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WICT What Happy Working Mothers Know Webinar # 1

WICT What Happy Working Mothers Know Webinar # 1. Cathy L. Greenberg Barrett S. Avigdor. Attend this webinar for INSIGHT:. I mmediate steps to enhance your overall effectiveness in life N ew tools to evaluate, enhance and engage your full potential

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WICT What Happy Working Mothers Know Webinar # 1

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  1. WICTWhat Happy Working Mothers KnowWebinar # 1 Cathy L. Greenberg Barrett S. Avigdor

  2. Attend this webinar for INSIGHT: Immediate steps to enhance your overall effectiveness in life New tools to evaluate, enhance and engage your full potential Smart ways to leverage money, time and energy to maximize returns Ideas for managing the needs of motherhood and work successfully How to align your true values for leadership at home and at work Goal setting using self coaching strategies to achieve your best Timely insight using results driven, innovative personal practices

  3. What we will share in each program • practical dialogue grounded in application • access to an expert facilitator • topic-specific examples, tips and assessments • a personal action plan focused on you • a new peer network of contacts

  4. to change to your life to change your industry to change your community “Happiness”is a powerful way

  5. Based on the science of happiness: WhatHappyWorking MothersKnow

  6. In a tough economy should you just keep your head down and work? • Happiness drives high performance for you and for your team • You can’t afford • not to think • about happiness

  7. A Case For Action: Why Happiness? In today’s hard-nosed world—especially the numbers-based realm of business and today’s tough economic times—it’s easy to dismiss happiness as an unimportant luxury and a time-waster that saps our energies and drains bottom lines, however, it’s just the opposite. A positive approach positively affects bottom lines, whether in the boardroom, classroom, or at home. And lack of happiness exacts its financial toll. Working mothers have plenty of company. Nearly 25.7 million mothers with children under 18 were part of the U.S. workforce in 2007. (* That’s nearly double the number in 1975, according to estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labors Statistics and the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey).

  8. Happiness = High Performance • When people are happy, they can think with their whole brain • Under stress, we resort to flight, fight or freeze blocking our capacity to have… • “PEACE of Mind” • Productivity • Ethical decisions • Adaptability • Creativity • Excellence in performance

  9. Happiness is a Performance Issue Happiness at work comes from: Being proud of your skills/role Feeling challenged and supported Working to your strengths Receiving recognition/appreciation Facts - a happy or engaged work force: 20% increase in productivity 23% increase in customer satisfaction 50% reduction in unplanned attrition 93% of performance = happiness & satisfaction

  10. H = S + C + V Happiness = Set Point + Circumstances + Voluntary Activity 50% is genetics and 50% is within your control The Science of Happiness

  11. Happiness is a Health Issue • Feeling appreciation creates: • synchronization of the central nervous system, improves auditory discrimination, • spatial awareness, and • short and long term memory. • Our emotions influence our digestive, cardiovascular, immune and hormonal systems • When we are happy, our bodies perform optimally with minimal wear and tear

  12. 3 Ways to Create High Performance 1. Create a Positive Environment 2. Manage Based on Strengths 3. Choose Happiness Every Day

  13. Create a Positive Environment • “Human Flourishing is to live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness…growth and resilience” • Dr. Barbara Fredrickson • University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill • Requires 3 positives for every 1 negative interaction • 3:1 5:19:1 • Low stress environment means people use their whole brain – emotion and reason • Results in more creative and more ethical decisions

  14. Create a Positive Environment • As a manager or an associate • use more positive language, • practice openness and safety, and • create an environment of positive feedback. • You have the power to create a positive environment by being relentlessly positive in your own behavior • This doesn’t mean we overlook the negative or avoid the unpleasant. It means we do not dwell on them. • Our focus is on what’s working….vs. what’s not

  15. Manage Based on Strengths Strengths = activities that energize you Weaknesses = activities that drain you Maximize team performance by spending time on strengths and minimize time spent on weaknesses

  16. Manage Based on Strengths Assess which activities and people at work energize you and find ways to spend more time on those Assess which activities may drain you and find ways to minimize time on those Help your team to do the same Managing your energy investments will improve performance and increase engagement over time

  17. Choose Happiness Daily Happiness is a choice – like living a healthy life style There are common happiness traps– once you understand them, you can navigate around them. You can’t control life but you can control where you spend your time and energy

  18. QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

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