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Wellness as a Business Process: PHWPC Day 2
By Marie-Josée Salvas  
March 16, 2010 – 3:18 pm | 4 Comments
Wellness as a Business Process: PHWPC Day 2

FROM YESTERDAY: The Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference held in Washington, DC last weekend gave everyone concrete and reliable evidence to make the topic a priority. The conference showed that creating a psychologically healthy workplace …

Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference 2010: Building the Business Case for Employee Well-Being
By Marie-Josée Salvas  
March 15, 2010 – 11:05 am | 3 Comments
Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference 2010: Building the Business Case for Employee Well-Being

As a wellness consultant, one of the questions I get most often is “Wow! I love what you do! This is so important, and so needed in today’s world!  What kind of …

Is Positive Psychology at work?
By Amanda Horne  
March 3, 2010 – 10:21 am | 13 Comments
Is Positive Psychology at work?

Last month I attended the 2nd Australian Positive Psychology Conference run by the Australian Positive Psychology Association (APPA) at Melbourne’s Monash University on 12-13 February. It came at the end of a long …

Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work (Book Review)
By Margaret Greenberg  
February 15, 2010 – 5:06 pm | 2 Comments
Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work (Book Review)

Researchers and practitioners seeking to bring positive psychology to the workplace have a new resource: the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work* edited by P. Alex Linley, Susan Harrington, and Nicola Garcea. All …

Becoming an Excellent Manager: Where to Start and 12 Clues
By Kathryn Britton  
February 10, 2010 – 12:45 pm | 14 Comments
Becoming an Excellent Manager:  Where to Start and 12 Clues

Let’s assume you were just promoted into a management job. You know that you got the promotion because you were an excellent performer on your previous assignment, but it used your technical skills. You are worried that you do not have all the skills you need to be an excellent manager. How do you go about learning them? Where’s the best place to start?

No Worries, Andy! Immunize Yourself Against Job Anxiety
By Christine Duvivier  
February 9, 2010 – 11:45 am | 10 Comments
No Worries, Andy! Immunize Yourself Against Job Anxiety

Dear Student,
Don’t worry when people tell you it will be hard to find a job. What the doom-and-gloom folks don’t understand is that they have something as contagious as the H1N1 virus– anxiety. Like the flu, they are probably “carriers” without even realizing it. You can innoculate yourself.

Empowerment at Work
By Amanda Horne  
February 3, 2010 – 10:19 am | 4 Comments
Empowerment at Work

Are there positive ways to combat employee negativity? Are you interested in improving personal and organizational performance and at the same time personal and organizational well-being?
Over the long Christmas / New Year / …

Positive Leadership: Flying High Cover
By Dave Shearon  
January 17, 2010 – 8:30 pm | 7 Comments
Positive Leadership: Flying High Cover

A leader who wants to incorporate the findings of positive psychology into his or her enterprise must “fly high cover” for that process to give it time to happen. Last week, when I taught …

How Would Your Organization React to a Traumatic Event?
By Kathryn Britton  
January 9, 2010 – 1:28 pm | 3 Comments
How Would Your Organization React to a Traumatic Event?

How would you react if an unexpected traumatic event happened at your company, university, religious group, or other organization? How would everyone around you react? How strong is the organizational resilience?
(Editorial Note: Some …

Performance Reviews that Energize
By Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin  
December 14, 2009 – 3:00 pm | 7 Comments
Performance Reviews that Energize

It’s that time of year again, and we’re not talking about the holidays. It’s the time of year when most employees have their annual performance review. If you manage employees and are responsible for conducting …

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