Happiness at Work

Leaders need to be thinking about how they can promote growth and not worry about having answers to everything, says Mario Moussa, co-author of Committed Teams and The Culture Puzzle. Find out why his biggest concern post-COVID, is company culture and connection and why people feel more engaged when they feel like they're building history together.

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Is it better to build on your weaknesses or build on your strengths, asks Eric Shepherd, executive director or talent transformation guild and co-author of Talent Transformation: Develop Today's Team for Tomorrow's World of Work. Eric says today it's best to build on strength and find a job that suits your skills and personality. The more we can use our natural behaviors at work the more successful and happier we'll be.

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So many people choose careers because of the pay check, but we need to start looking at professional growth differently, says Todd Miller, author of ENRICH: Create Wealth in Time, Money, and Meaning; a book about owning your life, dreams, and finances. Years ago Tom was flabbergasted at how business people made short term and foolish career decisions based on the size of the signing bonus, find out why he says that has to change and how the pandemic has helped us see things differently.

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One of the biggest mistakes managers make for self-managing teams is to step away, says Jef Cumps. Co-founder of iLean and author of Sociocracy 3.0, Jef says managers need to hold the space for teams, and provide guidance and psychological safety. Jef will also be speaking at our upcoming Forward Webinar where he'll be talking about self-managing teams in a post-pandemic world.

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The key to successful companies with thriving cultures, is to remove HRs obligation to the company. Rebecca Weaver, the founder and CEO of HR Uprise, a company that connects people with HR coaches to help grow, develop, and navigate tough workplace challenges, says employee advocacy is on the rise. It took a second wave of the #MeToo movement for Rebecca to realize that years earlier she'd experienced pregnancy discrimination at work. That realization, coupled with personal challenges, has helped her focus her energies and teach others that how we spend our time needs to count.

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Ninety six percent of leaders experience burnout at some point in their careers, says Charlotte Wiseman, a positive psychology consultant that focuses on CEO burnout and workplace wellbeing. It took Charlotte feeling like she couldn't live another day, in order to realize the importance of mental health on leaders. Find out what is missing in terms of properly addressing mental health at work and why we've only scratched the surface, even with renewed focus on it because of COVID-19.

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People spend 25% of their time bending themselves out of shape for others, says Wei-Li Chong, U.S. President of MindGym, a behavior change company that works to create company-wide behavioral change and improve culture. In order to be truly inclusive, companies have to help organizations understand the difference between making an honest mistake and what should be forbidden.

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The renowned master of collaboration, Carlos Valdes-Dapena, author and founder and managing principal of Corporate Collaboration Resources, says collaboration is key to creating successful organizations, but not enough focus is placed on what it takes to collaborate and measuring how people work in collaborative settings. Find out why trust doesn't need to come before collaboration, but why a company needs to create an environment where people can trust each other.

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The need for companies to care about people is not only trendy, but necessary, for organizations to survive. Lorna Borenstein, founder and CEO of Grokker, a company focused on wellbeing and engagement solutions, and author of the new book It's Personal: The Business Case for Caring, says there's a financial, human and brand case for why companies need to invest in employee well-being. Above all, she says, is the need to connect employees to each other and to you as a company, likely the most under exercised muscle that most companies mistake.

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Recognition expert and director of Workstars, Andrew Greenwood, says we have to turn off rewards and start with recognition, if we're going to create thriving, engaged and loyal teams. Find out why trust is the key to peer-to-peer recognition and why micro incentives is the way of the future.

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