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.