My Holland, Author at EQuest Asia

Create Positive Emotions At The Workplace. It Raises Productivity

Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Productivity, Workplace Culture / My Holland

A lot of men say that the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that the pessimist, sees women as naughty and bad. An optimist HOPES women are naughty and bad! Seriously though, you know the big difference between these two points of view: Optimism being one that can have a great impact not only on your career or profession but also on your health and life, in general. What Research Studies Say In fact, research studies have shown that optimism helps to keep depression away, improve your social ties, boost job performance and raise the chances of success in any undertaking. And when you come face to face with setbacks, optimism can make you more resilient. Pessimism, on the other hand undermines work, friendships and health. It increases your stress when you dwell on the negative too much. It actually is the recipe for depression and failure. Given these, wouldn’t you rather work with the optimist who can lighten up the day and who you can count on for support? Of course you would!, unless you’re “The Voice of Doom” who loves to hang around people who do nothing but complain, point blame at co-workers and see the whole world as nearing its end. High Performance Emanates from Optimistic Employees If you look closely at your people in the workplace, you may notice (as studies in actual work setting reflect) that your high performing teams tend to have a 6-to-1 ratio of positive to negative viewpoints. The low performing groups have an under 1-to-1 ratio. This gap generally makes a tremendous difference in your business, organizational set-up and the people who comprise them. Your best performers typically produce the top scores on profits, customer service ratings and other value measurements. Have no doubt about it. Positive emotions play a key role in a company’s daily operations. It broadens. Negative emotions hold you back. What You Can Do So, on your one-on-ones with the negative guys help them out. Persuade them to distract themselves. Help them find healthy distractions like music, exercises, meditation, etc. Short of getting them to take up bullfighting lessons, get them to learn new things.These will help put their focus somewhere else. Get them to reappraise problems and see them in a different perspective. Is it half-full or half-empty? Is it really that complex or do they just see it as such? Teach them to regard a thought as simply that: a thought. No need for them to make any judgments. The only real thing is experience. With the foregoing, you should be able to lend a hand in raising the optimism levels in your company and shoo away all forms of negativism. This is key to productivity that leads to business success.

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The Power Of A Mindful Moment

Awareness, Mindfulness / My Holland

Nobody needs to tell you this. Life is one big, endless cycle of activity. From the moment we wake up (but not wanting to rise) until we get some shut-eye at night (wishing we’d gone to bed earlier) it’s simply about being busy, busy, busy. How we handle this “busyness” determines how we get to be truly effective in our personal and professional life and how we get to feel in physical and emotional terms. Are we going ballistic because we’re stressed out? Have we lost our drive because we’re tired? Of course some pressure is good for the body. The batch of stress hormones that come along with it jacks up our performance, energizes us and pushes us to head back for the salt mines. The cortisol number in our bodies goes up as high as ten times more creating that sense of enthusiasm we all need to keep us going. That’s the good news. The bad news is that when too much stress starts hitting our brain, we run the risk of being a mad hatter. So, What Do We Do? Enter: Mindful Moments Mindful moments can serve as a helpful tool to assist us in managing our busyness, tone done mental fatigue and regain focus and normal level stress. What’s A Mindful Moment? Mindful moment is that stand-still pause where you consciously connect with a keen awareness of the present moment. It’s the here-and-now time fraction, where instead of letting your mind roam forward to future thoughts or allowing worries to bring you back to what happened during the yesteryears, you simply touch base with Now…this moment. Because breathing is the human function readily available to just about anybody who is pretty familiar and well adapted to the art of regular breathing, a mindful moment is about focusing on it. No matter what position you’re in, sitting or standing, a mindful moment allows you to concentrate on the inhaling and exhaling of your breath. As you do so, you’ll notice your tension starting to go down. You start to feel less antsy and become calmer. And you get this sense of control of handling any emotions being generated. So, When Should You Try These Mindful Moments? When you think seriously that your potential reaction to a given scenario may go haywire and you envision results as not serving you best, go try a mindful moment. Some of the most typical situations you might encounter include the following: When you start getting edgy and irritated waiting in line at the coffee shop, in a government bureau or a bank. When you get this pins-and-needles feeling and dread for that important job interview. When you feel sick as you see a surge of 500 emails into your inbox. When you oversleep, the traffic is a nightmare and the you’re-running-out-of-gas orange light is flashing in your face. To be sure you’ll run into other situations similar to these as you go through the routine of everyday life. When you begin to get that walking-on- eggs tense feeling, go for that mindful moment. It helps.

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The Importance Of Well-Being At The Workplace

Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Leadership, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Wellbeing / My Holland

Well-being is about people feeling highly valued and supported in the job they do in their place of work. It’s also about their health, productivity and performance which can usually lead to good bottom line numbers for companies. Business organizations that are well-structured and well-managed generally play an essential role in the promotion of employees’ health and over-all well-being. The benefits they bring result in the reduction of absenteeism and malingering illnesses and facilitates ease and speed of recovery and return to work after either a serious injury or illness. At its simplest definition, well-being is about personal happiness, feeling good and doing one’s job in a safe and healthy environment. Why Is Well-Being Important To A Company? Experts in the corporate world say the cost of replacement of employees who resign can go as high as one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the departing employee’s salary, given the collateral costs of recruitment, hiring and training. On the other hand, business organizations which have a workforce that is highly engaged can reduce employee turnover by eighty seven percent (87%). You don’t have to be a rocket engineer to figure out its impact not only on a company’s net profits, but on the productivity, culture and over-all output of the business, as well. And so, if you haven’t as yet taken employees’ well-being seriously in your company, now’s a good time. Work out a wellness program with a system that’ll increase productivity and bring in good figures for your company profits. Even more importantly, develop a wellness package for your staff that will result in over-all happiness and health. Here are 5 easy-to-implement guides your company can adopt to create a well-designed wellness program to, not only raise your employees’ engagement level but as well, build a pervasive, positive culture in the workplace. Link your program to the company’s strategic direction. Get this running parallel with your company’s vision and values. This way everybody wins. Make sure you have a yardstick to measure your ROI. Launching a wellness program will naturally entail some investments. Put it all together with specific objectives and how success is to be measured. Check your rate of absenteeism, cost of employees’ wages and your company’s engagement scores. They’ll serve as an index against which you can compare performance after the program has been put in place. Get your top management to buy into the idea of a sound and well-grounded well-being program. It never hurts to have the support of everybody, especially the head honchos you might have to run too should problems crop up. Work out some quick wins. Provide initiatives that will help your staff to quickly jump in and level up. Don’t forget to have fun! The subject of wellness and health doesn’t have to be boring. Make sure your message is intriguing, trendy and to the point. It should inspire a change in behavior of your guys. Inject some lightheartedness into it or even some fun from time to time. With something like this in place in your company, don’t be surprised to see your people with smiles on their faces Monday to Friday!

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