Happiness at Work edition #135 highlights
After many months we have published a new collection of stories, research and helpful guidelines linked to building and maintaining our happiness at work. Thank you for your patience. Here is a...
View ArticleSeligman’s PERMA+1 Essentials for Flourishing
Positive psychology is not yet twenty years old. In the short time since Martin Seligman’s 1998 call to turn on a scientific inquiry into what helps human beings to flourish, rather than merely...
View ArticleWhat you’ll find in our February 2016 Happiness At Work collection #132
Nuns from Tyburn Convent, Marble Arch perform a sponsored skip to rebuild the convent front, 17 August 1989. (Archive ref. GUA/6/9/2/1/1). Photo by Graham Turner from the Guardian story: Memorable...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #123 ~ Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. Take the next step…
waiting to breathe This post collects together some different ideas about why pausing and making time for quietness and simply to breathe is essential to our happiness at work, along with some...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #122 ~ People: our greatest resource, now as it has always...
happy employees We are more and more recognising that the ‘soft people skills’ are neither unimportant nor inevitable, and we fail to give them our best attention and expertise at our peril. “…given...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #121 ~ Freeing Your Voice
freeing & Hearing diverse voices This week’s theme gathers recent stories and videos that all speak to the importance of freeing our voices and finding effective ways to be heard, seen and...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #119 ~ latest signs that our wellbeing matters and will...
Photo: Mark Trezona 2014 Every single person could become more effective and more able to relate to others by developing greater understanding about – and practical capabilities in – their own and each...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #117 ~ Positivity & Overcoming Self-Doubt
Urban Abstract Self-Portrait (See-ming Lee) “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” I happened to notice this Forbes Thought For The Day on Tuesday 18th...
View ArticleWorker Wellbeing and Wellbeing Performance ~ Dept. for Business Innovation &...
happy employees are more productive This communicative and richly informative report is well worth reading in its entirety, but here is a summary of its main findings in relation to the question: Does...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #116 ~ surviving the mid-point slump
Green Grotto, Jamaica What is it about the middle that seems to suck away at our happiness? This week’s headline research news reports a mid-life slump in our happiness levels in the West, which then...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #115 ~ new science, old philosophies & everyday wisdom
The Golden Circle of our wisdom about happiness (BridgeBuilders STG Ltd 2014) This week’s headline articles include words of wisdom about happiness from a billionaire, from happiness at work scientists...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #112 ~ ways to build resilience (happiness’ armour-plated...
resilience – one step at a time This week’s Happiness At Work takes another look at resilience – the tougher, stronger, beefed up cousin of happiness. Resilience is becoming one those things we are all...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #109 ~ our ordinary power
Balloons Several years ago while I was enjoying the fun and reward of making learning programmes with him, Mike Phipps posited this great question, which turned out to be compelling enough to found a...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #108 ~ be a clown, be a clown, be a clown
all the fun of the fair Be a clown, be a clown All the world loves a clown Be the poor silly ass And you’ll always travel first class Judy Garland – Be A Clown Lyrics by Cole Porter This post pulls...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #107 ~ leadership lessons for us all
In Praise of People (Russell Taylor) How can we all draw from some of the latest (and some of the oldest) leadership thinking to increase our own happiness and success at work, and the happiness and...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #106 ~ so much more than a nice to have feeling
fibonacci_spirals_in_the_mandelbrot_set___by_ichsehetotemenschen-d5m7ccb The world of work is most definitely changing. A whole variety of irresistible social, economic, technological and human forces...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #105 ~ making great relationships at work
Relativity (Escher) We know that strong and successful relationships are essential and central to our flourishing, in our work, for our careers and in every aspect of our lives. But making and...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #104 ~ highlights in this collection
15 Life Lessons From Banksy Street Art That Will Leave You Lost For Words Here are some of the best stories in this week’s new Happiness At Work edition #104 15 Life Lessons From Banksy Street Art That...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #103 – highlights in this edition
Happiness At Work – edition #103 Here is this week’s new collection. You will find the usual concentration of positive ideas and practical ways forward in the articles we have featured. But we start...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #102 ~ how it makes us more creative, productive and...
what is happiness? This week our headline stories all provide representations of what we now know about happiness at work: how it can be learned, developed and sustained, how it increases our greater...
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