The best companies understand the importance of making their staff and employees feel safe, secure and significant. They realize these people all have unique talents, skills and dreams of their own. If the company can help each person discover their passions, a career path can be created to maximize each person’s value. This, in effect, helps employees become their best self. Next, if the company can match the functional needs of the company with the individual passions of the employees, then you create a highly engaged, motivated, synergistic relationship. This is one secret to a successful and profitable company.

The matching of passion and purpose can contribute to a high-performance organization, an effective, happy company that is able to change, adapt, innovate and grow.

Engaged, passionate people feel a direct tie to their work, the company goals, and understand their contribution to the success of the whole. Each role in the organization is valued and each person is empowered to advance their passions to the benefit of the team. There is clarity regarding decision-making, “go-to people,” systems and responsibilities. Accountability is self-directed.

Imagine an organization where each person got to spend 85 percent of his/her time on the things they love to do and they are good at. How much less management would be required to make these organizations run smoothly and efficiently? How far could each person take their talents, skills and contributions, especially if they felt safe, secure and significant?

Take a look at your company… is it matching purpose with passion?