Here’s a very />interesting article from from Harvard Business Review on the effect of love in corporate culture. I’ve certainly experienced this, and hope you have too.
Archive for happiness – Page 5
Have you laughed today?
A great team knows how to laugh together, and a great leader uses humor effectively in many ways. Take a look at this Inc. article today, and use it to make yourself a better leader, and your workplace more fun. :
Not a usual topic of this blog, but so fascinating I couldn’t resist.
Read Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson’s short list of new knowledge founded in scientific research about love — it will surprize you and change the way you think about this important subject. Even Dr.Fredrickson says she and learned some lessons in the process!
For certain emotions — particularly happiness and anger — only a few hours of strengths usage are needed to maximize one’s chance of having a good day. By contrast, stress and worry decrease, and respect increases with each additional hour of reported strengths usage. For each of these emotional experiences, every additional hour of strengths usage adds as much benefit as the first hour. One reason why these emotions – stress, worry, and respect — differ from some of the others may be that laughter and anger tend to be fleeting, momentary experiences. By comparison, respect is an attitude that forms over time.
Here’s an article from the Gallup organization about their extensive research on using strengths, and the powerful effect this can have on how you experience your day.
When Americans Use Their Strengths More, They Stress Less.
Coaching Questions:
Are you using your strengths every day? If not, why not?
Do you know what your strengths really are? If not, how can you assess them?
How can you make a change, no matter how small, that will get more of your strengths into use this week?
One of my favorite books of all time is, “Learned Optimism” by Martin Seligman, PhD.
An “oldie but a goodie”, I can’t tell you how many copies of this paperback I have purchased and them ended up giving away. What I like about it is that the research is so compelling for the “optimism advantage”, and this book actually tells you how you can increase your level of optimism, (rather than just telling you why it’s good), in specific and useful ways.
Here’s a related article on Optimism and Leaders from Forbes:
5 Reasons Why Optimists Make Better Leaders – Forbes.
Tell me what you think about this.
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Warm regards,
Lisa
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Here’s a lovely gift to all my readers:
Want to have the best workday ever? Day after day? It’s not as difficult as you think.
These 10 tweaks to your everyday behavior will virtually guarantee you a day that’s not just enjoyable but allows you to get more done than you ever thought possible.
Have a Great Day at Work: 10 Tricks | Inc.com.
Coaching Tip:
What can you do to make your days better?
Managing stress and the fast moving pace of life is a constant challenge. Too much stress and you burn out; too little stress and you become bored. Performing at optimal levels requires that you take stock of what stresses you and utilize specific strategies for managing those stressors. Recently, Harvard Medical School published a list of the ten most common stressors. Here is that list of ten, along with quick strategies for dealing with each:
Quick Strategies to Bust the 10 Most Common Stressors | Psychology Today.
14 Easy Ways to Get Insanely Motivated
These simple strategies can keep you energized both on and off the job.
How to Motivate Yourself: 14 Easy Ways | Inc.com.
(This has to be one of my favorite posts!)
The latest exercise-science research suggests increased physical activity can improve your mood, make you smarter, and promote “enduring happiness.”
WOW!
There are two (and possibly more) ways regular physical activity works to make you calmer, smarter, and happier. (See full article below.)
How to Become Calmer, Smarter, and Happier | Michigan Today.
Coaching Tip:
How can you use this information to become calmer, smarter and happier, starting today?
What if you could reconfigure the “building blocks” of your job to make it really fit you?
Here’s my previous interview on the Leadership Focus Radio Show with Jane E. Dutton, PhD, distinguished professor at the University of Michigan, and co-director of its Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the Ross School of Business, joins us to talk about just that. She brings to our show an entire career of experience dedicated to transforming and energizing organizations through research on positive organizing and leadership. Her current research focuses on how high quality connections, positive meaning and emotions contribute to both individual’s and organizational flourishing. Energize your workplace and yourself! Listen as Jane helps us to find the secrets to redo and rethink work from the inside out through a new, intriguing and brilliantly successful tool and process called “job crafting.”
Here is a related and very good Harvard Business Review piece by Amy Gallo: