Podcast appearances and mentions of Amy Wrzesniewski

Wharton management professor Amy Wrzesniewski studied the shrinking field of journalism to better understand how workers grapple with occupational instability and declining careers. Her co-authored paper, “Perceived Fixed or Flexible Meaning: Toward a Model of Meaning Fixedness and Navigating Occupational Instability,” appears in the journal Administrative Science Quarterly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amy Wrzesniewski, professor at the Wharton School of Pennsylvania, is an award-winning professor who researches how people make meaning of their work. Her research on job crafting examines how people redraw the boundaries of their jobs to change both their work identity and the meaning of the work. Amy's work has been published in prestigious academic journals as well as mainstream outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. And in 2015 and 2019 Amy won the “Inspiring Yale” Award, voted by students as the most inspiring professor at Yale's School of Management. Amy earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Wharton School, Amy was on faculty Yale and NYU. In this episode we discuss the following: We make a mistake in thinking that certain jobs are meaningful and other jobs are not. However, the meaning is really in the relationship between people and their work, which makes finding meaning a far more personal endeavor. It's not just about finding fit. It's also about creating fit. Just as there is some finite number of people we could build a great life with, there are also some number of jobs or careers we could make our own and find meaning in. By changing both our perception and behaviors, we can alter the meaning and significance of our jobs. Whether we view our job as cleaning hospital rooms or as healing people, there is significant flexibility in how we can craft our jobs and derive meaning from our work. Follow Amy: Twitter: https://twitter.com/amywrzesniewski LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-wrzesniewski-032229/ Follow Me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/nate_meikle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natemeikle/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate_meikle/

This one might seem a little dull, but I love this particular topic, identifying things we can control or influence that can have a profound impact on our life. I briefly discuss the work of Amy Wrzesniewski, a Yale professor of management, who came up with the concept of "job crafting". I expand on this and discuss the concept of "life crafting", and the great stoic philosopher, Epictetus. I share three life crafting examples in my own life relating to adding, reorganizing, and subtracting.

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' Sheila shares few tips on how you can craft a job you love, she talks about what it means to craft a job and how you can do this. Sheila discusses 5 great steps on how to craft your Job. Episode Highlights:  ‘Job Crafting' is actually a term that was coined by Jane Dutton and Amy Wrzesniewski, and it is the act of customising your job to better fit your own individual strengths, passions, and what motivates you. Sheila achieved success by focusing on the things that she enjoyed the most and that actually ended up helping her to make a pretty big career pivot. You need to ask yourself that what is it that fuels your energy, it's about finding the things you love, and that you're good at and what it is you want to be known for? Having clarity on what you love doesn't mean you can stop doing all the things you don't love. Shifting form commitment to action involves putting your insights to work and building an action plan. ‘Job Crafting' is not a discrete activity, you don't just do it once, but it's something that we form into a continuous habit and process. 3 Key Points: If your job has you dreading Monday mornings, start thinking about to craft a job that you love without needing to do that full update of your resume. ‘Job Crafting' isn't about changing your title or your function or your salary, necessarily, instead, it's about infusing more of what you love, and more joy into your work. You need to ask yourself a few questions like, “What is it that you're most interested in?” Take notes, look for patterns, and then notice, what do you see, maybe you discover that your favourite activities include learning something new, or solving a problem. Or maybe you really enjoy mentoring, training or coaching other people.   Tweetable Quotes: “Step one, maybe this sounds simple, but it's simply making a decision making a decision to take action because job crafting begins with making a choice.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “You have to first know what brings you joy: the tasks, the actions, the projects, the conversations, the challenges, the interactions, etc.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “A state of flow is when you almost get lost in what you're working on.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “You might still need to do the boring meeting updates or run those reports that don't get you terribly excited or crunch those numbers.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Start by finding links between the things that you love to do, and the potential positive outcomes for the company.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

This thing called the Great Resignation is gaining more and more attention in the United States. People have resigned from jobs in record numbers in this year alone, with one reason being that people are not treating work as the Ultimate anymore. At one point, not too long ago, generations before had their minds set on securing a job. That was the ultimate goal: job security. People in this current society are more invested in developing and prioritizing other parts of their life.  More value is placed on purpose these days. People look at what they are missing out on or tolerating and aren't willing to make certain sacrifices for work without purpose. Such work and sacrifices no longer seem worth it. Similarly, you know your calling is bigger than your job or career. How can we look for ways to support a calling through a job or career? We're going to discuss three ways to look at your paid work. Ideas in today's conversation mainly pull from research by Dr. Robert Bellah and Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski. Dr. Bellah was a sociologist in the 1950s who suggested that work has three orientations, and Dr. Wrzesniewski, from Yale, conducted a study that confirmed these orientations. The three orientations are job, career, and calling. Identifying this will help as a guide for discovering where you are at, and where you can go.  Each orientation has distinctions attached to an award. Most times we are connected to a job for material gain. In a career, we pursue a goal with the long-term in mind. Work in calling means we can live being who we are, and the reward is fulfillment. At the most basic, we really should consider work that comes from an intrinsic place, like calling. You don't have to quit in order to live out your calling, but know that you have potential to turn work into a calling more than you think. Time stamps: [00:20] - I talk about feedback I received about last week's episodes. Let's dive deeper into the relationship between work and calling. [02:50] - Your next brave step may look different, but you should have an idea of the big picture. [04:23] - Work can be viewed as three orientations: a job, a career, or a calling. [06:08] - Job, career, and calling give us three different rewards. [09:07] - What is the reward of viewing work as a calling? [11:34] - If you were to identify your work, which orientation relates most? [13:39] - It's okay to work a job, as long as it's under this one condition. [15:54] - How do you turn work into a calling? [17:20] - Here are quick tips you can take action on to shift your work towards calling. [20:11] - I wrap up the quick tips that help you make an actionable shift from work to calling. [23:08] - We're more likely to work on our calling when we participate in relationships that fuel our efforts. [24:34] - Use the tips in this episode to decide what could be your next brave step. Links: Chris Heinz Chris Heinz Co. Resources: Robert Bellah Habits of the Heart Amy Wrzesniewski Make Your Job a Calling

En esta nueva entrada del blog comparto con vosotros un concepto del que cada vez se habla más: el jobcrafting. Lo introdujeron Amy Wrzesniewski y Jane E. Dutton en 2001. En el audio te explico este concepto y te doy unas pinceladas para que puedas aplicártelo. Te dejo algunos enlaces por si quieres profundizar más: Artículo en Randstad: https://www.randstad.es/tendencias360/job-crafting-o-como-disenar-tu-trabajo/ Artículo en Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2010/06/managing-yourself-turn-the-job-you-have-into-the-job-you-want Video: Job Crafting - Amy Wrzesniewski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_igfnctYjA&t=205s Video: Jobcrafting - Belen Varela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPdrnH9DWVk

In this episode, I interview Matt Roadnight, an Agile and Scum coach. Having developed an interest in IT, Matt completed a BSc. degree and went on to begin his career in a corporate environment. After a stint of travelling, he then went on to join a niche IT services company. It was here that he was given that latitude to work in a way and develop himself that he enjoyed. Acquisition of the IT services company by a large corporate got him reevaluating his position and coupled with an opportunity to provide some Agile coaching independently, Matt left to establish his own business. Matt now owns and runs SprintAgile and is a founding partner of BeLiminal LLC. Both organisations focus on developing individuals and teams.Matt shares his journey and the values that he developed that shaped his career and choices. He also talks about the enablers of learning and shares some great resources.Key TakeawaysIn many instances, we train for jobs that don't exist. The important thing is learning to learn and carrying this ability through our careersDeveloping values is important. Understand your values and live by them but make sure you don't focus too much on a single value whilst neglecting other values. There needs to be a balanceAlways be open to opportunities and try to take advantage of opportunities when they are offered to you Challenge yourself to move beyond your comfort zonesEven if you enjoy working alone, don't ignore the importance of partnering and working with other peopleLearning is often driven by client/organisation demand and the desired quality of workMake sure that you develop a growth mindset (learn more about this in Episode 11)Doing quality work is important but don't let perfectionism hold you backChange doesn't happen without emotion!Resources MentionedMatt shared the following resources:Job Crafting - Amy Wrzesniewski on creating meaning in your own workManaging Yourself: Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want by Amy Wrzesniewski, Justin M. Berg and Jane E. DuttonCamp AmericaBooks MentionedMatt recommended the following books:The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter SengeTrust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies by Paul ZakCreating Intelligent Teams by Anne Rød and Marita FridjhonBusiness Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career by Timothy Clark, Alexander Osterwalder, and Yves PigneurConnect with MattListeners can learn more about Matt and connect with him by visiting his LinkedIn page, Twitter feed, or the BeLiminal website.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gunterrichter)

Was kann ich als Mitarbeiter/in tun, damit meine Arbeit besser zu meinen Bedürfnissen und Stärken passt? Im Podcast stellt Urs Blum die Methode «Jobcrafting» vor, die dabei helfen kann, die eigene berufliche Rolle aktiver zu gestalten. Dabei geht es darum, die eigene Arbeit so zu verändern, dass Mitarbeitende ihr Potenzial einbringen können, ihre Arbeit als sinnhaft wahrnehmen, motiviert, langfristig leistungsfähig und gesund bleiben. Jobcraftig basiert auf der Arbeit von Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski, Professor of Organizational Behavior, an der Yale School of Management und Jane E. Dutton, Professor of BusinessAdministration and Psychology, an der University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Weiterführende Links Video: Job Crafting - Amy Wrzesniewski on creating meaning in your own work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_igfnctYjA&feature=youtu.be https://hbr.org/2010/06/managing-yourself-turn-the-job-you-have-into-the-job-you-want https://www.zhaw.ch/de/ueber-uns/person/bluu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/urs-blum-48918456 https://www.zhaw.ch/de/ueber-uns/person/gund/ linkedin.com/in/ellen-gundrum-b9a633142

Is the grass greener on the other side for the self-employed? Yes and no. Dan and Akin squeeze a research paper exploring the unpredictable sense of anxiety and fulfilment for those not bound to confines, or privy to the benefits, of a 9 to 5. - Research Paper: 'Agony and Ecstasy in the Gig Economy: Cultivating Holding Environments for Precarious and Personalized Work Identities' by Gianpiero Petriglieri, Susan J. Ashford and Amy Wrzesniewski

We're often told to "find our passion" but what does that even mean? Using Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski's 3 career orientations, I talk about the different ways we can approach our work, and how we can move towards a great sense of personal meaning in what we do.I mention being curious, and Elizabeth Gilbert's excellent talk on this, The Flight of the Hummingbird. You can find that here: http://www.oprah.com/video_embed.html?article_id=59798I also talk of discovery in the bookstore exercise suggested in Martha Beck's audible workshop lecture series. You can find that here: Follow Your North Star.--To find the facebook community:https://www.facebook.com/groups/heretothriveTo find Kate on Instagram:https://instagram.com/kate.snowiseTo sign up for emails:www.thrive.how/freebie See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Finding a new job may be the solution to your woes at work. But there may also be other ways to get more out of your daily grind. This week, we talk with psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski of Yale University about how we can find meaning and purpose in our jobs.

Today we have Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski on the podcast. Dr. Wrzesniewski is a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management. Her research focuses on how people make meaning of their work in difficult contexts, such as stigmatized occupations, virtual work, or absence of work, and the experience of work as a job, career, or calling. Her current research involves studying how employees shape their interactions and relationships with others in the workplace to change both their work identity and the meaning of the job.   Topics incude:   - The definition of meaning   - The four main sources of meaning   - Spirituality as a potential source of meaning at work   - The way work allows us to transcend the self   - The definition of calling   - How to find your most meaningful calling   - The importance of “self-resonance”   - The difference between consequences and motives   - What is job crafting and how can it help you increase your calling?   - Is job crafting contagious?   - The benefit of collective, team-level job crafting   - The impact of virtual work on job crafting   - How does meaning shape job transitions?   - The effects of occupational regret on people’s lives

Episode 154 is live! This week, we talk with Amy Wrzesniewski in New Haven, CT. Amy is a professor of organizational behavior at the School of Management at Yale University. Her research interests focus on how people make meaning of their work in difficult contexts, including stigmatized occupations, virtual work, and the absence of work. She also researches the experience of work as a job, career, or calling. Her current research involves studying how employees shape their interactions and relationships with others in the workplace to change both their work identity and the meaning of the job. She teaches both on managing groups and teams, and global virtual teams. On today’s episode, Amy shares: The tie between purpose and meaning in work How closely our career is tied to our identity Why we may regret our occupational choices mid-career Whether or not having purpose at work can increase your success A common mistake job seekers make The impact of unemployment on our identity Listen and learn more! You can play the podcast here, or download it on iTunes or Stitcher. To learn more about Amy, find her on the Yale website and on YouTube. Thanks to everyone for listening! And, thank you to those who sent me questions. You can send your questions to Angela@CopelandCoaching.com. You can also send me questions via Twitter. I’m @CopelandCoach. And, on Facebook, I am Copeland Coaching. Don’t forget to help me out. Subscribe on iTunes and leave me a review!

Amy Wryzesniewski is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management. Her research on how people make meaning of their work has been published in a wide range of top academic journals and highlighted in several best-selling books and popular press outlets, including Forbes, Time, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, U.S. News and World Report, and The Economist, as well as best-selling books such as Drive by Daniel Pink, The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman, and The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler. Amy earned her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated magna cum laude with an honors degree in psychology. She received her PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan. Stew and Amy talk about the different ways people construe their work -- either as a job, a career, or a calling -- and why the latter is most beneficial. They discuss Amy’s fascinating research on how people in almost any work role are motivated to create meaning in their work by crafting it, transforming it, into a calling, in which there is at least some element of service to others. Amy describes some ideas for how anyone can do this and thereby enrich not only their work but other parts of their lives, too. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amy Wrzesniewski is a Professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management. For almost two decades, her research has focused on how people make meaning of their work in challenging work contexts or conditions Her findings have been published in a wide range of top academic journals, and highlighted in several best-selling books and popular press outlets, including Forbes, Time, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, U.S. News and World Report, The Economist, as well as bestselling books such as Drive by Daniel Pink, The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman, and The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler. Do you wish you had more meaning in your work?  Amy explains how you can craft your job, whatever your role and status, to find more meaning in what you do each day at work.  She also shares practical tips for leaders to create an environment that encourages job crafting among employees to help them feel more proactive, engaged and productive at work. Connect with Amy Wrzensieski: Website: www.jobcrafting.org [free_product_purchase id="22286"] You’ll Learn: [02:10] - Amy defines job crafting. [04:02] - Amy explains the value of meaning in our work, including how it affects our job choices, longevity of a particular role, and peoples perception of their careers. [07:32] - Amy gives examples of how leaders can support job crafting for employees. [09:46] - Amy suggests ways people can create more meaning in their own work. [12:58] - Amy discusses the latest findings and developments in job crafting. Your Resources: Happiness Advantage by Shawn Anchor Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler How to be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact by Jane E.Dutton, Gretchen Spreitzer & Shawn Achor Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care!  Thank you Amy!

Why do you work? Are you mostly in it for the money, or do you have another purpose? Popular wisdom says your answer depends on the nature of your job. But psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski finds it may have more to do with how we think about our work. She finds we're about evenly split in whether we say we have a job, a career, or a calling. As part of our You 2.0 series, we bring you this March 2016 conversation with Amy about how we find meaning and purpose at work.

NACDD's President's Challenge Series Part 5: Job Crafting with Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski Written by: Mehul Dalal, M.D., president, NACDD Board of Directors and chronic disease director at the Connecticut Department of Public Health Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management; she has a track record of rigorous, innovative and applicable research that is published in top academic journals and the popular business press. In this episode we have a conversation about the concept of job crafting and how it is ties in to vital aspects about our personal relationship with our work including the meaning of work and work identity. Although on first blush these concepts may sound weighty, Amy elegantly illuminates these concepts providing a case study about hospital custodial staff. We also talk about how manager-centric models of job design, which are prevalent in public bureaucracies, can hold us back from getting the best work out of our employees. In the second half of the show we get down to the practical. Amy walks us through four strategies on how the job-crafting framework can help to assess and improve satisfaction and productivity in our own jobs: 1.Optimize the Job You Have 2.Re-Vision the Relational Landscape of the Work 3.Queue it Up 4.Aspirational Job-Crafting Amy was also kind enough to share a tool that was specifically designed for employees to walk through the job crafting strategies. View the resources link on the President's Challenge podcast webpage to access the tool along with further readings. I encourage you to take a look and find an area that resonates with you. To access links to materials and resources discussed on this episode, visit http://www.chronicdisease.org/?page=Job_Crafting For more information on these and other professional development materials for public health practitioners, visit www.chronicdisease.org

Why do you work? Are you just in it for the money, or do you do it for a greater purpose? Popular wisdom says your answer depends on what your job is. But psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski at Yale University finds it may have more to do with how we think about our work. Across secretaries and custodians and computer programmers, she finds we're about equally split in whether we say we have a job, a career, or a calling. This week on Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam talks with Amy about how we find meaning and purpose at work.

Is the space you're working in making you dumber? Or is that just one of many other excuses we tell ourselves about why we're not getting stuff done? Sam and Simon discuss workspaces and serendipity this week. Also, why Sam secretly wants to join the German navy (her reason involves existentialism, not seamen). Stuff mentioned in this episode:The magic of PrestikDoes having more light in a room make you more productive? Apparently it might make you more productive, but less creative.Shingy, AOL's ridiculous digital "visionary" who took the desk out of the CEO's office at AOLWhy Steve Jobs obsessed about where to build the bathrooms at PixarBarking Up the Wrong Tree on why having other people around might make you more productiveThe secret lives of bored German navy officesMike Rowe in a fascinating Ted Talk about Dirty JobsAmy Wrzesniewski's research indicating that how you feel whether your job is meaningful is probably more about you than about the actual job you're doingBrent Schlender's Becoming Steve Jobs and the cargo cult of SteveData-driven decision making versus following your gutThe incredible story about how one man became an accidental celebrity in China, which led to a chat about Sino Weibo and how social networks have lost the ability to foster serendipitous connections “You don’t follow your passion, you bring it with you.” — Lakey Peterson

Everyone says you should follow your passion. But everyone isn't always right. If you want to achieve massive success in your career then passion might not even remotely be the right place the start. In today's Book-of-the-Day, "So Good They Can't Ignore You," Cal Newport examines the science of how to best choose your life's work. Newport says, "Don't follow your passion." This book is a bit controversial. It goes against most of what you've heard in the popular media. Steve Jobs, of course, disagreed with this book's premise. Jobs said, "You've got to find what you love... And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." But Newport argues that if you actually look at what Steve Jobs did with his life, you will find a different story. Steve Jobs didn't start with passion for technology or design. In fact he was more of a hippie at first, interested in going to Zen monasteries and 'dropping out' of life. Newport summarizes, "Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion." That reminds me a bit of Einstein, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."  So what is a better way to find out what you should be doing for work? Let me give you a few ideas from the book and a few of my own: 1. Experience Creates Passion: Yale professor Amy Wrzesniewski published a paper called, "Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People’s Relations to Their Work." She discovered that the strongest predictor of seeing work as a calling was the number of years spent on the job. Experience at something seems to create love of what you do. Practice and years in the career matter. 2. Passion Is A Side-Effect Of Mastery: Daniel Pink is mentioned in the book along with a 40 year scientific framework called "Self-Determination Theory." The theory goes that intrinsic motivation comes from: A. Autonomy - Having control over your career and feeling that what you are doing is meaningful. B. Competence - Feeling like a master of the skills you practice at work. C. Relatedness - Having strong social connections at your job. So you must have a well rounded approach to finding your life's work. It's not as simple as just finding your passion. This theory of 'relatedness' actually shows that "WHO" you work with is almost as important as "WHAT" you do for work. Social life matters - even when it comes to work.  3. Strengths Before All: My personal experience is a bit different than this book. I think that more important than just having a lot of experience, autonomy, competence, and relatedness, you must have 'APTITUDE' - what are you good at naturally? I believe that this is the trump card that beats all other factors.  This is what Peter Drucker taught in "Managing Oneself": "Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong…And yet, a person can perform only from strength.”  One of the most important parts of my "67 Steps" program is the question of "Eularian Destiny." I talk about the 5 or 6 ways you can determine your strengths (it's a bit too long to explain here but check out the "67 Steps" and review that video). The basic explanation is that you have to open up multiple lines of "feedback analysis" so that you can get clues as to what your strengths are from multiple sources. You can't just go with your gut or ask your mom or best friend.  Most of us have huge blind spots when it comes to determining our strengths. And make no mistake, personality types exist. And because they exist it's logical that natural strengths and weaknesses must also exist. You can't just pick something you are passionate about and make that your career if you have no natural aptitude at it. Some passions should just stay hobbies. You have to be better than the average. Much better. In "Positive Psychology: The Science Of Happiness and Flourishing" authors Compton and Hoffman say the three most common human regrets are: Career, education, and romance. Let me know, how well have you built your career around these principles?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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