Monthly Archives: March 2015

Brain Pathways – An Essential Assessment for Virtual Teams

  Brain PathWays™ is the system you need to discover and leverage your unique brain strengths. Follow your brain pathways on a journey of self-discovery for breakthrough insights. Then, align with how your brain is wired for overall enhanced potential and fulfillment of your goals and dreams.  Knowing how your unique brain is wired to work for you is the most important thing to know about yourself. When you understand which senses your brain prefers and how it prefers to process information, you’re prepared to apply that knowledge to experience fulfillment and success. Doesn’t it make sense that when your work matches your strengths, you excel? Performing work that does not engage your brain strengths is more difficult, frustrating, stressful and less productive, not to mention, no fun at all.  Every aspect of your life can benefit from applying this…

Thriving on Virtual Teams – Free Webinar

  The world is flat. More and more teaming occurs virtually. But how do you build rapport when you don’t have a water cooler to meet near? How can you really know what your employee is doing? What does the science of positive psychology say about all this? Join us with an expert, Melissa Hammer, who shares some tips and techniques. She will also share some research on brain science and how you can use the way you learn (auditory, kinesthetic, visual) to engage your team…and yourself.   Join us on March 31st, 2015 from 12 – 1 pm EDT for Thriving on Virtual Teams.  Register here. Mastery in building strong virtual teams lies in the capacity to effectively connect and collaborate across barriers like time zones, cultures, business units and technology. To successfully sustain this connection and translate it to high…

March 20 is International Happiness Day! Join our virtual Conference feat. +30 Positive Psychology Experts

Ever since 2012, March 20 is UN´s International Happiness Day. All around the world, people will celebrate and host events to educate their fellow human beings on all things happiness, well-being, and flourishing. And I´m in as well – as part of a Virtual Happiness Conference. 32 fellow Penn Mappsters were interviewed on their favorite Positive Psychology subject, among them a lot of people you might already know because they have done webinars for Positive Business DC.  All in all, there´s more than 24 hours of video material available. All content will be online for free until March 26. After that, you can purchase the videos. Every cent will go to the Christopher Peterson Memorial Fellowship which helps future students to afford attending Penn´s MAPPprogram. As for my part: I was interviewed by the fabulous Jamie Cundy on the role of Positive Psychology in presenting.  This is the link to…

Webinar Recording: Strengths with Michelle McQuaid

Did you miss our webinar today? No fear – you can see it here. Quick Recap: We had a very interesting webinar with Michelle McQuaid today, where she shared results from her survey of over 1000 companies and their views on strengths in the workplace. She shared statistics such as in 2015, 5 out of 10 people are building on their strengths. She also how shared how effective managers help their employees make changes as well as the benefits these companies are reaping. Who is Michelle McQuaid? Michelle McQuaid is a best-selling author, workplace wellbeing teacher and playful change activator. With more than a decade of senior leadership experience in large organizations around the world, she’s passionate about translating cutting-edge research from positive psychology and neuroscience, into practical strategies for health, happiness, and business success. An honorary fellow at Melbourne University’s Graduate School of Education,…