Over recent years, the narrative of leadership has become somewhat homogenous— everyone seems to have been on the same course in portraying the right characteristics in positions of power. Leaders of all kinds of companies extolling their authentic nature… they put the company first, they care about their people, they’re…

For all the articles and books written on the subject of “what great leadership looks like”, there isn’t a rule book or a step-by-step guide that tells us exactly what to do in challenging circumstances. …

Mental Health is perhaps finally getting the recognition and attention it deserves… but having secured its place on the leadership agenda perhaps it’s time to move beyond good intentions and lip service. Employers are being encouraged to embrace a new world where we accept that “we all have mental health”……

There are so many good reasons for adopting flexible working that I simply can’t understand why more people don’t do it. Sure there are all of those well-known reasons… that it’s good for employees, helps with their mental health, improves happiness (or at least reduces stress), it’s a great perk……

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week this week, naturally there’s a lot of discussion and press coverage about the subject. It prompted me to dig out this old story. I’m not sure where I came across it first but it’s one that serves as a great reminder that regardless of our…

One of things I’ve encountered frequently when talking about happiness at work is a corporate fear that it would represent introducing a focus on something soft, something that isn’t about work and perhaps even something that will encourage people to do less. …

Lessons From Measuring Happiness At Work (Part 4) — If I asked you to guess when during a normal week people might regard themselves as happiest…. what would you say? We charted how people rated their happiness at different times of the week over a 12 month periodSplitting each day of the week into three slots — “before 11am”…

Lessons From Measuring Happiness At Work (Part 3) — Continuing our story, this time sharing another interesting relationship that we’ve seen in the data… As I explained previously (in Part 2), the way we track happiness is with a single daily question “How do you feel?” using a rating scale of 0–100. This gives us greater understanding of how…

Lessons From Measuring Happiness At Work (Part 2) Having built Happiness Lab with companies in mind, we’d always imagined the impact of what we do coming from the actions of those companies (our clients)… but as you’ll see in this second instalment of our story, what we’re learning suggests impact beyond our initial expectations. We’ve always said that…