Want to truly make your people happy but aren’t quite sure how to do it? Want to attract and retain the best people?

I’ll work closely with you and your organisation to understand your culture, spot areas for improvement and offer some ways to create a more positive workplace culture, and turn up that happiness dial.

If you’re looking  for something more in-depth than just a workshop or keynote let’s work together to create a bespoke solution, just right for your business. 

 

What this might look like: 

 

  • A culture audit to find out what’s going on in your business, where your strengths are and what your areas for improvement are 
  • Implementing a way to regularly and effectively measure the happiness of your people 
  • Working leadership teams to help them understand how they can support their people to thrive at work
  • Creating a bespoke education programme to give your people the tools and techniques they need to invest in their happiness at work
  • Working one-to-one with key individuals on their own happiness/resilience/leadership skills 
  • Working with Chief People Officer/Head of People to devise and embed a happiness at work strategy  
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5 myths about happiness at work

Wrong. The absence of disease isn’t health and the absence of misery isn’t happiness. Just because we might do enough as leaders to not have our people crying at their desks doesn’t mean we are invested in their happiness. Just because an employees comes in every day, does a good job and leaves without complaining about anything doesn’t mean they are happy.

Wrong. It’s right that some some people are more naturally optimistic but, with practice, you can become happier. There is a wealth of science that shows, when we know how, we can train our brains to be more positive. Asking someone to write down three good things that have happened in the last 24 hours may appear glib but this is about training the brain to spot positive things. When we learn to look for things we see them more easily.

Wrong. In fact blind optimism is a bad thing. Who wants to be in a plane where the pilot never believes anything bad can happen so doesn’t bother doing all the safety checks (not me for sure!). Just like in the world of work we don’t want to fail to look out for the risks and dangers, we just don’t want to be overwhelmed by the fear of them.

Wrong. The science tells us that being happier at work makes us more productive, more resilient, more creative, more accurate, more analytical, less likely to take time off sick, leave or burnout. Who doesn’t want those benefits? Yes, what a great wellbeing initiative to be able to say we are interested and investing in your happiness but it goes much further than that. There are real business benefits to helping people increase their happiness.

This one is only a half myth. Yes, people need to be invested in working on their own happiness but as a leader it is for us to help them with that, to show them we value their happiness, to allow them time to work on it, to give them the tools they need to become happier at work. Importantly we need to help them understand why being happy at work is important. As a leader if you can show you are invested in your own happiness it will show your people they should invest in theirs too.

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Together we can create happier workplaces.

Forget gimmicks like ice cream van visits or ping pong tables – let’s work together to build a positive culture where people feel valued and encouraged. Let’s help your people find purpose and meaning in their work.

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