Did you miss our webinar on Thriving Virtual Teams?  No fear.  Click the link below. We had a fantastic webinar with Tina Jackson of Action Resources at the end of March, 2014.  And after much ado, here is the recording: https://files.secureserver.net/0sNoQCO1c89T1v Password: act1on (that’s a #1, not the letter l) She did a fantastic job of talking about the 5 C’s of communicating virtually and the neuroscience of the brain and how we learn – kinesthetic, visual and auditory.  You can see our previous post about the Brain Pathways and here for more on the webinar. Below is a little bit more about our amazing facilitator. Tina Jackson, M.A., M.C.C., is an organization development consultant, corporate trainer, and leadership coach.  She has helped over 10,000 people develop sustainable skills to enhance individual and team performance. Working with Fortune 500 companies, professional services… …

Editor’s note: June 25 was the official launch date of the book, Character Strengths Matter: How to Live a Full Life, coinciding with the start of the 4th World Congress of the International Positive Psychology Association in Orlando, Florida. The book is published in loving memory of Christopher Peterson, master scientist of character strengths, and the proceeds go to the Christopher Peterson Memorial Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Character Strengths Matter is the third book in the Positive Psychology News series, joining Resilience: How to Navigate Life’s Curves and Gratitude: How to Appreciate Life’s Gifts. A Kindle version of Character Strengths Matter is also available. This article comes from the introduction in the book. It explains why the book includes read-aloud passages for all character strengths. For those of you that read aloud to your children, grandchildren, or friends, it may come as a surprise how much good you are doing… …

Research shows that we spend far more time thinking about how we can correct something that has gone wrong, or is about to go wrong, instead of basking in what has gone right. There may have been an evolutionary advantage to analyzing bad events more thoroughly, but this minimizes your life satisfaction and it maximizes anxiety and depression. The Seeing the Good Stuff Exercise improves well-being by a simple method of redirecting attention towards positive thoughts and away from negative thoughts and sweetens your memories about the past. Research shows that becoming more conscious of good events reliably increases your happiness and decreases depression.  Noticing and analyzing what goes well in our lives builds the skills of remembering good events and not taking them for granted. It builds gratitude as well. Analyzing why events go well encourages a consciousness of… …