Happiness At Work By Lionel Ketchian Happiness training at work can be extremely profitable for the company as well as the individual. A few brief sessions can produce enormous benefits. The cost is minimal, and the positive effects can be everlasting. The benefits of happiness training are numerous. Lets take a look at a few of them. BENEFITS FOR THE ORGANIZATION: Increased Production: Happy people are more productive workers. When the time flows better for workers, their ability to do their jobs is enhanced. Happiness not only produces a quantitative improvement, by increasing efficiency, but also a qualitative one by making a better product by virtue of pride, belief and commitment to ones job. Decision Making Ability Enhancement: Happiness reduces stress and uncertainty, which is actually confusion. People stop fearing the consequences and become part of the solution. Instead of creating problems, they are given the tools to become problem solvers. When people feel good about the job they are doing they do it better. Clients Experience Happiness: One of the finest benefits a happy individual can make to their company is the difference they make to their clients and the public. Happy employees treat clients substantially better. The employees manner and calmness, the way they speak, even the tonality of their voice makes people feel good about working with their company. But the employee has to have happiness in order for the client to get it. New customers are attracted to happy employees working in an organization. Happiness magnetizes sales toward the company. Decreased Absenteeism and Sick Leave: Happiness has a positive health connection. Happy people are less likely to catch colds. They recover faster from accidents and sickness than the average person does. More Energy Toward Work: It has been said, If you want a job done right ask a busy person to do it. The same adage is true of a happy person. If you want a job done right, than ask a happy person to do it. The more people like themselves and the job they are doing, the more energy they have. Happiness is contagious, and that energy will spread throughout the organization. Communication Enhancement: The most important aspect of business is communication. Good communication is a prime reason for success. It is also the leading reason for failure. Communication begins within the individual. The better one learns to communicate with oneself, the better they are able to communicate with others. Happy people with good self-esteem can communicate more honestly and effectively than others. Creativity can flow naturally. Teamwork Improvement: A chain is as strong as its weakest link. Enhancing the individual with happiness strength empowers the entire organizational chain. Unhappiness weakens the chain. Happiness creates a positive chain reaction. Cooperation will be experienced and enhanced. Commitment To The Business: People begin to feel that they are an integral part of the organization, and work to support it in their actions, and values. Company moral improves, and the faithfulness factor climbs. There is more truthfulness, honesty and ethical behavior. BENEFITS FOR THE MANAGEMENT: Being Ahead of the Competition: Incorporating happiness training in organizations allows the management to benefit from this new innovational style. People are not always motivated by money, so you will attract superior workers that are committed to their jobs. Higher Profits: More efficient workers, less employee turnover, better concentration and focus, better team building skills will add to the bottom line. Stock market gains and values would result from new management emphasis on happiness introduction for its workers. Making the Mission Statement Materialize: Your mission statement would be realized if the employees in your company or organization received happiness training. They would understand the shared vision of management and personally work toward making it a daily reality. Public Acknowledgment: Newspapers would be interested in the happiness polices instituted by companies and they would further enhance the managements image. It would attract competent and dedicated workers to the company as a result of this publicity. Public relations efforts would be enhanced. Employees Cherishing Their Jobs: Job satisfaction means that money is not the only reason people do things. Motivation will become a larger incentive for peoples actions. The work environment and quality of work will significantly improve due to peoples attitude. Friendlier surroundings allow more productive work to progress. Supervision Enhancement: Happier people are better and more aligned with management. Less critical supervision translates into more effective supervision and increased productive output. Leadership Values: The leaders of an organization have the opportunity to create something more than money is the only thing that matters, mentality. They can become part of creating a meaningful life not only for their workers and families, but for themselves as well. BENEFITS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL: Happiness at Home: One of the benefits for happiness at work is that people would go home happier. Being happier at home translates into a benefit to business because a better mental state and proper rest will mean employees can work more efficiently and productively the next day. They will be far less likely to take time off either because of poor health or excuses. Emotional Intelligence: There is a shift toward stress reduction, as people are taught happiness and begin to practice it at work. Happiness increases emotional control for the individual. It will increase the individuals coping skills, and the ability to improve their self-control. Increased Focus: Happiness is responsible for creating an increased ability to focus on the job at hand or the problem to be solved. People will waste less time and be more in the flow. Loving Work: Happiness at work creates the environment for people to actually love what they do. They begin to experience the feeling of loving their work. Since an employee spends 8-10 hours, five days a week at work it accounts for a great deal of their life. Valuing their Positions: The reason people can actually love work is that the management is giving people an opportunity to use happiness in their life during working hours. Happiness allows workers to value their position at work and feel good about their responsibilities and duties. Feeling Appreciated: How do all these benefits take place not only for the worker but for the management as well? One of the ingredients to happiness is gratitude. When you make someone feel appreciated they feel better about themselves and what they are doing for the company. They feel like they are making a contribution to the other people in the company and to the people who purchase the products and services of their company. Employees feel they are making a difference. There are many benefits for the management of companies and organizations. They will be realized by giving the people in their employ a better understanding of the experience of being happy at work. Happiness works! Happiness is profitable for business. Lets work together! Send this article to your boss. We can work together, so that we can all profit from happiness.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:25:14 +0000
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