Muy breve presentación de los resultados del estudio de Architecting Happiness. Más foco en que as la Felicidad, el Bienestar (wellbeing) y algunas recomendaciones más de como aplicarla en el día a día de UX.
¿Trabajamos conscientemente para hacer felices nuestros usuarios?
- Perspectivas y descubrimientos.
- Todo lo que deberías saber sobre Felicidad
- Un reto y 3 propuestas!
Actitud para conseguir productos que hacen del mundo un sitio mejorSilvia Calvet
Vivimos en un mundo que no funciona: crisis financiera, crisis ecológica, pobreza, consumismo… A nivel personal intentamos contribuir comprando productos locales, biológicos, reciclando, dando soporte a entidades sociales o dando parte de nuestro tiempo a “buenas causas”. En cambio, nos olvidamos de nuestra conciencia social cuando cruzamos la puerta de a oficina.
Nosotros, como diseñadores, desarrolladores, innovadores… como profesionales que buscamos y desarrollamos soluciones deberíamos hacer más. Necesitamos introducir el factor de ‘Innovación social’ como un elemento más a considerar en nuestro trabajo, en nuestros proyectos.
En esta presentación compartiré ideas y tendencias en innovación social, así como ejemplos de soluciones y productos. Te invito a cambiar tu punto de vista. Introduce más valor a tu producto añadiendo una capa de humana/social/ética, te sentirás mejor mientras trabajas, contribuirás a un mundo mejor, y crearás mejores productos para tus clientes.
Architecting happiness. English version of Barcelona WIADSilvia Calvet
People seek happiness. Businesses need happy customers. In between the two are the professionals that make things for others to use.
Nicole Neuefeind and I present the result of the exploration on how creators (designers, developers, entrepreneurs, visual designers, and professionals that make things for others ) Architect for Happiness. We also share concepts and references to understand more happiness and wellbeing.
This presentation was given at World IA Day 2015 at Barcelona
@WIAD_BCN
A selection of benefits (and some challenges) on how Service Design can help your company.
So you know about service design, but... would it work for your company?
In this edition by Insights Success, we celebrate the ‘Business Achievers to Watch’. As with Rome, these success stories were not built in a day. They were witness to failures, self-doubts, and a lot of things that do not look like success. But let us not forget to celebrate every bit of it!
A Framework That Works: Design Thinking + Montessori Principles to Elevate yo...April Bell
Designing and executing a complicated research study definitely takes skill! But when you’re designing research that includes an “innovation” component, a whole host of additional tools and skills are required.
April Bell unveils how she uses an integrated approach of Design Thinking + Montessori principles to tackle even the most complex innovation research project.
During the session, April unpacks the Design-Thinking framework (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype & Test) using a real world example. Then she shares how integrating Montessori-based principles (Flexible Structure, Pull Don’t Push, Concrete Before Abstract, Observe Before Acting) throughout the Design-Thinking process not only creates a conducive environment to help clients thoroughly engage but also keeps them coming back for more!
925 Design - Time of experimentation has begun925design
This presentation goes through the central findings of our "Creative organisational culture"-research project and presents suggestions on how to boost everyday creativity.
Effective meeting design is the artful expression of today’s creative leader. Thoughtful preparation is key to generating the results you want to create within your team, project, department, and organization.
Reports show that the average worker loses at much as 31 hours a month to unproductive meetings. That's four work days each month and that 1/2 of all meetings are unnecessary.
The multitasking environment of today often leaves little room for focusing on what’s important in organizing, designing, and leading effective meetings. Meeting leaders are often stymied in the land of overwhelm spinning on the hamster wheel of too many meetings, too little time, too little attention, and too few meaningful results. Futility and frustration permeate the collective response to meetings.
Sound familiar?
It doesn’t have to be this way.
You can make a difference. Try something new!
Move from disengaged time wasting meetings that frustrate and confuse to thoughtful meeting design that yield greater efficiencies, add clarity, engage everyone’s skills and talents, and build valuable contributions from you, your people, your projects, and the products and services you are working to deliver.
Learn innovative strategies to:
Engage every meeting participant to have greater impact
Improve performance
Create the outcomes you need to get the job done proficiently
Mindful Innovation, Inc. invites you to a complementary 90-minute introductory session of the innovative program, Designing Effective Meetings: Ten Essential Elements, where you will learn and experience ten vital elements fundamental to designing effective meetings. Even in complex and stressful situations, this meeting design process creates an environment that allows for healthy tension and accelerated performance.
Contact us for a complimentary consultation that will empower you to turn your meetings in proven results.
¿Trabajamos conscientemente para hacer felices nuestros usuarios?
- Perspectivas y descubrimientos.
- Todo lo que deberías saber sobre Felicidad
- Un reto y 3 propuestas!
Actitud para conseguir productos que hacen del mundo un sitio mejorSilvia Calvet
Vivimos en un mundo que no funciona: crisis financiera, crisis ecológica, pobreza, consumismo… A nivel personal intentamos contribuir comprando productos locales, biológicos, reciclando, dando soporte a entidades sociales o dando parte de nuestro tiempo a “buenas causas”. En cambio, nos olvidamos de nuestra conciencia social cuando cruzamos la puerta de a oficina.
Nosotros, como diseñadores, desarrolladores, innovadores… como profesionales que buscamos y desarrollamos soluciones deberíamos hacer más. Necesitamos introducir el factor de ‘Innovación social’ como un elemento más a considerar en nuestro trabajo, en nuestros proyectos.
En esta presentación compartiré ideas y tendencias en innovación social, así como ejemplos de soluciones y productos. Te invito a cambiar tu punto de vista. Introduce más valor a tu producto añadiendo una capa de humana/social/ética, te sentirás mejor mientras trabajas, contribuirás a un mundo mejor, y crearás mejores productos para tus clientes.
Architecting happiness. English version of Barcelona WIADSilvia Calvet
People seek happiness. Businesses need happy customers. In between the two are the professionals that make things for others to use.
Nicole Neuefeind and I present the result of the exploration on how creators (designers, developers, entrepreneurs, visual designers, and professionals that make things for others ) Architect for Happiness. We also share concepts and references to understand more happiness and wellbeing.
This presentation was given at World IA Day 2015 at Barcelona
@WIAD_BCN
A selection of benefits (and some challenges) on how Service Design can help your company.
So you know about service design, but... would it work for your company?
In this edition by Insights Success, we celebrate the ‘Business Achievers to Watch’. As with Rome, these success stories were not built in a day. They were witness to failures, self-doubts, and a lot of things that do not look like success. But let us not forget to celebrate every bit of it!
A Framework That Works: Design Thinking + Montessori Principles to Elevate yo...April Bell
Designing and executing a complicated research study definitely takes skill! But when you’re designing research that includes an “innovation” component, a whole host of additional tools and skills are required.
April Bell unveils how she uses an integrated approach of Design Thinking + Montessori principles to tackle even the most complex innovation research project.
During the session, April unpacks the Design-Thinking framework (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype & Test) using a real world example. Then she shares how integrating Montessori-based principles (Flexible Structure, Pull Don’t Push, Concrete Before Abstract, Observe Before Acting) throughout the Design-Thinking process not only creates a conducive environment to help clients thoroughly engage but also keeps them coming back for more!
925 Design - Time of experimentation has begun925design
This presentation goes through the central findings of our "Creative organisational culture"-research project and presents suggestions on how to boost everyday creativity.
Effective meeting design is the artful expression of today’s creative leader. Thoughtful preparation is key to generating the results you want to create within your team, project, department, and organization.
Reports show that the average worker loses at much as 31 hours a month to unproductive meetings. That's four work days each month and that 1/2 of all meetings are unnecessary.
The multitasking environment of today often leaves little room for focusing on what’s important in organizing, designing, and leading effective meetings. Meeting leaders are often stymied in the land of overwhelm spinning on the hamster wheel of too many meetings, too little time, too little attention, and too few meaningful results. Futility and frustration permeate the collective response to meetings.
Sound familiar?
It doesn’t have to be this way.
You can make a difference. Try something new!
Move from disengaged time wasting meetings that frustrate and confuse to thoughtful meeting design that yield greater efficiencies, add clarity, engage everyone’s skills and talents, and build valuable contributions from you, your people, your projects, and the products and services you are working to deliver.
Learn innovative strategies to:
Engage every meeting participant to have greater impact
Improve performance
Create the outcomes you need to get the job done proficiently
Mindful Innovation, Inc. invites you to a complementary 90-minute introductory session of the innovative program, Designing Effective Meetings: Ten Essential Elements, where you will learn and experience ten vital elements fundamental to designing effective meetings. Even in complex and stressful situations, this meeting design process creates an environment that allows for healthy tension and accelerated performance.
Contact us for a complimentary consultation that will empower you to turn your meetings in proven results.
"Leadership, Happiness and Project Success" - Keynote by Thomas Juli @ PMI NL...Dr. Thomas Juli
Keynote "Leadership, Happiness and Project Success" by Thomas Juli at the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014
This presentation explains why and how leadership and happiness are key ingredients to project success.
Dean Rhonda Phillips taught a class on happiness. She discussed how to find happiness and encouraged students to count their blessings. The dean seemed happy herself as she wore a cape while teaching the class.
All of us like to be happy, yet how many of us prioritize work based on happiness? Consider the people who buy, use, sell or make your product/service. Are you focused on making all of them happy?
When I reflect on a large Agile eLearning deal my company did with our biggest client between 2009-2010, it’s clear that we over-prioritized the happiness of some individuals while under-prioritizing the happiness of others. The smaller deals we are now doing with this same client in 2011 reveal the importance of prioritizing happiness across the entire community of people involved with our product.
Prioritizing happiness has helped us expand our focus and discover work that really matters. In this talk, I’ll describe how prioritizing happiness can have a profound impact on your process, your people and your bottom line.
A preview of 'Take your users into your UX team & let them design'Silvia Calvet
Make them work for you analyzing, designing and creating the deliverables.
In this session I’ll share how to convert demanding and grumblers departments and specialists into a members of the UX design team. Let them identify necessities, define the strategy and design the solutions. You can apply this solution in internal projects or with your customers. How? Stop evangelization and get people into action creating UX deliverables with you, let them discover the power of UX tools like Personas in their own skin.
This document discusses different approaches to measuring happiness and well-being across countries and organizations. It describes Gross National Happiness, which uses surveys to measure quality of life in Bhutan. The OECD Better Life Index assigns importance to 11 categories that are essential to well-being, such as health, education, and work-life balance. The UK also officially monitors happiness by surveying citizens on their life satisfaction, happiness, anxiety levels, and the worthwhileness of their lives. The overall goal of these measures is to systematically track subjective well-being and inform policy decisions.
The world is complex.
Information is subjective.
Customer Experience is key.
An exploration on how we architect for Happiness. And what we should know.
This is an sneak preview of 21Feb2015 presentation at WIAD Barcelona.
Take your clients into your UX team & let them designSilvia Calvet
How many times have you ever considered that the Client (or the departments of your organization) are also the USErs of the site, app or service that you are designing? How do you approximate your projects? What happens when the UX team 'disappears' at the end of the project?
Think it twice and make your clients co-work with you. They are not the enemy: help them to understand basic UX stuff, make them work for you analyzing designing and creating the deliverables. And there are other benefits: open communication results form this approximation, learning and sharing, and more win2win relationships.
In this session I’ll share how to convert demanding and grumblers clients/departments and specialists into a members of the UX design team. Let them identify necessities, define the strategy and design the solutions. You can apply this solution in internal projects or with your customers. How? Stop evangelization and get people into action creating UX deliverables with you, let them discover the power of UX tools like Personas in their own skin.
Call me lazy, but I like to make my clients work with me. The solution is usually in their hands, so working together in collaborative workshops we create deliverables that will help us to set the basics of the system, and for them will guides to create content, courses and other materials but having on mind their final end-users. Maybe this approximation does not give the best deliverables, but the result is a better understanding of usability inside the organization, more respect to our profession, and more importantly - more people happy.
Over 38,000 people have taken the Gross National Happiness Index and over 120 cities, communities and campuses are using the Gross National Happiness. They have their happiness scores and are asking - now what? The Happiness Data Playbook offers ideas for policy makers and community activists to use the data for the happiness, sustainability and wellbeing of all. Inspired by the World Happiness Report, Legatum Institute Wellbeing and Policy report, and other documents, this document includes links to examples and resources.
Measuring Happiness: John de Graaf Feb, 1 2014Self Spark
This document discusses well-being and happiness. It notes that GDP only measures economic outputs and does not account for social and environmental factors that influence well-being. Alternative indicators like the Genuine Progress Indicator and Canadian Index of Well-Being have been developed to measure well-being. Subjective surveys also measure reported levels of happiness. Happiness is determined by various domains like health, social support, community, education, environment and work-life balance. The document advocates taking a survey to identify low scores and taking action, like limiting work hours, to improve one's well-being.
Pathways to Happiness for Lifelong Learning presents policies and cultural changes needed to adopt them for greater satisfaction for all in lifelong learning. They are part of a set of tools available at http://www.happycounts.org/happy-community-toolkit.html
This document discusses measuring happiness and well-being through various indices and surveys. It outlines several major happiness measures used internationally and within countries to gauge subjective well-being at the national, regional, and individual level. These include Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index, the Gallup Healthways Poll/Well-being Index in the US, the Gallup World Poll, the OECD Better Life Index, and the New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet Index. It encourages learning about these different measures to raise awareness of how happiness can be quantified and used to inform policymaking and guide communities toward greater well-being.
The document summarizes Tony Hsieh's presentation about building a strong company culture at Zappos. Some key points:
- Tony discusses how Zappos prioritizes company culture above all else, through practices like new employee training, transparent communication, and aligning core values.
- The presentation emphasizes that culture, not just products or services, is what delivers happiness to both customers and employees.
- Examples are given of how Zappos' culture of excellent customer service has driven the company's success in sales and customer satisfaction.
Pathways to Happiness are policy suggestions for communities using the Happiness Index and scoring low in an area. Each one suggests policies and programs for when a community scores low in one area.
Pathways to Happiness are policy suggestions for communities using the Happiness Index and scoring low in an area. Each one suggests policies and programs for when a community scores low in one area.
Case studies based analysis on the Gross national Happiness Index of Bhutan and the Scandinavian countries.Also it emphasises on the clear-cut differences of GNH with respect to GDP and GNP.
This presentation was given to the IEEE P7010 group focused on the Well-being Metrics Standard for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. It introduces a positive mood boosting AI as an example of an AI influencing well-being and introduces future considerations for IEEE.
Psychologists define happiness as a combination of life satisfaction and more positive emotions than negative emotions. Researchers study happiness by looking at pleasure, engagement in life through relationships and activities, and finding meaning or purpose. Happiness involves both moment-to-moment positive feelings and an overall sense that one's life is worthwhile. Scientists can reliably measure happiness through self-reports, as people can accurately describe their own levels of happiness.
"Leadership, Happiness and Project Success" - Keynote by Thomas Juli @ PMI NL...Dr. Thomas Juli
Keynote "Leadership, Happiness and Project Success" by Thomas Juli at the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014
This presentation explains why and how leadership and happiness are key ingredients to project success.
Dean Rhonda Phillips taught a class on happiness. She discussed how to find happiness and encouraged students to count their blessings. The dean seemed happy herself as she wore a cape while teaching the class.
All of us like to be happy, yet how many of us prioritize work based on happiness? Consider the people who buy, use, sell or make your product/service. Are you focused on making all of them happy?
When I reflect on a large Agile eLearning deal my company did with our biggest client between 2009-2010, it’s clear that we over-prioritized the happiness of some individuals while under-prioritizing the happiness of others. The smaller deals we are now doing with this same client in 2011 reveal the importance of prioritizing happiness across the entire community of people involved with our product.
Prioritizing happiness has helped us expand our focus and discover work that really matters. In this talk, I’ll describe how prioritizing happiness can have a profound impact on your process, your people and your bottom line.
A preview of 'Take your users into your UX team & let them design'Silvia Calvet
Make them work for you analyzing, designing and creating the deliverables.
In this session I’ll share how to convert demanding and grumblers departments and specialists into a members of the UX design team. Let them identify necessities, define the strategy and design the solutions. You can apply this solution in internal projects or with your customers. How? Stop evangelization and get people into action creating UX deliverables with you, let them discover the power of UX tools like Personas in their own skin.
This document discusses different approaches to measuring happiness and well-being across countries and organizations. It describes Gross National Happiness, which uses surveys to measure quality of life in Bhutan. The OECD Better Life Index assigns importance to 11 categories that are essential to well-being, such as health, education, and work-life balance. The UK also officially monitors happiness by surveying citizens on their life satisfaction, happiness, anxiety levels, and the worthwhileness of their lives. The overall goal of these measures is to systematically track subjective well-being and inform policy decisions.
The world is complex.
Information is subjective.
Customer Experience is key.
An exploration on how we architect for Happiness. And what we should know.
This is an sneak preview of 21Feb2015 presentation at WIAD Barcelona.
Take your clients into your UX team & let them designSilvia Calvet
How many times have you ever considered that the Client (or the departments of your organization) are also the USErs of the site, app or service that you are designing? How do you approximate your projects? What happens when the UX team 'disappears' at the end of the project?
Think it twice and make your clients co-work with you. They are not the enemy: help them to understand basic UX stuff, make them work for you analyzing designing and creating the deliverables. And there are other benefits: open communication results form this approximation, learning and sharing, and more win2win relationships.
In this session I’ll share how to convert demanding and grumblers clients/departments and specialists into a members of the UX design team. Let them identify necessities, define the strategy and design the solutions. You can apply this solution in internal projects or with your customers. How? Stop evangelization and get people into action creating UX deliverables with you, let them discover the power of UX tools like Personas in their own skin.
Call me lazy, but I like to make my clients work with me. The solution is usually in their hands, so working together in collaborative workshops we create deliverables that will help us to set the basics of the system, and for them will guides to create content, courses and other materials but having on mind their final end-users. Maybe this approximation does not give the best deliverables, but the result is a better understanding of usability inside the organization, more respect to our profession, and more importantly - more people happy.
Over 38,000 people have taken the Gross National Happiness Index and over 120 cities, communities and campuses are using the Gross National Happiness. They have their happiness scores and are asking - now what? The Happiness Data Playbook offers ideas for policy makers and community activists to use the data for the happiness, sustainability and wellbeing of all. Inspired by the World Happiness Report, Legatum Institute Wellbeing and Policy report, and other documents, this document includes links to examples and resources.
Measuring Happiness: John de Graaf Feb, 1 2014Self Spark
This document discusses well-being and happiness. It notes that GDP only measures economic outputs and does not account for social and environmental factors that influence well-being. Alternative indicators like the Genuine Progress Indicator and Canadian Index of Well-Being have been developed to measure well-being. Subjective surveys also measure reported levels of happiness. Happiness is determined by various domains like health, social support, community, education, environment and work-life balance. The document advocates taking a survey to identify low scores and taking action, like limiting work hours, to improve one's well-being.
Pathways to Happiness for Lifelong Learning presents policies and cultural changes needed to adopt them for greater satisfaction for all in lifelong learning. They are part of a set of tools available at http://www.happycounts.org/happy-community-toolkit.html
This document discusses measuring happiness and well-being through various indices and surveys. It outlines several major happiness measures used internationally and within countries to gauge subjective well-being at the national, regional, and individual level. These include Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index, the Gallup Healthways Poll/Well-being Index in the US, the Gallup World Poll, the OECD Better Life Index, and the New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet Index. It encourages learning about these different measures to raise awareness of how happiness can be quantified and used to inform policymaking and guide communities toward greater well-being.
The document summarizes Tony Hsieh's presentation about building a strong company culture at Zappos. Some key points:
- Tony discusses how Zappos prioritizes company culture above all else, through practices like new employee training, transparent communication, and aligning core values.
- The presentation emphasizes that culture, not just products or services, is what delivers happiness to both customers and employees.
- Examples are given of how Zappos' culture of excellent customer service has driven the company's success in sales and customer satisfaction.
Pathways to Happiness are policy suggestions for communities using the Happiness Index and scoring low in an area. Each one suggests policies and programs for when a community scores low in one area.
Pathways to Happiness are policy suggestions for communities using the Happiness Index and scoring low in an area. Each one suggests policies and programs for when a community scores low in one area.
Case studies based analysis on the Gross national Happiness Index of Bhutan and the Scandinavian countries.Also it emphasises on the clear-cut differences of GNH with respect to GDP and GNP.
This presentation was given to the IEEE P7010 group focused on the Well-being Metrics Standard for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. It introduces a positive mood boosting AI as an example of an AI influencing well-being and introduces future considerations for IEEE.
Psychologists define happiness as a combination of life satisfaction and more positive emotions than negative emotions. Researchers study happiness by looking at pleasure, engagement in life through relationships and activities, and finding meaning or purpose. Happiness involves both moment-to-moment positive feelings and an overall sense that one's life is worthwhile. Scientists can reliably measure happiness through self-reports, as people can accurately describe their own levels of happiness.
What leads to personal and professional fulfilment? It's a question everyone wants to know the answer to.
Here, we discuss MRG’s research on the motivational, life architecture, and quality of life factors to see what we can predict about individual satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
The document is a study on the job happiness quotient of Indian managers across four companies: GDX Group, Reliance Money, HCL BPO, and Star Net. It finds that while the companies differ in business and aspects, there are some common factors that contribute to manager happiness across all companies. These include sense of accomplishment, age, compensation, working hours, stress, and ambition. A questionnaire was used to assess these factors for 100 managers total across the companies. The results found that sense of accomplishment and ambition were higher for managers at GDX Group and Reliance Money, while stress was highest for Reliance Money managers. Working hours tended to be longer for Reliance Money and Star Net.
Lean Coaching: the Wheel of Life and Harada Method - A new approach from the ...Learning Everywhere
This document discusses Lean Coaching, which combines Lean principles with coaching methods. It introduces the Wheel of Life coaching tool to help individuals diagnose their current "as is" state by assessing satisfaction levels across important life areas. This identifies waste. The Harada Method then helps set goals and daily tasks to create value and agility by moving from the current to the desired "to be" state. Combining the Wheel of Life, Harada Method, and coaching supports continuous improvement by reducing waste and increasing value through focused action.
Learn how to use the Gross National Happiness Index and join the happiness movement. Join the league of over 60 people who have taking the Happiness Initiative Leadership Training and are making history in their town, city, community, campus or company. Visit happycounts.org and click on the "training" for more information.
The document discusses definitions and theories of happiness from various perspectives. It defines happiness as a feeling or emotion that can be positive like joy or contentment, and discusses two main types described in psychology: hedonic happiness focused on pleasure and pain, and eudaimonic happiness concerned with life satisfaction and fulfillment. The document also outlines factors that influence happiness like relationships, work, health and finances, and provides strategies for enhancing happiness including gratitude, optimism, kindness, and using personal strengths. World rankings of happiness are discussed, with Nordic countries typically ranking highest.
This document discusses using Lean coaching tools and methods to help individuals and organizations transition from their current state ("as is") to a desired future state ("to be"). It introduces the Wheel of Life tool for conducting a self-assessment and identifying areas of waste. The Harada Method is then presented as a way to define goals and daily tasks to boost satisfaction levels and eliminate waste. The combination of these Lean coaching tools - the Wheel of Life for diagnosis and the Harada Method for planning and action - provides an approach to support continuous improvement through identifying and reducing waste at both the individual and organizational levels.
WINNER OF 9 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
SOME of THESE ARE
2015 Kindle Book Awards
Reader’s Favorite Book Award Winner
Shelf Unbound 2014 Best Indie Book
NIEA Winner
Don’t wait until you reach success to become happier! Most of us are relatively happy, but we are also aware that we could be happier. We believe happiness will come when we reach certain goals in our lives like getting married, buying a new home, getting a raise, a promotion, or a new job. So we forego a little happiness today and this week so we can reach those goals sooner. However the goals we thought would make us happy turn out to be just milestones on a long journey, and our happiness does not materialize like we had hoped. Happiness in the form of a deep sense of contentment, satisfaction, and fulfilment seems to be missing.
This book will help by providing a clear plan on how to choose happiness and then leverage that happiness to become even more successful. Don’t spend your life chasing success and hoping for happiness, learn how to connect happiness and success.
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“Ray shows that happiness actually comes before success, not after it. He spells out how the two are eternally bound and he walks you through a methodology that will change the way you think about success and life…this book is a powerfully inspirational gift to anyone who reads it.” - Tony Jeary, The Results Guy™
“In Connecting Happiness and Success, Ray provides a step by step process in pursuing happiness and creates a link to drive success. Ray teaches that while many of us chase success in order to be happy, Happiness comes first.” - Wayne IrwIn, Intel
“Ray White is a master of simplicity. He clearly explains the relationship between happiness and success and debunks the lifelong myth that happiness can only be attained after reaching an illusive point of success. This is a book that will help anyone whether they are a fortune 500 CEO or a student attending high school. A true gift that will keep on giving.” - Ali Merchant, Gap Inc.
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Ray White is a C-Level executive with 30 years of business experience helping start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies improve performance and profitability by focusing on developing successful employees. He speaks and teaches business classes on Leadership, Happiness, and Success at all levels of the business hierarchy from new employees to C-Level executives. Ray is on the board of Pursuit-of-Happiness.org and the University of North Texas Professional Leadership Program. You can find more information about Ray and Connecting Happiness and Success at ConnectingHappinessandSuccess.com.
Happiness is defined as an emotional state involving positive emotions like joy and satisfaction. It includes both feeling positive emotions in the present and having an overall sense of life satisfaction. Key components are balancing positive and negative emotions and satisfaction in important life areas. While perceptions vary, common signs of happiness include feeling like you are living as desired, feeling conditions are good, accomplishing goals, and feeling more positive than negative. Happiness involves more than constant euphoria but having more positive than negative emotions overall.
There are three main ways that psychologists study and conceptualize happiness:
1. Need and goal satisfaction theories which posit that happiness results from fulfilling fundamental human needs and achieving goals.
2. Genetic and personality predisposition theories which argue happiness is influenced by innate personality traits like extraversion.
3. Process/activity theories which suggest happiness can be improved by engaging in effortful activities.
While some argue happiness levels are stable over time, research shows subjective well-being, while associated with personality, can differ over time, suggesting happiness may be influenced by life experiences and behaviors as well. The psychology of happiness has applications in domains like education, business, health, and sports to enhance performance and quality of life.
Happiitude is Asia’s no 1 experiential learning company with a mission to make the world a happier place.
We recalibrate brands for a new era of employee and customer engagement. Our commitment to scientific solutions, evidence based tools, and experiential learning unites our many practices and expertise – and redefines the significance of Happiness at workplace.
In a nutshell, we deliver the best in Happiness strategy to our clients so that they can reach their business and communication goals.
Rhiann McLean and Catherine Rose Stocks Rankin - emotional experience of wor...Iriss
1) The document summarizes diaries from social services practitioners about their emotional experiences on the job. It finds that emotions are mixed, complex, and driven by personal and environmental factors. Practitioners feel frustrated by workload but proud and rewarded when clients achieve outcomes.
2) Relationships with clients and colleagues affect emotions, while a lack of work-life balance and concerns over health contribute to feelings of worry and exhaustion.
3) The diaries provide a novel way of understanding the emotional labor of social work from the ground up and finding ways to better support practitioners.
Anita Kumari Srivastava is the founder of HappinessFactors, a startup focused on emotional wellness. She has received awards for her work in this field and authored a book on finding happiness despite life's challenges. The document discusses various time management strategies such as prioritizing tasks, avoiding distractions, and scheduling time blocks to improve productivity and reduce stress. It emphasizes the relationship between emotional wellness, stress management, and effectively managing one's time.
The document discusses hedonic happiness, which focuses on maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. It defines the components of hedonic happiness as the presence of positive mood, absence of negative mood, and life satisfaction. Research has found that both hedonic and eudaimonic behaviors contribute to well-being in different ways and are necessary to maximize happiness. While the hedonic approach allows people to define happiness themselves, its focus on momentary pleasure may not always contribute to overall well-being. Both hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives seem to reflect essential elements of a good life, though they differ in their focus on personal happiness versus meaning and growth.
Lean Kanban India 2018 | Workplace Happiness - Is Kanban Taking Towards Happy...LeanKanbanIndia
Session Overview :
With the increase in population that separates ‘work’ from ‘life’, as if work is absence of life, it becomes increasingly important to study about what happiness means to people at work, so that they can be made to feel alive in their offices too. This session is aimed at introducing two interesting research studies that aimed to do just that. Also, this session helps people understand if Kanban keeps us happy in the true sense.
The two studies that this session will discuss about are as follows
Richard M. Ryan’s Self Determination Theory – led to a book Drive by Dan Pink
Mihaly’s Measurement of Flow in Everyday’s life – led to book Flow by Mihaly himself
This session does not just explain these two research works and Kanban but also will find the commonalities between these and will engage the audience with discussions using leading questions, thereby bringing out personal examples that they can relate to.
APM event hosted by the North West Branch on 5 December 2023.
Speaker: Katie Demain, Global Partner and Change Expert, iOpener Institute
There is compelling evidence that it pays to invest in your employees’ happiness. Research findings are clear that happier employees are more productive, which improves your bottom line. Your happiest employees are 65% more energised at work, spend twice as much time on-task, and intend to stay in their job 4 times longer, according to iOpener Institute. This event was held on 5 December 2023.
But what does being happy at work actually mean? Why is happiness considered the antidote to poor performance? Isn’t happiness just a fuzzy concept? Should workforce happiness be on your agenda in the current tough economic climate? What does making happy employees mean in real terms for business leaders and managers?
This event will bring participants up to speed with all aspects behind workforce happiness – its theory, its value and its challenges – for managers, teams and individuals. And to present practical solutions that you’ll be able to implement straight away with your teams.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/does-happiness-pay/
¿Trabajamos conscientemente para hacer felices nuestros usuarios? ¿Cómo sabemos que los son?
Las personas buscamos la felicidad.
El mundo de los negocios gira alrededor de clientes felices.
Como profesionales de la experiencia de usuario nos dedicamos a ayudar a las organizaciones y negocios a centrarse en sus usuarios y clientes. Les ayudamos a conseguir impactos positivos y evitar impactos negativos. Por lo que nos esforzamos por conseguir usuarios felices.
¿Hasta que punto trabajamos por 'la felicidad?
Presentamos los resultados de un estudio internacional abierto a la comunidad heterogénea de profesionales dedicados a diseñar, construir y comunicar webs, apps y servicios/productos digitales.
Los resultados del estudio muestran si los creadores nos preocupamos de ir un poco más allá de la usabilidad y la emoción, y consideramos la felicidad como un elemento más en nuestros procesos o actitudes de trabajo.
Se completan los resultados del estudio con una selección de recursos y perspectivas sobre felicidad, algunos destinados a cambiar la forma de entender la felicidad en nuestros proyectos.
What lies behind the words User Experience? The term is fairly self explanatory but 'the next big thing in design' as it's been called in numerous articles, blogs and publications has more to it than what's apparent...
>Interview related: http://swapsee.com/es/blog/swapsee-interview-meet-silvia-calvet-user-experience-expert-147.html
El documento presenta una charla sobre cómo lograr una experiencia Zen con Moodle. La presentadora explica conceptos de Zen como la interdependencia y la interconexión, y cómo aplicar principios de simplicidad a Moodle mediante la reducción de elementos no esenciales, la organización clara de contenidos y la facilitación del aprendizaje significativo para los estudiantes. Se propone luego un ejercicio grupal para diseñar un posible curso Moodle siguiendo estas ideas.
El documento presenta las tendencias en aprendizaje electrónico como redes sociales, aprendizaje informal, comunidades de aprendizaje y cursos ubicuos. Plantea la necesidad de innovar más allá de las tendencias para dar una mejor experiencia de usuario en Moodle. Propone ideas como exprimir las herramientas de Moodle, diseñar cursos visualmente atractivos y crear campus fáciles de usar.
Explore the essential graphic design tools and software that can elevate your creative projects. Discover industry favorites and innovative solutions for stunning design results.
ARENA - Young adults in the workplace (Knight Moves).pdfKnight Moves
Presentations of Bavo Raeymaekers (Project lead youth unemployment at the City of Antwerp), Suzan Martens (Service designer at Knight Moves) and Adriaan De Keersmaeker (Community manager at Talk to C)
during the 'Arena • Young adults in the workplace' conference hosted by Knight Moves.
Architectural and constructions management experience since 2003 including 18 years located in UAE.
Coordinate and oversee all technical activities relating to architectural and construction projects,
including directing the design team, reviewing drafts and computer models, and approving design
changes.
Organize and typically develop, and review building plans, ensuring that a project meets all safety and
environmental standards.
Prepare feasibility studies, construction contracts, and tender documents with specifications and
tender analyses.
Consulting with clients, work on formulating equipment and labor cost estimates, ensuring a project
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Architecting Happiness
15. ¿Qué es la felicidad para los creadores?
“Well-being cannot exist just
in your own head. Well-
being is a combination of
feeling good as well as
actually having meaning,
good relationships and
accomplishment.”
— Martin Seligman
“Thousands of candles can
be lighted from a single
candle, and the life of the
candle will not be
shortened. Happiness
never decreases by being
shared.”
— Buddha
42% 33%
Architecting Happiness
16. Los que creamos productos/
servicios para otros, creemos que
nuestro trabajo está relacionado
con dar felicidad a quien los usa.
A lot
64%
Making customers/
users happy makes me
happy.
How much impact do you think your
work has on overall customer
happiness?
44%
Do you believe that your work is
related to any of these concepts?
*
46% Some*
Architecting Happiness
17. “
Our projects are somehow based on happiness, because
the goal is to improve something. And this makes people
happy.
Happiness is not formally on the agenda as a topic, but
everything we do and design touches people lives and
organisations.“
Architecting Happiness
18. People are NOT looking to make life more efficient
and automated. People are looking for entertainment,
relationships. So it's not about the functionality, it's
about the experience.
“
Architecting Happiness
19. Según la experiencia de muchos
creadores, las empresas no buscan
“la felicidad” de sus clientes.
In your experience, do you think
that business looks for happy
customers?
Not always. They don't
understand that happy
customers are key for
profitability.
Only sometimes. They
don't care enough
about customers.
50%
32%
Architecting Happiness
20. Las empresas no ven el valor de impactar en las
emociones positivas.
Companies should look for functional satisfaction and
emotional happiness. And here is where many companies
go wrong. They only go for functional satisfaction.
The majority of the processes/projects that I've worked
on in the past were pain killers. We worked on the
medicine that was stopping the pain.
“
“
Architecting Happiness
21. The funny thing about happiness is that we
don't use that word, but it makes a lot of sense.
If you ask someone what is the higher, higher,
higher goal that she/he is pursuing, the
answer is 'happiness'. Why not use that when
you create work?
“
Architecting Happiness
22. The next time I hear someone
talk about happiness at the
office …
I will explore more to
encourage talk about
happiness.
31%
There are a lot of different
perspectives and approaches on
happiness.
Test yourself and check all the
ones that you ever heard about…
(check all that apply)
"Flourish". The Authentic
Happiness and Well-being Theory
by Martin Seligman
7% *
Architecting Happiness
32. Life satisfaction
“A general assessment that, as a whole,
one's life is good and worth living.
Researchers usually measure life
satisfaction by using the Satisfaction
with Life Scale
Cómo la Ciencia define la
Felicidad
A technical term to describe the
experience of feeling a positive
emotion, such as joy, love, or
amusement. It is often measured using
the Positive and Negative Affect
Schedule (PANAS).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/docman/3509804https://www.flickr.com/photos/suzettesuzette/4696869681
Happiness = Subjective well-being
The experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with
a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2007
“
Positive affect Life satisfaction
33. Life satisfaction
“A general assessment that, as a whole,
one's life is good and worth living.
Researchers usually measure life
satisfaction by using the Satisfaction
with Life Scale
Cómo la Ciencia define la
Felicidad
A technical term to describe the
experience of feeling a positive
emotion, such as joy, love, or
amusement. It is often measured using
the Positive and Negative Affect
Schedule (PANAS).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/docman/3509804https://www.flickr.com/photos/suzettesuzette/4696869681
Happiness = Subjective well-being
The experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with
a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2007
“
Positive affect Life satisfaction
34. Life satisfaction
“A general assessment that, as a whole,
one's life is good and worth living.
Researchers usually measure life
satisfaction by using the Satisfaction
with Life Scale
Cómo la Ciencia define la
Felicidad
A technical term to describe the
experience of feeling a positive
emotion, such as joy, love, or
amusement. It is often measured using
the Positive and Negative Affect
Schedule (PANAS).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/docman/3509804https://www.flickr.com/photos/suzettesuzette/4696869681
Happiness = Subjective well-being
The experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with
a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2007
“
Positive affect Life satisfaction
35. Life satisfactionPositive affect Life satisfaction
“A general assessment that, as a whole,
one's life is good and worth living.
Researchers usually measure life
satisfaction by using the Satisfaction
with Life Scale
Cómo la Ciencia define la
Felicidad
Positive affect
A technical term to describe the
experience of feeling a positive
emotion, such as joy, love, or
amusement. It is often measured using
the Positive and Negative Affect
Schedule (PANAS).
Life satisfaction
Happiness = Subjective well-being
The experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with
a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2007
“
36. Life satisfactionPositive affect Life satisfaction
“A general assessment that, as a whole,
one's life is good and worth living.
Researchers usually measure life
satisfaction by using the Satisfaction
with Life Scale
Positive affect
A technical term to describe the
experience of feeling a positive
emotion, such as joy, love, or
amusement. It is often measured using
the Positive and Negative Affect
Schedule (PANAS).
Life satisfaction
Happiness = Subjective well-being
The experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with
a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2007
“
Ahora hablamos de
wellbeing
37. Life satisfactionPositive affect Life satisfaction
“A general assessment that, as a whole,
one's life is good and worth living.
Researchers usually measure life
satisfaction by using the Satisfaction
with Life Scale
Positive affect
A technical term to describe the
experience of feeling a positive
emotion, such as joy, love, or
amusement. It is often measured using
the Positive and Negative Affect
Schedule (PANAS).
Life satisfaction
Happiness = Subjective well-being
The experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with
a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2007
“
Ahora hablamos de
wellbeing
40. Flourishing … refers to optimal human functioning. It
comprises four parts: goodness, generativity, growth,
and resilience
Prosperar
Fredrickson & Losada: Flourishing
Fredrickson, B. L., & Losada, M. F. (2005). Positive affect and complex dynamics of human flourishing
poder de
recuperación
estar bien
mejorar la vida para
generaciones futuras
crecimiento
“
Psicología Positiva
41. Martin Seligman: Well-being theory
placer
felicidad
emoción
satisfacción
La combinación de
pasión y concentra-
ción crea un estado
de absorción en la
actividad
Busca relaciones
auténticas.
Encuentra
dónde sumar.
La búsqueda del
dominio y del
éxito
E
P
R
M
A
Positive emotions
Accomplishments
Meaning
Engagement
Relationships
Icons: The Noun Project - Christopher Reyes (heart), Ana María Lora Macias (world), iconsmind.com (handshake); Freepik (thumb)
Freepik (happy usuario)
FelicidadPsicología Positiva
44. Tony Hsieh: Delivering happiness movement
Source: adapted from http://deliveringhappiness.com/
Tiempo
Placer
Pasión
(flow)
Propósito
superior
Felicidad
The Noun Project icons: Christopher Reyes (heart), Ana María Lora Macias (world), Tina Habi Achem (cake)
Felices en el trabajo
45. Why Be Happy?
Estudio tras estudio demuestran que Ser Feliz impacto en
y mejoran otros aspectos de nuestra vida:
Al ser felices, mejora nuestra autoestima y confianza.
ALEGRÍA AMOR ORGULLO
SALUD FÍSICA
SISTEMA INMUNOLÓGICO
ENGAGEMENT PARA TRABAJAR
CON LOS DEMÁS
SALUD MENTAL
Además, cuando somos felices no sólo nos beneficiamos
nosotros, si no también a los que nos rodean, a nuestra familia,
nuestra comunidad y a la sociedad en general!
46. Why Be Happy?
Estudio tras estudio demuestran que Ser Feliz impacto en
y mejoran otros aspectos de nuestra vida:
Al ser felices, mejora nuestra autoestima y confianza.
ALEGRÍA AMOR ORGULLO
SALUD FÍSICA
SISTEMA INMUNOLÓGICO
ENGAGEMENT PARA TRABAJAR
CON LOS DEMÁS
SALUD MENTAL
Además, cuando somos felices no sólo nos beneficiamos
nosotros, si no también a los que nos rodean, a nuestra familia,
nuestra comunidad y a la sociedad en general!
47. Why Be Happy?
Estudio tras estudio demuestran que Ser Feliz impacto en
y mejoran otros aspectos de nuestra vida:
Al ser felices, mejora nuestra autoestima y confianza.
ALEGRÍA AMOR ORGULLO
SALUD FÍSICA
SISTEMA INMUNOLÓGICO
ENGAGEMENT PARA TRABAJAR
CON LOS DEMÁS
SALUD MENTAL
Además, cuando somos felices no sólo nos beneficiamos
nosotros, si no también a los que nos rodean, a nuestra familia,
nuestra comunidad y a la sociedad en general!
48. Adapted from Lyubomirsky “Pursuing Happiness: The architecture of sustainable change”
S. Lyubomirsky: Determinants of Happiness
Factores de influencia
en los niveles de felicidad crónicas
Tendencias
genéticas
Actividades
intencionadas
Circunstancias
10%
50%
40%
¿De verdad podemos ser
felices?
49. Adapted from Lyubomirsky “Pursuing Happiness: The architecture of sustainable change”
S. Lyubomirsky: Determinants of Happiness
Factores de influencia
en los niveles de felicidad crónicas
Tendencias
genéticas
Actividades
intencionadas
Circunstancias
10%
50%
40%
¿De verdad podemos ser
felices?