Happiness At Work

Is it better to build on your weaknesses or build on your strengths, asks Eric Shepherd, executive director or talent transformation guild and co-author of Talent Transformation: Develop Today’s Team for Tomorrow’s World of Work. Eric says today it's best to build on strength and find a job that suits your skills and personality. The more we can use our natural behaviors at work the more successful and happier we'll be. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

So many people choose careers because of the pay check, but we need to start looking at professional growth differently, says Todd Miller, author of ENRICH: Create Wealth in Time, Money, and Meaning; a book about owning your life, dreams, and finances. Years ago Tom was flabbergasted at how business people made short term and foolish career decisions based on the size of the signing bonus, find out why he says that has to change and how the pandemic has helped us see things differently. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

One of the biggest mistakes managers make for self-managing teams is to step away, says Jef Cumps. Co-founder of iLean and author of Sociocracy 3.0, Jef says managers need to hold the space for teams, and provide guidance and psychological safety. Jef will also be speaking at our upcoming Forward Webinar where he'll be talking about self-managing teams in a post-pandemic world. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

The key to successful companies with thriving cultures, is to remove HRs obligation to the company. Rebecca Weaver, the founder and CEO of HR Uprise, a company that connects people with HR coaches to help grow, develop, and navigate tough workplace challenges, says employee advocacy is on the rise. It took a second wave of the #MeToo movement for Rebecca to realize that years earlier she'd experienced pregnancy discrimination at work. That realization, coupled with personal challenges, has helped her focus her energies and teach others that how we spend our time needs to count. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

Ninety six percent of leaders experience burnout at some point in their careers, says Charlotte Wiseman, a positive psychology consultant that focuses on CEO burnout and workplace wellbeing. It took Charlotte feeling like she couldn't live another day, in order to realize the importance of mental health on leaders. Find out what is missing in terms of properly addressing mental health at work and why we've only scratched the surface, even with renewed focus on it because of COVID-19. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

People spend 25% of their time bending themselves out of shape for others, says Wei-Li Chong, U.S. President of MindGym, a behavior change company that works to create company-wide behavioral change and improve culture. In order to be truly inclusive, companies have to help organizations understand the difference between making an honest mistake and what should be forbidden. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

The key to being happy is focusing on internal happiness, rather than thinking that when we achieve certain milestones everything will be ok, says Michelle Wax, founder of the American Happiness Project, a company that focuses on helping teams thrive in uncertainty and create positive mindsets. Happy people cut out those that drain them and know that the key to success is starting the day off on their own terms. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

We have to get past the stories we tell ourselves in order to create the life we want at work, says Carson Tate, founder of Working Simply and author of her newest book, Own It. Love It. Make It Work. In order to demand the job you want, you need to check your assumptions, know how you want to be recognized and rewarded and remember that you add value. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

Jill Valdez, founder and COO of LINK, and author of The Ultimate Guide to Bringing Out the Best In Your People, is back on our podcast for an insightful look at what to do when you hate your job but love the company. Jill says creating change is about identifying people of influence that you can speak to, articulating why you don't like the role and taking intelligent risks. For more stories, visit www.management30.com 

A lack of empowerment and micromanagement, continue to be leadership blind spots when creating a great work culture, says Jason Richmond, president and CEO at Ideal Outcomes and author of Culture Spark: 5 Steps to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth. Find out how the pandemic has had a positive impact on proving to companies how resilient they actually are and how agile they can be. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

What are the things you did as a child that you’re not doing as an adult? Natalie Siston, life and business coach, speaker, and author of Let Her Out: Reclaim Who You Have Always Been, combed through her diaries as a child, in order to let more of her younger self shine through as an adult. We all need to go through our archives to remind ourselves of the things we were doing when we had smiles on our faces, and do more of that in our professional and personal lives. For more happiness visit, www.management30.com 

Meditation is not about achieving a state, but accepting the state you're in, says Jan-Philipp Martini, Mindfulness Lead and Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. After meditating in monasteries, Jan-Philippe says we can train our minds to be more conscious and aware and ultimately to be better leaders. Find out what his new study on COVID and wellbeing discovered about leaders that practice mindfulness. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

Empty your head of what’s floating around and then select what's important and what makes you happy, says Sophie Chiche, two time TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, and the co-author of The Power of Personal Accountability: Achieve what Matters to You. People equate productivity to doing more stuff, says Sophie, when what we really need to be asking ourselves is if what we're doing means something. In this refreshing and insightful conversation, discover how to be more deliberate about being productive. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

After 30 years of working in big companies, John Stepper says he saw a tragic waste of potential, which led him to create the 12-week method to working out loud and building connections. Founder of Working Out Loud, John says the key to building effective and collaborative relationships at work is to build trust and a sense of relatedness. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com