Driving Workplace Happiness
49mIntermediate2018-11-15
Authors

Catherine Mattice Zundel
Professional consultant and trainer specializing in corporate culture
Course details
Employers are always looking for ways to increase engagement and decrease turnover. Part of building engagement is creating opportunities for employees to feel happy—because happy employees are more productive employees. Learn what makes people happy at work and how investing a small amount in workplace happiness can make a big impact your company culture and your bottom line. Catherine Mattice Zundel introduces tangible actions that supervisors, managers, and HR professionals in companies of any size can take to drive happiness, from inspiring altruism and reducing stress to removing incivility and providing meaningful work. She also provides tips on driving happiness for different generations: millennials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers alike.
Skills covered
HR StrategyHuman ResourcesDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Inspire Your Employees
- 01 - Inspiring your employees
1. What Is Happiness
- 02 - Defining happiness and its ROI
- 03 - Personal benefits of being happy
- 04 - What causes us to be happy
- 05 - Happiness vs. engagement vs. satisfaction
2. Simple Ways to Increase Happiness in Your Team
- 06 - Inspire altruism
- 07 - Provide decision-making discretion and performance feedback
- 08 - Reduce stress
- 09 - Create opportunities to achieve
- 10 - Remove incivility
- 11 - Build positive relationships and connections
- 12 - Make the work meaningful
- 13 - Provide autonomy
- 14 - Coach unhappy employees
Conclusion
- 15 - Addressing generational differences
- 16 - Next steps
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