Here’s an excerpt from a speech I did in London where I focused on creating world class customer service by making your employees happy.
The video text is in Danish but the video itself is in English :)
Category: Happy At Work
How to be happy at work
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“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants.
The question is what are we busy about?”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Free webinar: How to stay happy when things get busy
Get the slides right here.
Are people in your workplace busy? Dumb question, right – everyone is these days.
Here are the results of one US study from 2005:
- 26% of employees were overworked often or very often in the last month
- 27% were overwhelmed by how much work they had to do often or very often in the last month
- 29% often or very often didn’t have time to step back and process or reflect on the work they were doing during the last month
And this was 10 years ago – indications are that it’s only gotten worse since.
This constant busyness is not only making us unhappy and stressed at work, it’s also hurting performance and keeping us form doing our best possible work.
Join our next free webinar to learn what we can do about it. Topics include:
- The negative effects of constant busyness on our happiness at work.
- Why overwork is not the answer and in fact usually makes things worse.
- Why we need time for reflection and learning at work.
- How some people end up convincing themselves they’re busy when really they’re not.
- How to create a workplace where people are happy even when they’re busy.
Date and time: Wednesday March 4th at noon US East coast time / 9am pacific time / 5pm GMT / 6pm Central European time.
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A happy cop
Music makes some people happy at work – and this cop is definitely one of them :)
I especially like how he has to look serious whenever he passes someone – and then busts lose right after!
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The Woohoo Partner Program is ALMOST here
We are days away from launching our partnership program – we call it Woohoo Partners.
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I need your best idea
If I write a short e-book about quitting your job, what should I call it?
Here are the best ideas from when I asked the same question on Facebook:
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Results of our intervention study: Short-term, mandatory interventions do not work
We have just completed our intervention study where we examined the effect of different happiness interventions in the workplace.
Our data show that short-term, superficial, mandatory interventions simply do not work. You can’t just come into a workplace and tell people to do X, to become happier at work.
You can read our report here: Happiness at work interventions – full report.
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Who you gonna call?
A symphony orchestra cuts loose and plays Ghostbusters:
I think there’s a case to be made for not taking our work too seriously :)
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Conference about happiness at work
We have JUST launched this year’s conference about happiness at work. This year we have 10 great speakers from 5 different countries who will share what they know abd do about happiness at work.
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Thank you Iceland
I’m back from Reykjavik where I did a workshop for Icelandic pharmaceutical company Medis (part of Actavis) at their 30th anniversary and 2015 kick-off meeting.
Thank you to everyone at Medis for being tremendously kind and for being such generous hosts.
I loved Iceland! People are kind and funny, Reykjavik is beautiful and the food there is AMAZING. I’ll be back :)
This means we’ve now spoken in 34 countries. Awesome!
From the workshop 
The view from the meeting room 
Inside the building 
The new concert house in Reykjavik where I spoke
