HappiestTeamEver

Stockholm, January 28th 2014

Lucas OlczykWorld’s Happiest CoachWriterPassionate about psychologyPersonal development experimenter(Used to be) The luckiest guy alive

Why Happiness?(Or Why Should We Care)

Unhappy employee

2 times as sick6 times as absent45% as creative

Happy employee

9 times as loyal31% more productive

career longer by 5 to 7 years

What Is Happiness?(And Why We Grossly Misunderstand It)

Best Leading Indicator(Or How To Measure Happiness – The Agile Way!)

Happier Day By Day(Or How We Improve It)

What Is Happiness(And Why We Grossly Misunderstand It)

Are you happy?

Happiness vs.

Extasy

SubjectiveWellBeing

Best Leading Indicator(Or How To Measure Happiness – The Agile Way!)

Sprint 1

Q: Are you happy?

A: WTF?

Sprint 4

Q: Considering happiness is SWB, how happy, in a scale of 1 to 10,

do you feel in your team?

(Plan for) Sprint 5

Q2: Considering happiness is SWB, how unhappy, in a scale of 1 to 10, do you feel in your team?

Happier Day By Day(Or How We Improve It)

No extrinsic happiness!

(dear managers: no extrinsic motivation as well)

Step 2

Unleash the imagination

Step 3

PlanDo

CheckAct

Things to go wrong

The interviewer

All hands on deck!approach

Key To Personal Happiness(Or, Yes, I Have A Bonus Chapter!)

Assertiveness

Acceptance

Persistancevia

Delayed gratificationand

Understanding of habits

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

thank you

Lucas Olczyk