wict what happy working mothers know webinar # 1
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What Happy Working Mothers Know
WICTWhat Happy
Working Mothers KnowWebinar # 1
Cathy L. Greenberg
Barrett S. Avigdor
What Happy Working Mothers Know
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
Attend this webinar for INSIGHT:
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• 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
What we will share in each program
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• to change to your life
• to change your industry
• to change your community
“Happiness” is a powerful way
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Based on the science of happiness:
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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
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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. workforcein 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).
A Case For Action: Why Happiness?
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When people are happy, they can think with their whole brainUnder stress, we resort to flight, fight or freeze blocking our capacity to have…“PEACE of Mind”
ProductivityEthical decisionsAdaptabilityCreativityExcellence in performance
Happiness = High Performance
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Happiness at work comes from:Being proud of your skills/roleFeeling challenged and supportedWorking to your strengthsReceiving recognition/appreciation
Facts - a happy or engaged work force:20% increase in productivity23% increase in customer satisfaction50% reduction in unplanned attrition 93% of performance = happiness & satisfaction
Happiness is a Performance Issue
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H = S + C + V
Happiness = Set Point + Circumstances + Voluntary Activity
50% is genetics and
50% is within your control
The Science of Happiness
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Feeling appreciation creates:1. synchronization of the central nervous system, improves
auditory discrimination, 2. spatial awareness, and3. 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
Happiness is a Health Issue
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1. Create a Positive Environment
2. Manage Based on Strengths
3. Choose Happiness Every Day
3 Ways to Create High Performance
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“Human Flourishing is to live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness…growth and resilience”
Dr. Barbara FredricksonUniversity of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Requires 3 positives for every 1 negative interaction
3:1 5:1 9:1Low stress environment means people use their whole brain – emotion and reasonResults in more creative and more ethical decisions
Create a Positive Environment
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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 behaviorThis 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
Create a Positive Environment
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Strengths = activities that energize youWeaknesses = activities that drain you
Maximize team performance by spending time on strengths and minimize time spent on weaknesses
Manage Based on Strengths
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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 sameManaging your energy investments will improve performance and increase engagement over time
Manage Based on Strengths
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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
Choose Happiness Daily
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QUESTIONS & COMMENTS