Finding Fulfillment

Adventures in Businessing: Entrepreneurship, Small Business, and a Healthy Dose of Humor

Show Notes

• [0:00:57] Episode Summary | Intro
  • Jeremy’s Banjo Aspirations
  • Last Episode Recap
    • Fulfillment Theory Quickstart Guide
• [0:03:42] The Ultimate Goal
  • Helping Our Teams Find Fulfillment
  • Employee Engagement
    • It Changes With the Season
    • “You can have engagement without fulfillment, but you can only have fulfillment through being engaged.”
    • When Time Tracking Breaks Down
      • Time tracking is what most businesses monitor toward engagement, but it’s the opposite of what employees want and need to feel engaged.
  • Engagement is More Than the Work You Can See
    • Why Common Attempts at Engagement Fall Flat
    • Burnout Awareness
    • Engagement Gimmicks & Initiatives
    • Sustainability
  • Getting Engagement Wrong
    • Early Failings of Our Own Business
    • Fun Doesn’t Directly Translate to Fulfilled
      • Fulfillment HAS to be Purposeful
    • Fulfillment & Engagement
      • Two terms that are too often mistakenly used to explain the same thing.
        • You can be active and busy and not be fulfilled.
        • Engagement is an output of fulfillment.
• [0:15:16] What is Fulfillment & How Do We Track That?
  • The Components of Fulfillment
    • The 3 ‘P’s
      • Passion:
        • ‘Do I love the work that I’m doing?’
      • Purpose:
        • ‘Do I feel like the work that I do matters?’
      • Progress:
        • ‘Do I feel like the work I am doing is making an impact?’
• [0:21:32] Issues & Challenges with Progress...and Fulfillment
  • Hindsight is 20/20
    • How We’ve Failed Certain Employees in the Past
      • Robbing Individuals of Progress
  • You’re not helpless when you know what drives your team.
  • How these things can be applied to your personal life and relationship as well.
• [0:27:12] Paying it Forward with AIB
  • We’ve made a lot of mistakes in order to get here.
    • Learn from us to hopefully not make those same mistakes.
    • Celebrate wins, but when you fail, fail forward by learning from it.
• [0:29:45] Parting Words & Next Time on AIB
  • Diving into Motivational Drivers of Fulfillment
    • Why They’re Powerful
    • And Why They Really Work