‘I’m bored’ – Getting more responsibility at work

Feeling dissatisfied at work can make an eight hour work day feel like twenty. Too often, employees continue to remain bored at work, or change jobs unnecessarily to avoid a monotonous work day. However, there are ways that your current role can be revitalised. Taking on more responsibility at work can provide workers with the boost they need to turn ‘ok’ jobs into ‘great’ jobs. Nevertheless, many struggle with confronting their employer to tackle these issues.  Here are some simple tips to help you on your way to revamping your role:

• Evaluate your capabilities and be realistic about the extra responsibility you’d like to take on.
• Consider what you really want. Is it more responsibility, more money or more recognition?
• Prepare for a meeting with your supervisor. This includes a list of your accomplishments and what you’d like to achieve with your new responsibilities.
• Prepare an alternative plan. If increasing your responsibility isn’t a possibility, perhaps consider extra projects you could be involved in.
• Have confidence in your abilities.
• Suggest some areas in which you could increase your responsibility.
• Look for a busy, stressed out co-worker and offer to take on some of their workload – make sure no one is getting the credit for your work though.
• Become an expert in an area that you’d like to deliver value to.
• Be proactive!

Using these techniques could be the bridge between dissatisfaction to satisfaction at work.

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