From Real to Ideal:
Envisioning and Moving
Toward Your Best Culture
August 2017

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SOMETHING WEIRD THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY
EXPECTATIONS OF THIS PLAYSHOP
Capture your expectations.
Now…set them free!

CULTURE IS A JOURNEY
IF THE PATH BEFORE YOU IS
CLEAR, YOU’RE PROBABLY
ON SOMEONE ELSE’S
— JOSEPH CAMPBELL —

What’s one way you’re bringing play and
vulnerability into your workplace culture?

Shared Purpose

Science of
Happiness

SUCCESS HAPPINESS
?

HAPPINESSSUCCESS

Science of Happiness
Psychologist: Sigmund Freud
what’s wrong with us?
Positive Psychology
What’s right with us?

10 orgs
2,000 teams
142,000 employees
Successful OrgHappy Employees
2x more
impact
Do happy employees cause
organizational success or vice versa?
Source: Harter et al. 2010, Causal Impact of Employee Work Perceptions on the Bottom Line of Organizations
• Employee Retention
• Customer Satisfaction
• Financial Performance

SIMPLE FORMULA

Happiness as a Business Model
Happiness makes sense
Scientific Sense
Research shows happiness
leads to success (not the
other way around)
Business Sense
Happy Employees =
Happy Customers =
Successful Company
(+ Meaningful Lives)
Human Sense
Happiness is a universal
goal, and we are all on
our individual paths
Science of
Happiness
today
Martin Seligman Fredrickson & Losada Shawn Achor
15 years of research and hundreds of studies
Positive
Psychology
1998
*Zappos’ growth in gross merchandise sales

DH Methodology

The DH Model = Intersection of Happiness & Culture
WHAT WHO

The DH Model: Values & Behaviors
CORE VALUES
=
Well-defined & inspiring
BEHAVIORS
=
Aligned actions
Lived day-to-day

The DH Model: Science of Happiness
Happiness Habits:
Positivity
Gratitude
Altruism
Mindfulness
Flow
Happiness Levers:
Progress
Control
Connectedness

Progress is a feeling of moving forward.
Progress
Boost Others:
Give regular feedback
Boost Yourself:
Breaking down large goals into
small, manageable steps

Control
Boost Others:
Trust people to make their own
decisions
Boost Yourself:
Focus on what you can control, not
what you can’t
Control is a feeling of choice in what you do.

Connectedness
Boost Others:
Ask people questions and show
them you care about the answers
Boost Yourself:
Join groups of people who share
similar values
Connectedness is feeling an authentic closeness with
the people around you.

The DH Model: Higher Purpose
HIGHER PURPOSE
=
Meaning
Evolutionary
Noble Cause
“Being part of something
bigger than ourselves”

The Stengel 50 Outperform the Market
An investment in the Stengel 50 would
have been 400% more profitable than
an investment in the S&P 500
Higher purpose leads to
higher profit

The DH Model - WHO
ME
=
Personal Accountability
_______________
WE
=
Team Alignment &
Organizational Wholeness
_______________
COMMUNITY
=
Client / Customer Focused

“Change happens everywhere &
to everything naturally.
Imagine what organizations
could be when they're not
designed as machines but treated
as living, growing ecosystems.“
— Frederic LaLoux,
Reinventing Organizations

Our Methodology: DH Roadmap - HOW

ME:
Culture is
An Animal

Current & Ideal Culture

Current & Ideal Culture
What animal represents you best?
How does that animal behave at work?

Current & Ideal Culture
What animal represents you in everyday life?
What are your strengths and learning edges? What
characteristics do you embody?
What animal qualities would you like to adopt?
How will those qualities help you at work?

WE:
Culture as
a Habitat

Current & Ideal Culture
What animal represents you in everyday life?
What are your strengths and learning edges? What
characteristics do you embody?
Think about your work culture, the good,
the bad, and the ugly. Imagine it was a
habitat, what would it be and why?

Current & Ideal Culture
Think about your work environments
strengths and learning edges, what qualities
of the habitat are also like your culture?

Culture as a Habitat
Share…
• Your current work culture as a habitat
• What are the qualities of that habitat?

COMMUNITY:
Our Planetary
Culture

Current & Ideal Culture

Current & Ideal Culture

Current & Ideal CultureHow is your brand shifting
our planetary culture?

Current & Ideal Culture
What’s next?
What needs to shift
at your organization?
What needs to shift in
your leadership?

THANK YOU!!
kelsey@deliveringhappiness.com
kent@strengthscopeUS.com
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