What to Do When You Do Not Feel Valued at Work? 10 Coaching Practices to Try
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Practices that may help
- Clarify how your role contributes to others
Map the concrete downstream impact your work and presence have on specific people.
Mattering: Feeling Like You Count - Practice worth-independent-of-achievement
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
Self-Worth vs. Self-Esteem - Find meaning through what you create or contribute
Locate meaning in the work or deed you give to the world, not only in what you get from it.
Man’s Search for Meaning, Made Practical - Map your manager’s top three priorities
Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss - Valued living audit: how much are you actually living your values?
Rate both how important each value is and how consistently you have been living it — the gap is where to focus.
Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical - Use value-based self-affirmation before threatening evaluations
Before a threatening evaluation, write for 10 minutes about a value that matters to you — unrelated to the domain being evaluated.
Power Posing Revisited - Review the bullseye weekly to track real movement
Re-mark each domain every week and compare — small outward or inward shifts are your feedback loop.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - The practice of self-assertiveness
Honor your wants, needs, and values by expressing them in the world — appropriately and openly.
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Made Practical - Write about a value that matters to you
Before a stressful or threatening situation, spend five minutes writing about a value that is genuinely important to you.
Self-Affirmation Theory, Made Practical - Establish inclusion safety — belonging without conditions
Make every team member feel valued and accepted as a human being before expecting performance.
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My work feels like it disappears into a void
- On a day where I produced nothing
- My work has started to feel like an empty grind of tasks I do for myself and my paycheck, and I’m hungry to feel that what I make or do actually matters to someone beyond me
- I keep delivering work I’m proud of and it somehow lands flat with my boss, and I’m realizing I have no real idea what they’re actually being judged on or pressured about
- There’s a low hum of dissatisfaction in my life I can’t pin down
Related concerns
- How To Deal With Not Feeling Valued At Work
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
Practice worth-independent-of-achievement
- How To Deal With Not Being Valued At Work
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
- Signs You Are Not Valued At Work
Map the concrete downstream impact your work and presence have on specific people.
Clarify how your role contributes to others
- What To Do When You Are Not Valued At Work
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
- How To Feel More Valued At Work
Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
Map your manager’s top three priorities
- How To Stop Feeling Undervalued At Work
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
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