Happiness at Work and how we all can benefit from a dose of happiness – The statistician with soul!

(Some of) The main points for listeners are: 

·       Vulnerability in front of the camera

·       About Nic – The statistician with soul!

·       Transitioning from mathematician to happiness guru and wellbeing expert

·       Measuring happiness in … Bhutan

·       Quality of life and the internal drive for research and ‘Mesearch’

·       The Arc of Life…

·       The link between statistics and therapy

·       Listen, Reflect and Ask – the 3 things a therapist does

·       Friday Pulse and how a snapshot of ‘happiness’ is easier to measure than engagement

·       How was your week? An easy question to answer... with a tech platform behind it

·       Hard earned simplicity… with depth

·       Things should be reduced to their simplest form but no more simple

·       Decoding the answer to the question how happy were you this week?

·       What does happiness mean to you?

·       High energy to low energy definitions of happiness

·       Engagement – a recently invented term at work that’s harder to define … but happiness is easier to define

·       The alignment of people profit and purpose – driven through teams

·       Lower staff turnover, increased levels of innovation, 

·       The correlation between happiness and luck… (Richard Wiseman)

·       Measuring Happiness as a predictive indicator of risk

·       Creating nicer places to work that drive commercial results through a focus on culture

·       What is purpose – that age old question… meaning and purpose as a ‘longer wave length of happiness’…

·       Nic explains the correlation between happiness at work and the impact of Covid on society over the course of 2020 – from fear and uncertainty to boredom as lockdowns progressed.

·       The correlation between simply measuring happiness and resilience in teams – if you show an interest in it you are more likely to see the benefit from it…

·       How encouraging people to ask ‘how are you?’ is easier for (some) people when there’s a number on it!

·       Take free trial of Friday Pulse to see how it works! Don’t just talk about it.

·       Nic’s tip… excellence is a habit…. And so do it every week!

·       Accept that people will have ‘good and bad’ weeks – and that’s life.

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Books Referenced in this Episode

The Luck Factor, The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind , Richard Wiseman tinyurl.com/54j6kzm8

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