At Workplace Wellbeing we believe that people should be happy because of work - not despite their work! After all, work provides much more than income …
‘it influences self-worth and status, it provides socialisation, it is the structure around which lives are organised and it facilitates opportunities for achievement and skill development’ [6]
Progressive employers realise this and are starting to make workplace happiness a priority. Here are some other reasons to make every hour, happy hour at your workplace:
- Personal issues can, and do, get played out at work and can have a poisonous effect on the environment. You may as well help your people develop the skills to deal with them.
- We spend 1/3 of our life and 1/2 or more of our waking hours in the workplace - lets enjoy them!
Best of all pursuing happiness will pay for itself .
3 Ways To Build a Happier Workplace
1. Take our Lively Seminar ‘Happy Hour is 9 to 5′
Our engaging seminar ‘Happy Hour is 9 to 5′ is a great way to get the ball rolling or provide something a little different to the standard talk on stress management. People simply love this session because we talk about a subject important to everyone - happiness, and we relate it to high performing workplaces. Duration? 50 mins to 2 hours. Call us if you want to find out more about this talk.
“I thought your seminar was great. Obviously, the topic was of interest and I was impressed with how you made it fun, informative and relevant. From my conversations with other participants, it seemed everyone enjoyed it as well. So - well done. I think it is wonderful that organisations like AHRI are taking interest in such an important workplace issue and that you are spreading happiness in workplaces! We need more people advocating for happiness and well-being in workplaces :)”- Mio Seamder, BA (Psych & HRM)
2. Create a Happiness Plan
We can help you construct a “Happiness Plan”. This plan combines our extensive knowledge of the subject, our experience, our skills as facilitators and our capacity for innovative thinking, with your unique understanding of your culture and with staff consultation. At completion you will have:
- identified the benefits and costs of transforming your organisation
- a step-by-step plan for achieving change
- success milestones
- strategies for gaining and keeping staff engagement and project momentum.
“Hi Cris,Thanks again for the very informative, interesting, and very importantly, amiable evening. It was very interesting to listen to and made even more enjoyable by the humourous and warm presentation.- Best regards Geraldine (Northern Suburbs CPA Women’s Group member).”
3. Provide Training and Skills
Can you make any individual happy or resilient? Is it something innate and immutable, or learned and changeable?
It’s both.
Up to 50% of our happiness is genetic - and 50% is not. You can’t make anyone happy, but you can teach them the natural skills that happy and resilient people have by teaching them to be more more more optimistic, appreciative and positive.Our courses are specifically designed to increase the peace. We know they work because they’re backed by psychological research, but we didn’t stop there - we tried them ourselves and are happy (sorry about the pun) to report they work.They include skills in:
- optimism
- appreciative inquiry
- assertive communication
- straight thinking
- meditation
For a full range visit our downloads page and grab a guide to how we can help you and your people, not just survive, but thrive. [6] M.H.C.O., Mental Health and Work Website. Last accessed: Aug 2007.
