To increase Meaningful Work, 15Five recommends...

  • Clear mission and vision

    Encourage leaders and managers to communicate a clear mission and vision.

  • Create company objectives

    Encourage leaders to create company objectives and managers to create department objectives.

  • Align objectives

    Encourage managers to help team members align individual objectives to the department’s and company’s objectives.

  • Reflect on your impact

    Encourage People Ops/HR to leverage 15Five’s Best-Self Review™, specifically Growth & Development question #4, to give people the opportunity to say what impact they would like to have. Question #4: What impact do you want to have on the company before your next review? What next steps do you want to take?

  • Meet your customer in person

    Encourage managers to find opportunities for their team members to meet customers or those impacted by their work in person or over video.

  • Share positive customer feedback

    Encourage People Ops/HR to gather customer stories to share with the organization.

  • Highlight the impact

    Encourage team members to clearly highlight the impact someone had on them when sending a High Five.

Additional resources

Outsource Inspiration by Adam Grant 


Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek (2011)


Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team by Simon Sinek (2017)


The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters by Emily Esfahani Smith (2017)


The Pursuit of Meaningfulness in Life by Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs (2002)


The Construction of Meaning Through Vital Engagement by Nakamura & Csikszenthihalyi (2003) 


The Three Meanings of Meaning in Life: Distinguishing Coherence, Purpose, and Significance by Martela & Steger (2016)


Why We Work by Barry Schwartz (2015)


Pinkcast 1.15: A simple way to add more meaning to your life.


Bigony, C. (2019). 15Five: Technology aligned to the science of thriving. (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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