S is for Status – How to Increase Employee Engagement with SCARF, Dr. David Rock’s Mind Model for Maximizing Reward and Minimizing Danger in the Workplace. This is part 2 of 7.
S is for Status – How to Increase Employee Engagement with SCARF
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How to Increase Employee Engagement with SCARF–A Mind Model by David Rock
Learn how you can use David Rock’s SCARF model to boost employee engagement, minimize stress, and increase happiness at work. S= Status, C= Certainty, A=Autonomy, R=Relatedness, and F= Fairness.
GO Beyond SMART to SMARTEST Goals
The science of setting and reaching goals tells us that the best goals go beyond SMART. Use the acronym SMARTEST Goals to help you reach your goals.
Train Your Brain: Use This Tool to Boost Thriving at Work
This strategy is simple, free, and effective. Train your brain by using visualizations to help you boost thriving at work.
Meaning, Autonomy, and Openness: Three Mindset Hacks
In the process of developing my serious game, I have been distilling many of the relatively small but enormously effective changes individuals and companies can implement to boost happiness and productivity into sets of related hacks. Even after immersing myself in this topic for several years now, I continue to be amazed at how applicable read more…
Why play at work? For fun and learning!
Do you ever play at work? Should you? If you are a regular reader of this blog or participated in a Happy Brain Science workshop, you know that I ground virtually everything I say in science. You also know that was a game designer for much of my professional career, and maybe you’ve heard me read more…
3 science-based hacks for your next presentation
At some point in our careers, most of us have to deliver a presentation. Whether you are introducing a new company policy, showing the progress on your latest project, or convincing someone of your qualifications for a position, you can draw upon brain science to boost your impact. The key is to understand how the read more…
How to program your organization for talent retention.
Seeing a talented employee walk out the door almost always means costs ahead – costs in the form of recruiting, interviewing, training, learning, and/or team building. And in most cases, those costs (and the disappointment on both sides) might have been avoided by applying some specific insights provided by neuroscience and the science of happiness. read more…
How can I support your goals for 2014?
In my last newsletter, I shared tips for setting smarter and more meaningful goals for the New Year (or any time of year, really). Perhaps some of your goals have to do with your happiness, at work and beyond. If so, I want Happy Brain Science to provide you with great resources and support to read more…
Smarter goals for more happiness
It’s that time again: New Year’s resolutions. The science of happiness tells us New Year’s resolutions are a worthwhile ritual. Goals are vital to motivation, engagement, and happiness, at work and beyond. Statistics suggest that people who explicitly set goals are ten times more likely to reach them. Still, while up to 62% of Americans read more…