Stop Worrying about Your Goals, Focus on Progress Instead

Appreciation boosts performance

Appreciation boosts team performance

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Is the workplace getting worse or better?

If we take Gallup annual polls results, it’s inevitable to jump into the conclusion that it’s broken. We all start to point out fingers — people are disengaged, want to do the bare minimum and ready to jump into a new job.

But, what if that’s just one side of the story? Not every organization is broken, and not everything within most companies is terrible either.

Maybe employee disengagement is not just a reflection of their workplace, but we fail to appreciate progress.

Things are much better than we believe

Perception clouds our judgment — we are all biased, especially when evaluating our own situation.

Take the world, for example. Only less than 10% of people believe it’s much better than it used to be. Every generation felt the same — they thought theirs was experiencing the worst crisis ever.

But, if we analyze statistical facts, the world has been getting better, and better…