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2014 VolunteerMatch Client Summit Best Practice Cafe Wearable and emerging technologies are transforming the workplace and allowing employees to gauge everything from their heart rate, stress levels, and even emotions while on the job. Utilizing these tools can provide leadership with new ways of encouraging emotional intelligence, empathy, and purpose-based roles for employees. Measuring employee wellbeing and increasing your employees' happiness can ultimately drive positive bottom-line results. During this interactive session, you'll get a sneak peek into how to introduce these ideas into your programs and companies.TRANSCRIPT
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Best Practice Café
REally Happy Employees
Speaker:John C. HavensFounder & Executive DirectorThe H(app)athon Project
REally Happy Employees: The Impact of WellbeingJohn C. Havens
www.happathon.com www.johnchavens.com @happathon @johnchavens
• Professional Actor in NYC for 15 years
• Been in New/Social Media since 2005
• EVP of Social Media for a Global PR Firm
• Worked with Gillette, HP, P&G, Merck
• Contributing Writer for Mashable, The Guardian, and the Huffington Post
• PR/Marketing Consultant
The Happiness Formula For Employees
• Incredibly Dense PowerPoint Prezos
• Incredibly Dense PowerPoint Prezos
• Random Viral Videos
• Incredibly Dense PowerPoint Prezos
• Random Viral Videos
• Trite and Vague Business Quotes
Genuine Happiness For Employees
1) Turn to the person next to you.2) Pick someone to go first (Person A/B). 3) Regard each other. 4) Person A: “What are you grateful for?”5) Person B: “I’m grateful for…”6) Person A (repeat): “You’re grateful for..”7) Repeat the process.
The Gratitude Mirror
Happy Tracking – The Physical
If you want your life to count, you
have to take a count of your life.
Happy Tracking – The Emotional
Happy Tracking – The ROI
Happy Tracking – Next Steps
1. Test devices/tracking for/on yourself.2. Talk to your employees. 3. Ask for volunteers. 4. Work out a data privacy policy TOGETHER.5. Test small and scale. 6. EMPOWER them, don’t SURVEIL them. 7. Celebrate often. Wellbeing ROI changes
lives.8. Keep what works and go SLOW.
WorkTime BalanceEducation/CultureAchievementMaterialsHealthGood TimesHelping othersSecurityNatureFamily Spirituality
A New Vision for Worth
Thank you!
www.happathon.com www.johnchavens.com @happathon @johnchavens
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