Keynote Topics

PUT HAPPINESS TO WORK FOR LEADERS

CREATING ENGAGEMENT THROUGH ACTIVATED POSITIVE EMOTIONS


Target audience: Supervisory staff through executive leadership

Most efforts to increase employee engagement fail because they focus on the wrong things. At the heart of engagement are activated positive emotions. This talk will show leaders how to give their teams what they need, which is to feel more valued, confident, motivated, inspired and fulfilled at work. In return, teams will be more committed, proactive and willing to expend discretionary effort to drive the organization forward. Leaders will learn simple, research-backed changes to everyday work processes that will align organizational goals with what employees need. Participants will leave with proven, practical tools and habits that can help any leader help their teams find more happiness and engagement.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
  • How focusing on certain types of happiness and well-being can increase team engagement
  • Attendees are invited to commit to one of four personal habits (all research-backed and quick) to help themselves find more positive emotions at work and one of five group habits to help create more happiness and engagement on their teams.

Put Happiness to Work for Individual contributors / mixed audiences

Creating more happiness and well-being at work


Target audience: All organizational levels

Similar content and takeaways as the Leader version above but focused more on individual happiness and well-being at work than engagement. Includes a focus on practical and proven individual habits and group tools that can be implemented regardless of positional authority. Similar content and takeaways as the Leader version above but focused more on individual happiness and well-being at work than engagement. Includes a focus on practical and proven individual habits and group tools that can be implemented regardless of positional authority.

REKINDLING SOCIAL CONNECTION


Target audience: All organizational levels; can be tailored for leader audiences

Social connection – the sense of belonging and feeling valued – with colleagues, leaders and direct reports is the number one driver of our happiness and engagement at work. Years of social distancing, masking and new hybrid and remote work patterns has caused an unprecedented drop in many of our traditional ways to connect with one another and feel like we belong. In this fun, connecting and research-driven workshop, Eric will help your audience rekindle their ability, interest and skills in building stronger and more supportive social connections with colleagues, friends and teammates.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
  • How social connection drives our sense of belonging, feeling valued and overall engagement in work
  • Four group habits that can create stronger connections within your teams
  • Attendees invited to commit to one personal habit proven to build their interest in and ability to connect with others

Rethink Stress

Make stress work for you


Target audience: Supervisory staff through executive leadership

Stress has been given a bad rap in our society, and for good reason: our typical “threat response” to stress feeds procrastination, hurts our productivity and causes all kinds of downstream health problems. But there is another possible reaction to stress: the “challenge response.” This response model can help us focus, process information better, see the big picture, and harness the energy that stress provides to meet the challenges we face. In this research-driven talk, participants will learn healthier and more effective alternatives for responding to the inevitable stress of life as a human in modern workplaces.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
  • Stress can actually help when managed the right way
  • The threat response includes most of the negative repercussions of stress while the challenge response allows you to tap into the energy that stress provides in a safer, more sustainable way.
  • Practice applying the 5-step ASPIRe process to a current stressor that provide options for switching to the challenge response

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