How does an organisation get through a huge crisis like COVID-19 safely and happily?
Garry Ridge is company Chairman and CEO at world-famous brand WD-40. I bet you have a can of WD-40 somewhere in your home! He is also a leader who has spent his career creating a culture where people can be happy and do great work together.
In this webinar, he shares how he does that and how he has lead WD-40 through tough times like the COVID-19 crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken workplaces in so many ways. Remote work, social distancing, and staying home is the new normal. Companies are affected, and many of them switched to survival mode, trying to keep their business afloat.
In the video above I talk to to visionary CEOs about how they handled the COVID-19 crisis and how to maintain your company culture and keep your employees happy in spite of COVID-19:
If you want more information on Menlo Innovation you should read Rich’s book Joy Inc. Sasa hasn’t written a book yet, but he mentions using Heartcount to measure workplace happiness and check in with employees and you can read all about it here. You can even try it free for 3 months in your organization.
Measuring happiness at work is a great idea and every workplace should do it because:
In short, if you’re not effectively and reliably measuring happiness at work, you’re missing out on one of the most effective tools to create a happier culture.
Sadly, the way most organizations do it just doesn’t work, because they measure too rarely (typically once a year) with too many questions and fail to follow up on results quickly.
We desperately wanted to fix that, so we created HeartCount – a tool that measures employee happiness weekly with very few but very relevant questions so that the organization can follow up immediately on any issues.
It’s incredibly simple:
Learn all about HeartCount and sign up for a demo here.
Disclaimer: I am a cofounder/co-owner of HeartCount and the one who came up with the idea for it, based on all the frustrations I noticed with the “regular” way of measuring satisfaction.
Our latest Chief Happiness Officer Academy was a huge hit with 23 engaged participants from 14 countries who are now ready to go out and make workplaces awesome.
We were completely blown away by how engaged and passionate the group was and how open they were about sharing questions, stories and experiences.
We had a great time going through the latest research and best practices on happiness at work. We also had a fantastic visit to Irma, where their CEO Søren Steffensen gave a talk on their happy culture.
If you’re interested, the next CHO Academy is in December – read all about it and sign up here.
Here are some of my favorite pics from this Academy.
Last week I did a workshop on “Leading With Happiness” for all the managers at an IKEA warehouse in Copenhagen and I have to say that it was an absolute pleasure. Like any other company, IKEA is facing many challenges and changes but this international group of 40 managers were clearly completely on board with the whole idea of happiness at work.
And while I was there, I stumbled on their wall of win – an entire wall of positive customer feedback, naming specific IKEA employees who’ve gone above and beyond.
What a simple but great way to celebrate your employees’ good work.
Most companies conduct regular job satisfaction surveys, but they often dont work very well and fail to deliver tangible improvements to employees’ perception of their workplace.
This leads to increased unhappiness among employees and from there to lower productivity and higher employee turnover.
In this free webinar we will cover:
The webinar is on June 17 from 1:00 pm-1:45 pm Copenhagen time and it’s of course free. Sign up here.
There is a tremendous amount of research that shows that happiness is great for employees AND for the company’s bottom line.
In this speech from our conference in 2017, I go through all the research and show why the future belongs to the happy.
We have already sold over 100 tickets for our International Conference on Happiness At Work in May to participants from 14 countries.
Don’t miss out on 2 great days and 15 inspirational speakers – See the full program and get your tickets here.
Workplaces all over the world focus more and more on happiness. In this short video from my opening talk at the Happiness@Work conference in Prague I talk about why.
Søren Steffensen, The CEO of Danish supermarket chain Irma, has a simple philosophy: The employees come first.
He also knows that Christmas is the busiest time of year for his people, so he is currently on a tour where he and his top leaders visit all 80 stores to meet the staff, drum up some energy and personally hand out Christmas presents to their people.
What a great thing for a top executive to take time to do, to show people that they’re valued.
The above pic is from one of the Copenhagen stores, where he found the actual, genuine, real Santa Claus behind the register :)
The Chief Happiness Officer Academy is our most in-depth 3-day training where we share everything we know about creating happier workplaces. Get an in-depth background in happiness at work, hear about the latest research in the field and learn how to use this in your own business.