Influencing The Professional Echo-Chamber
There is an echo chamber in job satisfaction improvement: The question is, do we get more heard, becoming more impactful because we have status and earn more money, or, do we earn money because we get heard and are thus valued as more potent and impactful? The more you are heard the more you can earn. The more you earn the more you are heard.
In NLP terns, interrupt the feedback loop at any point and you can trigger the upward spiral. How do we do this? We do this in one of two ways. Both ways involve a professional stretch over and above our comfort zone. Both ways are rewarding.
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The first way is to assert your ideas. It can become tempting to refrain from voicing your thoughts when the reception of them has not always been great. Over-ride your fear. What was not heard 5, 10 or even 30 years ago in your life, has no bearing on what you are capable of doing now. Challenge your own perception that what you say will go unheard. It may still go unheard, so challenge the perception that either this will harm you, or, that your idea has no value. Find another way to communicate it. If it is still not well received within that sphere then maybe it could have value in an other one. Practise being really tenacious with the ideas that matter to you. Your ideas matter to you for a reason, so, why would you give anyone else the power by which they can silence that?
“It is good CPD practise to ask to be recognised for your contribution”
Secondly, interrupt this feedback loop from the other end by asking for promotion or pay rise or by raising your own fees. Money is only money, and, it is a very strong metric of success within our society. It is “good manners to wait to be asked”. It is good CPD practise to ask to be recognised for your contribution. It is good professional practice to ask for feedback and to ask for a raise. Ask and you just might receive! Chicken or Egg? Perhaps it doesn’t really matter where you interrupt this feedback loop, perhaps it is merely important that you do interrupt it at all. It is you alone who is responsible for your job satisfaction improvement: Assert your beliefs and assert your professional needs and the world will respond positively.