Highlights from the 2024 World Happiness Report
The 2024 World Happiness Report is out! The report is 158 pages of relatively academic language and data from around the globe. I'll extract the most important insights and share them with you here.
The Foundations of Workplace Culture
Think of the Foundations of Culture, Community, Trust, and Communication, like the foundation of a house. If you have cracks in the foundation, the house will suffer. Over time the foundation will begin to fail and create a lot more work for the folks living in the house.
What Makes Workplace Culture Tick: Revisiting The Basics.
Two things: First, I care deeply about workplace well-being. Second, reskilling leaders is the most crucial organizational hurdle to success in the remote and hybrid workplace. This might seem obvious to some, but here is my case.
Empowered or Compliant Workforces?
Do your employees look to management for permission to act? Is there a script used to deliver service? Or a set of rules for the one or few ways people are allowed to solve problems? Does your workplace allow people freedom in how they best solve issues and then seek feedback that could be spread across the organization?
