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Not enough passion in your organization? It’s costing you. Gallup estimates that 22 million disengaged North American workers accounts for $300 billion dollars a year in lost productivity. Monster.com estimates that three out of four workers would leave their job for something better.

A new book called The Passion Test, co-authored by Chris Atwood, MBA, a former software consultant and Janet Atwood, a former corporate executive, is creating a sea-change in the way we think about employee engagement.

After taking The Passion Test, I found it resonated with my work in helping organizations unleash their intuition Ting! and spark innovation. So, I interviewed Chris about how organizations can apply it.

Chris and Janet began teaching The Passion Test to a group of enlightened entrepreneurs they were mentoring. Inspired by how they saw people change after taking and applying it, they wrote a best-selling book.

“80% of people aren’t passionate about the work that they do. Most people think they can’t follow their passions because they think they can’t afford to or won’t be able to support themselves.”

“What stops people from living their dreams is the belief that they think they can’t. So they create a lot of self-evidence to support it.”

Chris elaborates further on current global realities; “We’re living in a time where we’re competing for jobs or business with people throughout the world. In the past, I might get by with some skill or ability that would outperform the capabilities of others in my area, even though I wasn’t passionate about it.”

“Today companies can find accountants, marketers, sales people with particular skills anywhere in the world. So if I’m not passionate and not excited, I’m not going to do the same quality of work as someone who has the skill and is more passionate. When I’m passionate the quality of my work and my ability to have a competitive presence has increased.”

The Passion Test is a tool that helps people clarify what their top five passions are.

Chris says: “Our passions are the clues to our destiny, the keys that unlock the door to our lives purpose and success.”

“Here’s the secret that will guarantee you a passionate life. “Whenever you are faced with a choice, decision or opportunity, choose in favour of your passion.”
The Passion Test On-Line takes people through the process with a Decision-Meter that helps them rate whether their decisions will take them closer or further away.

As Chris puts it “People today can’t afford to not follow their passions. Companies today can’t afford to have people who don’t.”

“Each of us have unique, skills, talents and contributions that only we can make. The ways to be most effective is to do something that enables each of us to share these contributions. The task of placement is to find the people that have the passions and unique gifts to make them ideally suited to do that work.”

With all the economic turmoil North American companies and workers have experienced this might be the beginning of a return to sanity.

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Arupa Tesolin is a Speaker, Innovation Trainer, and the owner of training company Intuita, is passionate about helping people learn to master intuition and creative power as innovation fuel. Author of the international book Ting! A Surprising Way to Listen to Intuition & Do Business Better and her recent book Spark – Raise Your Mind to the Power of Infinity & Create anything. Arupa is also the Canadian Partner for Learning Paths International an innovative fast-track training best-practice. www.intuita.com, arupa@intuita.com or 905.271.7272