The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard.
His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and CNN Radio, and he travels around the United States and Europe giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 corporations, schools, and non-profit organizations.
Achor graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a BA in English and Religion and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics.
Now he is the CEO of Aspirant, a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers-people who are well above average-to understand where human potential, success and happiness intersect. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes to organizations how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures.
In Shawn’s TEDxBloomington presentation, he says that most modern research focuses on the average, but that “if we focus on the average, we will remain merely average.” He wants to study the positive outliers, and learn how not only to bring people up to the average, but to move the entire average up.
Sales training for front line along with basic development and coaching principles for line management.
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Understand the theory and mechanics of developing and managing a customer-centric and experience-driven corporate culture that is consistent and stable and includes elements of Employee Experience (EX) and Employee Relationship Management (ERM).
Understanding the evolution of leadership styles, management models, organizational structures, performance measurement and guiding change in the evolution of business models from product-centric to customer-centric and even relationship-centric.
Understand how to manage both internal and external digital transformation while considering the landscape for digital business models and the effect on traditional business models. Understanding organizational readiness for transformation and the role of corporate culture in managing transformations.
The changes in consumer behavior, employee behavior, and the evolution of business models in the digital age cause significant difficulties and imperatives for leaders who must develop new skills and evolve their leadership styles to be effective in this fast changing, challenging, and competitive environment.
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