

• A friendly, more productive work environment – Clarity about one’s passions motivates your employees to be more fully engaged and develops leaders that lead at a higher level.

• Increased ability to positively affect customers and clients – When employees are happy, engaged and internally motivated, their interaction with customers, clients and co-workers naturally reflects these qualities.

Benefits to Leadership for Creating an Engaged Workforce:

• Have a strong, positive effect on customer engagement

• Grow in their ability to positively affect customers

• Be more likely to find creative ways to solve problems and suggest ways to improve management or business processes

• Be more likely to be open to new ideas and innovations from management

• More likely to respond positively from ideas and suggestion from their co-workers

• Have a stronger tendency to create a friendly, more inviting work environment.

Benefits to Employee for having an Engaged Leadership:

• I love my job

• I feel engaged in the work that I do

• My work is meaningful

• I go the extra mile in my work

• The company cares that I am passionate about my work

• My manager cares that I am fully engaged

• I’ll be able to explore meaningful work with this organization.

The Passion Test® created by Chris Attwood and Janet Attwood is a tool that has been changing lives and is now changing business!

- Do you make your core values a part of day-to-day decision-making?

- Do you inspire your employees to be committed to your purpose and to be passionate about delivering value to your customers and clients?

- Do you maximize your productivity, retention and ability to innovate?

Businesses that are using The Passion Test® see:

- Increased productivity

- More employee engagement

- Higher performance

- Increased profitability

- Greater motivation at work

1. Identifying (or working with already existing) Organization’s Mission, Unique and Core Values.

2. Identifying Employees’ Unique Value and Work Passions.

3. Aligning work passions of Employees with the Mission and Core Values of the Organization.

4. Developing a Culture Action Plan unique to the organization that ensures these Core Passions become the basis of decision making at every level of your organization.

Please contact us today and ignite the passions within your organization!