raising hero levels benefits of positive psychology for organisations
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WHAT ARE YOUR H.E.R.O LEVELS?
Human Capital
What you know
Experience Education Skills Knowledge
Social Capital
Who you know
Family Friends Extent of
professional contacts
Psychological Capital
Who you are
• Hope Self-Efficacy
(Self-Belief)• Resilience• Optimism
Hope
Self-Efficacy
Resilience
Optimism
Research Study:
74 Engineering Managers
270% Return On Investment!
Hope
Optimism
Self – Efficacy
Resilience
Hope“a positive motivational state that is based on an
interactively derived sense of successful agency (goal-directed energy) and successful pathways (planning to
meet goals)”
Optimism“making an internal, relatively stable and global
attribution regarding positive events (such as goal achievement), and an external, relatively unstable and specific cause about negative events (such as a failed
attempt at reaching a goal).”
Hope
Optimism
1) Hopeful Employees Turn Up For Work!- Hope = Missed < 3 days of work- Hope = Missed > 9 days of work
2) Hopeful Employees Are More Engaged!- Hope = > 60% were involved &
enthusiastic- Hope = < 10% have the same
attitude
Productivity Benefits of Hope
3) Hopeful Employees Are More Resilient! - An important predictor of performance
in start-ups due to their uncertain business nature
4) Hopeful Employees Are Happy!- Proved to be a robust, distinctive
predictor of workplace satisfaction
Productivity Benefits of Hope
Louis Zamperini1917 - 2014
“People tell me, “You’re such an optimist.” Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half-full. A pessimist says the glass is half-empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, “Call it what you want, but just fill the glass.” I believe in filling the glass.”
Self-Efficacy“refers to one’s own perception of one’s ability to successfully complete a task or accomplish a goal.
Essentially, it is the measure of one’s belief in oneself.”
Resilience“defined as an ability to recuperate from stress, conflict, failure, adversity, change or increase in responsibility.”
Beck Weathers
“...All I knew was, as long as my legs would run, and I could stand up, I was going to move toward that camp, and if I fell down, I was going to get up. And if I fell again, I was going to get up, and I was going to keep moving until I either hit that camp, I couldn’t get up at all, or I walked off the face of that mountain.”
Ways To Improve Self-Efficacy/Resilience At The Workplace
1) Be A Discerning & Encouraging Leader - Help subordinates set achievable goals
- Praise often
2) Promote Vicarious Experiences- Share organisational successes and best
practices
3) Apply Social Persuasion- Pygmalion Effect / Rosethal – Jacobson study- ‘Reverse Pygmalion Effect’
Hope
Self-Efficacy
Resilience
Optimism