Happiness and positivity at WellMatch
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Software companies spend so much effort tracking productivity and velocity. What happens when you focus instead on helping everyone find happiness? This presentation was given to my team members at WellMatch, and is adapted from an earlier presentation given at DevOps Days Austin 2014.
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- 1. WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG, WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GREW UP SCOTT BALDWIN CHIEF HAPPINESS OFFICER
- 3. I JUST WANT TO BE HAPPY
- 4. ANSWER THIS: WHAT MATTERS MOST IS ________________
- 5. MY ANSWER: WHAT MATTERS MOST IS WHAT LASTS THE LONGEST
- 6. THINGS THAT MATTER MOST MAKE US HAPPY
- 7. [We] are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights ... Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
- 8. HAPPY PEOPLE TREAT PEOPLE LIKE PEOPLE, NOT OBJECTS DO WHAT THEY EXCEL AT, OFTEN ACTIVELY PURSUE GOALS MAKE GOOD FRIENDS
- 9. HAPPY PEOPLE ACTIVELY EXPRESS THANKFULNESS LIVE THE LIFE THEY WANT TO LIVE DON'T CHASE STUFF GIVE
- 10. Happiness is... a by-product of a life well lived. — Eleanor Roosevelt
- 11. SO, ARE YOU FEELING WELL CHUFFED?
- 12. TRACK HAPPINESS WE DITCHED VELOCITY
- 13. TEAM HAPPINESS OFFERS: 8.5 TRANSPARENCY: 8.5 MOBILE: 9
- 14. POSITIVITY + EYE CONTACT = BIOBEHAVIORAL SYNCHRONY When positive emotions are shared and two people make eye contact, they move to the same hidden beat and start to act as one.
- 15. YOU AND I NEED 3 positive emotions TO BALANCE 1 NEGATIVE ▸ flourish at 11:1 ▸ languish at 1:1
- 16. NEGATIVITY LIMITS US ▸ music with negative emotions ▸ is this face male or female? ▸ focused only on the task
- 17. POSITIVITY OPENS US ▸ music with positive emotions ▸ focus included more than the face ▸ noticed background was rotating too
- 18. DO IT NOW YOU CAN'T WILL YOURSELF LOCATE ONE OF THE LEVERS TO TURN IT ON
- 19. DRAW YOURSELF IN ▸ What makes me lucky/blessed to be here? ▸ What's right about my circumstances? ▸ What aspect of my current circumstances might I view as a gift to be treasured?
- 20. WHAT MATTERS MOST... GIFTS TO BE TREASURED
- 21. AUTONOMY, MASTERY, PURPOSE MOTIVATE US
- 22. AUTONOMY MAKES US FAST BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR MANAGERS TO MAKE DECISIONS CULTURE AT SPOTIFY
- 24. happier PEOPLE WILL PRODUCE HAPPIER PRODUCTS CONWAY'S LAW (ADAPTED)
- 25. Happiness is the object and design of our existence. — Joseph Smith
- 26. BIT.LY/WMHAPPY