• Expert calls for creation of soulful work cultures
• “There is a dramatic difference between people who are love-driven and people who are duty-driven”
(Total Recorded Time is 26:05)
The percentage of employees who are engaged with their work recently hit an all-time high: 23 percent. The others – nearly eight out of ten – do the bare minimum to keep their jobs – or less.
“Employees who are not engaged or who are actively disengaged cost the world $8.8 trillion in lost productivity,” says Gallup, the company that compiles the numbers, in its 2023 “State of the Global Workplace Report.
Jo-Ann Triner, president of Soulful Work LLC of Worthington, Ohio, hoes to do something about it.
“The disintegration of our culture is actually going on,” she says. “We were headed to this place from the first industrial revolution.”
Ms. Triner says from the earliest factories, workers were told to essentially check their souls at the door. “This is pure business. Anything love-related, anything personal had to be out of the equation.”
She says the economy of the early 21st Century has certainly changed from the first industrial revolution – and not necessarily for the better. “We have fewer people rising up,” she says. “So we stay in this stagnant place.”
In this episode of Bizgnus Interviews, Jo-Ann Triner what is wrong with the economy and what can be done to improve it.
Jo-Ann Triner says her new book, "Soulful Work 2.0: Powered by Inner-Person Potential," (SacraSage Press, July 2023) was inspired by her fascination with callings as vehicles for expressing infinite love within communities.
“There is a dramatic difference between people who are love-driven and people who are duty-driven,” Ms. Triner says.
Ms Triner holds a Ph.D. in educational administration with thirty years of service in high-level leadership roles. Now in her second career, she is founder and president of Soulful Work LLC, set up for the advancement of principled leadership and the creation of soulful work cultures.
For more information: soulfulwork.net (under development as of 10/09/23)