Can you train people to be happier at work?
Posted by Martin Addison in Soft skills on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 10:00
- The conventional thinking on happiness is that if you work hard, you’ll be successful and by being successful, you’ll become happier.
- When our brains are primed to be positive, we perform better than when we’re in a negative or neutral state.
- It is possible to imprint the brain with a positive pattern by creating a series of habits and mindset changes.
Can employees learn to be happy? Martin Addison says four daily habits can bring about a more positive mindset.
People who are happy and have meaning in their lives are not only more productive and more resilient at work, they take less sick days, they perform better in leadership roles and they receive higher pay. So says Shawn Achor, who lectured on positive psychology for 12 years at Harvard University.
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