Happy Tech…an Oxymoron? In recent months, I have seen a growing number of posts about how bad technology is for us. Technology is blamed for social isolation, disconnection, and corruption. But I’ve also heard and seen how technology can be used for good — a means to connect, to share knowledge, to empower, even…
8 Tips for Making a Presentation that Dazzles Your Boss with Your Creativity Entrepreneur, John Boitnott June 21, 2016 As if the pressure to develop and deliver a presentation that excites your audience weren’t enough, trying to impress your boss with that presentation is a whole other set of concerns. In most cases, if you plan with…
7 Top Positive Psychology Courses You Can Take Online Live Happy, Emily Wise Miller June 13, 2016 Boost your Happiness IQ from the comfort of your own computer. What brings a sense of purpose to our lives? Why is gratitude such an important factor in well-being? How can I be happier and bring a sense of authentic…
Move Beyond the Problem Live Happy, Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan June 10, 2016 Learn to stop ruminating and quickly get to a more positive place. Whenever anything went wrong in her life, our dear friend Samantha became a broken record, stuck playing the same refrain over and over. If a colleague criticized her work, she’d…
Helping Others Live Sober: New Evidence Indicates “Helping Helps the Helper” Stay Sober Byron R. Johnson1, Maria E. Pagano2, Matthew T. Lee3, Stephen G. Post4 December 1, 2015 1Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA 2Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 3University of Akron, OH, USA 4Stony Brook University, NY, USA Byron R. Johnson, Program on…
4 Types of Mental ‘Noise’ You Should Ignore Success Magazine, Shawn Achor May 23, 2016 In the working world, where we’re subjected to an endless stream of information, noise such as interruptions from co-workers or breaking news alerts on our phones can be particularly dangerous. If you attend to the noise, it will hijack your motivation…
JC Miler, Z Krizan, April 2016 Walking Facilitates Positive Affect (Even When Expecting the Opposite). This study conducted 3 experiments to examine how walking induced positivity. Walking in this study wasn’t necessarily for exercise. Results showed that: even when participants didn’t know what the purpose of the experiment was, they experienced an increase in positive affect walking caused a…
Why Working More is Making You Less Productive Success Magazine, Shawn Achor April 21, 2016 You could be much more efficient, productive and happy if you changed the way you view the hours in your day. Many of the business leaders and Harvard students I work with exhibit the telltale symptoms of the “workaholic’s curse.” They…
Bad News Not Necessarily Bad for Employee Engagement Long-Term Living, Nicole Stempak March 28, 2016 You don’t need to sugarcoat the news to keep employees engaged. In 2015, Michelle Gielan conducted a study with Arianna Huffington and researchers Shawn Achor and Brent Furl to see how people react to bad news. They found that watching…
Here’s a Powerful Strategy for Calming Your Anxious Mind Huffington Post, Lisa Capretto, OWN March 28, 2016 There are plenty of reasons to turn to meditation to help alleviate your stress, but if that doesn’t seem like your thing, positive psychology researcher Michelle Gielan wants you to try something else: fact-checking. Gielan is the founder of the…
