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Maximizing your work happiness should be the theme of your working life. Happiness creates success. When you stop putting in the hours and start extracting joy from work, you'll be successful.
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The Secrets to Workplace Leadership
I shared a drink with a friend who manages a team of five people. He was wondering how people’s moods can fluctuate in such a broad range, which affects the quality of their work. One of his employees is always up and down. He is engaged with his w...
How Your Company Can Bring the Fun Back
We’re afraid of having fun because we might get caught by our boss. The dreaded Fired hangs over us like a dark cloud. So we quietly go about our work trying to stay under the radar. The problem with this method of working is that our confidence ta...
Team Building Activity – Hint – Colorful Balls
Jeff Sloan, co-founder of Start-up Nation, talked at a Microsoft conference about creating your own business. He is a serial entrepreneur of electronics and various other media. Jeff and his brother were promoting one of their gadgets at a conference...
Wine Company is Buzzing about Work Happy Now
I love a forward thinking company. Artesano is definitely that. They are making honey (mead) wine from start to finish. They make everything from scratch. They let the bees make the honey (Yes, they have their own bee farm in Vermont). They believe i...
10 Part eCourse to a Happier and More Successful You
You probably have arrived at work on a Monday, sighed and trudged through your day. This is what a lot of us do because that’s what we’ve been taught. We torture ourselves so we can save enough money to be happy. Work doesn’t need to feel this ...
Netflix Company Culture - Freedom & Responsibility
Netflix believes in creating a culture that supports Freedom and Responsibility. They don’t promote to placate or keep people around out of loyalty. They know they have to make people happy and in order to do that they need to challenge and eng...
Does Your Company Need an Extreme Makeover?
You probably already know if your company needs to change its culture. You can feel it in your gut. So why don’t companies take steps to improve when it’s clear that change is needed? Instead, most companies keep going along with the same techni...
How do I make my people happy?
So you want an atmosphere that encourages great work? Don’t we all. Most bosses and managers talk a good game, but they don’t create a plan to make it happen. Almost every CEO I worked for always talked about the importance of their people, but t...
How to Build Confidence at Work
(email subscribers: click here to go to Work Happy Now to view the video) What you do and how you do your work matters. If it didn’t, you wouldn’t care whether your job was done well. Since you care (most of you do), you probably try...
Make Every Employee Feel Cool
I have a co-worker who just finished a big project. She was bouncing off the walls with giddiness. She took the project to her boss and it was confirmed. She did a fantastic job. She came back to her cubicle with a huge smile on her face. “I feel...
Take Away Any Obstacles
Google understands that an employee who can focus on their work will do a better job. “The goal is to strip away everything that gets in our employees way. We provide a standard package of fringe benefits, but on top of that are first-class din...
Open Communication is a Must, Especially in Tough Times
Employees are scared right now, because many are not sure if they will have a job next month. This fear keeps them from leading their company to prosperity. They are too worried about what might happen instead of being focused on the wonderful possib...
Create A Members Only Club The Google Way
Google has a name for all their employees – Googlers. When I first heard this I thought it was cheesy, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. They are a club of elite people who are trying to change the world. That’s the message ...
Why Fish Philosophy Works
Pikes Place, a fish market in Seattle, is known for its fun style of business. They toss fish around as if they were footballs. They have a sign that says, “Caution: Low Flying Fish.” Any business that has a sign about low flying product must be ...
Bring Hope Back to Your Company
(If you can’t view this video then click here and visit Work Happy Now to view it.) Hope seems to have dissipated within many of our companies. We have latched on to the fear and we don’t want to let go. Enough already! Let’s brin...
Empower the Employees to Improve the Company
Google has an internal website called “Google Ideas.” Googlers submit their suggestions on how to improve a product or how to make things better at Google. Their co-workers can read this site and give their feedback by rating the suggestion and...
Your Company Should Do Annual Career Counseling
I believe that creating an “entrepreneur track” for employees will actually help a company retain employees longer because they are helping employees build skills necessary to go out on their own. Why leave a company that’s helping you develop ...
Give Employees The Freedom They Need to Succeed
Google gives its engineers 20% of their time to work on personal projects that have resulted in Google news, Gmail, and Google Finance. Google didn’t do this out of the goodness of their heart. They know they can’t stop their creative people from...
Does Your Mission Inspire?
Google’s motto is “Do no Evil.” They probably decided on this because of all the back stabbing and money grabbing in today’s corporate environment. They wanted to send a statement out to the public that they are there to help them connect ...
Great Leadership Requires Great Communication – Duh!
The problem with my title is everyone knows this, but then why doesn’t everyone do it? Because we get caught up in our egos, making office politics king, instead of creating open lines of communication so everyone is in the loop. The CEO (Tony ...
The Magic of Allowing Employees to Do What They Love
What would you do if you heard from your boss that you could do anything you wanted for two hours every week? The catch: as long as it was related to work? Would you hug her? That could mean designing a new logo, creating a company year book, writing...
Getting Someone to Care
How does anyone (Supervisor, CEO, Manager, Co-worker) get an unmotivated person to care about their work? The best way to do this is to take them through a story that will catch and keep their attention and make them think of it again and ag...
Celebrate the 4th of July The Way Our Forefathers Did
This is a post for the Americans in my audience. If any of you are from Australia, England, Canada, India or another country just substitute 4th of July for your country’s Independence or another great Holiday. The founders of this country, ...
Great Managers Care About Their Employees
Every employee wants to work happy. I don’t know anyone that believes that they enjoy their job more when they are sad or angry. It’s up to managers and supervisors to create an atmosphere that supports happiness and productivity. In my ea...
