Positive Psychology Management and Business Coach Diploma L3

Explore the program structure and teaching style of this positive psychology course, building on Authentic Happiness foundations to connect existing knowledge with new knowledge through unscripted delivery.

Explore how this program was created, grounded in a decade of happiness research and real-world application by a chief happiness officer, to boost employee well-being and organizational performance.

Assess your current work situation and future goals, from job to career path or calling. Explore how coaching and happiness help align work with purpose.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude and service, align employees with the company bottom line, and embrace that nothing is hard to do while believing you can accomplish anything together.

Participate in a self-reflection to name a known successful person, list reasons for their success, and classify them as skills, knowledge, or attitude, with attitude highlighted as a differentiator.

Assess your employee attitude toward your current job and future job by completing the assignment, articulating your personal stance in your own words.

Identify essential CHO skills, including verbal and written communication, people skills, creative thinking, decision making, public relations, problem solving, motivation, and psychology-informed business insight.

Advance your chief happiness officer knowledge through authentic happiness certification, emotional intelligence, and global versus local culture to lead teams and manage finances.

Provide a quick, high-level refresher on the Authentic Happiness certifications for returning or new learners, with no section details and guidance to mark lectures completed if desired.

Provide a quick review of the authentic happiness life course certification program across modules 1–8, covering coaching happiness, the PERMA model, the happiness scale, and client-ready forms and assignments.

Refine your Authentic Happiness definition from the program or update it, then define authentic organizational and employee happiness and sketch a framework for these concepts.

Outline the chief happiness officer responsibilities within the eight E.H. framework, focusing on influencing friendship, work activities, and culture to boost happiness at work.

Explore pillar 1 of AOEH: employee authentic happiness by adapting its definition to the workplace, balancing positive and negative emotions while creating meaning and purpose at work.

Align employee authentic happiness with organizational authentic happiness to boost profitability, purpose, and global presence, while fostering positive emotions and meaningful work across all functions.

Cultivate grounded optimism and positive organizational selves by believing in the mission and people, using past successes to strengthen organizational strengths.

Explore pillar 2 of AOEH, focusing on employees' strengths drawn from 24 character strengths, such as bravery, creativity, curiosity, kindness, leadership, and love of learning.

Pillar three from the organizational perspective emphasizes organizational optimism and belief in people. Grounded optimism builds on past successes, from founders or similar organizations, to increase optimism and sustain success.

Leverage grounded optimism to shape employee mindset by drawing on past successes within the organization or industry, fostering belief that the organization is the right fit and will succeed.

Identify and clearly present organizational goals, including profit, corporate social responsibility, marketing, and sales. Help employees understand and align their goals with these organizational goals to boost organizational happiness.

Align organizational and employee goals to boost engagement and effectiveness; explore fit when goals diverge and how targeted skill development, like network security, creates alignment.

Explore pillar 5 organizational relationships, distinguishing internal and external relationships, detailing reporting structures, local versus global approaches, team interactions, client relationships, and vendor partnerships to boost collaboration and profitability.

Explore pillar 5 of AOEH employee relationships, detailing business relationships with managers, co-workers, direct reports, clients, and vendors, and the impact of personal relationships on happiness and organizational success.

Align organizational and employee relationships by separating personal life from business, while leveraging trusted friendships to boost happiness, profitability, and success.

Develop mindful leadership and communication by practicing mindful listening, mindful talking, mindful meeting facilitation, mindful decision making, mindful goal setting, and mindful walking to keep leaders and employees present.

Align organizational mindfulness with employee mindfulness to create a mindful organization; train employees to be mindful again and deliver mindfulness programs for more successful employees and higher profitability.

Discover pillar seven of AOEH: employee gratitude, focus on specific workplace moments, and craft a work-centered gratitude letter for an upcoming assignment.

Align organizational and employee gratitude by acknowledging one-to-one appreciation for shared outcomes, contributions, financial health, and relationships to foster low turnover and trust.

This pillar defines organizational resilience and purpose as a measurable, evolving goal supported by a redundancy-based resilience plan to sustain operations and strengthen employee resilience.

Explore pillar 8 of AOEH: employee resiliency factors. Apply optimism, facing fear, moral compass, role model, spirituality, social support, physical and brain fitness, and meaning and purpose at work.

Examine psychology capital in authentic happiness organisation, highlighting four characteristics—hope, efficacy, resiliency, and optimism—and how hope combines willpower and weight power to generate goal-directed energy and planning to meet goals.

Explore efficacy as a set of successes learned from others, with role models and modeling boost learning and goal achievement; emphasize authentic positive feedback in organizations and arousal.

Explore four steps to selling authentic happiness in organizations: create, promote, research, deliver. Design comprehensive, adaptable workshops focused on sales, data, and profit.

Promote positive psychology and happiness by tailoring a promotional deck that aligns with company values and demonstrates measurable results from similar businesses. Listen mindfully to address company needs.

Deliver emphasizes engaging audiences from the start through facilitation, questions, and brief activities. It stresses real-world application, feedback, and ongoing research to strengthen delivery of authentic happiness.

Conduct thorough research while developing your presentation, drawing on books, articles, courses, and many research papers to build a foundation for your program and improve your delivery of authentic happiness.

Enroll in a CPD Standards Office accredited program that combines material from twelve positive psychology courses, offers 20 CPD hours, and prepares you for authentic happiness life coach certification.

Chasing happiness proves ineffective; cultivate happiness now in the present moment by writing eight to fifteen reasons you're happy today in a journal.

Reflect on what happiness means by recalling moments that made you happy, compare others' success and happiness, and summarize three reflections for discussion on chasing happiness.

Explore the science of positive psychology, measuring life worth living through positive emotions, character, and institutions. Learn how it supplements traditional psychology with rigorous, evidence-based interventions for happiness.

Explore the relation between happiness and success through positive psychology, and learn that happiness can be learned and that happy people are successful.

Martin Seligman established positive psychology in 1998 to study what makes people happy, highlighting the three-to-one positivity ratio. Fredrickson's work shows happiness isn't constant and positivity has limits.

Learn the positivity ratio concept from Dr. Barbara Fredrickson and how a three-to-one positivity balance predicts flourishing, with a quick two-minute test at positivityratio.com.

Define happiness as the overall experience of pleasure and meaning, arising as a byproduct of everyday actions like kindness, helping others, and engagement.

Explore how 50 percent of happiness comes from genes, 10 percent from life circumstances, and 40 percent from daily actions, and that happiness is a byproduct of the journey.

Explore neuroplasticity and how changing habits reshapes the brain’s neural pathways, linking behavior to happiness, with evidence that small changes can alter our well-being across life.

Explore the PERMA model of human flourishing, detailing positive emotions, engagement and flow, and relationships. Learn practices like mindful moment awareness, remembering names, active listening, and constructive responses.

Meaning and purpose boost happiness when we find meaning in what we do. Cultivate authenticity, altruism, and internal achievement to enhance well-being by finding meaning in everything.

Learn the PERMA happiness model and reflect on actions that boost positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement for a professional practice in positive psychology management.

Identify your top character strengths through surveys and self-efficacy scales, then explore how optimism influences work, relationships, longevity, and the balance of optimism, realism, and pessimism.

Identify your top five character strengths with the free survey, then apply the six categories—wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, transcendence—to boost happiness and performance, reassess every six months.

Operate from your strengths to achieve excellence; doing what you do best daily increases productivity by 38 percent and sixfold, urging you to complete the strengths and passion survey.

Learn to assess your top five strengths with the strengths self-efficacy scale, score confidence from 1 to 10, and plan applying strengths at work and daily life.

Boost productivity by one percent, engagement tenfold, creativity threefold, accuracy nineteen percent, and sales by thirty-seven percent through optimism. Foster optimism to improve team engagement and business success.

Explores the link between optimism and longevity through a study of 178 Sisters of Notre Dame, showing higher survival among the most cheerful than the least cheerful.

Explore how optimism, pessimism, and realism shape resilience through Viktor Frankl's logotherapy, as visualization and a purposeful mindset help survivors endure hardship.

Learn when optimism benefits performance and when it hinders judgment; balance optimism with realism in high-stakes tasks like flight safety, quality control, and infrastructure such as bridges, roads, and trains.

Define self concordant and intrinsic goals, distinguish them from environmental pressure, and apply insights to boost well-being and happiness by doing things differently based on this material.

Align goals with high challenge and high skill to stay in flow, maximizing performance and personal satisfaction.

Explore how focused attention shapes perception through a quick shape-counting exercise, revealing how what we focus on determines happiness and what tools can help us become happier.

Apply a Kaizen mindset to goal setting by aligning with intrinsic goals and self concordant goals, and break your big goal into small, measurable steps for lasting change.

Explore how relationships predict happiness, practice active, constructive responding to good news, and learn what sustains long-term partnerships, parenting happiness, health benefits, and a tool to improve your relationships.

Relationships are the top predictor of happiness; apply positive psychology by nurturing social ties, using constructive, active constructive responses to good news, and sustaining a five-to-one positive interaction ratio.

Explore how relationships, friendships, and parenting influence happiness, with practical strategies like humor, gratitude, and forgiveness to foster resilient partnerships and reduce stress in social settings.

Learn to respond to good news with active, constructive responding (ACR) by staying authentic, making eye contact, and asking for details.

Explore mindfulness foundations, benefits, and history, and examine the link between mindfulness and mindlessness to understand its effect on habits, stress, and practical tools for mindful living.

Boost happiness, wellbeing, and health with mindfulness rooted in Buddhism in the western world, as research shows. Contrast mindful living with mindlessness and highlight present-moment awareness.

Discover how to turn mindfulness into a lasting habit by embracing the present moment, reducing multitasking, and boosting workplace relationships, productivity, and spirituality through practicing mindfulness.

Practice mindfulness to enter flow, stay fully engaged, and boost productivity, happiness, and well-being; recognize mindlessness as a risk and commit to daily mindful habits.

Practice shower meditation by focusing on the sound of water, your body, and gratitude for the ability to shower. Embrace present-moment awareness and design your own focus during the shower.

Practice mindful eating to boost health and gratitude by slowing down and sensing food. Use simple exercises like a mindful raisin or chocolate to honor producers and the farm-to-table journey.

Explore how spending time in nature boosts well-being, supported by research comparing urban, green-space, and busy-district experiences, and learn practices like mindful breathing and leaf meditation to form nature habits.

Identify practical meditation practices you can introduce to daily life to train the mind, reduce stress, and boost overall well-being.

Discover the mindfulness stress based reduction program, an eight-week, eight-session practice by Dr. John Culberson. The program spans four CDs, forty-five minute sessions, and shows improved health and reduced distress.

Explore eight-week mindfulness programs and therapies, including acceptance-based approaches like DBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention, to reframe negative thoughts as events and improve well-being.

Explore how mindfulness research informs diverse programs built on its findings. Apply paying attention to improve life, career, relationships, and overall satisfaction and success.

Focus on the present lowers cortisol, helping you cope with life, per University of California research. Embrace meditation as no right or wrong way, notice thoughts, and return to focus.

Explore how mindfulness reduces stress and pain by recognizing body-to-brain signals. Learn to talk to your brain to override pain signals and release discomfort.

Practice mindfulness to stay in the present moment and believe pain will be absent during eye laser surgery, transforming sensation into a tolerable experience.

Reframing daily tasks as exercise reveals mindful aging benefits, helping people feel younger and improve health by lowering blood pressure and shedding pounds within 30 days.

Explore what gratitude is and why it matters for happiness and well-being. Apply practical tools to cultivate gratitude and boost overall well-being, with accompanying reading material.

Write a gratitude letter to a person who helped you, detailing actions and their impact, and deliver and read it aloud in person or via video call if needed.

Explore why gratitude boosts well-being and happiness through science, with practical exercises. Learn how gratitude activities and unexpected kindness improve optimism, health, and daily life outcomes.

Practice a simple nightly exercise to boost well-being by writing three good things that happened that day before bed, keeping a journal by the bed for a two-minute gratitude routine.

Explore the three good things exercise, guiding nightly reflections on positive events, their meaning, and strategies to increase happiness.

Acquire resilience mastery through a fully accredited program offering 10 resiliency factors, personal stories, and research-backed insights, enabling you to earn an accredited certification and 10 CPAC hours.

Apply grounded optimism by linking past actions to future outcomes through planning, goal setting, and realistic, action-oriented steps. Practice present-focused mindfulness to separate worry from planning and strengthen resilience.

Discover how grounded optimism fuels resilience through a personal story of starting over in New York, enduring hardship, and adopting disciplined habits like hard work, sleep, and exercise.

Explore resilience by examining optimism, realism, and pessimism through current research and optional readings tied to certification preparation.

Resilient people face fear, sometimes finding it energizing, use the fight-or-flight response, and seek support from friends, family, and groups to overcome fear and achieve a positive outcome.

Facing fear after a job loss, the speaker shares how daily self-care, goal setting, and proactive networking helped land a better job and build resilience.

Engage with deeper research on facing fear through supporting materials and optional readings, recommended for learners pursuing accredited certification.

Discover how resilience sharpens your moral compass by choosing right over wrong, being true to your values, and helping others without expectation.

Recall how a nine-year-old built resilience by giving books for free and helping peers, shaping a compassionate, value-driven moral compass.

Explore the concept of the moral compass, access optional reading and supporting research material, and prepare for accredited certification by building essential knowledge to pass the test.

Discover how religion and spirituality boost resilience, and learn practical tools like meditation, mindfulness, yoga, forgiveness, and gratitude habits such as a 'three good things' exercise to enhance wellbeing.

Practice short, everyday mindfulness to boost resilience, as the speaker outlines sound meditation, mindful walking, body scan, and mindful eating integrated with spirituality.

Explore research showing how spirituality and religion bolster resiliency, with papers that identify spirituality and religion as key factors.

Explore how social support strengthens relationships and happiness, and how accountability partners and support groups boost resilience by helping others without expecting anything in return.

Explore how role models influence resilience by examining additional supporting evidence and resources from the lecture and the prior story. Deepen understanding of role model research in positive psychology management.

Exercise acts as a magic bullet for mood, energy, sleep, and cognitive and emotional resilience. Move more daily with a morning routine and strategies like walking and parking farther.

Build resilience by starting with small, convenient workouts that trigger dopamine and celebrate small wins. Move more, include activities like dancing, and establish a habit to keep the routine.

Explore resilience in the context of physical fitness research, building on existing fitness knowledge and encouraging deeper reading to support positive psychology in management and coaching.

Explore brain fitness and neuroplasticity to build resilience through deliberate practice, challenging tasks, visualization, and daily brain exercises.

Practice brushing with your non dominant hand to build willpower, create new neural pathways, and boost brain fitness for greater resilience in management and coaching.

Explore how daily brain exercises relate to resilience by examining brain fitness research. Assess whether these exercises truly support stronger resilience.

Explore how resilience stems from emotional and cognitive flexibility through acceptance, action when possible, gratitude, and positive reappraisal, plus tools like CBT, ACT, and mindfulness.

Identify and transform an evening emotional habit that caused anger at eight to nine p.m. by applying acceptance, gratitude, mindfulness, and positive reappraisal to strengthen cognitive and emotional flexibility, resilience.

Examine research on cognitive and emotional flexibility and its link to resilience, and commit to deeper reading to strengthen adaptive thinking.

Explore how resilience comes from finding personal meaning and purpose in work and daily tasks, guided by logotherapy and Victor Frankl's emphasis on meaning over pleasure or power.

Explore how resilience emerges from meaning and purpose amid loss and rebuilding. Learn to keep your big why, nurture family, and build a full life with resiliency exercises.

Explore meaning and purpose within resilience research, with attached studies to read and additional research papers in the lectures covering the other nine factors.

Explore the foundations of habits and happiness, based on the Amazon bestselling book Habits and Happiness, recognize habit types, and apply the seven secrets to improve well-being.

discover how to introduce or change a habit using a 30-day habit challenge, track progress with a health card, and reinforce new neural pathways through consistent daily actions.

Start with small wins to build big habits, taking tiny steps like one minute of exercise. Celebrate each small goal to spark dopamine and reach the big goal.

Establish accountability and support through a partner and groups to sustain new habits, set a precise start date on the 30-day challenge card, and track progress with a planner.

Make a public pledge to change habits and seek support in the habits and happiness group, guided by seven happiness secrets like belief in change, smiling, small wins, and accountability.

Engage your character strengths, complete the Carter survey, read pages 13-32, start a 30-day habit challenge, and share progress in the forum to boost happiness and success.

Focus on authentic happiness coaching with practical tools you can apply immediately to help clients become happier, while setting clear expectations and embracing ongoing learning.

Explore coaching forms in a form-specific, headshot-free video lecture, printing and reviewing each form, learning how to use questionnaires and scales to measure and score clients.

Learn to select the right coaching tools for each module rather than following fixed session numbers, and communicate when coaching friends. Real coaching requires careful tool use and contextual judgment.

Explore the science of positive psychology and the aim of the field, defining authentic happiness and what determines it for coaching practice. Learn about flow, mindfulness, and the PERMA model.

Prepare for coaching by identifying potential clients, outlining coaching opportunities, scheduling ideal times, clarifying coaching areas, and explaining why you are the right coach, then schedule an initial session.

Assess life domain satisfaction across income, health, relationships, housing, work, and spirituality, score each area, identify improvements, and apply steps with clients to boost overall well-being.

Separate strength and optimism into two modules, review twenty-four character strengths via Authentic Happiness Certification program, and write a 10-minute reflection on top and bottom five strengths with exercises.

Rewrite your not so happy story by examining the happiness story you tell yourself, using Burma to move your happiness scale toward higher levels with a big why for meaning.

Use the life wheel assessment to help clients identify life areas, focus on weaker areas, and maintain strengths. Provide the form and real-life examples in the next lecture.

Explore the strengths use scale to identify and apply your top strengths across work and life, boosting happiness through practical positive psychology coaching.

Coach clients to increase their optimism level using listening, understanding, and structured optimism tests and surveys provided in this module, with forms and tools for grounded optimism.

Prepare before each coaching session by filling out this form with the client’s top five strengths, three guiding questions, and three specific focus areas.

Explore the sentence completion exercise to boost clients' self-esteem and optimism, guided by Nathaniel Branden's six pillars of self-esteem, using 4–6 stems completed with 6–8 endings, daily.

Learn to coach goals with authentic happiness in mind, balancing intrinsic and extrinsic aims and guiding clients along a meaningful, enjoyable journey from goal setting to achievement.

Set clear, specific coaching goals with your clients by identifying up to three primary goals and distinct secondary goals, with measurable success criteria and short term timelines.

Master smart goals by crafting specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-specific objectives, with guided client questions to map the destination and plan action steps.

Review the authentic happiness relationships module and supplied book, then use coaching forms to assess and improve clients' relationships, keeping in mind coaching, not therapy, across personal and professional contexts.

Explore key relationships coaching forms and learn how to use each form as practical tools in coaching, highlighting benefits for you and your clients.

Explore the four components of thriving relationships—hard work, knowing and being known, allowing for conflict, and positive focus—and learn to coach clients through reflection, letters, and action-focused exercises.

Explore the multidimensional scale of perceived social support to help clients assess family, friends, and significant other support and learn its 12-item scoring for subscales and total score.

Review prerequisites and apply mindfulness coaching tools to yourself and to others. Use the mindfulness scale and new forms to assess and tailor coaching for each client.

Learn to coach mindfulness by listening to clients and choosing the right moments to apply techniques like mindful eating, mindful walking, or five deep breaths to live in the present.

Discover the mindfulness attention awareness scale, a 15-item tool to assess dispositional mindfulness. Rate present-moment awareness on a 1–6 scale and compute a mean score.

Practice a daily vacation to savor moments and note reflections using sabering techniques. Stay present to cultivate positive emotions, plan tomorrow’s vacation, and write a 20–30 minute reflection paper.

Master gratitude coaching techniques to help clients become more grateful, happier, and improve their well-being using questionnaires and a gratitude scale, tailored to each client's needs.

Review the gratitude section and tools in the Authentic Happiness certification program. Complete the action steps for five habits: gratitude, journaling, unexpected kindness, nature, and the reminder habit.

Write a gratitude letter to someone you truly appreciate, detailing specific actions and their impact, then deliver it in person or via video and read it aloud.

Explore the six-week practice of unexpected acts of kindness to boost happiness and well-being through gratitude, reflection, and simple actions like holding doors, donating, or volunteering.

Practice the three good things each night using a seven-day reflection form with prompts to deepen gratitude, boost well-being, and form a 21–30 day habit in positive psychology coaching.

Apply resiliency tools from the authentic happiness certification program to coach clients on resilience, building on prerequisites and introducing new tools and forms to boost client resilience.

Review resiliency section of the Authentic Happiness Coaching Program, master the tools, and complete part two of Habits and Happiness to develop motivation, activation, energy, accountability partner, and reward yourself.

Discover how to coach resilience by applying ten factors—grounded optimism, facing fear, moral compass, spirituality, social support, role models, physical fitness, brain fitness, emotional flexibility, and meaning and purpose.

Prepare for the final assignment in the next lecture, selecting a focus such as a happiness program, coaching, improving order and organization, or pursuing a speech, job, or spiritual work.

Complete the rating and review for CPD certification to reflect how this program benefits you, your clients, and your organization's authentic happiness, with recommendations on writing reviews for future students.