S is for Status – How to Increase Employee Engagement with SCARF, Dr. David Rock’s Mind Model for Maximizing Reward and Minimizing Danger in the Workplace. This is part 2 of 7.
S is for Status – How to Increase Employee Engagement with SCARF
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3 habits that deteriorate your mood at work – and the hacks to counteract them.
We can all easily list external factors that will take the joy out of work. Unrealistic deadlines, a constantly negative team member, or construction noise are all obviously destructive to a good mood. Chances are, we each have our own habits that put us in a bad mood – and these internal factors are often read more…
Employee Engagement 2.0
Kevin Kruse keeps employee engagement short and sweet. In Employee Engagement 2.0: How to Motivate Your Team for High Performance (A Real-World Guide for Busy Managers), which many will read in under an hour, he delivers a lot of important points. Definition & Data Kruse defines employee engagement as the emotional commitment an employee has read more…
Terms of Engagement: New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations
We all know we need engaged employees who willingly work hard to give their best. Employee engagement is a win/win/win that benefits the employees, the organization they work in, and the customers they serve. But how do you get engagement? One expensive but solid approach to significant organizational change is the “conference model” advocated by read more…
Smarter goals for more happiness
It’s that time again: New Year’s resolutions. The science of happiness tells us New Year’s resolutions are a worthwhile ritual. Goals are vital to motivation, engagement, and happiness, at work and beyond. Statistics suggest that people who explicitly set goals are ten times more likely to reach them. Still, while up to 62% of Americans read more…
How to Find More Passion at Work
First of all, I mean passion for your work, not your colleagues! If you want help getting passion with your colleagues, you want a different blog! 🙂 Passion for your work is about energy and meaning. It’s getting energized by your work, and finding–or creating–the meaning in your work. Start with some basics. As I read more…
Hacking Performance Reviews to be more Palatable and Positive
As a former programmer, I’m very familiar with “hacks”: short-cuts or tricks to get something working better. You may be familiar with “life hacking“, using a similar approach to finding novel ways to improve life. I want to extend that concept to create “happiness hacks”. Happiness hacks are simply new ways of boosting happiness at read more…
The Ideal Praise to Criticism Ratio at Work? 5:1
I am delighted to introduce a new guest blogger to you today. I recently had the pleasure of corresponding with Dr. Barrie Hopson, author of 40 books including Live Happier The Ultimate Life Skill. More about Barrie below, but I want to get you to his great post quickly. He contributed on one of my read more…
Three Myths About Managing Geeks
I am a geek. I love technology, programming, design, and other nerdy delights. I’ve worked with geeks for most of my career, and love working with them! I was recently asked for input on managing geeks, and specifically for help addressing myths about geeks. I would love to hear your thoughts about these: Myth #1: read more…
The Science of Happiness at Work–in Five Minutes!
If I had just five minutes of your time, I would tell you the most important science of being happier at work. Because I believe: We all deserve to be happy at work. Science tells us why to be happier: it brings benefits including (but not limited to) success, creativity, engagement, sociability, productivity and health. read more…