How to be happy at work
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of giving the closing keynote at the 3rd annual Happiness@Work conference in Prague to a sold-out audience of 350 people.
I spoke about Leading With Happiness based on my new book and you can see the entire speech above.
On January 25 I’ll be doing my first ever workshop in Austria together with Gea Peper from Happy People Better Business.
I published my latest book, Leading With Happiness, 3 days ago and it’s been getting some amazingly positive reviews.
I have also shared 3 free chapters from the book at leadingwithhappiness.com if you want a feel for what the book is like.
One of the biggest challenges for companies these days is to attract, retain and motivate young employees.
There is a huge debate on how Millennials and Gen Zers are spoiled. They come into the workplace expecting recognition, professional growth, meaningful work and reasonable working hours. Many managers struggle to relate and ask “What is wrong with young people these days?” We ask “What is wrong with everyone else, that we’ve given up on those things?”
McDonald’s Denmark relies heavily on young employees and have handled this challenge so successfully that they’ve won first place in the Danish Great Place to Work awards several times.
At our international conference on happiness at work in 2017, their head of HR Mette Hybschmann shared how they created a workplace culture where young employees are happy and motivated and experience professional and personal growth. You can see her entire speech here and get lots of specific ideas for motivating young employees.
“Leading with happiness is compelling—it’s useful, well-researched, and downright fun to read.”
– Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author
My latest book, Leading with Happiness: How the Best Leaders Put Happiness First to Create Phenomenal Business Results and a Better World is out TODAY and I could not be more excited.
The book presents a simple but radical idea: The fundamental goal of any leader should be to increase happiness in the world. Leaders who don’t do that, are doing it wrong.
Drawing on lessons from psychology, neurobiology and philosophy, the book demonstrates why leaders should put happiness first – for themselves, their employees, their customers, and the wider world – and why happy leaders are more successful.
It’s been very well received already. Garry Ridge, the CEO of WD-40 Company, said “Every leader should read it. That type of leadership has been integral to our success and I know it will boost your results too.” Henry Stewart, the CEO of Happy said “This is a book that the world needs. It will move you. It will excite you. It will inspire you. And it could well change your life.”
The initial reviews on Amazon are VERY positive too:
You can read more about the book on its website at www.leadingwithhappiness.com and you can buy it on Amazon as a Kindle e-book or as a paperback.
The latest World Happiness Report, which ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, was released on 20 March 2017 by the United Nations. It is co-authored by Oxford Saïd’s Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, who has focused on happiness at work.
Here he explains the most important findings.
It’s official – my next book, Leading With Happiness, comes out on November 21st.
Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author, calls it “Compelling, useful, well-researched, and downright fun to read.”
Preorders are already open for the Kindle e-book version – get it here. Paper books will become available on the publication date.
I am REALLY excited to announce that my next book “Leading With Happiness” comes out on November 21st. Read all about it here.
You are hereby cordially invited to read it completely FREE and before it goes on sale. The only thing we ask in return, is that you review it online when it is published. Click here to see how it works and sign up to The Early Reviewers Secret Club :) Access is limited to the first 500 people and you must sign up no later than November 2nd.
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There is currently huge interest in the 30-hour workweek in many workplaces . But is this just a pipe dream or could it actually lead to better results, happier workplaces and less stress?
In this video I talk to Lena Rübelmann and Juliana Wolfsberger who have written a masters thesis called “The 30-hour Workweek -A Promising Alternative for Knowledge Workers?” at Lund University School of Economics and Management about their findings. My favorite: Switching to a 30-hour workweek does not reduce output. People get as much work done as they did before, even though they work fewer hours.
If you want to know more, Juliana and Lena are happy to share their findings. You can reach them here:
Other companies are finding the same thing, including Toyota Center Gothenburg, who 12 years ago, went from a normal 40-hour work week to only working 30 hours a week – and found that employee happiness, productivity, customer satisfaction and profits all went up. At our2015 Happiness at Work Conference, CEO Martin Banck explains why they made that weird decision, how they did it in practice and what has happened since then:
“Without self-respect genuine happiness is scarcely possible. And the man who is ashamed of his work can hardly achieve self-respect.”
– Bertrand Russell
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