How to be happy at work
I’ll be speaking at this awesome event in New Zealand on March 24. Sadly, I don’t get to go there so I’ll be speaking remotely.
Olia Essina has invited a great group of New Zealand and international experts in team happiness to share their research, experience, and tools to change the work place happiness level.
DATE: 24 of March
TIME: 10 am to 2.30 pm NZ time.
Most workplaces COMPLETELY misunderstand productivity.
They’re stuck in an industrial-age mindset that is outdated and actively harmful to employees.
In this video I present my suggestion for The 5 New Rules Of Productivity.
Let me know what you think!
Mush Panjwani is on a mission to serve great coffee AND make his home country of Pakistan better. His company, Coffee Wagera, has 7 cafés around the country and is expanding rapidly but the coolest thing is how Mush does all of this with a focus on culture, happiness and positive impact.
Here are just a few of Mush’s pioneering ideas:
There is so much more. Watch this video and learn from a truly inspiring leader what it takes to build a business from the bottom up that is based on happiness and positive impact.
Also, check out this eid greeting from some of Wagera’s happy employees:
Some managers think that employees must always be pressured or externally motivated to perform better. That’s just not true. Here are the three factors that help employees to higher performance and be happy at work at the same time.
Profits or People—What Should Leaders Focus on First?
Both are important but in this Heartcount video I argue that a leader’s most important skill is to create good relationships with their employees.
That’s how you get great results!
The attitude employees have towards the company is incredibly important.
In this video I talk about why it matters and how to improve employees’ attitudes towards the organization and the huge role the CEO and upper management plays in this.
According to research an unprecedented number of employees are planning to leave their jobs in the near future and companies are going to have to deal with this or face losing all of their best people.
In this video I share:
Global warming is an existential threat to all humanity and corporations emit the vast majority of manmade greenhouse gases.
If you currently work for a company that does not urgently strive to become carbon neutral in a very short time frame, you have two choices:
It doesn’t matter if you’re the CEO or the receptionist, you have an ethical responsibility to not use your time and talents in the service of a workplace that is wrecking the planet.
If enough of us act on this, we can force more corporations to take the climate seriously, either by changing their behavior from the inside or by sapping them of critical employee talent.
You can change things – and at the very least you can make sure that your work days aren’t spent hurting our children’s futures.
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.
