Happiness At Work #115 ~ new science, old philosophies & everyday wisdom This week’s headline articles include words of wisdom about happiness from a billionaire, from happiness at work scientists and from people like you and me figuring out what happiness means and how to make it through the challenges and encounters of their everyday lives. + The Anne-Marie Rodriguez Radio Show – featuring Mark Trezona And the really exciting news for me is that Anne-Marie Rodriguez has invited me to be one of the expert guests, with wellbeing expert and trailblazer Nic Marks and Adrian Pancucci from ORSCC, in launch programme of her very first brand new weekly radio show exploring ways for people to create working lives worth living. This first programme will focus on happiness at work and you can tune in to hear the live programme live between 7.00-9.00pm GMT this Wednesday 5th November at urbanjazzradio.net But if you miss it I will bring you the link to its podcast version in a future post. Wish me luck… Here are some of the highlights in this collection: +In the film, Four Chambers, Imanuel Goncalves has gathered together four everyday stories that movingly illustrate the wisdom of everyday people making extraordinary choices, offering us intelligence that we cal all draw from in our own encounters and aspirations along the path of becoming happier. One of China’s most successful entrepreneurs, Alibaba founder Jack Ma writes that “happiness at work comes from your own attitude”, a message that is thoroughly endorsed by science of happiness experts like Shawn Achor, whose principles for achieving what he calls The Happiness Advantage are cinematically introduced in a new series of 1minute movies. +Ministers aim to boost the nation’s happiness with new wellbeing centre Increasing national well-being is to be put at the heart of Government policy-making, ministers will announce today, with the establishment of a new centre to measure the impact of policies on people’s happiness… +The Consequence of Unfair Workplace, Art Markman advocates the need for shifting the terms of engagement between us and our organisations away from a ‘contract’ and towards more a ‘covenant’ – which my Collins Dictionary defines as ‘a binding agreement’ from the Latin convenire meaning ‘to come together and make an agreement’… +The Five Drivers of Happiness At Work …imagine a mindset which enables action to maximise performance and achieve potential in these tough times. At the iOpener Institute for People and Performance, we understand that this is another way of describing happiness at work… +Leadership For The Millennial Generation: An Interview With Lindsey Pollak Lindsey Pollak is the author of the recent New York Times Best Seller, Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders. She is one of the country’s leading experts on the Millennial generation and consults with top corporations on attracting, engaging and managing their future leaders… What you can find in this week’s toolbox of practical techniques Here are our seven favourite practical guides you will find in this week’s toolbox of tips and techniques: +There Are Always a Million Distractions. Here’s How to Silence the Noise and Pay Attention. …what are the main sources of intrusion, how do they affect us, and what can be done to curb them? +10 Great Habits For Working From Home …Regardless of whether you work at home once a month or every day, there are a handful of crucial habits you’ll need to adopt if you want to work effectively… +14 Things Successful People Do At Weekends (Infographic) …from No.1 Making Time For Family and Friends to No. 14 Recharging… +How To Manage Every Personality Type …if you know Myers-Briggs Personality Types this is an excellent resource to adapt your influencing approach to best match the people you want to connect with from, from ‘staying strictly logical with ESTJs’ to ‘always acknowledging good work from INFPs… +How To Encourage Growth Under A Controlling Boss …three measures that can help both employees and leaders who have to deal with a controlling boss who is clearly stuck in the ‘this is the way things are done around here’ mindset to ensure that they are able to promote growth and collective success in their organisation. +How to be positive and realistic, at the same time Psychologist and leadership consultant Kathy Kramer on what makes great leadership these days… “Leaders do not realise how important they are in driving the change. They have a ripple effect that they often underestimate. People follow people, not just great ideas. Leaders have to put themselves into the equation – you are as important if not more so than any other strategy. People need to look at you, hear from you, and they need to know how much they matter.” +500 Most Popular Positive Psychology Pieces …an really useful searchable, downloadable resource of free online resources in a database containing 500 of the most popular webpages, writings, articles and pieces written on positive psychology. Worth filing away in your library of resources… We hope you find plenty here to enjoy and use to your own happiness advantage. wp.me/p1jy2u-1c9
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