Class 1

Question 1

Labor welfare + change management + healthy organizations

Answer 1

managing change and organizational health

Question 2

VUCA

Answer 2

Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous- organizational reality

Question 3

Change management efforts that are successful long term

Answer 3

25%

Question 4

Employees say that whether or not a change is successful is hugely dependent on __

Answer 4

whether or not the leaders embrace the change and understand how change affects employees personally

Question 5

resilience
achievement
creativity
innovation
wellbeing

Answer 5

advantages of positive psychology and how it affects individual performance and well being

Question 6

• view themselves as agile/resilient
• see change as opportunity
• say pace of change has gotten faster but remains predictable
• view themselves as having better change capacities
• engage in strategies to improve managers’ change management skills

Answer 6

higher performing organizations more likely to

Question 7

• create agile, innovative and high performing teams and work cultures
• healthy, resilient teams and organizations don’t just survive change, they thrive under change
• managing change is greatest competitive advantage that differentiates today’s exceptional organisations from mediocre ones

Answer 7

happy employees and healthy organizations

Question 8

Passive vs Active learning

Answer 8

Perception of active learning is that they learned less and enjoyed it less but when they measured performance, active learning retained more and learned more

Question 9

State of psychology -
Good - victories of disease models, drug treatments, tests, efficient treatment
Not Good - become victimizers, forgot about high talent and normal people, rush to repair damage of only troubled people
Not good enough - didn’t think about interventions to make people happier instead of less miserable

Answer 9

New Era of Positive Psychology - Seligman

Question 10

• psychology should be as concerned w/ strength as w/ weakness
• as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst
• should be just as concerned with making lives of normal people fulfilling and with nurturing high talent as it is with healing people

Answer 10

New Era of Positive Psychology - Seligman

Question 11

• measurement strength and virtues
• classification and causation between left and right hemispheres
• positive people are extremely social people (friends, relationships)

Answer 11

New Era of Positive Psychology - Seligman

Question 12

three “happy” lives

• pleasant life (positive emotions) - having as many pleasures as can, learning skills to optimize them (drawbacks: heritable, habituates (you get used to it), not malleable)
• good life (engagement) - finding flow - time stops during flow, they enjoy it fully, knowing what your highest strengths are and recrafting life around these strengths
• meaningful life - knowing your strengths and using them for something bigger than you

Answer 12

New Era of Positive Psychology - Seligman

Question 13

• gratitude visits

- 3 gratitude checks

Answer 13

postive interventions

Question 14

Pleasure + engagement + meaningful life = a full life

not having depression/anxiety IS NOT the same as being happy, negative emotion can be 0 but you could still not be happy

Answer 14

full life according to martin seligman

Question 15

if we study what is merely average, we will remain average. We should be studying the outliers so as to move up the entire average of everyone else

Answer 15

Happy secret to better work - Shawn Achor

Question 16

it’s not reality that shapes us but rather the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality- if we can change the lens, we can change how we view the world

Answer 16

Happy secret to better work - Shawn Achor

Question 17

90% of long term happiness is predicted not by external world but by how your brain processes the external world

Answer 17

Happy secret to better work - Shawn Achor

Question 18

75% of job successes is predicted by optimism levels, social support and ability to see stress as a challenge
-absence of disease is NOT health - if we can raise someone’s level of positivity in the present, then there’s a happiness advantage - your brain at positive performs better in terms of energy, creativity, intelligence - we should all be functioning at happiness and change the way we perceive attaining goals/happiness

Answer 18

Happy secret to better work - Shawn Achor

Question 19

must reverse the formula and how we approach happiness

Answer 19

Happy secret to better work - Shawn Achor