This document outlines a model for achieving happiness at work. It discusses six key elements: 1. Achieving your potential through feeling energized, using your strengths, learning, and overcoming challenges. 2. Contribution through making efforts, getting feedback, feeling appreciated and respected. 3. Conviction through feeling motivated, effective, resilient, and that your work has impact. 4. Culture through enjoying your job, colleagues, and workplace values and ethics. 5. Commitment through doing meaningful work and believing in your organization's vision. 6. Confidence through accomplishing goals, having self-belief, and understanding your career path.

1. Leveraging
The Science of Happiness @ Work
Wall posters

2. The Science of Happiness at Work
Achieving
your potential
Contribution
Confidence Conviction
CultureCommitment

3. Achieving your potential: is at the heart
of the model
• Feeling energized
• Using your strengths
• Using your skills
• Learning
• Overcoming challenges
Achieving
your potential
Contribution
Confidence Conviction
CultureCommitment
iTools 2 Resourcing yourself 3
Leveraging
deliberate practice
4
Recognizing your
strengths
5
Strengths
assessment

4. Contribution: the effort you make and
your perception of it
• Outside in
• Being listened to
• Getting positive
feedback
• Feeling appreciated at
work
• Being respected by your
boss
• Inside out
• Achieving your goals
• Having clear objectives
• Raising issues that are
important to you
• Feeling secure in your
job
iTools 6 Setting the bar 7
What affects
goal setting
8
Clarifying
purpose
9
Giving positive
feedback
10
Getting
appreciation

5. Conviction: motivation to perform
whatever the situation
• Feeling motivated at work
• Believing that you are
effective and efficient
• Knowing that you are
resilient when times are
tough
• Feeling that your work has a
positive impact on the world
Achieving
your potential
Contribution
Confidence Conviction
CultureCommitment
iTools 11
Managing de-
motivation 12
Developing
resilience
13 Resilience II 14 Using analogy 15
Proactive
coping
16
Net Present
Value

6. Culture: how you fit your organisation
• Relishing your job
• Liking your colleagues
• Appreciating the values your
workplace stands for
• Having a fair ethos at work
• Having control of your daily
activities
Achieving
your potential
Contribution
Confidence Conviction
CultureCommitment
iTools 17
Identifying what
it is in your org 18 Finding your fit 19
Conducting a fit
analysis
20
Auditing your
culture
21
Using values to
increase liking

7. Commitment: the extent to which you
are engaged with your work
• Doing something
worthwhile
• Feeling strong burst of
positive emotion
• Believing in the vision of
your organisation
• Being interested in your
job
Achieving
your potential
Contribution
Confidence Conviction
CultureCommitment
iTools 22 Finding meaning 23
I want to make a
difference by
24 Job crafting 25
Developing a really
strong vision

8. Confidence: sense of belief in yourself
and your job
• Getting things done
• Having self-belief
• Understanding the red
thread of your career
Achieving
your potential
Contribution
Confidence Conviction
CultureCommitment
iTools 26 Building self-belief 27
Increasing feelings of
self-belief
28 Visualization 29
Working with
heuristics

9. Pride Trust and Recognition: locking the
structure together
iTools 30 PTR 31
Trust diagnosis for self and
others
32 Recognition

10. The structure of Happiness at Work