HappiestTeamEver
Stockholm, January 28th 2014
Lucas OlczykWorld’s Happiest CoachWriterPassionate about psychologyPersonal development experimenter(Used to be) The luckiest guy alive
Why Happiness?(Or Why Should We Care)
Unhappy employee
2 times as sick6 times as absent45% as creative
Happy employee
9 times as loyal31% more productive
career longer by 5 to 7 years
What Is Happiness?(And Why We Grossly Misunderstand It)
Best Leading Indicator(Or How To Measure Happiness – The Agile Way!)
Happier Day By Day(Or How We Improve It)
What Is Happiness(And Why We Grossly Misunderstand It)
Are you happy?
Happiness vs.
Extasy
SubjectiveWellBeing
Best Leading Indicator(Or How To Measure Happiness – The Agile Way!)
Sprint 1
Q: Are you happy?
A: WTF?
Sprint 4
Q: Considering happiness is SWB, how happy, in a scale of 1 to 10,
do you feel in your team?
(Plan for) Sprint 5
Q2: Considering happiness is SWB, how unhappy, in a scale of 1 to 10, do you feel in your team?
Happier Day By Day(Or How We Improve It)
No extrinsic happiness!
(dear managers: no extrinsic motivation as well)
Step 2
Unleash the imagination
Step 3
PlanDo
CheckAct
Things to go wrong
The interviewer
All hands on deck!approach
Key To Personal Happiness(Or, Yes, I Have A Bonus Chapter!)
Assertiveness
Acceptance
Persistancevia
Delayed gratificationand
Understanding of habits
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
thank you
Lucas Olczyk
