Is Bringing Meaning Into Monday an attempt to bring spirituality into the workplace?
That depends on how you define spirituality; in actual fact, spirituality has always been there. Spirituality is about aligning people to a higher purpose – helping individuals see themselves in the context of a bigger picture. Aligning people with the bigger picture surfaces synergies, leverages resources, increases creativity, reconciles differences and facilitates a greater sense of community and social harmony. There are four energy sources available within all institutions – physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. The first two – physical and intellectual – are reaching capacity. There are limits as to how hard or how much a person can work and/or how smart they can be. Relative to emotional, there is excess capacity available, and leaders capable of improving relationship quality and tapping into the hearts of their people will uncover a latent reservoir of human motivation. A virtually untapped region of human energy, however, is spiritual. As stated above, this is abou