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Best Practice Café

REally Happy Employees

Speaker:John C. HavensFounder & Executive DirectorThe H(app)athon Project

REally Happy Employees: The Impact of WellbeingJohn C. Havens

www.happathon.com www.johnchavens.com @happathon @johnchavens

• Professional Actor in NYC for 15 years

• Been in New/Social Media since 2005

• EVP of Social Media for a Global PR Firm

• Worked with Gillette, HP, P&G, Merck

• Contributing Writer for Mashable, The Guardian, and the Huffington Post

• PR/Marketing Consultant

The Happiness Formula For Employees

• Incredibly Dense PowerPoint Prezos

• Incredibly Dense PowerPoint Prezos

• Random Viral Videos

• Incredibly Dense PowerPoint Prezos

• Random Viral Videos

• Trite and Vague Business Quotes

Genuine Happiness For Employees

1) Turn to the person next to you.2) Pick someone to go first (Person A/B). 3) Regard each other. 4) Person A: “What are you grateful for?”5) Person B: “I’m grateful for…”6) Person A (repeat): “You’re grateful for..”7) Repeat the process.

The Gratitude Mirror

Happy Tracking – The Physical

If you want your life to count, you

have to take a count of your life.

Happy Tracking – The Emotional

Happy Tracking – The ROI

Happy Tracking – Next Steps

1. Test devices/tracking for/on yourself.2. Talk to your employees. 3. Ask for volunteers. 4. Work out a data privacy policy TOGETHER.5. Test small and scale. 6. EMPOWER them, don’t SURVEIL them. 7. Celebrate often. Wellbeing ROI changes

lives.8. Keep what works and go SLOW.

WorkTime BalanceEducation/CultureAchievementMaterialsHealthGood TimesHelping othersSecurityNatureFamily Spirituality

A New Vision for Worth

Thank you!

www.happathon.com www.johnchavens.com @happathon @johnchavens

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