Executive coach says meaningful work is part of emotional intelligence.

Citing an article in the The Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin, “How Business Schools Lost Their Way,” December, 2007, Executive Coach William R. Murray questions whether business schools are doing all they can to help graduates to not only have the requisite business skills, but a path on which they can reach their personal values.

HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana has written a book that points out problems including, “…business schools on average are not providing some way for them (students) to link the values they have to the work they are going to be doing. And as a consequence, many students have adopted a view of the world in which they believe they cannot live their values through their work.”

Murray says that helping leaders find meaning in their work is a central part of his approach to executive coaching: 

I have for decades assisted leaders and professionals to find meaning in their work. In my approach, your first step in finding meaning is to look deeply inside yourself to gain clarity on what you really value. Then develop strategies to make your values more honored in your work. I assist clients to take these steps in my individual Executive Coaching and in some modules of my Group Executive Coaching described on the link Executive Coaching Services on the above navigation bar.

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