The ObservatoryPart of your occupational wellbeing
Engagement
Energy, motivation and psychological presence in one's main occupation.
How it's measured
3 statements in the wellbeing assessment, scored from "doesn't apply at all" to "applies completely".
- In my main occupation, I often feel engaged.
- I often get absorbed in what I do in my main occupation.
- I feel motivated to do a good job in my main occupation.
Where you work with it
The life areas in this section — assess yourself, answer the questions, and track them over time.
Getting started
Self-assessment
How are you doing at work?
Six scales over the core of working wellbeing: influence, competence, belonging, demands, meaning and the boundary against the rest of life.
4 min · Rationality
Article
Flow: when the work carries itself
The state in which time disappears is not luck or talent. It is architecture. Three conditions build it.
2 min · Rationality
Exercise
Designing for flow
Flow doesn't come from luck. It arises when three conditions meet. Adjust the controls until a dead task starts to come alive.
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
Your strengths in new use
Find one of your genuine strengths and put it to work in a new way this week.
10 min · Discipline
Article
What occupational well-being actually measures
Pay and title are the easiest things to measure, and seldom what decides how you feel at work. Here is what research points to instead.
2 min · Rationality
Exercise
The ikigai map
Map where what you love, what you are good at and what someone needs overlap. Not to find a magic answer, but to see where it is worth digging.
15 min · Rationality
Exercise
From value to action
Clarify a core value in one life area and choose a small action that lives it, today.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
More than your job
When your whole self-image lives at work, every setback there becomes a threat to all of you. Give the other parts of you their place.
10 min · Compassion
How's your engagement?
The wellbeing assessment gives you a profile across all six dimensions, and you see it change over time. Free account, no payment.