To increase Passion, 15Five recommends...

  • Discover your top passions

    Encourage team members to splend the time reflecting on and listing their top personal passions.

  • Leverage your passions at work

    Encourage team members to incorporate one of their top passions in their work.

Additional resources

Making People's Life Most Worth Living: On the Importance of Passion for Positive Psychology by Vallerand & Verner-Filion (2013)

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (2016)

Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals by Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, and Kelly (2007)

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love (2012)

Berg, J. M., Wrzesniewski, A., & Dutton, J. E. Perceiving and responding to challenges in job crafting at different ranks; When proactivity requires adaptivity.  Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(2-3), 158-186.

Wrzesniewski, A., & Dutton, J. E. Crafting a job; Revisioning employees as active crafters of their work. Academy of Management Review, 26(2), 179-201.

Wrzesniewski, A., LoBuglio, N., Dutton, J. E., & Berg, J. M. (2013). Job Crafting and Cultivating Positive Meaning and Identity in Work. In A. B. Bakker (Ed.), Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 281-302). London: Emerald.

Berg, J. M., Grant, A. M., & Johnson, V. When callings are calling; Crafting work and leisure in pursuit of unanswered occupational callings. Organization Science, 21(5), 973-994.

Berg, J. M., Dutton, J. E., & Wrzesniewski, A.  Job Crafting and Meaningful Work. In B. J. Dik, Z. S. Byrne & M. F. Steger (Eds.), Purpose and meaning in the workplace (pp. 81-104). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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 (Unpublished master's thesis).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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