The document discusses happiness in the workplace and provides strategies for improving employee happiness. It notes that unhappy employees are twice as sick, six times as absent, and 45% as creative as happy employees. Happy employees are nine times as loyal, 31% more productive, and have careers that are longer by 5 to 7 years. The document outlines several sprints and questions that were used to measure employee happiness on a scale of 1 to 10. It also provides steps for improving happiness in the workplace, such as unleashing imagination, using a plan-do-check-act process, and adopting an all-hands-on-deck approach. The key to personal happiness involves assertiveness, acceptance, persistence through delayed gratification and understanding of

1. Happiest
Team
Ever
Stockholm, January 28th 2014

2. Lucas Olczyk
World’s Happiest Coach
Writer
Passionate about psychology
Personal development experimenter
(Used to be) The luckiest guy alive

3. Why Happiness?
(Or Why Should We Care)

4. Unhappy employee
2 times as sick
6 times as absent
45% as creative

5. Happy employee
9 times as loyal
31% more productive
career longer by 5 to 7 years

6. What Is Happiness?
Best Leading Indicator
Happier Day By Day
(And Why We Grossly Misunderstand It)
(Or How To Measure Happiness – The Agile Way!)
(Or How We Improve It)

7. What Is Happiness
(And Why We Grossly Misunderstand It)

8. Are you happy?

9. Happiness
vs.
Extasy

10. Subjective
Well
Being

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

12. Sprint 1

13. Q: Are you happy?

14. A: WTF?

15. Sprint 4

16. Q: Considering happiness is SWB,
how happy, in a scale of 1 to 10, do
you feel in your team?

17. (Plan for) Sprint 5

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

19. Happier Day By Day
(Or How We Improve It)

20. No extrinsic happiness!

21. (dear managers: no extrinsic
motivation as well)

22. Step 2

23. Unleash the imagination

24. Step 3

25. Plan
Do
Check
Act

26. Things to go wrong

27. The interviewer

28. All hands on deck!
approach

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

30. Assertiveness

31. Acceptance

32. Persistance
via
Delayed gratification
and
Understanding of habits

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

34. thank you
Lucas Olczyk