Put Happiness to Work, Eric Karpinski
Put Happiness to Work, Eric Karpinski
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Put Happiness to Work
7 Strategies to Elevate Engagement for Optimal Performance

Author: Eric Karpinski, Shawn Achor

Narrator: Christopher Douyard

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/10/2021


Synopsis

This game-changing "how-to" shows leaders how to increase engagement by harnessing employees' motivation for happiness.

Our efforts to increase employee engagement are failing because employees simply aren't motivated to improve their engagement. In this illuminating book from Eric Karpinski, managers and team leaders will learn the key to effectively engaging employees: focus on happiness. But not all types of happiness drive engagement; by selecting specific strategies that activate employees' inherent motivation for certain types of happiness, you can simultaneously boost engagement and organizational performance. Everybody wins.

In Put Happiness to Work, Karpinski draws on his deep experience at the intersection of business and psychology to lay out a step-by-step program that includes specific activities to enhance engagement and generate happiness at work. Utilizing existing work habits and meetings, these dynamic yet simple tools will hardwire effective changes into leaders' and employees' behavior, creating long-term, sustainable engagement. Based on more than ten years of experience applying top positive psychology and neuroscience research in the workplace, Karpinski's strategies are easy to implement and are critical to helping leaders unlock the kind of engagement organizations need to thrive.

About Eric Karpinski

Eric Karpinski has been on the cutting edge of bringing positive psychology tools to workplaces for over ten years, with clients that include Intel, Facebook, TIAA, IBM, T-Mobile, Kaiser Permanente, SAP, Deloitte, Eli Lilly, Genentech, and many others. He is a key member of Shawn Achor's GoodThink team, and developer of the Orange Frog in-house certification program, where he's trained more than 100 facilitators to lead positive cultural transformation at their organizations. He was trained as a scientist at Brown University and has an MBA from the Wharton School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue

Happily creative and practical. A brilliant book! I have known Eric professionally for about 15 years and am so excited to see his ideas, creativity and strategies come alive in this book, Happiness at Work. He has articulated why it matters that we care about people being happy in our organizations......more

Goodreads review by Gary

Want to be happy at work read this book! This is not a Kumbaya, Pollyanna, Don't worry be happy book. This book addresses the challenges we are facing at work, and gives actionable steps to become happier. Not just for you, for the people around you as well. I started putting some of the exercises to......more

Goodreads review by Marc

I got a chance to read this at the draft stage (see pic!) and then soak in the final version once publicized. I've managed 100s and 1,000s of people and this book resonates as a way to think about combining my passions for leadership with happiness. Part of it will help you as a leader, part will he......more

Goodreads review by Bryan

The strategies Eric breaks down in this book have transformed the way I approach my job as a mid-level manager. Eric's techniques helped me realize my true core values and integrate them into my work in a way I didn't know was possible. My happiness and the happiness of my team is better than I coul......more

Goodreads review by Kate

I loved this book. The author kept me engaged and offered real world, practical strategies for increasing engagement in my work. It’s an easy read and has had a significant impact on my feelings of appreciation and connection. And I learned a whole new way of thinking about stress which has really c......more