The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Month: January 2012

  • #h5yr and #h5is – find out how these two cryptic twitter tags promote happiness at work.

    H5is

    Take a moment to check out these two websites with some slightly cryptic links:

    They were created by Douglas Robar, a member of the Umbraco Community, that develops and uses the open source Umbraco CMS.

    They wanted a good way to share both success and mistakes and since there are hundreds of people working with Umbraco spread out all over the world they do this through twitter.

    If you want to praise a fellow member of the community for doing good work you can mention them on twitter and add the twitter tag #h5yr for High Five, You Rock (based on one of the exercises from our speeches).

    If you’ve just made a mistake at work and want to share it so others can learn from your example, you can tweet about it and add #h5is for High Five, I Suck.

    The two sites above list the most recent tweets that contain those two tags so the community members have a record of their successes and their failures and can appreciate and learn from both.

    And remember: It’s important for a workplace to celebrate when things go well, but equally important to celebrate mistakes and failure. Here’s why.

    PS.
    Also note that there is no h5ys (High Five You Suck) tag. That would NOT promote happiness at work!

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  • Friday Spoing

    This is the very definition of Spoing:

    Have a very happy weekend :o)

  • Happiness at work in Bangkok

    I always say that happiness at work can be found anywhere, in almost any job. Here’s more evidence to support that hypothesis from a man who makes ice tea on the streets of Bangkok:

    Do you enjoy your job this much – or do it with half as much flair? If not… why not?

  • Give it your best shot

    Arbejdsglæde

    How do you think this word above is pronounced? Make a recording of your best guess (video or audio) and post it here…

    We need this for a little surprise project we’re working on. And yes, Danish is a weeeeeeird language.

    UPDATE:
    Here’s an attempt from the US:

    And another great one from Poland:

    Nice tries both… but not quite there. What’s your best shot?

  • Hmmm… is this me?

    Last night I was reading the excellent thriller novel Killer Move by Michael Marshall when I came to this passage where one of the main characters arrives at his office and runs into his assistant:

    “How’s…” I struggled and failed to come up with the name of her spawn. “Feeling better?”

    This was not something I cared about in the least, but that morning a Danish positivity blogger had suggested going out of one’s way to attempt to get inside other people’s lives and minds, however small and unappealing they might appear, as a thought experiment in connection building.

    Now this may be conceited of me but I gotta ask… is that me? There aren’t that many Danish positivity bloggers and this is exactly the kind of thing I write about, eg. here, here and here.

    I’ve been featured in The Times, The NY Times, Washington Post, BBC and Economic Times of India but this would be the first time I’ve ever been mentioned in a crime novel :o)