On October 15 I’m speaking at the Well-Being@Work event in London along with some great people in the field, including Nic Marks and Henry Stewart.
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I’m in The Guardian (in The Bahamas)
When I was in The Bahamas last week, I did a radio interview and a newspaper interview with some really smart, passionate people.
You can hear the radio show here and see the two newspaper articles here and here.
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Join the Woohoo Academy in Copenhagen on June 16-19
10 people have already signed up for he first Woohoo Academy training, which will take place on June 16-19 in Copenhagen – and which will be awesome :)
The training is meant for:
- HR staff, managers and internal facilitators who want to get a real understanding of how to create a happy workplace.
- Members of the Woohoo Partner Program who want to develop their knowledge and skills.
Read all about it and sign up here.
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Have you ever done harmful work?
Have you ever done work that you now know was, on balance, mostly harmful?
Let’s say you did payday loans at ridiculously high interest rates, worked in a slaughterhouse where the animals clearly suffered, worked for a company that made land mines or something similar.
Here’s what I’d like to know: Did you think at the time that your job was harmful or did you ignore it or rationalize it somehow? How did it affect you and your coworkers? Did the company address it in any way or was it ignored inside the workplace?
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I’m a featured expert
I’m a featured expert on World HR Net, with an interview where I talk about what makes us happy at work.
I’m also in the papers in Denmark today:
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Herb Kelleher: I think people should have fun at work
I stumbled on this interview with Herb Kelleher, former CEO of Southwest Airlines and it is all kinds of awesome.
From the interview:
Well, I think people should have fun at work. It should be an enjoyable part of their life. They should gain psychic satisfaction from it.
I think most of us enjoy fun, and why not at work as well as at play? And so we’ve always encouraged people to be themselves, not to be robotic, not to be automatons. We don’t expect you to surrender your natural personality when you join Southwest Airlines. We want you to have some fun, we want you to have psychic satisfaction from your job. It’s not just about money, it’s also how you feel about what you’re doing.
We want people to be recognized, participated, diligent and creative. And you can’t ask people to be someone other than themselves and have that kind of creativity and dedication and participation. So, we liberate people at work.
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Warren Bennis: The most dangerous leadership myth is…
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
– Warren Bennis
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I’m speaking in Spain in June
In June I’ll be speaking at the 5th International Conference on Happiness at Work in Coruña in Northern Spain.
Considering that I’m also speaking in Chile later this year and possibly in Colombia, I should probably get cracking on learning Spanish :)
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Make a difference – or do something else
If you can not honestly say that your job is overall making life better for someone somewhere in some way that is meaningful to you, then you should be doing something else.
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We now have Woohoo Partners in 10 countries
A short while ago we announced our new Partner program.
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.
And we just reached a cool milestone: We now have partners in 10 different countries. There are now partners in Denmark, Norway, Turkey, Australia, Argentina, Colombia, US, South Africa, Bulgaria, and the UK.
That is AWESOME!
Would you like to join us? Read all about Woohoo Partners here.
