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If you feel closely connected to your work cronies, you’re likely the healthier for it—and this applies to both physical and mental health. A meta-analysis in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Review reports that people who feel more camaraderie with their colleagues, and more connection to the company itself, have better health and happiness and are less likely to burn out. Given all the past work on how important our social relationships are for all aspects of health, the results aren’t too surprising, but it’s nice to have this kind of confirmation from such a large study.

 

The new analysis looked at 58 past studies that included 19,000 people in 15 countries. The participants worked in all different fields–health, sales, the military. The participants had answered questions about their work life, and their feelings about their colleagues and companies, and various aspects of their mental and physical health.

 

People who identified more strongly with their colleagues at work and with their organizations had greater psychological well-being, and also better physical health.

Via The Learning Factor

Here's how to keep your employees feeling empowered and engaged, no matter where they are in the world.
Via Fernanda Grimaldi

If you want your employees to work well together and get more done as a team, it might help to pipe in some upbeat tunes. Research from Cornell University has found that employees who listen to happy music—like the Beatles's "Yellow Submarine"—are able to cooperate and make group decisions better than employees who work without a background soundtrack.

 

"Retailers certainly use music routinely with the intention of influencing consumer behavior," says Kevin Kniffin, an applied behavioral scientist at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University and lead author of the study. "The point of our new research is to draw attention to the role that music can have for employees, whether in retail workplaces or any other kind."

 

Researchers played "Yellow Submarine"; "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves; "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison; and the theme song from "Happy Days" on a loop in a workplace environment, says Kniffin. "A definitional feature of happy music is that it has a rhythm to it," he says. "Happy music significantly and positively influences cooperative behavior," Kniffin points out. "We also find a significant positive association between mood and cooperative behavior."

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Given the massive chunk of our lives spent at work, shouldn’t we enjoy the tools we need to use for our jobs? Shouldn’t they feel more human and..

Via Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D.

As more and more of your staff take their work home with them, they could be giving hackers an easy route to your confidential data

Wondering why your workplace needs Social And Collaborative Learning technologies? Check 4 reasons your workplace needs Social And Collaborative Learning.

Via Carmen Ridaura

The American work force has never been more diverse, with generations spanning from Baby Boomers to Gen X-ers and beyond. In recent years, however, Millennials (adults aged 19 to 35) have driven the biggest transformation in workplace dynamics. Experts and studies, for instance, tout how the Millennial generation is more collaborative than others and has a strong preference for remote work options. Additionally, Millennial workers are more connected and prefer to use technology to interact and get work done.

 

Why do these insights matter more now than ever before? According to an analysis from Pew Research Center, more than 30 percent of American workers today are Millennials. They recently surpassed Generation X in becoming the largest share of the American work force. As more Baby Boomers retire, more and more Millennials will be stepping up to fill management roles.

 

With Millennials moving into leadership positions, and an even younger generation (Generation Z) preparing to enter the work force, we predict there will be significant changes in office dynamics and operations starting in 2017, and lasting well into the coming years.

 

Here are some typical workplace practices that will become extinct in 2017 and beyond, as younger generations begin to dominate the work force.

Via The Learning Factor

High performing individuals, teams and organisations focus on exploiting development opportunities in the workplace because that’s wher

If you’re reading this as a commercial enterprise, purpose is not about ditching profit and suddenly getting all causal about things. It’s about putting purpose at the centre of your enterprise, putting it before profit and being purpose-led, because, ironically, companies connected to their purpose end up being 10 – 18 times more profitable than those companies who focus solely on profit itself. The two are inextricably interlinked. And it makes sense. Work is intensely personal. The more we as companies can tap into what our employees care about, the more inspired they will be at work, and the more inspired they are, the more they will contribute to the success of our company. If you add to this the possibilities of also connecting your other stakeholders to your purpose – selecting suppliers who resonate with your purpose, for example, and ensuring that the brand you put out into society reflects your purpose – then a powerful ripple effect is created that sustains itself and is far more effective than a leader trying to gee up the troops from the front.

Via David Hain

Workers want more from their employer than a paycheck.

Via Sandeep Gautam

You know who they are -- that one team member whose behavior ruins projects and the concept of teamwork for everyone else. Here's how to handle the five worst offenders.

Via Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D.

Organisations are used to accumulating ‘stuff’: from buildings, to filing cabinets, to systems and processes. Everything they accumulate makes them fit for the world of today, but often highly unable to adapt for the world of tomorrow.

The appeal of ‘stuff’ is that you can see it, you can want it, you can buy it, and you can own it. The stuff that we need in the Social Age may be less tangible: communities, trust, Social Leadership, agility, adaptability, creativity.

Charisma isn't just a gift that you have or you don't. Charisma can be learned, and if you can develop charisma, it gives you strong referent power.