Im off to Estonia - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Im off to Estonia - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Im having a massively interesting week here. Monday I did a workshop for The Danish Union of Librarians. The workshop focused on making the libraries happier workplaces and on promoting better cooperation between management and union reps. In my opinion, the one place where management and unions can always meet and work together is happiness at work. On all other areas, like salaries, policies, vacations, leadership, etc. they can easily end up on different sides. But everyone can agree that happiness at work is a worthy goal that serves both employees AND the workplace and that makes it a great place to start to improve working relations. Today Im going to Estonia to do a workshop for a new company called Arigato. Arigato is the newest, shiniest fitness center in the Baltic and a company with huge ambitions. Simply put, they want excellent customer service, and theyve realized that the only way to achieve it is to have happy employees. Thats where I come in :o) As you may know if youve watched Shogun as avidly as I have, domo arigato means thank you very much in Japanese, and one of the companys core values is indeed gratitude. Its very difficult to come up with new corporate values (everyone seems to end up with some variation of respect, openness, excellence, quality and trust) but gratitude is new to me. Its a great idea though as studies show that gratitude is a key to happiness. After the workshop my wonderful girlfriend and I will be relaxing for a few days in Tallinn. Ill be back on Monday, but Ive set up a few posts to appear for the rest of the week, so things wont have to go quiet here on the blog. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related