Making progress in meaningful work is the strongest motivator at work, says Teresa Amabile, scientist at Harvard. How do you – as a team – define if you are meaningful? And how do you know if you reach your goals, how do you measure progress. Writing a team manifesto is a powerful tool to unleash the potential of the team, by setting goals, making it real, tangible, concrete, visible and sticky.

Being effective, efficient and happy is a challenge. We all want to bring our best to work, but how do we thrive at work? Science shows that the way teams work together and management have a huge influence on our performance. Talking about happiness at work is for some people a difficult task. It might be awkward, too personal, or just odd. But knowing what makes you happy at work is extremely important if we want to work in flow and get the best out of our team. The card game Talking about Happiness at work, give you just the right tool to do this. This game can help you to enhance happiness levels within your team, skip the usual boring performance reviews and helps to thrive at work.

We all know that innovative organizations are more successful. But how does Happiness at Work fit in the equation? Definitely, there is a link between happy, creative, innovative and successful organizations. In this interactive workshop, you will experience how Design Thinking and Happiness at Work go together and how that leads to success in so many organizations. We will provide practical tips on how to develop new habits to empower your creativity, empathy and thus happiness at work.

On the basis of the theory of happiness and design thinking participants will experience step by step how they can work on more creativity and innovative thinking in their organization. The workshop will be very interactive with small exercises and mind setters.

As a child, we loved to play. These years of unbound creativity, fun and flow may seem lost for some of us. Playing can be a powerful tool to unleash that creative source of fun and flow. Lego Serious Play is a well-known and tested way of tapping into that source. In this introductory workshop, we show you the power of playing, Lego and how this enhances happiness at work in your team.

About the workshop

This highly entertaining and interactive workshop focuses on playing with Lego Serious Play as a tool for a group, to discuss values, happiness, and effectiveness. In one and a half hour, we explain about the background, but we focus on you working with the bricks.

Peter Drucker already said it a century ago: ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast.’ If the culture sucks you won’t be able to execute your company strategy and when your organisational or team culture is building up to your goals, you will be invincible. So when you want your team or organization to succeed and your people to flourish it is very important to focus on a happy culture as the key element of your success. But how do you do that? How can you build a culture that contributes to your goals, to happiness and success?

The only one who can make you happy is you. And one of the most important things to be happy and resilient at work is the right mindset. Carol Dweck did a lot of research about fixed and growth mindset. This workshop in which we share scientific insights and best practices is based on her work. Besides a theoretical part there is lots of room for tests and exercises, so you can experience what kind of mindset you prefer and what a more growth mindset can do for you.

Research shows that having a clear purpose in both life and work is essential to happiness. Companies with a clear purpose perform better than companies without. Purpose is increasingly mentioned as the key to navigate the volatile and complex world we live in. However, finding your organizational purpose is not an easy task.

Being happy at work makes us 12% more productive, research shows. Happy employees lead to happier customers and better business. In this one-day workshop, Maartje and Fennande share their knowledge and extensive experience with you on how to transform your team into a happier team. Based on the science of happiness at work, their successful approach with teams has helped many teams to better cooperation, better projects, sustainable success and better business. Learn about measuring happiness and practical steps to enhance happiness levels in your team. Train-the-trainer.

We all know that innovative organizations are more successful. But how does happiness at work fit into the equation? Definitely, there is a link between happiness, creativity, innovation, and success in organizations. In this interactive workshop, you will learn about Happiness at work and use the method of Design Thinking to enhance Happiness in your team. How can Design Thinking lead to a happier and stronger (agile) team? We will provide practical tips on how to empower your creativity, empathy and thus happiness at work.

How can you flourish and be happy in a world that is changing all the time? One of the most important things for success, happiness and resilience is the right mindset. The only one who can make you happy and successful is you. Carol Dweck did a lot of research about fixed and growth mindset. This workshop is based on her work. First participants will rank their feeling of pleasure, flow and purpose in work. After that we will immerse into the subject of fixed and growth mindset. Besides sharing our knowledge, insights from science and best practices, we will do a few tests and exercises so the participants can experience what kind of mindset they prefer. Besides that they get tips and tricks to work agile on a more growth mindset; because that mindset will add to their success and happiness.

Introduction

Having a clear purpose in both life and work is essential to happiness. Science and business support this view. Companies with a clear purpose perform better than companies without. Purpose is increasingly mentioned as the key to navigate the volatile and complex world we live in. And, people with a purpose in their life, live longer and are healthier. However, finding your purpose, your personal, team and companies purpose, is not an easy task. In this workshop we discuss what purpose means and what the key elements of a sustainable and meaningful purpose are. By playing the Purpose Journey Game, we elaborate the four steps to identify the company or team purpose and build your business around it.

Outline:

After sharing our knowledge, insights from science and best practices, we will immerse in the subject by playing the Purpose Journey Game. We play the game in small groups (pressure cooker experience). By answering questions, role-plays and discussion participants will experience the method and learn how to find the purpose of their company or team.

Agility is necessary in our transforming and disruptive world. However, changes can also cause a lot of stress. And if we are not aware of that, it will influence our happiness at work. Keeping our level of stress moderate and learning how to deal with it, helps to keep up teamwork and -happiness. Choosing the right mindset and morale and focusing on results and relations will bring the best performance. It is all about mindset, morale and engagement, relations, results and performance. How to deal with stress and other issues that arise at work? This workshop is a 90-minutes combination of facts and figures about stress and happiness at work and a fun experience by playing the ‘serious’ game ‘Choose Happiness@work’. A great experience that you can take home to your team.

Introduction

Culture eats strategy for breakfast, said Peter Drucker. We all agree to that. If our organisational culture is not building up to our goals, we will never reach them. The main question is, how can you create an organisational and team culture that contributes to your goals, to productivity and success? The key for change is to form the right habits, within our agile teams. Like exercising regularly and losing weight you can develop habits for being healthy, happy, more productive and successful at work. Therefore it is important to understand the human nature and its potential for transformation. In this workshop participants get all the insights and best practices to develop habits for an happy and fulfilling (work)life and organisational culture.

Having a clear purpose in both life and work is essential to happiness. And, science and business support this view. Companies with a clear purpose perform better than companies without. Purpose is increasingly seen as the key to navigate the volatile and complex world we live in. And, people with a purpose in their live longer and are healthier. However, finding your purpose, your personal and companies purpose, is not an easy task. In this workshop we discuss what purpose means and key elements of a sustainable and meaningful purpose. We elaborate the four steps to identify the company purpose and how to build your business around it.