Oh No Its Monday: How to Love Your Job When You are in a Job You Don't Love

The causes of job dissatisfaction are likely as numerous as employees that are dissatisfied but some of the leading causes include: a feeling that you are underpaid and/or underappreciated, management that is unsympathetic, uncaring, or dictatorial, limited growth potential, a shortage of tasks that are meaningful to you, uncomfortable workplace relationships, unjust or unfair treatment, ethical concerns, work/life balance concerns, inadequate training to complete the job duties assigned.

Unhappy employees don't perform well on the job and their struggle at the workplace can spill over into their personal lives. Attitudes can be contagious. One unhappy employee can influence others such that overall satisfaction and productivity levels drop. When productivity drops problems with job satisfaction become company problems. Consider your own work situation.

Are you happy? Are you passionate? Do you look forward to your work or do you dread your work?

Most people look for balance. They know there will be aspects of any and every job that are not pleasant or desirable, but those unpleasant elements are weighed against more favorable characteristics of the work, job, or company. A company, for instance, may offer a great benefit package but their pay rates are below the industry average. A company may have engaged, dedicated, kind, and courteous management but they may offer few opportunities for advancement.

The perfect job, like the perfect person, simply does not exist but how much dissatisfaction is too much and what can we do about it? These are the questions we will grapple with in this seminar.

Why you should Attend

You might be unhappy with your work if:

You dread Monday.
You worry about Monday on Sunday.
You are not interested in the workplace or the work.
You suffer from low energy levels.
There is no joy in your life.
You are forgetful at work.
You procrastinate or put off tasks or assignments.
You do just enough to get by

Areas Covered in the Session

Understand the cost of job dissatisfaction for you and your employer
Identify job dissatisfaction in yourself and others
Pinpoint the exact cause or causes of dissatisfaction
Take corrective action steps

Who Will Benefit

Employees
Managers
HR Professionals

Speaker Profile

David Dellman , MS, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Speaker and Author

Experience:
• HR management for over twenty-eight years
• Training and curriculum development
• Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)
• Certified SHRM-SCP

Affiliations:
• The Society for Human Resource Management
• The Chesapeake Human Resources Association

David was the HR Director of Richcroft Inc., a non-profit, from 1994 to 2020. During that time, the company grew from 90 employees to over 500. David was a department of one until 2007. He also served as their Training Director, developing and delivering training to every employee.

In December 2020, David became the HR Manager for Taylor Technologies, a manufacturing company in Sparks, Maryland. As a department of one, David ran every aspect of HR from payroll to benefits administration, recruiting, onboarding, and performance management.