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The Science of Happiness at Work
Creating a culture of happiness & high performance in your workplace starts with you.
Created byJackson Kerchis
Last updated 1/2025
English
What you'll learn
- Explain the importance of happiness at work.
- Use science-based tools for happiness at work.
- Create a positive, engaged culture with your team or company.
- Improve your leadership and change management effectiveness.
- Feel more energized and inspired at work.
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Course content
10 sections • 55 lectures • 4h 37m total length
Requirements
- No specific technical or academic experience needed.
Description
We'll dive into applied happiness research from positive psychology, neuroscience, and IO psychology to fuel success in your career – and your life.
We'll cover the business case and financial ROI of happiness at work: why is happiness serious business in terms of real dollars and cents. Then we'll walk through science-based tools for energy, engagement, and effective leadership. The core competencies addressed include sections on how to create a sense of meaning/purpose at work; how to shape a psychological environment of trust, cohesion, and effective communication; how to develop and deploy emotional intelligence as you coach and manage others; how to lead and inspire change in groups; and how to bring all this together into habits for behavioral change.
You'll leave with actionable tools for personal flourishing and professional success to change your relationship to your work and positively impact those around you.
Key Objectives
Create a culture that enables motivation, attracting/retaining talent, and high performance
Optimize personal effectiveness and put the 'life' back in your work-life balance
Learn to lead and inspire change, motivation, and buy-in (your "happiness competitive advantage")
Improve morale and resiliency in high stress and high intensity operating environments
Attract and retain the right people by creating a strong cultural climate
Who this course is for:
- Technology team leaders (programmers & developers) who want a psychological edge in their management style.
- Startup & SMB Owners & Executives who want tools to create a high performance culture (that attracts and retains the right people).
- Leaders in high burnout industries (e.g. social services) who want to improve morale.
- Talent Development Managers & HR Workforce leaders who want to bring psychology into their organizational development work.
- Middle & Senior Management professionals who want to re-engage passion, improve work-life balance, and shape the culture of their workplace.