The Happy Workplace
How do you build a happy workplace? Find out how to manage a happier workplace, starting with our collection of articles, tips and tools below.
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What a difference happier workplaces make! Here we’ll explore how to make that difference and start to build happier more productive workplaces.
Growing Evidence for the Happy Workplace
Happy workplaces make good business sense, and it’s managers that make the difference. But don’t just take our word for it. There is growing evidence both from research and the world of business that:
- People perform better at work when they are happy: happy people are more successful at work:
- “Profits are an extension of a happy workplace” – as one successful businessman argued, a happy workplace made the difference for his organisation.
Before reading on why not take a look at the evidence for the Happy Workplace? We have put together a great series of resources to help you build a happier workplace. Take advantage of our great half price offer. You can find out more about these great resources in The Happier Workplace. We spend too much of our life at work, not to put the practices in place that make for a happier and more productive workplace. Start to change the way we work with our happier workplace series. You can download them straight away for half price by clicking on the image below.
This site contains a growing range of resources, so come back regularly for fresh inspiration. Follow our links to explore the numerous ways that both you and the people you manage can be happy at work.
Of course, being happy is not just about work, it’s about life more generally. Below you’ll find we’ve put together three mini-series of articles. These will make it easier for you to read about what happiness is, how to find it, and why its just as important at work as anywhere else.
Ideas
What makes a great manager? There are many different ways of answering this question but how many would include a reference to happiness? Ours does! We...
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The Value of a Good Manager? People Leave Managers Not Companies! What’s the value of a good manager? “People leave managers, not companies” is a headline...
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Perhaps happiness theory can explain a paradox. Whilst we’re getting richer, healthier and have more possessions than ever before, why are we no happier? In his excellent book...
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Goal Setting Tip: Do What You Love How to be happy? If we could offer one, single, goal setting tip it would be: “do what you love”. Some...
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What causes happiness? Is it all down to our genes? Is it due to external conditions, or is it in part down to us and therefore really it...
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Success Maker: Developing the Happy Manager Do you want to be a success maker? Perhaps the first thing to consider is a couple of quotes. Firstly, Dale Carnegie’s:...
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5 Tips for Happiness at Work! Finding ways to be happy at work matters. As we discovered in what causes happiness? there is evidence that we can choose...
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Being a happy person is of course worthwhile for its own sake, but are happy people also likely to be successful? In answering the question “what causes happiness?”...
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Creating a Happy Workplace: Is Happiness Good for Business? Few would argue that creating a happy workplace is worthwhile in its own right, but can happiness be good...
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… at Work? Why not take a few minutes to explore the meaning of happiness at work? What does it mean to be a happy manager? In developing...
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Don’t Worry Be Happy: Just a Good line from a Song? Don’t worry be happy is the famous opening line of a song by Bobby McFerrin, but it’s...
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What is happiness Charlie Brown style? Created by cartoonist Charles Schultz, Charlie Brown is the wishy-washy child hero of the newspaper comic strip “Peanuts”. Charlie is a lovable...
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Why are happy people so happy? Some psychologists seem to suggest that the key to happiness is related to the complexity of our lives. In his book –...
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If It Makes You Happy, Do It: But Think About it First… If it makes you happy do it? Is this good advice or a potentially harmful over...
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Happiness Study – Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile Here, in one succinct but comprehensive book, is an excellent happiness study by Daniel Nettle. “Happiness: the Science Behind...
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Finding Happiness In Life: Bowling, But Not Alone It seems fewer of us are finding happiness in life. Since the sixties, life satisfaction in American adults has declined...
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Definition of Happiness: the Experts’ View Where better to look for a definition of happiness than in the words of the experts? However, don’t expect just a few...
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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, Martin Seligman. Authentic Happiness is the name of Professor Seligman’s book in which he...
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Rate Your Happiness: Are You Happy? Do you think it’s possible to rate your happiness? Do we need to sit a happiness test to see just how happy...
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Begin With the End in Mind Which benefits of time management are you hoping to achieve? To save some time by consolidating activities? To eliminate typical “time wasters”?...
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Tips & Tools
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge Peter Senge, founder of the Center for Organizational Learning...
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“Finding Flow”, By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. “If we really want to live, we’d better start at...
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Faced with job loss? Whether it’s being made redundant, not being made permanent, or actually...
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What’s the best way to develop your work life effectiveness? Well, perhaps it’s to apply...
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Six Questions to Build a Flourishing Workplace What makes a happy company? There is a...
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Self Motivation Techniques: Coping with Work Difficulties Sometimes we may need self motivation techniques to...
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– how to achieve stress-free productivity! Getting Things Done, by David Allen. In his “whole...
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More Quotes on Happiness Here are some more of our favourite quotes on happiness. Many...
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Because You Might as Well be Happy! Here’s a selection of happy quotes shedding more...
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Here’s our selection of happy life quotes. All of us would agree we would like...
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Searching for inspiration? Reading and thinking about happiness quotes is certainly a good place to...
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What are the elements of happiness? This is an age old question, once even alluded...
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Eight Ways to Happiness: Steps towards a More Satisfying Life Is it possible to find...
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Stress Management And Relaxation: The Bigger Picture There can be no doubting the link between...
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How to Stop Worrying… in a Minute Do you want to know how to stop...
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… Know When Enough Is Enough! Stress Management Tip 1: What Is Enough? Knowing when...
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