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POSITIVE ENTERPRISE MASTER CLASSDr. Ilona Boniwell and Alexandre Jost

Can economic performance be improved through leveraging psychological performance ?What does the science say about the well-being of people at work ?Can a new business paradigm be designed for and around the “positive enterprise” ?Do we have ready-made interventions or practices to improve well-being and performance at work ?

The last 15 years saw the birth and development of a new field, that of well-being science, drawing heavily on neuroscience, positive psychology, well-being economics, sociology, positive organizational scholarship and positive organizational behaviour. It was able to study and demonstrate the strong relationship between well-being and performance, both at the individual and collective level. These findings opened the way to a new business paradigm : the positive enterprise, both socially and economically over-performing.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND ?This class is intended for :• Senior executives in search for a new strategic path for their organisations• Managers seeking new work practices for themselves or their teams• Workers with a desire to better understand and improve their well-being and performance at work• Human resources professionals in search of an alignment of social and economic targets• HR consultants, coaches, transformation consultants, seeking to improve their skillset or business offering

WHY ATTEND ? This Master class will deliver a certificate and enable you to :• discover this new paradigm of the positive enterprise, aligning economic and social performance• allign your organisation, team or yourself towards this new paradigm • ignite both social and economical positive transformation in your organisation• examine and question the scientific validity of the paradigm• explore the different transformation tools within this paradigm• learn about existing practices, design and roadtest some new ones• receive feedback from a practitioner whose organisation has already taken the positive enterprise path

THE FORMATThe class will be divided into 12 modules spread over 3 days, for a total of 24 hours. It will follow a path from well-being science theory to actionable knowledge and concrete feedback from experience.The Master class will utilise both the experiential and didactic modalities, using PowerPoint presentations, videos and case examples to communicate information, as well as experiential exercises and collective productions.

THE LOGISTICSThe classes will take place at the prestigious Ecole Centrale, close to PARIS, FEBRUARY, 18TH, 19TH AND 20TH. Delicious catered lunch will be provided. List of on-site accommodations available if required. Early-bird price (before dec. 31st): 760 € + VAT. Regular price : 980 € + VATRegister at [email protected] and [email protected]

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THE 12 MODULES ARE:

1/ The Big PictureWhat is the relationship between economic growth and well-being of a nation? This module will explore what is known as the Easterlin Paradox and present the state of the art knowledge of well-being economics. At the nation-wide level, we will review what seem to be the drivers of well-being. Finally, the current indicators of economic development and societal progress will be questioned, with reference to the Stiglitz commission’s work, and new approaches will be discussed.

2/ The link between well-being and performanceThe well-being science has been making significant progress and nowadays we have achieved substantial advances in our understanding of the causal relationships between well-being and performance. This module will explore these relationships from five different angles: what does the scientific literature tell us about it at the individual level? what do we know about this relationship at the organisational level? what does this relationship reveal about the human nature? what are the moderators and mediators of increased performance? what are the limits of this paradigm?

3/ From Corporate Social Responsibility to positive enterpriseThis module will explore the implications of the relationships between well-being and performance for organisations. Is well-being such a new idea after all? We will review associations between the following concepts : stress prevention, well-being improvement, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. The class will delineate the new paradigm and explore the untapped well-being potential of our organisations. Lastly, it will explore how businesses view this new paradigm, as well as the opportunities and roadblocks to its implementation.

4/ Measurement of the organizational well-being potentialThe first step to tapping into the well-being potential is to diagnose its current level. This class will explore the different tools to measure social climate, quality of life at work, stress levels and organi-sational well-being. The purposes, mechanics, costs, and further specifics of each measurement tool will be discussed, with key learnings drawn from this discussion as to how you can utilise some existing tools to construct an assessment process uniquely tailored to the needs of your own organisation.

5/ Drivers of stress and well-being at workBased on the literature and field experiments, this module will review what we know about the drivers of well-being at work : working conditions, relationships with co-workers, wages, engagement, etc. How powerful are they? What are their limits? Are there some that seem untapped? Are the corre-sponding strategies costly to implement?

6/ Case studies and practicesThis class will present several case studies and practices designed to improve well-being and economic performance within organisations. The practices will include both the successful ones and innovative ones, or in innovative ones that have not yet been tested. You will come across many valuable pieces of practical advice that you can later road-test in your own organisation. The actions and initiatives discussed in this module will draw upon literature, company interviews, field studies, practitioners points of view or workers innovative designs.




7/ Well-being at work interventionsSome interventions to boost employees’ well-being (and performance) or your own well-being are relatively simple, yet efficient. This class will explore some of them and will test them in real-time experiments, involving individual/small group exercises, as well as role play.

8/ and 9/ Strength & engagement (double module)Within well-being science, a new discipline has emerged in 1998, called positive psychology, on realisation that the levers to make somebody feel well were not necessarily the same ones as those to cure somebody who was pathologically not well. This new approach has been able to research and define the strengths common to us all, as well as those unique to us personally. This module will help you learn to identify these personality strengths and explore how recruiting for strengths and ensuring the strengths – job match results in dramatically enhanced engagement. It will then discuss the implications for the employee, as well as their organisation.

10/ MotivationRecent well-being science has been able to deliver interesting findings on the motivation processes, notably through the concept of “Flow” or “Optimal experience”. It has allowed to better understand the drivers of motivation, as well as the process of gradual change from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation. This class will review these theories and will practice effective motivation methods..

11/ Intervention designAs seen in previous modules, many well-being and performance improvement practices do already exist and are being implemented by organisations. Yet, they are still developing and many are yet to be designed. Drawing on participatory methods, this module will allow you, jointly with the class, to design new interventions or imagine new practices for your own organisation or others. This innovative session will draw on the professional experience of participants, their learn-ing on this course and their existing well-being expertise.

12/ A word from the practitioner Investing trust in the new well-being and performance at work paradigm, some companies have already engaged on this path. In this module we will hear from a professional, whose organisation has ventured in this direction and who is willing to share his or her experience. What were the challenges? Has it worked? How has the company been transformed overall? What are the tangi-ble steps that brought about the greatest change?




Dr Ilona BONIWELLDr Ilona Boniwell is one of the most prominent positive psychology academics in Europe, who founded and headed the first Masters Degree in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) in Europe at the University of East London. Currently, she teaches at l’Ecole Centrale Paris and assists the Government of Bhutan in developing a framework for happiness-based public policy, at the request of the UN. Her research and applied interests include: psychology of time, resilience, eudaimonic well-being and applications of positive psychol-ogy to leadership, coaching and education.Dr Boniwell founded the European Network of Positive Psychology, organised the first European Congress of Positive Psychology (June 2002, Winchester) and was the first vice-chair of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), currently serving as its board member. Her first bestselling book, Positive Psychology in a Nutshell, has been translated into many languages. She is the author or editor of five other books (including the Oxford Handbook of Happiness) and multiple academic articles.

Dr Boniwell consults businesses and educational institutions around the globe as a Director of Positran, a boutique consultancy dedicated to achieving transformation through positive psychology. She is frequently invited to give keynote addresses to psycholo-gists, coaches, and other professional audiences. Her media work included BBC, Guardian, Times, Psychologies, Top Sante and Cosmopolitan articles and interviews.

Alexandre JOSTAlexandre Jost is the founder and full-time chairman of the Paris-based think-tank La Fabrique Spinoza / the Spinoza Factory. As such, he works jointly with the Scientific Director and overviews the research works related to happiness and well-being science. Jointly with the Director of well-being at work, he also overviews the research on the implications of well-being science in the workplace. He was the coordinator for the study “Well-being, a driver of economic performance”. He is also an associate at the Ecole Centrale Paris department for social innovation, where he manages collective projects with engineering students, in relation to happiness science and its applications to society.Alexandre Jost is a talented keynote speaker on the topics of societal applications of happiness and well-being science (25 conferences per year, from schools, to political campuses, to businesses, to academic seminars). He often appears in major French national media (20 minutes, France Inter, Challenges, Europe 1, etc.), was declared a “revelation” by the leading French Economic magazine “Challenges”, and was praised by

the International Happiness Observatory for his work towards happiness.Alexandre Jost holds a double M.Sc. degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and U.C. Berkeley in Industrial Engineering and Operations research. He has worked for 7 years in an international strategy consulting firm Mars & Co, and then held different directorate positions (including deputy managing director of a practice) at the Groupe SOS, the 3rd largest French NGO (10,000 employees).

La Fabrique Spinoza (The Spinoza Factory)La Fabrique Spinoza is the Paris-based think-tank for citizens’ well-being. As such, it organizes and promotes research and democratic debate on citizens’ well-being, and makes public policy, as well as recommendations to the civil society in its favor. Declared one of the 12 leading French think-tanks by Acteurs Publics, the Spinoza Factory is Correspondent in France for the Wikiprogress initiative, hosted by the OECD, for the measure of societal progress and well-being. The Spinoza Factory is participating to the civil society group for Planning and Strategy, with the U.N., for the implementation of resolution 65/309 on “Happiness as a holistic approach to development”. Its research areas include education, governance, work, health, time, philanthropy, medias, gender equality, indicators, public service, town planning.




PositranPositran is a boutique consultancy providing specialised consulting services, training, and products in the areas of positive psychology, personal and organisational transformation, executive coaching, leadership, resilience and positive education. Previous clients included: Mars, Alpro Soya, Norgine, MindGym, The Young Foundation, Harrow Police, national governments, universities, schools and local authorities. Our ultimate goal is to provide our clients with the knowledge and resources necessary to create excellence.

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