Why Don’t I Feel Motivated at Work Anymore? | New Here | S1E8

So, the thrill of your new job is wearing off and you’re feeling unmotivated at work. That might show up as procrastinating on that project you were assigned, skipping meetings, or maybe even daydreaming about quitting. What can you do about it?
This week we’re talking about how motivation ebbs and flows at work We’ll learn where motivation at work comes from, what a lack of it means, and what your relationship with it might look like throughout your career.
Leadership coach, author, and podcast host Muriel Wilkins has a lot of experience coaching her clients through career challenges when their motivation is faltering. She does that at the executive level, but she also understands a lot about why motivation can come and go throughout your career, including at the very beginning.
Muriel helps host Elainy Mata understand that feeling unmotivated early in your career can actually be an opportunity to figure out what motivates you-and what doesn’t. Plus, Muriel offers listeners advice about their motivation challenges.
Have a career question? Let us know at [e-mail].
Key topics include: managing yourself, mental health, careers.
More Reading:
• Understanding the Power of Intrinsic Motivation (Stefan Falk): hbr.org/2023/03/understand-th...
• How to Keep Working When You’re Just Not Feeling It (Ayelet Fishbach): hbr.org/2018/11/how-to-keep-w...
• Is It Time to Rethink Your Productivity? (Kelsey Alpaio): hbr.org/2023/04/is-it-time-to...
• On the Brink of Burnout (Coaching Real Leaders podcast): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
• How Do I Stay Motivated After Surviving Layoffs? (Coaching Real Leaders podcast): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
• How Do I Find Meaning in my Work? (Coaching Real Leaders podcast): hbr.org/podcast/2023/10/how-d...
You can also listen to this episode on HBR.org, and wherever you listen to podcasts:
- HBR.org (transcript available here): hbr.org/podcast/2023/11/why-d...
- Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6QYk...
Series Description:
The young professional’s guide to work - and how to make it work for you.
About Harvard Business Review:
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Learn more at www.hbr.org.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
2:17 - Interview with Muriel Wilkins
14:21 - Listener Questions with Muriel
27:30 - Takeaways / Outro
Follow Harvard Business Review:
hbr.org/
/ mycompany
/ hbr
/ harvardbiz
/ harvard_business_review
Sign up for Newsletters: hbr.org/email-newsletters
#HarvardBusinessReview #business #careers #workadvice
Copyright © 2022 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved.

[@onedaya_martian1238]

Didn't go to Harvard. Answers are simple: 1. Boredom 2. Constant stress 3. Constant changes preventing competency, focus, sense of organization 4. Observing others doing nothing constructive or worse destructive, worst seeing this in higher management 5. Lack of support or direction from management 6. No long term objectives with the company or personally that make "going on" worth it. There are more.

[@SerpkoBakotiinii]

Brillian!

[@adammorra3813]

Agreed and good list, I often find number 3 5 and 6 at a lot of orgs

[@lantianyu1050]

The best podcast through out my year! Thank you so much!!!

[@adammorra3813]

Well done but wish the episode was longer and tackled more variety of cases.

[@ajayramanaidu1]

Reason to do "that" work