Here’s an excellent article about happiness at work in Spanish written by Martin Leroy of Grupo Aukera, our Woohoo Partner in Buenos Aires.
If you have a workplace in Argentina that needs some happiness, he’s your man.
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The Parks and Rec cast on improvising lines
In this clip the cast of Parks and Recreation talk about improvising some of their lines and how the funniest line ever spoken on the show was improvised by Chris Pratt.
I really like that they get to do that and I love Jim O’Heir’s comment at the end about how they can do that because the studio is a safe environment where they feel free to take a chance and make mistakes.
Every workplace could learn from that.
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Webinar April 8: A tour of the Woohoo Partner Program
Our next webinar is for everyone who is interested in our brand new Woohoo Partner Program.
Here’s a short video introducing the program:
I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am about this. You can read all about the Woohoo Partner Program here but the basic idea is simple: You can get access to all of the materials that we have created and refined over the years with clients like LEGO, Microsoft, IKEA and Shell and use them to go create happy workplaces.
You can use all of these materials as an external consultant with your clients or you can use them internally with employees, managers and teams inside your organization to make it a happier workplace.
We launched it 2 weeks ago and we already have partners in Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Turkey, USA, UK, Ireland, Australia and South Africa – and we want more from these countries and from all over the world.
In the webinar we’re going to give a tour of the program and answer any questions you have.
Date and time: Wednesday April 8th at noon US East coast time / 9am pacific time / 5pm GMT / 6pm Central European time.
This webinar will be around 30 minutes long.
The webinar will be held live on our youtube channel, so there is no login needed and no software to install. If you can watch youtube, you can join. There will be a chance to ask questions via chat.
Sign up right here:
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Coffee please
Love this. Maybe we should introduce a similar pricing model for our speeches and workshops :)
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5 tips to stay happy at work even when you’re very busy
Yesterday we had our latest webinar – this one was on staying happy even when you’re busy at work. You can watch the whole thing here:
Get the slides right here.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments. And if you have ever tried being busy AND happy at the same time, please tell us what made that possible.
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The Woohoo Partner Program is now OPEN
Yesterday we pushed the big red “LAUNCH” button and invited the first 15 partners from around the world onto our new Partner Program. We currently have partners in Denmark, Norway, Australia, UK, USA, Turkey, Argentina and South Africa.
The Partner Program teaches you everything we know about creating happier workplaces. It’s aimed at external consultants who want to sell their services and internal consultants (e.g. HR) who can use the tools internally in their workplace.
There’s an insane amount of material in there, including 13,5 hours of video – with more coming.
Want to joins us? Read all about it here.
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Catch me in Miami in May
By the way – if you have half a chance, you should absolutely go to this conference. I’ve been to every single one of the WorldBlu events and they are the best business conferences I know of anywhere in the world.
They’re about creating workplaces that are based on freedom instead of control and the speakers always blow my mind. Also, the other participants are incredibly interesting and inspiring people.
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The CEO who made pancakes
A few weeks ago I did a workshop for a pharmaceutical company in Iceland called Medis as part of their 30 year anniversary and strategy kick-off. As you can see, they kinda liked it :) The guy in the front row in the blue suit is their CEO Valur Ragnarsson.
Now, as we all know a workshop itself changes nothing so we always work with our clients to come up with a plan that will actually make a difference in the workplace. As part of that plan, I challenged Valur to come up with something he could do that would be fun, easy and visible – just to show people that he is committed to creating a happy workplace.
And a few days later he sent me these pics where he’s making fresh waffles and pancakes for his employees:
What an awesome idea :)I asked Valur how he liked the experience and here’s what he said:
I thoroughly enjoyed it – the biggest joy I actually got out of observing the reaction of the colleagues !
FYI we did not announce anything but simply showed up in the corridor without notice and took people pleasantly bysurprise….. now it will boil down to a plan and team supporting this (which we have in place already btw).
The only problem was that the smoke alarm kept going off, so they had to temporarily disable it :)
Well done, Valur!
Just to be clear: We’re not saying that you can turn an unhappy workplace into a happy one, by having the CEO make pancakes :)
What we’re saying is that upper management can support the process of creating a happy workplace by doing something fun and unexpected that shows employees that they are committed to the goal and willing to go a little bit outside of their comfort zone.
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Happy employees = happy customers
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 :)
