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The Source – The Wall Street Journal – happiness at work

As reported by Simon Lutterbie in the Wall Street Journal on the 23rd October:

“The Wall Street Journal Europe Global Survey of “happiness at work” has yielded some surprising findings. Over 2,000 individuals completed the recent survey hosted on this site over the past few weeks. People who completed it represent 90 nationalities, work in over 80 different countries and represent over 30 sectors of the global economy.”

Jessica Pryce-Jones’ article introducing the survey garnered over 15,000 hits, becoming one of the most successful articles ever on The Source, the Wall Street Journal blog on which it is posted.  You too can read the original article and complete the survey by clicking on the link.

The survey used the iOpener Institute’s iPPQ, a questionnaire that measures five components, the 5Cs, of happiness at work:

  • Contribution is the effort you feel you make
  • Conviction is your short-term motivation
  • Culture is the extent to which you feel you fit at work
  • Commitment is your long-term engagement
  • Confidence is your belief in your own abilities at work

There were five lessons learned from the first round of this research, which may surprise you:

  1. It’s an unhappy time in finance, but it’s not all bleak
  2. The happiest nationalities may surprise you
  3. Once again, the Netherlands is the place to be
  4. Happiness at work increases with age but you might have to wait for it
  5. The senior VP wobble

“People who are happy at work put in far more effort, work longer hours, and are more productive than those who aren’t. They remain at their jobs twice as long and they work 25% more time than an unhappy employee works”  Jessica Pryce-Jones

If you want to learn more about happiness at work and how it connects to ‘consciously causing the effect’ personally or for your company, contact me…

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Business, Change, Transition & Transformation, Empowerment, Engagement, Happiness, Happiness at Work, Insight, Inspiration, Louise Mowbray, Motivation, Organisational Intelligence

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Passion and curiosity in business

Passion – it’s the stuff of flow.  When work doesn’t feel like work.  When time contracts or expands.  Opportunities open up and so do our minds, souls and beings.  And our being drives our doing.  Lovely stuff.  How many people do you personally know who are living their passions?  Good Q – are you?

I am currently reading The Passion Test by Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood.  At first the title grabbed me, then the logic stepped in.  “Not another self-help book”.  Saying that I bought the book and took the test.  Wow!  Finally something that speaks into being in action of my passion rather than my goals.  Passion is sustainable, it’s authentic – we can do it without effort.  The truth is that we all crave to live in joy and passion and all else is a poor substitute.

And what if we held real, deep Curiosity as the context of our enquiry?  Active listening, insightful questioning, empathy and the ability to have difficult conversations.  Good old-fashioned relationship building.  If we can hold this context we develop our ability for real human compassion, connection and intimacy at levels that serve us and them.   And yes this applies to business.

When we examine all the research – powerful, concrete, quality research – we know that what feels right – living with curiosity as the context and passion as the driver, we too can be as successful in our chosen paths as those who are leaders in their fields.  It just takes a little curiosity to get the ball rolling and a real determination to live in passion…

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Chewing gum for the mind ;-), Empowerment, Happiness, Impact, Louise Mowbray, Motivation, Success

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Trapped!

I’m old enough to remember the Colonel Abrahams 1 hit wonder song “like a fool I’m in  cage I can’t get out, you see I’m trapped” are you humming it? ;-). So we are often Trapped by patterns of behaviour:

 Answers don’t empower, knowing better does not mean doing better. We do things in full knowledge that it’s not good for us, e.g. fight,  smoke, drink, blame, complain, circulate negativity even though we’ve read 7234 self-help books and attended everything from Mind Power to achieving a PhD in Healthy Human Behavioural Determinists that support a Wonderful life. You may have written a book on consciousness and call yourself an expert. It’s all in the domain of content and yes some experiential learning yet the questions begs – Are you fully realised? Self Actualised? Impacting life at your optimum? I’m definitely not and I’m humble enough to really get the Zen perspective “only an  empty hand can receive”.

 The second we say we don’t need something then we do. I don’t need to go on a course like Master 1 or any other awareness process because ( “”now the stories seek their expression””).  Only when we empty ourselves does the REAL possibility of growth occur, only when we can see that a commitment to continual learning & development is in place then we stay present, innocent like children open to newer and even better & greater possibilities.

 The spiritual ego is as much an ego as a money hungry one especially when it comes from superiority or I know more. I am but a baby novice and if I did an awareness course 1000 times I’d still learn. I am happy to go on any training or process (and do) no matter how much I perceive I know; as I also know that it’s already past history and if I commit to staying open like a 24/7 shop I can receive. The minute I close, I cannot. The reason we are trapped is when we listen to the ego whispering that we know more, we don’t need anything. We are also trapped by patterns that are blind to us, conditioning & programming that gets us to repeat things over and over again.

 For me it is important to be up for seeing these patterns and choosing whether they serve me yes or no. In my experience Master 1 provides a context within that one can truly see many of these patterns. I also say there are many other great courses too, however to be straight I am a fan of Master 1 by comparison so do have a level of bias, hey least I get that!

So I extend an invitation to not be as trapped by stories, conditioning, reason, intellect, survival & security, excuses, justifications, intellectualism, comparison, spiritual narcissism, self-righteousness and a few more and see the space that occurs Beyond Thought into the light of authenticity. Listen I’m guilty of everything I’ve said and listed, yet I touch that place every now and then when aliveness & being are one and the more committed I am  the more it happens.

David R Hawkins in his book Power vs. Force says “Apparently, even though one undergoes untold millions of individual experiences in one’s life, only a few lessons (shifts) are usually ever learned. The attainment of wisdom is slow and painful, and few are willing to relinquish familiar views; resistance to change and growth is considerable. It would seem that most people would rather die than alter those belief systems  that confine them to a lower levels of consciousness”.

Wherever we are on our consciousness development journey when we become willing students and embrace the seeing of a pattern and decide
to shift to something new & fresh we liberate ourselves, we become lighter, sharper, more present, charismatic and an attractor of positive things David R.Hawkins talks about this true perspective in great detail in  the book I’ve already mentioned. The simple awareness that the context alone of consciousness development, awareness creation is bigger than the course, its facilitator’s; the power is inherent in that we would choose to step into the context. That context lifts, that context delivers, that context is an act of love of Self and others. Power yourself up in consciousness, see you there.

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Coaches, Conscious Business, Consciousness, Consciousness Coaching, Empowerment, Facilitation, Impact, Insight, Inspiration, Mark Fraser-Grant, People Development, Workshop

Four stages of leadership

Kazimierz Gozdz, a partner at Generon International talks about four stages of leadership and organisational development.

“Stage One Leaders are fundamentally self-serving, and entirely profit oriented. Stage Two Leaders master managerial and leadership norms and ethics of the day. They follow business practices more or less blindly regardless of their impact on society or the planet. We think about Stage Three Leaders as having evolved so that they’re not so caught up in the orthodoxies of the conventional system. They have learned to serve, and are leaders but they’re still changing the existing system, righting its wrongs trying to guide people through it.

Stage Four leaders are looking to establish a new world view, a new metaphysics, a new stance in the world that is not a repair of the current system: A conscious, fully developed human being who decides how business should be done from a more conscious vantage point. We find that that kind of leader is no longer regulated by the normative social process of business school and the conventions of business, and that’s our target.”

Full article can be downloaded here …

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Coaches, Conscious Leadership, Consciousness Quotient, Employee Engagement, Empowerment, Karin de Jager, Leadership Coaching, ROI, Team Dynamics & Alignment

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Creating the future of business

Creating the future of business does not only focus on profitability anymore, but also on developing a new generation of leaders whose objectives include human development. We can simply not do business anymore without including the triple ‘P’ – people, planet and profit. By using Daniel Goleman’s model on Emotional Quotient, smartRevolution designed a workshop aimed at leadership to develop their listening skills and to use a different approach when interacting with sub-ordinates.  We added in the basic principles of consciousness and focus on awareness and transformation rather than supply companies with a recipe to use like a shopping list.  This proves to be the winning combination to solve the issues that could potentially move a great business model to an award-winning organisation.  This 2 day workshop is called Conscious Self-Management for leaders.  To get more information on this workshop you can contact Karin de Jager at karin@smartrevolution.org.  Following this new approach, companies embark more than ever before on a journey of intervention and coaching to equip the leaders in their organisations with the necessary skill to accomplish this.  The benefits they bring to their organisations and to society are immeasurable. 

 

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Business Coaching, Career Coaching, Career Development, Change, Transition & Transformation, Coaches, Coaching, Conscious Business, Conscious Leadership, Consciousness Coaching, Consciousness Quotient, Employee Engagement, Empowerment, EQ, Executive Coaching, Facilitation, Gina Hayden, Group Interventions, High Performing Teams, Impact, Insight, Integrity, Karin de Jager, Leadership, Leadership Brand, Organisational Intelligence, People Development, ROI, Smart Business, Success, Team Dynamics & Alignment, Training, Workshop

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