Happiness at Work and how we all can benefit from a dose of happiness – The statistician with soul!

In this episode of Sparks by Ignium Phil Rose talks to Nic Marks. Nic’s been described as a statistician with a soul. You’ll learn why as you listen. We talk about the correlation between happiness and employee engagement and why measuring happiness as well as being easier is also an excellent indicator or business risk. Listen out for Nic’s discussion about purpose as a long wave in life…

Show Notes

(Some of) The main points for listeners are: 

·       Vulnerability in front of the camera

·       About Nic – The statistician with soul!

·       Transitioning from mathematician to happiness guru and wellbeing expert

·       Measuring happiness in … Bhutan

·       Quality of life and the internal drive for research and ‘Mesearch’

·       The Arc of Life…

·       The link between statistics and therapy

·       Listen, Reflect and Ask – the 3 things a therapist does

·       Friday Pulse and how a snapshot of ‘happiness’ is easier to measure than engagement

·       How was your week? An easy question to answer... with a tech platform behind it

·       Hard earned simplicity… with depth

·       Things should be reduced to their simplest form but no more simple

·       Decoding the answer to the question how happy were you this week?

·       What does happiness mean to you?

·       High energy to low energy definitions of happiness

·       Engagement – a recently invented term at work that’s harder to define … but happiness is easier to define

·       The alignment of people profit and purpose – driven through teams

·       Lower staff turnover, increased levels of innovation, 

·       The correlation between happiness and luck… (Richard Wiseman)

·       Measuring Happiness as a predictive indicator of risk

·       Creating nicer places to work that drive commercial results through a focus on culture

·       What is purpose – that age old question… meaning and purpose as a ‘longer wave length of happiness’…

·       Nic explains the correlation between happiness at work and the impact of Covid on society over the course of 2020 – from fear and uncertainty to boredom as lockdowns progressed.

·       The correlation between simply measuring happiness and resilience in teams – if you show an interest in it you are more likely to see the benefit from it…

·       How encouraging people to ask ‘how are you?’ is easier for (some) people when there’s a number on it!

·       Take free trial of Friday Pulse to see how it works! Don’t just talk about it.

·       Nic’s tip… excellence is a habit…. And so do it every week!

·       Accept that people will have ‘good and bad’ weeks – and that’s life.

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Books Referenced in this Episode

 

The Luck Factor, The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind , Richard Wiseman tinyurl.com/54j6kzm8

 

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Conversations with business founders, leaders and experts, examining the changing landscape of leadership, purpose, business growth, Scaling Up, resilience and change with business leaders and owners in mind. We cover a mix of topics designed to ignite (or re-ignite) your spark one conversation at a time.

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