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Happiness at work, engagement and staff satisfaction

As the economy slows, the question of how to motivate and retain staff is becoming increasingly difficult for entrepreneurs. With sales and profits sliding, there is little spare cash for financial incentive schemes and big bonus payments. A recent SmartCompany poll revealed 30% of businesses...

Happiness at work, engagement and staff satisfaction

Two great happiness quotes

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. - Morrie Schwartz And my happiness translation...

The Cheat’s Guide to Happiness

For an interesting article on happiness, summarising the recent Happiness & it's Causes Conference - click here ...

Happiness, health and stress

Index of happiness and stress finds links with health issues BY FRANK GREVE ê¢__‘Ô¢ MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS ê¢__‘Ô¢ June 11, 2008 WASHINGTON -- The Gallup Organization and a health industry partner now offer a detailed daily measure of U.S. happiness and stress that you can look up on...

Finding Happiness through forgiveness

Positive psychology coaching focuses much of its efforts on highlighting and emphasising the good in life; but it also recognises that bad things happen and so to really experience the deeper and more meaningful forms of happiness we also need to resolve the wrongs in...

Happiness, money and giving

Happiness is a $58m question HeraldSun.com.au Mirko Bagaric June 09, 2008 SO what should the lucky $58 million Powerball winners do to benefit most from the windfall and make the world a better place? The answer is not as obvious as it seems. But much of it rests in...

Happiness – an argument for emotion over reason

In a recent column by one of Australia's leading economic commentators, Ross Gittins writes about the following...

Changing your mind, and your brain for happiness

Whenever we talk about positive interventions, we are assuming that people are malleable. William James wrote about intentional activity to change habits in ways that make life better. That's the premise of books like The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky: that research has...

Happiness at work

WHAT makes you happy at work? Is it the money, the company, the work life balance or the perks? A British happiness survey has come up with some surprising results -- the most interesting of which is that financial rewards bear very little relationship to happiness...