Happiness at Work

Back for another inspirational podcast, David Burkus, business thought leader and author of new book, Leading from Anywhere, explains how to be a powerful and inspirational remote leader, and make sure your team doesn't suffer burnout. Learn why successful teams are boundaryless and have a culture of shared understanding.

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The key to being happy is focusing on internal happiness, rather than thinking that when we achieve certain milestones everything will be ok, says Michelle Wax, founder of the American Happiness Project, a company that focuses on helping teams thrive in uncertainty and create positive mindsets. Happy people cut out those that drain them and know that the key to success is starting the day off on their own terms.

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We have to get past the stories we tell ourselves in order to create the life we want at work, says Carson Tate, founder of Working Simply and author of her newest book, Own It. Love It. Make It Work. In order to demand the job you want, you need to check your assumptions, know how you want to be recognized and rewarded and remember that you add value.

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Leaders are often so focused on the drive, they can overlook ways they might not be respecting others' dignity, says Marilyn Gist, executive coach and author of The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations & Great Results. Leaders need to balance confidence with arrogance and appearing meek and above all, they have to understand that they can't have healthy relationships with employees if they they don't support other people's sense of self worth

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Jill Valdez, founder and COO of LINK, and author of The Ultimate Guide to Bringing Out the Best In Your People, is back on our podcast for an insightful look at what to do when you hate your job but love the company. Jill says creating change is about identifying people of influence that you can speak to, articulating why you don't like the role and taking intelligent risks.

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A lack of empowerment and micromanagement, continue to be leadership blind spots when creating a great work culture, says Jason Richmond, president and CEO at Ideal Outcomes and author of Culture Spark: 5 Steps to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth. Find out how the pandemic has had a positive impact on proving to companies how resilient they actually are and how agile they can be.

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What are the things you did as a child that you're not doing as an adult? Natalie Siston, life and business coach, speaker, and author of Let Her Out: Reclaim Who You Have Always Been, combed through her diaries as a child, in order to let more of her younger self shine through as an adult. We all need to go through our archives to remind ourselves of the things we were doing when we had smiles on our faces, and do more of that in our professional and personal lives.

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Meditation is not about achieving a state, but accepting the state you're in, says Jan-Philipp Martini, Mindfulness Lead and Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. After meditating in monasteries, Jan-Philippe says we can train our minds to be more conscious and aware and ultimately to be better leaders. Find out what his new study on COVID and wellbeing discovered about leaders that practice mindfulness.

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Empty your head of what's floating around and then select what's important and what makes you happy, says Sophie Chiche, two time TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, and the co-author of The Power of Personal Accountability: Achieve what Matters to You. People equate productivity to doing more stuff, says Sophie, when what we really need to be asking ourselves is if what we're doing means something. In this refreshing and insightful conversation, discover how to be more deliberate about being productive.

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After 30 years of working in big companies, John Stepper says he saw a tragic waste of potential, which led him to create the 12-week method to working out loud and building connections. Founder of Working Out Loud, John says the key to building effective and collaborative relationships at work is to build trust and a sense of relatedness.

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