This document describes a corporate program called "Happiness in Action" designed to help participants find and develop sources of energy, drive, and passion in their work. The program teaches managers seven factors for peak performance including optimism, flow state, finding meaning, action learning, communication, play, and influence. Over 3000 managers from several countries have participated in the program over the past six years. Companies organize this program for their managers to help them energize their teams and meet organizational goals.
2. Program objectives
Successful professionals need
energy, drive and passion for
their work.
Program is designed to help
participants:
1. Find and master the sources
of energy in their work
2. Learn to create drive and
enthusiasm for peak
performance in their teams
3. Get power and energy for
meeting organizational goals
3. Program history
In the last 6 years more than 3000 managers from Russia, USA, Lithuania,
Finland, Armenia and New Zealand participated in the program.
Here are several companies that organized Happiness in Action program for their
managers:
4. Program elements
Action map: diagnostics using the
model of "7 sources of energy at
work". Every participant gets a
report-map of their strengths and
development areas. Participant see
their sources of energy at work and
find out where they are loosing
energy. They will understand what Позитив
is important for them to develop.
Factor 1. Optimism philosophy:
tools and practices for developing
philosophy of optimism that will
help to work and get outstanding
results in most difficult conditions.
Participants will learn to mold
stress and pressure into sources of
power and drive. They will practice
creating atmosphere of optimism in
their teams.
5. Program elements
Factor 2. Flow state - peak
performance, joyful action, drive and
total concentration. Participants will
learn to enter this state at will and use it
in their work. They will understand how
to help their teams to work in this state
of full engagement. They will study
strategic and tactical approaches to the
flow states and will get a set of tools
and practices to work with it.
Factor 3. Meaning: Participants will
learn to set motivating goals for
themselves and their teams. They will
master practices of finding meaning in
every action at work and understand
how to turn boring everyday work
assignments into interesting and
meaningful engagements.
6. Program elements
Factor 4. Action learning: participants will
find out how to turn their work into the path of
a Master. They will find ways to accelerate
their own professional growth and that of
their team-members. They will study the
learning strategies of the best professionals.
They will see how you can find interest in
work that you seem to know thoroughly and
prevent "professional burnout".
Factor 5. Love. Participants will learn how to
transform communication at work from the
source of stress into a source of energy.
They will see how you can make "rivals" and
"enemies" into best teachers and allies. They
will learn how to give positive feedback to
help the person grow rather than enjoy the
status quo. And how to give the corrective
feedback so that it creates changes in
behavior without damaging relationships.
7. Program elements
Factor 6. Play. Participants will learn
how to do difficult, intense or boring
work in a playful way. They will
understand how to infuse with play
communication with "difficult" clients
and colleagues. They will learn to
transform pressure of plans and
create results from "I want" not from "I
have to".
Factor 7. Influence. Participants will
learn to find their circle of influence
and find out how to create the
mentality of a champion. They will get
tools and practices for redirecting
people's attention from fear of loosing
and finding 1000 "why not" reasons
for trusting yourself and finding
creative solutions in any situation.