This course is for anyone at work who has been living by the formula of success first and wellbeing later, and who wants to try it the other way round: someone in a demanding role, a manager who sets the tone for a team, or someone starting a new season of work.
The Happiness Advantage helps you build a positive state as the starting point for good work rather than a reward at the end of it. Across seven principles you practise noticing what goes well, choosing a helpful way to see stress, finding a way forward after a setback, shrinking an overwhelming task to a size you can act on, and investing in the people around you.
Each principle has its own module, with an audit to show where you stand and a practice you repeat. Three Good Things is a short daily gratitude practice, and Positive Scanning trains what you notice during the day. A weekly tracker records small wins as your sense of control grows. The Habit Architecture tool helps you design one habit to add and one to remove, and the Social Investment Audit maps your closest relationships and the next step for each. You retake the opening baseline at the end and leave with My Signature Habit, the one principle you carry forward.
On WorkSmart4Life this course sits under Sharpen, the move about attention and focus. If your team chose Positive Emotions in Work Well Together, this course takes that block further for each person. Begin with Foundation: Your Starting Line in the Orientation module; a free 24-hour trial of the whole course lets you look around first.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life