by Alex Jekowsky Summary: How can we still find happiness after striking out on life’s curve balls? What can we control? Key Take Aways: Ask yourself what elements of your life you can and cannot control. Physical limitations? Work Life? Work Environment? Health? Mental State? Relationships? Q: How can you become the CHO of your life, your company? A: What [...]
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Summary: Paying employees to do charity work in the local community can increase their job satisfaction. Key Take Aways: – Paid volunteer service may be an effective way of increasing employee engagement in the workplace. – Employee engagement is a very important factor in an organization’s success and too many are not engaged. The volunteer [...]
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Summary: Whining in the workplace can be damaging to productivity and morale. Key Take Aways: – Whining can create stress in the office which disrupts learning, memory and performance. – There are a number of approaches for managing whiners. About 18% of U.S. employees are unengaged, likely to complain about their employers or negative, indicated [...]
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We are all leaders in our workplaces and wherever we are in our world. We DO make a difference if we choose to lead from where we are. We are stepping into a new age of leadership. The age of living the SPIRIT of leadership, where we are facilitators not dictators. What do I mean [...]
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I’ve written previously that one route to a happier workplace is to enable people to choose who manages them, and change their manager if its not working out. Some organizations find that a bit of a challenge but a good first step is to involve people when managers are recruited. Ella Heeks was Managing Director [...]
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Here’s a business tip for the future. A few years ago, my friend Cheryl Martin mentioned that we should do “future boards” as a team building activity. The idea is to create a present reminder of what you would like to unfold in your future, using pictures, words, or whatever best represents the idea. Some [...]
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Last month, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, and Nic Marks, lead author of NEF’s innovative Happy Planet Index, and I launched an exciting new survey that measures happiness at work. If you’re a member of our community, you already know that Tony Hsieh’s best-selling book, Delivering Happiness, inspired the creation of Delivering Happiness, the company. [...]
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My last post was on finding out what your people are good at, to help them play to their strengths. So how can you put this idea into practice? Georgie Fienberg is the founder of Afrikids, an inspirational charity working to improve the quality of life of vulnerable children in northern Ghana. Sustainability is key [...]
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Are you and your people using your strengths at work? One of the simplest ways to make your people happier, and more productive, is to ensure they spend their time at work doing what they are good at. That may sound obvious but it is surprisingly rare. Based on asking over a million people, Gallup [...]
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How do you treat people at work? At 4 p.m. each day at Happy, my London-based training company, it is ice cream time. Our learners take a break and are introduced to the freezer full of frozen goodies. After a day learning IT or management, most find it a refreshing change. And it gives a [...]
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