Summary: When work is connected to an altruistic purpose, people may be become highly motivated. There’s a very interesting article on the Harvard Business Review site (one of many) that describes a beneficial relationship between the happiest people and the most difficult challenges. (This notion is hard to resist, and it may be entirely accurate.) [...]
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Summary: The current ways of doing business may be nothing more than old habits that didn’t work particularly well in the first place. This is hard to believe, but apparently a technology company called NextJump has a policy that does not allow firing their employees. (NextJump manages employee rewards programs for scores of Fortune 1,000 [...]
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Summary: Social connectedness can be a predictor of health and productivity. – Recent research shows our health is linked to positive social connections. One of the last posts here was about the use of personal technology by employees, such as their own laptops and smart phones and how that utilization can make them more efficient [...]
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Summary: It’s not easy to build a happy and engaged workforce but these three steps can help you get started. - Making sure your leadership team is engaged - Finding out the truth about how your employees feel about your organization - Survey or interview employees to find engagement gaps Over the past twelve months I’ve had [...]
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Summary: Relaxation is important for health and maintaining life/work balance. – Sometimes working less increases productivity because it allows more time to take care of oneself such as sleeping, eating and exercising properly. – Overworking can lead to lower productivity, because it generates extra stress. This post is almost Part II of the last one [...]
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Summary: Happiness and a sense of community in the workplace are linked. Key Take Aways: – Authentic expression is an integral part of community. – Without it, employees may feel disconnected from their workplaces and research has indicated this disconnection can increase their risk of having accidents. A recent article on the Harvard Business Review [...]
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Summary: It may be helpful to actively focus on positive emotions to generate happiness and be more effective. – Paying attention to positive emotions and growing them tends to create more. – Positive emotions such as hope, serenity, contentment and gratitude are associated with happiness, skill-building and social interaction. Gratitude, joy, contentment…words we may hear [...]
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Summary: Happiness and virtue have been theorized to be linked for millennia. – Identifying one’s own values and documenting them so they can be tracked could be an effective way to address personal happiness and professional success. Benjamin Franklin was known for being very industrious, inventive and original. As a boy he lived in a [...]
Continue Reading → Summary: Respecting employees and including them in the organization can improve teamwork and business performance. Key Take Aways: – Employee recognition programs and matching employee values to an organization’s can improve results. – Family is not just a group of individuals in the same space, it is more about shared values. Sir Richard Branson posted [...]
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Summary: Repeated bouts of unemployment might increase heart attack risk very much. Key Take Aways: – Staying socially connected during periods of unemployment will likely be healthier than becoming socially isolated. – Seeking support and fellowship could also result in getting interviews or a job. Most of the articles posted on the Delivering Happiness at [...]
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