HappyWays Podcast | Happiness at Work | The art of loving your job, for employees and managers alike
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HappyWays Podcast | Happiness at Work | The art of loving your job, for employees and managers alike
The HappyWays podcast shares down-to-earth advice on crafting a better workday for yourself and the people at your workplace. Hosted by Jon Kjaer Nielsen, a veteran speaker and published author on happiness at work, this podcast will give you the insights to be happier at work. In the shows you'l...
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35 episodes
HW 034: Shaping better habits - a webinar recording
In this episode the topic is of masssive importance to your quality of your life, and to your ability to achieving your goals: Your habits.
The...
HW 033: A conversation with Nikola Danaylov
My guest today is bestselling author Nikola Danaylov, from Singularity Weblog. His book, Conversations with the Future, is available on Amazon.
...
HW 032: Happy Henry interview
We're back!
Henry Stewart founded and runs Happy, a London-based training company. The company has purposefully been moulded into a happy work...
HW 031: Goals and resolutions that work
Each year in January millions of people struggle to meet their New Years resolutions.
Struggle and fail. In this episode, Jon from http://happyw...
HW 030: TEDx talk: The Powerful Difference of Happy Work
This episode features the audio recording from the 2012 TEDxSquareMile conference in London, where your host Jon Kjaer Nielsen from http://happyways.c...
HW 029: Being Trumped, and dealing with it
Jon does a short episode about how he chose to handle his motorbike getting stolen.
Chosing neither anger nor sadness, he looked ahead and chose...
HW 028: On the incompetetence of bosses, and others
Jon goes back to sharing facinating findings from science on this episode. This time it all recolves around incompentece.
In this show y...
HW 027: Hacking Productivity for Happiness part 3
This is part 3 in a series on personal productivity. For an expanding article with tips and show notes, go to http://happyways.com/productivity
...
HW 026: Picking the best job, part II: Pick your boss
This is part 2 of giving an answer to the question of what your should look for when getting a new job, and in this episode Jon explores the importanc...
HW 025: Picking the best job: On culture
Picking a job is one of the most important choices in life. Besides sleeping, a full-time job is your number one activity, so it really counts!
...
HW 024: 100 Tips Book Preview
In this episode Jon read from his just-translated and upcoming book on happiness at work.
You'll get three out of the 100 chapters, and they are...
HW 023: Lee Caraher on Millenials
Lee Caraher is the CEO of Double Forte, a consultancy with offices in San Fransisco, New York and elsewhere.
She is also an expert on Mi...
HW 022: Seduction in Meetings
Meetings can be an aweful waste of time, or they can be the place where you recruit people to your cause. In this episode, Jon shares three simple and...
HW 021: The Dangers of asking for an oppinion
Just like we saw with BREXIT, asking people for their oppinion on a matter can be a dangerous thing. Despite best efforts to keep it about one thing,...
HW 020: Love Your Job Or Die Trying. My interview on DojoLIVE
In June 2016 Jon was interviewed for the live show DojoLive, broadcast online from Mexico. Here you get a slightly edited version of the audio, as wel...
HW 019: The good old days - on Rosy Retrospection
Science shows that people consistently rate past experiences better that they actually did at the time, something called Rosy Retrospection. This is t...
HW 018: Tips for a stress-free vacation
It's summer, and your host is planning to go on vacation. In preparing for a month of riding Europe on his motorbike, Jon shares his approach to reall...
HW 017: Hacking productivity for happiness part 2
Part 2 in the series on productivity talks about procrastination and how we ofte get distracted from doing the important stuff... stuff like recording...
HW016: Hacking productivity for happiness part 1
This is part 1 in a series on personal productivity. For show notes and a text version, go to http://happyways.com/productivity
Most people seem...
HW 015: Giving experiences as recognition, with Blueboard
Blueboard is a San Francisco based startup helping clients use experiences as recognition, in place of traditional methods like the classic (and borin...
HW 014: On digital stress and detoxing
As more and more studies show, being constantly connected via our computers and smartphones can lead to stress and anxiety. Facebook Stress is now a t...
HW 013: A year traveling as a digital nomad
Jon Kjaer Nielsen shares his experiences and learning points from one full year of living and working as a digital nomad. On the show he shares the co...
HW 012: The Trees Remember
This is a special episode of the HappyWays Podcast.
In the early summer of 2015 Jon rode through beautiful Croatia
on a motorcycle, and on...
HW 011: On gratitude and stolen iPhones
Following the theft of his iPhone, Jon looks at different strategies for taking a bad turn of events and responding in such a way that it does not end...
HW 010: Happiness Advantage Book Review
This episode provides an extensive review of the book The Happiness Advantage, by Harvard researcher Shawn Achor.
You can get the book on Amazon...
HW 009: Stress, sex and relationships
The first HappyWays interview is with sexologist and couples therapist Maj Wissmann.
We discuss the nature of stress and some of the misconcepti...
HW 008: Ask Me Anything - Happiness At Work 101
Do you have a comment or a question for Jon?
Email him at: jon@happyways.com
The Motivation-Hygene Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.or...
HW 007: Why I Hate Email
Research by Dr. Thomas Jackson http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cotwj1/top5downloads.html
The Atos Group, in The Guardian: We spend 40% of o...
HW 006: To Quit or not To Quit
Do you have a comment or a question for Jon?
Email him at: jon@happyways.com
Article: Equal opportunity cheating
http://abcn...
HW005: On Structure Fetishes
Find the show notes and talk part in the discussion at http://happyways.com/podcast
Do you have a comment or a question for Jon? Email him at:...
HW 004: No revenge at work
Do you have a comment or a question for Jon? Email him at: jon@happyways.com
The Murder of Kitty Genovese:
https://en.wikipedia.org...
HW 003: An end to whining and complaining
Do you have a comment or a question for Jon? Email him at: jon@happyways.com
Manoj Bhragava's initiative Billions in Change:
http:/...
HW 002: Weekly rituals for socializing at work
Do you have a comment or a question for Jon? Email him at: jon@happyways.com
Ed Deci TEDx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGrcets0E...
HW 001: Best advice you'll ever get
Do you have a comment or a question for Jon? Email him at: jon@happyways.com
HW 000: About this podcast
Do you have a comment or a question for Jon? Email him at: jon@happyways.com