How to Find Work as Rewards, not a Way to Rewards

We all work primarily to earn income. Other than that, work fulfils additional needs like give us status, identity, power, approval of others, social interaction and the simple satisfaction of keeping busy.  

The problem is that while we work to accomplish our goals, we seldom find value in the process of working itself.  In our training courses like How to Be a Better Manager, How to Be a Great Boss and Effective Selling Skills, many people have come to the point where they question the value of what they have been doing.  They asked if work has deepened their sense of meaning and purpose.  

Even for people who work for a cause they believe in, or they are working on their passions, ultimately the same pattern persists.  Although we may work with much more energy and commitment, we look past the actual activity of working to its results.  Although we believe in what we do, we are focused on the results, hitting KPIs and earning a living.  In other words, we do not satisfy our own needs and wants from work.  So we look to outside of work (like join volunteer groups, charity, church etc) to seek happiness and end up treating work as escapism. 

There must be a better way of working.  A newer way of looking at work so that at the end of the day, we find work is a reward by itself, not a way to rewards.  The way is to treat work as not to serve our own needs but to serve others. 

Many people are more happy when they work not for themselves but for others.  Like when you help a charity to clean up its building, you find it more rewarding than cleaning up your own office.  This is because Service to Others is the Highest Purpose.  
Whether you are a boss, manager, salesperson, technician, professional, administrative or support personnel, we need to adopt the above right way towards work.  In this course How to Be a Great Boss, we teach you how you can serve your team without spoiling them.  Techniques on how to be tough but not terrible, and how to soften your hard message will also be covered.  This course is incomplete by itself: you need to enrol your team for a course for them: High Contribution Employees.  Details of the courses are found in this link and at our site www.asiatrainers.com/SeminarsList.php.  Other articles:

1. How to be happy with Search Inside Yourself method from Google
2. Productivity From the Inside
3. Avoid the 5 Mistakes in Management
4. Not easy being a manager but it is worth it
5. How people get demotivated all the time