How To Improve Your Work Situation

As Published in Business Profile, Opportunity World, and many others.
by Bill Dueease

Your Personal "Coach" to Business Success

Why are so many people unhappy in their work situation? Why do people, who are successful at one career, have such difficult times coping with their new career? These problems occur, because conflicts exist in their work relationship.

Relationships between you and your work can also be considered the "games of work." Games have basic rules to play under, and specific skills that must be mastered to succeed at playing. Problems occur when you operate under different rules, methods, and purposes than the conditions your work relationship (game) requires. For example, if you were a fully uniformed football player who clamors onto a tennis court and operates under football rules with football skills by trying to tackle someone, you will not make it in tennis. The three types of relationships between you and your work (games of work) are:

1. Bureaucrats: Do what it takes to protect or expand their position; Will divert responsibility, and take credit for desirable results of others whenever possible; The success of the organization is a very distant second to responding to the wishes of those who make decisions about promotions, salaries, and jobs; Have little, if any, control over what their job will be and/or their job security; And are compensated for basically showing up.

2. Partial Entrepreneurs: Choose to be responsible only for work performed or results achieved in their specialized field, not for the total business. Have more control over their job and its security; And are paid for the specific results they produce; Examples of Partial Entrepreneurs include; commissioned salesmen, multilevel marketing members, and real estate agents.

3. Business Owners: Take full responsibility for their business; Are in full control over their job and its security (whether they know it or not); Have no one in the organization to take orders from; Learn to pass on as much credit as possible; Focus on the success of the business, because they are compensated only from the profits of the business.

You can become very successful in each game, when you match well to the game you are playing. If you operate like a Bureaucrat, you will eventually fail at being a Business Owner, and if you operate like a Partial Entrepreneur, you will be miserable in a bureaucracy. The conditions of each type of work relationship do not change, only you can change to match your work relationship.

Michael Jordan, one of the best basketball players of all time, could not translate his huge basketball knowledge and skills into a successful baseball career. He proved that the knowledge and skills needed to succeed at the game of baseball are much different from those needed to succeed at the game of basketball. Yet, he thought he could easily master baseball, because he had been so good at basketball. And when he returned to basketball, he had to work extra hard to re-sharpen his basketball skills to his previous levels. Likewise, the knowledge and skills needed to be a successful Bureaucrat, Partial Entrepreneur, or Business Owner, are much different from each other.

When you transfer from one game to another, you will most likely become miserable, because you do not convert your purpose, motivation, and skills to match your new work relationship. Once you know and understand the rules and skills needed to succeed at each game, you can pick the game that is best suited for you, and greatly improve your work successes by matching your personal work methods and your personal life goals to the work relationship game you choose.

What a wonderful opportunity! You can take charge of learning, succeed in your goals, and have a ball along the way.

Bill Dueease is a business owner coach who specializes in educating owners to increase profits, reduce stress, and gain time from and control over their business to reach their life goals. This article and others are provided as an educational service by Aspen Business Group. If you have questions, comments, or requests, you're invited to contact: