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How do you prefer to work?

By Charles Margerison (June 2005 Issue)
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Some people find out early in life what they like doing and use it to good advantage. Bill Gates, for example, decided to leave the corridors and libraries of Harvard University to focus his entrepreneurial passion on technical development and the hurly-burly of business at Microsoft™. Mick Jagger left the academic cloisters of the London School of Economics for a rock-and-roll life within the music business. Other people do not find their major work interests until later in life, via trial-and-error experience. As a result, they may spend time in jobs that do not allow them to express their strengths.

However, there is a way of finding out. It is called ‘understanding your work preferences’. For example, which of the two following views is nearest to your own situation?

* My job is interesting. It suits the way I like to work.
* My job is a means to an end. I do it because I need to earn some money, not because I enjoy it.

Are the demands of your job and your work preferences closely aligned? Work preferences influence the types of work we seek and those we avoid. They can influence the extent to which we stay in a job. They are powerful emotional factors influencing the way we do our jobs. Understanding work preferences helps you to understand yourself, your colleagues and clients, and ways of working with them more effectively. ...

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