WAY TO WELLNESS #51

Feeling stuck at work? Look for an opportunity to enhance and grow your skills to keep yourself engaged and challenged. This will help prevent and even combat burn-out and boredom at work. Find an online class or webinar in line with your current or future career goals and commit to learning something new today. One of our favorites is https://www.coursera.org which offers free and paid courses for career and educational development on a variety of topics and subjects!

Need some extra ideas on how to get out of a rut at work? Try one of these ten suggestions:

1. Ask yourself what exactly bores you about your current situation and what kinds of new responsibilities would seem appealing.
2. Meet with your manager and ask for new challenges or job responsibilities.
3. Increase your networking, inside and outside of your company. Take the time to get to know new people and ask them about their jobs and what they find interesting or exciting.
4. Ask to be included in a corporate volunteer projects and work to get to know the other people involved.
5. Check into job shadowing. You may be able to shadow someone from an entirely different part of the company and learn something utterly unrelated to your current job.
6. Work on increasing your visibility within the company and in building your personal brand.
7. Work with a coach to uncover new ways to build meaning into your work, no matter where you are employed.
8. Look for learning opportunities that will help expand your skills for your current position and make you more valuable to your company.
9. Challenge yourself by setting mini-goals to accomplish on a daily, weekly and/or monthly basis.
10. Look for ways to incentivize yourself throughout your work day – listen to upbeat music, take a break after you achieve a mini-goal, compete with co-workers, etc. You could even incorporate prizes!