Boston Scientific - Organizational Happiness
About the University for Peace:
The University for Peace (UPEACE), based in Costa Rica, was established in December 1980 as a Treaty Organization by the UN General Assembly. Within the United Nations-University for Peace, the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education was launched to deliver dynamic workshops, seminars and training courses, like the Organizational Happiness workshops you’re taking part in!
We’ve put together this website to make sure you can find everything you need in one place for this workshop. Among other things, we’ll be posting weekly resources here throughout the course so that you can reference everything here.
Contact information:
Please feel free to reach out to any of us on the team at any time during your time with us!
- Mohit Mukherjee (Facilitator) – email: mmukherjee@upeace.org; WhatsApp: +1-561-6010527
- Paula Piazza (Workshop Support Lead) – email: ppiazza@upeace.org; WhatsApp: +506 8428-4081
- Esmeralda Bolaños (Administrative Assistant) – email: ebolanos@upeace.org; WhatsApp: +506 8548-2601
Open enrollment courses by the UPEACE Centre: Click here
The Centre’s Team: Click here
Weekly resources and assignments
For reference, you’ll find the presentation slides here and the recording of the session here.
Assignment:
In preparation for our next session, please read the linked readings and watch Simon Sinek’s TED talk below:
- Chapter 3 & Chapter 4 of Organizational Happiness by Lars Kure Juul
- Help your employees find a purpose – or watch them leave
- How Great Leaders Inspire Action TED by Simon Sinek
For reference, you’ll find the presentation slides here and the recording of the session here.
Assignments:
- Coming from our last session on Purpose, “What’s one thing that you’d like to ‘prototype’ with your team relating to Purpose’
- Read chapter 5 (strengths) & chapter 6 (Compassion) of the Organizational Happiness book.
- View this 12-min. video by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmonson, titled ‘Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace’
- Please take the VIA strengths survey which will give you feedback on your top strengths and come ready to share. It can be taken in Spanish or in English, and takes approximately 20 minutes to do. You do need to register first in order to participate.
For reference, you’ll find the presentation slides here and the recording of the session here.
- Coming from our last session on Compassion, “What’s one thing that you’d like to prototype with your team relating to cultivating a culture of Compassion?
- View this short but powerful video, ‘How to find Bright Spots’ by Dan Heath that illustrates two examples of strengths based-leadership.
- Review Chapter 5 of Organizational Happiness on Strengths Based Leadership.
- View the TED talk by Nic Marks, ‘Happiness is a serious business’ – it’s definitely worth 15 minutes of your time.
- At the end of our final session this Friday, we are preparing for everyone to share 1 -3 of commitments of things that you will implement with your own team. Please reflect on these prior to our session. We will use the ‘Mural of Commitments’ to share our next step in moving from strategy to action and ‘walking the talk’ of Organizational Happiness 😊
