Sep 17, 2026 · 7 min · 7 segments
Increasing your autonomy has a proven impact of work wellbeing and fulfilment and in this shortcut, Helen talks through 3 practical actions to help you to earn more autonomy at work. 🎯 What You'll…
Why do we want to bother earning more autonomy? Well, the research around this shows that the people who have the highest levels of autonomy are the people who have higher levels of well-being at work, and they are much more satisfied with the work that they do.
I think as a topic, it's something that I probably first started to consider when I came across Dan Pink's work on Drive, and he talks about drive as a, as a, a different way of talking about motivation, and the people that have the most motivation are people who have purpose, so the why behind the work; mastery, the skills to do the work; and autonomy, the freedom and space to do the work in the way that works for them.
And so today I just wanna talk a little bit about, well, how do we, how do we earn more autonomy if that's the payoff we get when it's present in our work? The first thing to think about is autonomy.
It is something that you earn rather than you ask for, so there are certain things that we need to do to make it easier for us to get it at work, and the first thing is trust.
Why do we want to bother earning more autonomy? Well, the research around this shows that the people who have the highest levels of autonomy are the people who have higher levels of well-being at work, and they are much more satisfied with the work that they do.
I think as a topic, it's something that I probably first started to consider when I came across Dan Pink's work on Drive, and he talks about drive as a, as a, a different way of talking about motivation, and the people that have the most motivation are people who have purpose, so the why behind the work; mastery, the skills to do the work; and autonomy, the freedom and space to do the work in the way that works for them.
And so today I just wanna talk a little bit about, well, how do we, how do we earn more autonomy if that's the payoff we get when it's present in our work? The first thing to think about is autonomy.
It is something that you earn rather than you ask for, so there are certain things that we need to do to make it easier for us to get it at work, and the first thing is trust.
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