Worthy Work is a work design studio for healthcare pros. Every quarter I post a project toward the goal of helping healthcare pros design worthy work—work that is worthy of your care: your time, your energy, and your creativity.
From what I’ve heard from the folks I’ve talked with, organizations are far too good at taking the excitement of starting a new job, or the engagement that comes with working on really interesting problems, or, as is especially the case in healthcare, the human connection that comes with caring for others, and grinding away at it all the way down to job suck.
Job suck is a subjective experience of discontent arising from a job that fails to meet psychological needs, expectations, or values. Are you feeling job suck? The Bummer of Job Suck & What To Do About It is a job suck explainer and a get-to-it guide for fortifying ourselves through Worthy Work.
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The organization you work for is not organized to make change happen. It’s organized to continue doing the work the way it has always done the work—even in organizations we might label as progressive or innovative.
There Might Be Something Happening In The Universe is a pep talk for healthcare pros feeling discontented by the inertia that exists in every organization. It's a five-point plan to help you understand and overcome inertia at work by applying agency and influence.
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How "we" conceptualize, organize, manage, and ultimately do our work is a mismatch for the environment it's happening in.
This mismatch is creating the job suck we're all too familiar with—that creeping to complete feeling of job dissatisfaction caused by any number of "how work works" factors, from minor annoyances to major aggravations toward total burnout.
The obvious solution is to just change how you work. But where do those ideas for change come from?
How To Work is an email newsletter delivering one idea every other week from the experts, the innovators, and those we work alongside that will help you proactively address job suck by designing work worthy of your care.