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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 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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Pause before giving up…The “why”?

Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness / My Holland

When You’re Down and Feeling Like You Want to Give Up, Do Something About It! Nobody ever said life is a picnic. Sure, there are great times. Sure, there are fun times. But just as surely, there are also bad times. These are the days when you can’t help but ask .. why can’t I get this project running? When you’ve put in a lot of time and personal resources, almost literally blood, sweat and tears into an important venture and can’t seem to make it move, it’s easy to feel crushed and frustrated. This feeling can hit you so hard, you’d want to raise your hands in surrender, shouting I GIVE UP! Sometimes, this urge to throw in the towel can crop up with the most common activity of our everyday life …in your plan to eating healthier fruits and vegetables and getting rid of the junk food in the kitchen pantry … your entertaining thoughts of stopping going to the gym for your workouts, because you’re still as big as a house. In fact, some people even opt to live like a recluse because dating and socializing don’t seem to be working for them, not being able to meet the right person. If you find yourself in such situations while trying to make positive changes in your life, DON’T GIVE UP! What can you do? Two things …. One, pause a while. Take a few minutes to remind yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing. Perhaps, this project you’re deeply involved in holds a promise of supporting your family and allowing them to live a comfortable life. Your workouts and recently adopted healthy eating? Hey, you’d want to live long enough to see your kids grow up, playing the cello masterfully in their high school music class or be extremely proud to see your teen-age boy dunking that ball beautifully in an inter-school basketball competition. Or …maybe, you’d like to simply travel and experience the beauty of Tuscany in Italy and discover the excitement of game cock-fighting in Guadalajara, Mexico. Whatever it is, reminding yourself of these great reasons, when you’re getting that I-want-to-give-up feeling will help you to hang on and keep right on going. Two, think positively. Remember, tomorrow’s another day. When things seem to be heavy and difficult and you’re on the verge of giving up, think that tomorrow could be different from today. It could bring a big change, a new insight, a happening that could make what you’re doing a lot easier, a lot lighter. This happens all the time. You recall what the old folks say when you’ve got a problem? “Sleep over it. It’ll be better in the morning.” And it usually does! Michael Jordan anecdote Michael Jordan is one of the best, if not the best basketball player that ever lived. In his teen years, trying out for his school’s basketball team, the coach turned him down. The coach said Michael wasn’t good Sources: My’s reference https://hbr.org/2015/03/positive-teams-are-more-productive

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