Work Smart Work Savvy had a fantastic day last week at the Swindon College Staff Wellbeing Event.
We shared the hall with a diverse range of wellbeing providers; Swindon Travel Choice, Wood Street Wellbeing, Lift Psychology, The Core, Mindset Wesex, SEQOL, Better Together and many more...
Recent research has shown that greater productivity is more likely to come when employees feel happy and well supported in their work rather than when a bumper bonus carrot is dangled in front of them.
(The Times 30/10/14)
Work Smart Work Savvy posed the question to the staff visiting our stand;
WHAT FLOATS YOUR WORK BOAT?
Autonomy Feeling you have control and the freedom to be creative
Money Feeling that you will be paid a bumper bonus for the work you're doing
Purpose Feeling that you're contributing to something worthwhile
Mastery Feeling you have the time and resources to improve and excel
Each visiter to the Work Smart Work Savvy stand was given a small boat with which to vote! The Swindon College staff were very enthusiastic in choosing which port (bucket!) to float their voting boat!
We can now reveal that the results for this very exciting survey have been checked and independently verified....drum roll......
Each visiter to the Work Smart Work Savvy stand was given a small boat with which to vote! The Swindon College staff were very enthusiastic in choosing which port (bucket!) to float their voting boat!
We can now reveal that the results for this very exciting survey have been checked and independently verified....drum roll......
Just shy of 100 staff members visited the Work Smart Work Savvy stand and this is how they voted with their boats...
Ta da!!
70% of staff stated that their main motivator at work was Purpose, (feeling that you're contributing to something worthwhile).
Mastery, (feeling you have the time and resources to improve and excel) was next with 13% of the vote.
Closely followed by Autonomy, (feeling you have control and the freedom to be creative) at 12%.
As the research suggests, money isn't the biggest motivator and the Swindon College staff backed up this with only 4% stating that Money, (feeling that you will be paid a bumper bonus for the work you're doing), was their top motivator.
One staff member did persuade us to get our 5th bucket out from under the table after giving a very convincing story of how comradery, banter and feeling of belonging in a team were what gets him out of bed each day to come to work.
To keep our energy levels up during the event, Jan hopped onto the Swindon Travel Choices smoothie / juice making exercise bike to pedal us a mixed berry smoothie. Just for the record, Lisa also did a stint on the bike to make mango and yoghurt smoothies...we have evidence of the smoothies but nobody actually saw her on the bike!
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