What Happy Working Mothers Know WICT What Happy Working Mothers Know Webinar # 1 Cathy L. Greenberg Barrett S. Avigdor

What Happy Working Mothers Know

WICTWhat Happy

Working Mothers KnowWebinar # 1

Cathy L. Greenberg

Barrett S. Avigdor


Immediate steps to enhance your overall effectiveness in life

New tools to evaluate, enhance and engage your full potential Smart ways to leverage money, time and energy to maximize returns

Ideas for managing the needs of motherhood and work successfully

How to align your true values for leadership at home and at work

Goal setting using self coaching strategies to achieve your best

Timely insight using results driven, innovative personal practices

Attend this webinar for INSIGHT:


• practical dialogue grounded in application

• access to an expert facilitator

• topic-specific examples, tips and assessments

• a personal action plan focused on you

• a new peer network of contacts

What we will share in each program


• to change to your life

• to change your industry

• to change your community

“Happiness” is a powerful way

What Happy Working Mothers KnowWhat Happy Working Mothers Know

Based on the science of happiness:


In a tough economy should you just keep your head down and work?Happiness drives high performance for you and for your team

You can’t afford not to think about happiness


In today’s hard-nosed world—especially the numbers-based realm of business and today’s tough economic times—it’s easy to dismiss happiness as an unimportant luxury and a time-waster that saps our energies and drains bottom lines, however, it’s just the opposite. A positive approach positively affects bottom lines, whether in the boardroom, classroom, or at home. And lack of happiness exacts its financial toll.

Working mothers have plenty of company.

Nearly 25.7 million mothers with children under 18 were part of the U.S. workforcein 2007. (* That’s nearly double the number in 1975, according to estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labors Statistics and the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey).

A Case For Action: Why Happiness?


When people are happy, they can think with their whole brainUnder stress, we resort to flight, fight or freeze blocking our capacity to have…“PEACE of Mind”

ProductivityEthical decisionsAdaptabilityCreativityExcellence in performance

Happiness = High Performance


Happiness at work comes from:Being proud of your skills/roleFeeling challenged and supportedWorking to your strengthsReceiving recognition/appreciation

Facts - a happy or engaged work force:20% increase in productivity23% increase in customer satisfaction50% reduction in unplanned attrition 93% of performance = happiness & satisfaction

Happiness is a Performance Issue


H = S + C + V

Happiness = Set Point + Circumstances + Voluntary Activity

50% is genetics and

50% is within your control

The Science of Happiness


Feeling appreciation creates:1. synchronization of the central nervous system, improves

auditory discrimination, 2. spatial awareness, and3. short and long term memory.

• Our emotions influence our digestive, cardiovascular, immune and hormonal systems

• When we are happy, our bodies perform optimally with minimal wear and tear

Happiness is a Health Issue


1. Create a Positive Environment

2. Manage Based on Strengths

3. Choose Happiness Every Day

3 Ways to Create High Performance


“Human Flourishing is to live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness…growth and resilience”

Dr. Barbara FredricksonUniversity of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Requires 3 positives for every 1 negative interaction

3:1 5:1 9:1Low stress environment means people use their whole brain – emotion and reasonResults in more creative and more ethical decisions

Create a Positive Environment


As a manager or an associate• use more positive language, • practice openness and safety, and• create an environment of positive feedback.

You have the power to create a positive environment by being relentlessly positive in your own behaviorThis doesn’t mean we overlook the negative or avoid the unpleasant. It means we do not dwell on them. Our focus is on what’s working….vs. what’s not

Create a Positive Environment


Strengths = activities that energize youWeaknesses = activities that drain you

Maximize team performance by spending time on strengths and minimize time spent on weaknesses

Manage Based on Strengths


Assess which activities and people at work energize you and find ways to spend more time on those

Assess which activities may drain you and find ways to minimize time on those

Help your team to do the sameManaging your energy investments will improve performance and increase engagement over time

Manage Based on Strengths


Happiness is a choice – like living a healthy life style

There are common happiness traps–once you understand them,

you can navigate around them.You can’t control life but you can control where you spend your time and energy

Choose Happiness Daily


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What Happy Working Mothers Know WICT What Happy Working Mothers Know Webinar # 1 Cathy L. Greenberg Barrett S. Avigdor