A Sense of Achievement

Why achieving things is critical for motivation and engagement

In the world of being on all the time and many people in big business working in big projects across countries it can be hard to control how quickly and successfully things get done. Collaboration is a good thing, but the reason this is important is that a sense of achievement, and completion is great for lowering stress, improving engagement, and also wellbeing.

A friend of mine studying for her PHD a number of years ago decided to study stress in senior leaders. What Ruth Enzler Denzler discovered is that goal achievement was the biggest predictor of stress in this group of senior older leaders. It wasn’t as strongly related to workload, and it wasn’t as strongly related to responsibility. A surprise? Maybe, but when we look to the brain maybe not.