Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness
Shawn Achor examines recent scientific breakthroughs in the study of happiness and applies the research to our everyday lives. What are the internal and external causes of happiness? Is our happiness genetic or can it be changed? What role do optimism, mental priming, goal-setting and mind-set play in our ability to be happy? Achor concludes with a discussion of researched applications for increasing our baseline level of happiness.
The Ripple Effect: Emotional Contagion in the Workplace
Shawn Achor explains how changes in our own mind-set and behavior can have a powerful impact on those around us. Given the right set of conditions, individual changes can ripple through an organization and produce a more productive, positive work culture. Audiences will learn about the latest scientific research on mirror neurons and mental priming to explain how positivity and negativity spread, how we can each become a lightning rod for change, and how a positive work culture profoundly affects an organization's bottom line.
Positive Psychology and Business: Where Happiness and Profit Intersect
Many individuals believe they will be happy once they finally achieve success. Shawn Achor explains why this thinking is counterproductive; research shows that happiness actually fuels success and organizations that focus on achievement at the expense of well-being put themselves at a significant disadvantage. Audiences will learn how positive emotions generate greater productivity, employee loyalty and company profit. Managers will learn positive psychology tools that prime their employees for greater job performance and job satisfaction.
Becoming a Positive Outlier: The Science of Human Potential
Shawn Achor explores what science has uncovered about the limits of potential, what gets in the way of achieving our potential and how we can retrain our brains to break through these obstacles. How much change are we really capable of? By combining the latest research in brain neuroplasticity, social psychology and the study of society's positive outliers, this lecture explains how we can achieve more in numerous domains of life—in our jobs and our social relationships, and even on the athletic field.
